Archive for the ‘android’ Category

Phone wars

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

So whats going to be the phone that is going to win the phone wars, well there is 500,000 android activations every day now according to Andy Rubin, so while the love affair with the IPhone may be still going strong, the market is pushing for open and its looking like android is the way it is going, at 500,000 activations, its hard to see apple coming back, unless it brings out a cut price IPhone, By the way who is Andy Rubin he is one of the founders of android

 

 

tables war continues

Monday, June 20th, 2011

HP are now getting into the tablet game officially with a new tablet running web os, it will be selling in the states on the 1st of July for around $500 so might even come to these shores for €360, so it looks like the tablet war is going to be won on price.

Intel are getting in on the Tablet game

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

Hold off on that tablet purchase cause Intel are getting in on the tablet game. There CEO says that the are porting android to the x86 Intel chips, so that could mean that every notebook/tablet that currently has Intel chip may have a in the next generation of chips may have a been tailored for tablets. Currently ARM rules the roost in terms of Chips, What does this mean for us the consumer…. Cheaper tablets hopefully.

 

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WiFi connected refrigerator for around $300 versus $3499

Monday, April 18th, 2011

Samsung is about to launch a network fridge its a WiFi connected refrigerator with LED lighting and 28 cubic feet of storage. its priced at a suggested $3,499 retail price. But I’m starting to think that an android tablet at €300 stuck on to the front of the fridge would give you the same, in terms of functionality, and propbably alot cheaper.

I suppose some one has to buy shiny chrome!

More info here

 

IPad2 rival

Monday, March 14th, 2011

Well it looks like Samsung, has finally said their are going to have a go at Apple, So anyone that considering the purchase of the IPad2, it mgiht worth having a look at below. Its a you tube video on the 10.1 Samsung galaxy tab. It seems to look the business. It will be also nice and open, so it will be developer friendly, so plenty of apps will be a coming.