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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...
Sony Acquires Sony Ericsson
Sony has released a press statement which announces Sony's purchase of Sony Ericsson. Before today, Sony has owned 50% of Sony Ericsson while Ericsson has held the other 50%...
21 by Kristian Vättö on 10/27/2011
Google's Nexus One Not Getting Android 4.0 Update
Google's Nexus One phone, manufactured by HTC and originally released in January of 2010, will not be receiving the Ice Cream Sandwich update along with other phones, says Google's...
62 by Andrew Cunningham on 10/26/2011
Android Based TViX Xroid A1 Gears Up for the US Market
Many Android based media streamers have been announced and demonstrated at various trade shows over the last year. We covered the Patriot Box Office Alpine which was on show...
13 by Ganesh T S on 10/22/2011
Google to Release Ice Cream Sandwich Source Code Soon
Reiterating what the company has been saying about Android 4.0, Google's Dan Morrill said today that the Ice Cream Sandwich source code would be made available to the general...
25 by Andrew Cunningham on 10/20/2011
Google Introduces Us To Ice Cream Sandwich
When I said it would be a busy fall, I didn’t expect us to be covering two big announcements in one day, or three/four/five, depending on how you choose...
39 by Jason Inofuentes on 10/18/2011
Samsung Galaxy Nexus Officially Announced
Samsung today officially announced the specifications for the newest member of the Nexus family - Galaxy Nexus. The announcement closely matches what we've been anticipating for some time now...
52 by Brian Klug on 10/18/2011
Motorola Droid RAZR Performance Preview: A Faster Browser
When we published our preliminary iPhone 4S performance results we pointed out that the current state of stock Android (2.3.x) browser performance is pretty bad. Google improved browser performance...
24 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Jason Inofuentes on 10/18/2011
Samsung and Google Android Event Moved to October 19
Google and Samsung will be hosting their joint Ice Cream Sandwich-New Nexus Phone event in Hong Kong on October 19th at 10:00am local time (which is October 18th at...
20 by Andrew Cunningham on 10/13/2011
CTIA: AT&T Outs 5 New Android Phones, Atrix 2 for $99 on-contract
The Fall hits just keep coming. Today AT&T joined partners Motorola, Samsung, Pantech and newcomer ZTE to announce 5 new Android handsets due out this Fall. The line-up includes...
5 by Jason Inofuentes on 10/11/2011
Samsung and Google Cancel Unpacked Event - May Delay Nexus Prime and Ice Cream Sandwich
Google and Samsung had scheduled an event, Unpacked: Google Edition, for October 11th, but the companies today reported that the event has been canceled. It was expected that Samsung...
30 by Kristian Vättö on 10/7/2011
Shadowgun Tegra Zone Game Preview
Everytime NVIDIA asks me what type of games I'd like to see running on Android I always seem to answer the same way: I want good FPSes. I want...
9 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/5/2011
Amazon Kindle Fire: A $199 Kindle Tablet
In a move that has been anticipated for sometime, Amazon has introduced their own branded Android tablet, the Kindle Fire. Though based on Android, you won't be confusing this...
81 by Jason Inofuentes on 9/28/2011
The Wait is Over: Samsung Announces the Galaxy Tab 8.9
When I first met the Galaxy Tab 8.9 in Florida earlier this year I felt like it may be the perfect tablet form factor: small enough to be really...
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/26/2011
Samsung Reveals Omnia W and Korea-only Galaxy S II HD LTE
Samsung likes to fill a news cycle (expect more from them tonight), and so it's no surprise that on the same day that they reveal the details of the...
13 by Jason Inofuentes on 9/26/2011
Minecraft Pocket Edition Coming to Android on September 29
The portable edition of Minecraft, the popular world building/sandbox/survival horror game by indie developer Mojang, is shedding its Xperia Play exclusivity and coming to other Android devices on September...
0 by Andrew Cunningham on 9/26/2011
AT&T Tweets SGSII Availability: October 2nd For $199
We knew it'd come after Sprint's variant was released, but we didn't know how long we'd have to wait. AT&T saw fit to let us know, in a tweet...
12 by Jason Inofuentes on 9/21/2011
LG Optimus Q2 Unites QWERTY with Thin
Keyboards and Android have had an on again/off again relationship since the G1. LG's looking to get involved in the affair with the LG Optimus Q2. Announced today for...
13 by Jason Inofuentes on 9/19/2011
Pantech Breakout Announced: $99 LTE On Sept. 22nd
Hot on the heels of AT&T's own LTE launch, Verizon Wireless is rounding out their own LTE handset line-up with a value model, the Pantech Breakout. This phone's not...
4 by Jason Inofuentes on 9/19/2011
Samsung Confirms APQ8060 for T-Mobile Galaxy S 2
After the Samsung Galaxy S 2 launch announcement, I made an educated prediction that the T-Mobile variant would come with a Qualcomm SoC and not Samsung's own Exynos. The...
13 by Brian Klug on 9/13/2011
Google: All Future Versions of Android Will be Optimized for Intel x86
Paul Otellini just showed off a Medfield based Android phone (running the "latest" version of Android) and immediately announced a development partnership with Google. Andy Rubin from Google just...
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2011
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