Android
The e-Paper market has enjoyed steady growth over the last decade, starting with the introduction of the Amazon Kindle back in 2007. While there are many vendors attempting to make a mark in the technology required in this space, E-Ink's offerings have ruled the roost. The most popular category of products using E-Ink's technology has undoubtedly been eBook readers. Recently, digital notebooks and notepads have also emerged as a significant driver in E-Ink's expansion. These products take the regular e-reader and add support for an electronic pen / stylus. These products were initially quite expensive and targeted business professionals dealing with huge amounts of paperwork and requiring note-taking support (such as lawyers). The Sony DPT lineup (review) became one of the leading products in this...
Lava Xolo X900 Review - The First Intel Medfield Phone
For Intel, the road to their first real competitive smartphone SoC has been a long one. Shortly after joining AnandTech and beginning this journey writing about both smartphones and...
106 by Brian Klug on 4/25/2012Archos Shipping 1.5GHz 80 G9 Turbo Across The Pond
UK readers have one more thing to lord over their colonial cousins. Starting today, Archos has made available the long promised Archos 80 G9 Turbo in its full 1.5...
8 by Jason Inofuentes on 3/16/2012HTC Vivid Android 4.0 Sneaks Out For Some
The long road to Android 4.0 for US subscribers seems to be getting shorter; and for some lucky users the time has come. AT&T's HTC Vivid was one of...
4 by Jason Inofuentes on 3/16/2012Archos 35 Home Connect Review: Android at the Bedside
Over the last few years of smartphone ownership, one of the most satisfying and somewhat surprising uses has been listening to good old fashioned FM radio, streamed through the...
9 by Jason Inofuentes on 3/15/2012Samsung Announces SGS2 GT-I9100 ICS Update Hitting March 10th - Update: Not March 10th
Not to be outdone by Apple with its recent iOS 5.1 announcement, nor HTC with its rollout to Sensations in Nordic countries, Samsung has announced that it will make...
28 by Brian Klug on 3/8/2012Google Rebrands and Renames Android Market to Google Play
The Android Market has slowly evolved to become much more than a place for vending Android applications, and today Google announced that it is rebranding the Android Marketplace to...
12 by Brian Klug on 3/6/2012Android Market App size raised to 4GB from 50MB
If you've tried any of the bigger, beefier Android games, chances are good you likely have come across an initial asset preload method which goes something like this: The...
9 by Brian Klug on 3/5/2012Google Updates Chrome for Android to 16.0.912.77
Google appears to be taking to an aggressive update schedule with Chrome for Android, today releasing a small Beta 1.1 update to the browser. Among the changes are Android...
11 by Brian Klug on 2/24/2012Acer Updates Iconia Tablets to Android 4.0
True to their word, Acer is announcing the availability of the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for their recently launched A200 tablet. We posted the PR blurb about...
1 by Jarred Walton on 2/17/2012Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX Review - 1.8x The Battery
For a while now, our chief complaint when talking about 4G LTE handsets has been battery life. The combination of 45nm cellular basebands, ever increasing screen size, and 4x...
45 by Brian Klug on 2/14/2012Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet Gets Ice Cream Sandwich in May
Lenovo will be rolling out its official Ice Cream Sandwich build for the ThinkPad Tablet in May of this year, the company announced via the tablet's product page. The tablet...
1 by Andrew Cunningham on 2/6/2012Samsung Galaxy Nexus & Ice Cream Sandwich Review
The evolution of Google’s Nexus line is an interesting one. Each year, Google chooses both a silicon partner and an OEM to make a unique hardware archetype which it...
187 by Brian Klug & Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/18/2012CyanogenMod Team Shows Ice Cream Sandwich Running on HP TouchPad
CyanogenMod 9 is creeping closer and closer to release, and we're seeing it running on more devices all the time - the first ones to get development builds were...
12 by Andrew Cunningham on 1/16/2012j5Create Wormhole Switch Brings KVM and File Sharing Across Mobile and Desktop
j5Create first revealed their Wormhole Switch as a simple way to control and share files across two Windows PC's. Connect both ends of the included cable to the separate...
1 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/12/2012Intel Announces its Second Smartphone Platform Partner - Motorola
Intel just showed off the Lenovo K800, its first design win with Atom inside. The second partnership was just announced as well, and it's Motorola. None other than Motorola...
8 by Brian Klug on 1/10/2012FXI Cotton Candy Demo: More Power than You Can Shake a (Thumb) Stick at
Anand and Jason had a chance to speak with FXI a while back, but at the time they weren’t able to give him any hands-on time with their micro-computer...
18 by Jarred Walton on 1/9/2012LG Premiering Google TV Powered Televisions At CES
Our inboxes are filled to the brim with releases of all types; most hit the round file and never end up on the site, some are a bit more...
3 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/5/2012Acer Iconia Tab A200 On Sale January 15 Priced At $329
Acer has formally announced the US pricing and launch date details for the Iconia A200, the follow up to the Iconia A500 tablet it launched mid-last year. The A200...
6 by Vivek Gowri on 1/5/2012Archos 70b IT Arrives with Honeycomb for $200
In our review of the Kindle Fire, we called it the best $199 tablet on the market, but Archos has given us a reason to reconsider that statement with...
12 by Vivek Gowri on 1/4/2012ASUS to Issue Bootloader Unlock Tool for Transformer Prime, ICS Update Due January 12
In response to criticism from the modding and open-source communities, ASUS announced today that it would be issuing a bootloader unlock tool for its new Eee Pad Transformer Prime...
13 by Andrew Cunningham on 1/3/2012