If you measure the power used by a netbook PC when it’s in standby, a frozen unusable state, it uses around 500mW of power.  Leaving a netbook on with WiFi connected in an idle state with the screen blanked, maybe with an email program polling occasionally, you’ll see about 10 times the power usage. In PC terms, 5W is impressive but if you go to the smartphone world and take a look at the figures there, there’s a huge huge gap that needs to be tackled. As smartphones become tablets, […]

According to Pocket-Lint.com, citing “reliable sources inch, ViewSonic is poised to launch a 7 inch Android tablet that will run Honeycomb (check out the shape of the cam and flash in the photo… pretty wild). You’ll no doubt recall that ViewSonic already has a 7 inch Android device on the market, the ViewSonic ViewPad 7, but it’s only running Android 2.2 and rocking out a relatively weak 600MHz CPU. The updated ViewSonic ViewPad 7x, as it’s called, won’t replace the ViewPad 7 according to Pocket-Lint, but will merely sit next […]

According to Pocket-Lint.com, citing “reliable sources”, ViewSonic is poised to launch a 7” Android tablet that will run Honeycomb (check out the shape of the cam and flash in the photo… pretty wild). You’ll no doubt recall that ViewSonic already has a 7” Android device on the market, the ViewSonic ViewPad 7, but it’s only running Android 2.2 and rocking out a relatively weak 600MHz CPU. The updated ViewSonic ViewPad 7x, as it’s called, won’t replace the ViewPad 7 according to Pocket-Lint, but will merely sit next to it as […]

You may have caught our story the other day about the Iconia Tab A100/101 being available for pre-order from Amazon UK with a launch-date set for May 14th. Unfortunately it looks like Amazon wasn’t dead-on with their release-date info. A recent check-up Amazon’s page for the device has revealed that the reported launch-date has been pushed back

Android is a wonderful phone OS, but Google’s choice to leave the pushing of updates in the hands of OEMs or carriers is a real sour-point for the otherwise praised mobile OS. Hopefully, that’s about to change. Time and time again we’ve heard stories of devices that have been waiting to get major Android updates for months after Google officially releases the update. In many cases, promises are made by carriers or OEMs and then broken, leaving users clueless as to when (or if) they’ll be seeing the latest Android […]

Android is a wonderful phone OS, but Google’s choice to leave the pushing of updates in the hands of OEMs or carriers is a real sour-point for the otherwise praised mobile OS. Hopefully, that’s about to change. Time and time again we’ve heard stories of devices that have been waiting to get major Android updates for months after Google officially releases the update. In many cases, promises are made by carriers or OEMs and then broken, leaving users clueless as to when (or if) they’ll be seeing the latest Android […]

The oft rumored service from Google has finally been announced at Google I/O and is currently operating as a free invitation-only beta service that only works in the US. No word as to whether or not it’ll find its way to other countries, but knowing how resistant the music labels are to these kinds of services, it likely won’t be an easy task to make it happen overseas. The concept isn’t too far fetched… with Google Music you can upload all of your music to the web, then stream it […]

The oft rumored service from Google has finally been announced at Google I/O and is currently operating as a free invitation-only beta service that only works in the US. No word as to whether or not it’ll find its way to other countries, but knowing how resistant the music labels are to these kinds of services, it likely won’t be an easy task to make it happen overseas. The concept isn’t too far fetched… with Google Music you can upload all of your music to the web, then stream it […]