Author: Maria


Posted on: 5th September 2010

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Samsung Galaxy Tab features
During the IFA 2010 Berlin exhibition Samsung introduced the long-awaited Galaxy Tab gadget. This amazing 7-inch tablet is made on the basis of Android 2.2 OS (Froyo), has a 3G support and a touch screen with 1024*600 resolution. Inside you can find a 1 GHz Samsung Hummingbird processor and 512 MB RAM.
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Author: Maria


Posted on: 28th August 2010

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It seems, ViewSonic has big plans for the upcoming IFA 2010. According to some sources, the company is planning to introduce its two new tablets during this event: a 7 and a10 -inch tablet. It is known that the devices are codenamed ViewPad 7 and ViewPad 10. One of the most interesting things connected with [...]

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Author: Maria


Posted on: 17th August 2010

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According to the Chinese blog 911HTC, the HTC company is planning to release 2 new Android smartphones: HTC Lexikon and HTC Bee. This is the first mention of these new models. Both smartphones will be based on Android 2.2 Froyo. Unfortunately, we do not have any devices images yet, however, there is some data on [...]

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Author: Maria


Posted on: 11th August 2010

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Motorola and Verizon Wireless have finally announced they start Droid 2 pre-sale on August 11. The smartphone has improved qwerty-keyboard, supports Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and is optimized for social networks communication. That’s all thanks to Google Android 2.2 OS.

As you can remember just a month ago Verizon started Motorola Droid X selling and now [...]

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Author: Maria


Posted on: 5th August 2010

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Motorola is going to introduce a 10-inch tablet based on Google Android OS and focused on watching TV. It is expected that the tablet will hit shelves this fall. And probably the tablet market will become a new arena for the battle between Google and Apple.

It is rumored that the TV tablet will have tight [...]

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Author: Maria


Posted on: 29th July 2010

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The high-tech industry has already made not a one attempt to create an ultra-lowcost-compact computer. Perhaps one of the most famous developments in this area is a Nicholas Negroponte’s OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project. Lot of producers, including Jointech, HiVision and others, took part in creating a $100 laptop. Now the developers intent to [...]

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Posted on: 28th July 2010

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Barnes & Noble has finally unveiled its NOOK app for Android. The application is free and can be found in the Android Market store or on Barnes & Noble’s website.

To install the NOOK app you’ll need a smartphone based on Android 1.6 or higher and a B&N account to get to the eBookstore, as well [...]

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Author: Maria


Posted on: 22nd July 2010

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Toshiba stops being just a spectator of how Apple enchants people with iPad and starts working hard on creating iPad rivals.
According to Jeff Barney, head of Toshiba’s U.S. notebook business, Japanese electronic giant is planning to enter the market of multimedia tablets or “slates” with both Google Android and Windows 7 operating system. Although there [...]

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Author: Maria


Posted on: 15th July 2010

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Millward Brown Optimor BrandZ has published the fifth annual rating of the most expensive brands in the world: Top100 Most Valuable Global Brands. Apple Company has taken the third place in this prestigious list. Google and IBM companies have gained the first and second place, but still Apple succeeded to overcome Microsoft.
While the majority of [...]

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Posted on: 6th July 2010

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According to a recent survey held by Nielsen Norman, Apple iPad tablet is more suitable for reading books than a Kindle e-reader.
During the experiment 24 volunteers were asked to read a short story by Ernest Hemingway on paper and on three devices – a personal computer, Amazon Kindle and Apple iPad.
So what are the results?
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