Posted on 31 January 2011 by admin
Facebook for Android has been upgraded, bringing with it bug fixes and Facebook Deals. Version 1.5.1 of Facebook is now available for Android devices and can be obtained free from the Android Market. By making the upgrade, Android device users will supposedly have a more pleasant Facebook user experience. We use the word “supposedly” because [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 28 January 2011 by admin
Ubiquisys, a femtocell maker, has created a 3G mobile phone femtocell base station called an attocell. When this attocell is connected to a laptop computer equipped with Internet access, 3G phones can make phone calls as if they were in their home network. This allows 3G Android phones to make international calls without incurring expensive [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 26 January 2011 by admin
Toshiba unveiled its Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet at CES 2011 but at the time, few specs were available. A preview Web site just launched by the company contains more details. It is now known that the iPad rival features a 10.1-inch screen, dual cameras, multiple data ports, Flash support, and a swappable battery. This yet-to-be-named [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 22 January 2011 by admin
Last May, Adobe Flash games began appearing for play on Android phones. The excitement about this event subsided when people realized that some games were not fun. To make things even worse, there was no easy way to determine which games were worth playing. GameStop hopes to change this with its Kongregate Arcade app. Kongregate is [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 19 January 2011 by admin
The country is moving from 3G to 4G mobile phone speeds and the first 4G smartphones are being announced. At the recent CES, Verizon revealed four of its exclusive 4G LTE smartphones. However, it did not announce prices for any of these devices, a common practice during a product release. We wonder how much the [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 17 January 2011 by admin
The media abounds with stories of how successful the Android platform is becoming and the latest news just reinforces that thought. PC Magazine recently reported that Android has now surpassed Apple’s iOS on the popular mobile ad network. Advertising done on mobile phones has grown in popularity in recent years due to its expanded reach. Some [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 13 January 2011 by admin
Anyone who tracks technology knows that Google is not resting on its laurels when it comes to Android. We seem to hear about new Android phones, operating system platform updates, and additions to the Android Market on a daily basis. This trend is already continuing through the new year, with Google reportedly planning for an [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 11 January 2011 by admin
Motorola has announced a tablet computer to rival the Apple iPad and other tablet competition that hit the market in late 2010. The Motorola Xoom tablet computer features the Android 3.0 operating system, called Honeycomb, and also has a dual core 1GHz processor. This tablet is the first to include the combination of these two [...] Continue Reading