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Samsung has recently officially confirmed that their Galaxy Tab 8.9 slate and Galaxy S II smartphone will be receiving 4G LTE. This just ads another pro mark to the already positively reviewed devices. But that's not all - Samsung will also be bumping up the clockspeed of their processors from 1.2GHz to 1.5Ghz. The Galaxy S II gets yet another piece of good news (depending on preference) with its screen size being enlarged to a 4.5-inches AMOLED display. Read more on these updates and check out the hands-on video of the Galaxy Tab 8.9 after the break.
The official confirmations were announce last Saturday - 17th of August - and the devices themselves will be unveiled at the upcoming IFA event in Berlin. Check out the hands-on video of the Galaxy Tab 8.9 after the break to see what
According to a recent report on smartphones and who holds what within their market share (in the U.S) by market research firm, NPD Group, Inc, it's all good news for two of the better known names in the industry - Google and Apple. Things aren't looking so good for the rest however. Statistics from the report shows that Google has increased in market shares by 57.6 percent from their 33 percent of shares in Q2 2010, to 52 percent in Q2 2011. This puts Google at the top of the list, with Apple falling in at second place with their increase from last year's 22 percent to 29 percent - a 31.8 percent increase in the market share. Click after the break to read about how the other companies did.
RIM, the Ontario-based company that brought us the BlackBerry did not receive as good news a
Good things do come in small packages - the K-Touch W700 by China Unicom is a 3.8-inch Android smartphone that has some pretty formidable power behind it - a NVIDIA Tegra 2 processing chip! That's not all though, it also runs Android 2.2 (FroYo), comes with 512MB of RAM, 8GB of internal memory, a 5-megapixel back camera capable of shooting 720p videos, a 0.3-megapixel front camera, FM radio and GPS. Not bad! And lucky for us here at MP4Nation, it's being sold her in Hong Kong by local company Eprice who has tagged it at HKD$4,200.
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'Tis a dark day for avid Android fans as their beloved OS has, quite possibly against its will, been mutated into the purest form of an iOS clone yet. On the other side of the fence, Apple fans may be fretting about the Android imposter posing as their mother OS. And for the ones sitting on the fence, well... it's simply the best of both worlds! What am I banging on about? Find out after the break.
The Gooapple phone: a China made iPhone 4 clone that runs Android 2.2 (FroYo) skinned to look exactly like iOS. The iPhone 4 shell has been cloned before, and there has even been attempts at imitating iOS with Android, but this one takes the poser award. Shell wise, the Gooapple sports near identical dimensions (including 9.3mm thickness) and even fits most iPhone 4 cases! As for the OS
Bmorn have come out with a new Android smart phone - the V7 - that looks like it could be 7-inches and will be running Android 2.3 Gingerbread (although its got the nice Honeycomb logo stamp on its back - rather misleading...). The V7 is able to support up to 1080p HD video playback, as well has Adobe Flash 10.2 and can supposedly last up to 6 hours of video playback time. There's not much else on the device other than MicroSD expansion support and OTG support, and by the look of the thing and lack of connectivity info, we're wondering whether the V7 is in fact a Gingerbread tablet as opposed to a smart phone. Let's hope more info gets released soon to clear that up. More images after the break.
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Compufon is an interesting device. We've had blends of tablet and smartphones before but this one literally adds the two together - and we mean literally. It is a smartphone that houses the processor and storage, that can be inserted into its tablet screen - that obviously houses the tablet sized display as well as a battery that can also charge the smartphone. To explain the 'insert' in another way, it's just like when you insert a game cartridge into a Nintendo Gameboy... you remember! The two pieces of the single Compufon device actually depend on each other - the tablet half won't function without the heart (processor) of the smartphone and after the smartphone half has had its fill playing lone-wolf, it'll need to regain its strength (recharge its batteries) from the tablet half.
The IT-795 by Skyworth is a lan-line smart phone that we saw during the HKTDC fair. It boasts Android 2.1 OS with a 2.3 (Ginrgerbread) upgrade, although the unit we saw ran 2.1. It's also powered by Rockchip's RK2818 processor, and has a 7-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 800 x 480. These aren't exactly the latest things off the market, but they're not that common either so it's interesting to be able to go hands on with one. The phone also supports WiFi, 3G, VIoP and PSTN connectivity, has a MicroSD expansion slot and comes with a 2-megapixel front camera for your video calls. This was my first experience with an 'Android Internet Phone' so it was fun seeing a Youtube app and such on a lan-line phone. Its rechargeable battery also got me wondering how silly it would be if you were
That's right, thanks to xda-developer's forum member, sangreal06, the Motorola Xoom - a tablet that was flagged as the first Android Honeycomb tablet to hit the market - has now been turned into an over-sized mobile phone. The tablet has impressive hardware and software specs, but people are now realising that what you could do on the Xoom can in fact also be done on a much smaller Android smartphone - so why not turn the big ol' thing into a phone! Well, a phone of sorts - the hacked Xoom's phone capabilities come via Google Voice, however since the mic and speakers don't work, you can only send messages as well as initiate phone calls (so ultimately prank calls as you won't be able to say a thing). This hack also changes the user's agent in the web browser to automatically show the des
Just days after we see the Thunderbolt hit 1.8GHz and pull off some ridiculous Quadrant runs, it's now been scaled to 2000 MHz, an overclocking feat as impressive as it is worrying considering the already-bad battery life on the HTC handset. Rodriguez, the man behind the overclocking, has said that the phone is still quite stable at 1.99GHz - very impressive, though use of the word "quite" doesn't bode well for those looking to get 24/7 2GHz overclocks.
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The Blaze looks to be Amazon's first offering in the Android smartphone market - and it's quite an impressive first offering. With the dual-core Qualcomm MSM8660 (1.2GHz) beneath its bonnet, the phone also features a 4.3-inch Mirasol display as well as 512MB RAM, 32GB internal storage and a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera as well as a front-facing camera for video chat. The phone may also have a near field communications (NFC) chip for electronic point of purchase, which is amusing when one stops to consider that Amazon is predominately Internet-based. The most interesting part of this phone is the embedded solar panel on the back to recharge the battery - very nifty. The Blaze will run on Android 2.3 and will feature a custom UI. So far so cool.
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