Toshiba’s new Excite X10 tablet is on its way and with it reportedly comes the title of Thinnest and Lightest 10-inch tablet measuring in at just 8mm thick. Hardware-wise the Excite X10 isn’t skimping out. A 1.2GHz dual-core processor accompanied by 1GB of RAM should be enough to keep it in line with most of the competition for now, as will it’s shipping with Honeycomb 3.2. Although there is a chance we could see a release delay in order for Toshiba to upgrade that to Android 4.0.
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus has already seen some pretty widespread popularity across the mobile market, making up a generous percentage of the 0.6% of Android handsets to currently run Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS). Now, come February 6th, it’s going to be available in white for UK customers.
Andy Rubin, Senior Vice President of Mobile at Google, announced via his Twitter than over 3.7 million Android devices were activated over last Christmas weekend. This is a huge boost over normal, but already impressive number of daily Android activations that currently sits at around 700 thousand new units per day.
Google recently announced that the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update would be rolling out to Google Nexus S devices over the course of the next month. That rollout has now apparently been put on hold in some areas while Google collects and monitors feedback.
Google recently announced an official rollout of Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, to GSM/UMTS versions of the popular Google Nexus S over the coming month via its Google+ account. The speedy availability of the update is a positive indication of what we hope to become a future trend across Android devices. Google hopes that Ice Cream Sandwich will be the version of Android to herald in a new era of reduced fragmentation of Android versions across numerous devices. Basically what that means is that from Ice Cream Sandwich onwards it will apparently be easier for manufacturers to update their devices, allowing companies like Samsung or HTC to release Android updates much faster than they have previously been able to.
The days of Adobe’s mobile Flash Player may be limited, but there’s still a bit of life in it yet. Apparently disappearing after it’s made compatible with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the popular mobile service is still kicking on, despite its imminent doom.
The other week Adobe stunned the tech world by effectively admitting defeat in its war against Apple over mobile Flash for smartphones. In what was a pretty huge announcement Adobe stated that support for Android Flash would be terminated in order to focus on HTML5.
Some pics have cropped up on Engadget about a mysterious phone that’s rumored to be coming from HTC. Specs include Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, a 4.5 inch display, 32GB of storage, an impressive 1830mAh battery, an 8MP camera and 1.3MP front-facing camera. Most intriguingly the HTC ‘Zeta’ is said to be on its way with an absolutely astonishing quad-core 2.5GHz processor.
Earlier this week we did a post about how HTC could be the first manufacturer with a quad-core handset in reference to leaked information about the HTC Edge. Now information is starting to hit the web about quad-core research being conducted by LG, Samsung and Motorola, all of whom are trying to be the first on the market with the next gen of super-phones.
Some snapshots of the HTC Edge have made their way on to the web along with some already wide-spread rumors that it will be HTC’s very first quad-core phone. Interestingly enough the rumors state that the Edge will be sporting a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 chip, rather than a Qualcomm CPU.
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