The Asus Eee Pad Transformer has secured its position as one of the most successful Honeycomb tablets to date. As with any successful piece of technology a successor must follow. News of a Transformer 2 arrived this afternoon when Asus chairman Jonney Shih confirmed the company is already working on an “impressive” sequel.
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Prepare yourself for a world of smartphone hybrids. Yahoo! Korea is reporting that Samsung is working on the Galaxy Q, a 5.3-inch ‘phone’ which blurs the line between smartphone and tablet. Bridging the gap between the monstrous 4.5-inch Samsung Infuse and the original 7-inch Galaxy Tab might sound logical, but the Galaxy Q is not the future of smartphones.
Could you imaging carting around a 5.3-inch smartphone in your pocket? Unless we’re mistaken, skinny jeans are all the rave these days. The thought of a five-inch smartphone is a far cry from 1999 when the Nokia 8200 reigned supreme as the smallest and lightest Nokia mobile phone on the market. Today, at least according to Samsung, the motto in mobile is ‘bigger is better’.
With Android Ice Cream Sandwich on the horizon, speculation about the Google Nexus S successor is rife. Previously we’d heard chatter that a Motorola Nexus 4G was in the works but now the dial of the rumorometer seems to have swung in Samsung’s direction once again.
A new report claims the next Nexus will be dubbed the Google Nexus Prime and is being built by Samsung just like the Google Nexus S before it but there could be a feast of cool new phones on the way…
When Google announced an ADK allow with Android Ice Cream Sandwich to allow developers to control hardware, it was almost inevitable that we’d get a moving Android mascot.
But the disco dancing droid created by Chris Elliot is a real treat with light up LED eyes and four servo motors lurking inside to articulate the head, body and arms. Appropriately, you can see Chris controlling the Android mascot with his Android tablet in a video filmed on an Android phone, after the break…
If you’re rocking the original Samsung Galaxy Tab, here’s some good news – the Android Gingerbread update has started to roll out.
Now we know that all the chatter is about Android Honeycomb and Android Ice Cream Sandwich now but if you’ve been itching to get your hands on updated features on your tablet, a taste of Gingerbread is surely welcome…
Matt Hershenson and Joe Britt, two of the three brains behind the Sidekick and, less illustriously, the Microsoft Kin at Danger have reunited with their former party, Android boss Andy Rubin. The pair are now working within a new Google group called Android Hardware.
They pair have been at Google for the past 12 months, reunited with Rubin who left Danger in 2003 to create Android, 5 years before Microsoft acquired Danger, killed off the Sidekick and then, in turn, the Kin. After its failure, Brit and Hershenson left Microsoft on the same day. So what are they working on now?
Android fragmentation has been a stick that iOS lovers beat Google fans with for sometime. They crow that the relentless onward rush of sweetly-named Android versions means you always run the risk of being left adrift. For many, Android updates have been like those offers that give new customers loads of cool stuff and leave loyal types to lose out.
But now Google says it’s going to marshall the phone makers and fix the problem. Smooshing together, Android Gingerbread and Android Honeycomb in Android Ice Cream Sandwich, it’ll have a unified OS. But an end to fragmentation? I don’t think so…