In a previous post I highlighted my surprise at how different Honeycomb really is. The UI is totally different, the apps totally re-worked and obviously the core has been optimised for fast touch response. Check it out in this video from MWC 2011

We’ve had a chance to have some hands on wit the Motorola Xoom. To be honest, I’m quite amazed at the difference Honeycomb makes. The multi-pane enhancements make such a difference. The YouTube app has just come alive! Smooth UI (better than the Galaxy Tab) proves that the core has been optimized for a better touch experience too.I’m impressed, and yet worried about how much it will cost. This is a premium.product that will have a premium price. We’ve got  a video to show you and will be posting it […]

We’ve just had the first public hands on with the Viewpad 10 pro. This is the Oaktrail-based 10″ tablet from Viewsonic that should be hitting in Q2. The battery life claims are a good 8hrs, 2Gb, weight 800gm and there’s a 3g version too. The icing on the cake was that Android is virtualized on top of Windows 7. We think its a runtime similar to Myriads Dalvik bit it really could be true virtualization. If so, we love it. Video coming later.

This is something we might see at a press event, 1230 today. Meego smartphone user experience. If we’re lucky it will be a Medfield platform demonstrator. Taking a look at the tablet user interface there they appear to have retained the panels that we saw in Computex. That’s good news because it received a lot of praise. More later.

In this interview I made yesterday I ask Peter Biddle, General Manager of Intels AppUp application store project about the progress of AppUp so far, we talk about AppUp on MeeGo (which isn’t being launched this week) and why developers might want to move to MeeGo as a platform. There’s information on the process of converting apps from the Windows to the MeeGo base and Peter tells us that they are looking at other types of content for the AppUp channel. Stay tuned for news coming from Intels midday event […]

It’s not been long since the Galaxy Tab first hit retail stores however Samsung have wasted no time in announcing their next tablet device, the Galaxy Tab 10.1. If the name doesn’t give it away, Samsung’s latest Android tablet sports a 10.1 inch display, is powered by a 1GHz Tegra 2 core and of course runs the latest and greatest Android 3.0 firmware. This device follows the recent trend of large screen Android Honeycomb tablets however it’s quite surprising that Samsung decided to transition from the original 7 inch sized […]

It’s not been long since the Galaxy Tab first hit retail stores however Samsung have wasted no time in announcing their next tablet device, the Galaxy Tab 10.1. If the name doesn’t give it away, Samsung’s latest Android tablet sports a 10.1” display, is powered by a 1GHz Tegra 2 core and of course runs the latest and greatest Android 3.0 firmware. This device follows the recent trend of large screen Android Honeycomb tablets however it’s quite surprising that Samsung decided to transition from the original 7” sized Galaxy Tab […]

MWC starts here! Following a packed week of news we have an even bigger week ahead of us. Samsung, HTC, LG, Intel and many more companies are expected to make announcements and present products that affect our market. I, Chippy, am there all week and the fun starts tomorrow on day 0, press day. Armed with the Nokia N8 and the Samsung Galaxy Tab I hope to bring you text+photo blogs like this one and follow up with more detailed content and videos when time permits. Ben and Guy will […]