Acme TB01 Android Tablet is available at Amazon UK. Acme TB01 Android Tablet is a 7-inch tablet with 800 x 480pixels display. The tablet packs a 1GHz Samsung S5PV210 ARM Cortex-A8 single-core processor, 512MB of RAM and a 4GB of internal storage. For storage expansion there is a MicroSD card slot. Acme TB01 arrive with Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS. Offered with 179.49 GBP price tag, Acme TB01 also comes with a USB 2.0 port, a VGA front camera, a mini HDMIport and a 2,000mAh battery.
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Samsung will soon release a new clamshell phone for China running Android OS. The SCH-W999 will take over from last year’s SCH-W899 and will allow users to use the phone either as a regular candybar or as a clamshell. As for the known specs, the phone will have two OLED-based displays with the same 800×480 WVGA resolution, Bluetooth 3.0 and dual-band 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and will weigh just over 200 grams.
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Motorola brings a new life to the RAZR line, introducing the DROID RAZR ultra slim Android smartphone. The new RAZR features a lightweight and slim form factor, boasting a gorgeous sculpted glass face, diamond-cut aluminum accents. According to Motorola, every part of DROID RAZR is protected by a splash-guard coating – even the electrical boards inside. The phone measures just 7.1mm and weighs 127g.

The Motorola DROID RAZR is powered a a dual-core 1.2GHz processor with 1GB of RAM and 16GB ROM. There is also a 16GB microSD card preinstalled. The phone comes with a 4.3-inch 540×960 Super AMOLED Advanced touchscreen with KEVLAR fiber and Corning Gorilla Glass to help the screen stand up to scratches and scrapes; a 8 Megapixel camera with LED flash, a 1.3 Megapixel front camera as well as Bluetooth 4.0 and WiFi 802.11b/g/n connectivity. In addition to GPS/aGPS, the RAZR supports also GLONASS.

The ultra slim Android phone offers also support for DLNA and HDMI output. Its 1780mAh battery provides up to 12.5 hours of talk time. The DROID RAZR runs Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread OS. While the DROID RAZR supports CDMA800,CDMA1900,LTE B13 700 networks, Motorola will also release the new RAZR in Europe and Asia market, supporting quad0band GSM/EDGE and quad-band WCDMA/HSDPA networks.
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Some things never change. Other things never stay the same. Take the iPhone and Android. The iPhone is an iPhone is an iPhone. Android? It went from being the ugly stepsister to the belle of the ball.
No, seriously. Once upon a time, Android was the young scrappy upstart that stayed invisible for nearly a year. It was trailing Blackberry (ew) and Windows Mobile (double ew)! Hah! But looking back on those early days, it’s easy to see why. Android was fugly. It’s completely different now because every ‘Nexus’ phone and every OS update have brought dramatic changes: Android 1.x was awkwardly well-intentioned, Android 2.0/2.1 was something worth using, Android 2.3 found its polish, Android 3.0 launched tablets and the new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is the futuristic realization of it all (no buttons, honeycomb-esque lines etc.). Change, of course, is even apparent outside the Nexus line; there are a million and one different form factors that fill in every nook and cranny of the smartphone space. Android is change.

In comparison, the iPhone is the same app-launching slate of a phone it was back in 2007. For better or worse, Apple has resisted overhauling the system, only choosing to add features at a steady pace. That first iPhone was barely a smartphone but the big-picture growth of the iPhone always sort of seemed to make sense: introduce it with 1.0, App Store with 2.0, fill out features with 3.0, multitasking with 4.0 and notifications with 5.0. Like it was all following a plan. Like Apple knew what was coming tomorrow, four years ago. Each iPhone is different, but the same.

The thing is, I don’t know which method is better. Is it Apple? Steely focused and steadfast about their plan, consistently cool yet coolly boring. Or is it Google? Always willing to try anything new, unafraid to overhaul their very core but and fortunate in its lack of direction. Cutely clueless. I don’t want to oversimplify Android and the iPhone (though I sorta am); I’m just glad both exist. Apple might’ve nailed what everyone wanted in the beginning, but Android is figuring out what everyone else wanted along the way.
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The Lenovo Ideapad is now up for pre-order with an “Estimated release date: 10/27/2011″. Some good news regarding this Android Honeycomb tablet, a couple months back Future Shop listed it for $499.99 but it’s been slashed to $349.00 outright – 30% savings even before being sold. The specs of this Wi-Fi only tablet ring in at a 10.1-inch display, 1GHz dual core processor, a 5 megapixel camera with a 2 megapixel camera front facing camera for video calling and weighs 239 grams.
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Recently, Android devices is getting more popular in India. HCL, India’s leading computer hardware manufacturer has just announced another Android tablet dubbed as the HCL ME X1. Though the HCL ME X1 isn’t the first Android tablet from HCL but this surely looks more promising than the previous generation as its priced sweetly for the features it comes along.

The Android Tablet comes with a 7 “ capacitive touch Screen with 480*800 pixels-a decent screen and resolution, a 1 GHz Cortex Processor and 512 MB of RAM, 2 MP camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, HDMI out, a 3500 mAh battery, a 4 GB inbuilt storage and supports up to 32 GB more via MicroSD card, and also Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread.  Unfortunately, The HCL ME X1 tablet doesn’t come with the Android market place but don’t worry because it has a customized app market called as the ME App store which has over 10,000 apps.

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Verizon My FiOS Android Application

Verizon’s new MY FiOS mobile application, offering customers on-the-go access to entertainment, personal content, TV controls, home monitoring, customer service tools and more. The application also adds smartphone simplicity to an already significant inventory of borderless lifestyle tools.The application will allow Verizon customers to more nimbly enjoy the company’s expanding base of remote-access media and entertainment services, while also making it easier to manage their personal accounts anywhere and anytime on their favorite devices. It also paves the way for easy access to dozens of new remote applications currently in development by Verizon and the company’s content provider partners.

It’s available immediately on all Android devices and will be accessible on Apple devices before year-end. It provides Verizon FiOS customers with a single point of access to a vast variety of FiOS remote-access services, including FiOS Mobile Remote, which includes DVR manager and Verizon’s Home Monitoring & Control service, as well as personal content with Media Manager and movies and TV shows with Flex View. The easy-to-access app also provides users with the ability to manage billing and FiOS Digital Voice service.

In addition, the app reflects Verizon‘s customer focus by organizing apps according to customer needs, like accessing entertainment on the go, checking in on your home, managing your account and other remote access benefits.[TJ]

Samsung’s cross-platform communication service, ChatON is now available for mass consumption. The app is currently available on Android via Samsung’s own app store. ChatON, if you’re unaware is Samsung’s tool for communication across various platforms including Android, bada, iOS, BlackBerry and PC.

Currently, Samsung preloads the ChatON app only in bada 2.0 devices whereas Android users can download from the store.

ChatON will enable users to have a 1:1 conversation, group chat and share multimedia content.

ChatON currently supports over 25 languages.
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Dual-core processors for Android tablets seem to be the standard these days – even Shenzhen manufacturers have started using them in their own creations. A company named Yipai has released a new tablet called the C7, which is powered by Renesas’ A9 EV2 dual-core processor. Pretty impressive for a sub $100 tablet. Other specs of the Yipai C7 include: a 7″ capacitive display, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage, a front facing camera, microSD card slot (up to 32GB), 2x USB 2.0 ports, a 4100mAh battery, optional 3G and GPS, HDMI output, and Android 2.2.

While Android 2.2 might be a turn off for some people, it is a budget tablet after all, and with any luck, users should have no problem finding a way to root the device and upgrade it with a custom ROM. The tablet will be available in eight different colors: grey, silver, purple, green, brown, yellow, blue and black. No word on whether they’ll hit the US, but they definitely look like pretty decent budget devices. More pictures at the source link.
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Motorola Solutions, not to be confused with Motorola Mobility, announced the ET1 enterprise tablet computer focused on retail with functionality to enhance the shopping experience. The new tablet runs enterprise-ready hardened version of the Android 2.3.4 OS, and is designed to be used 24 x 7 by multiple staff members.

The ET1 is powered by a 1GHz dual-core processor with 1GB of RAM and 4GB internal storage. It sports a 7-inch 1024×600 touchscreen with Gorilla Glass, a 8 Megapixel main camera for image capture and barcode scanning, and 720p video recording, a front camera optimized for video collaboration, Bluetooth, GPS and WiFi connectivity. It has a microSD/SDHC card slot. The enterprise tablet comes with user replaceable 4620mAh rechargeable battery for extended usage. It even has memory back-up battery to retain RAM data for up to 15 minutes when the main battery is removed.

The Motorola ET1 will be released in Q4.

Motorola ET1 Enterprise Tablet: The Only Tablet that is Flat-Out Enterprise

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