android tablet - Page 160 of 186

Apple Grabs Touchscreen Patent For iPhone, Making Trouble For Nokia, Samsung & Its Competetors

Apple granted patent for portable multifunction devices with multitouch screens and the USPTO has awarded the Cupertino crew a patent that’s sure to raise few eyebrows amongst its competitors. Apple’s patent essentially gives it ownership of the capacitive multitouch interface the company pioneered with its iPhone, to produce a new round of lawsuits over the now-ubiquitous multitouch interfaces used in smartphones made by the likes of HTC, Samsung, Motorola, Research in Motion, Nokia, and others that run operating systems similar in nature to Apple’s iOS…………

Marvell Kinoma’s New Open App Platform

Marvell Kinoma’s take on a “new open app platform” targeted at everything from mobile devices to desktops to embedded handhelds. The company is finally showing off a live version of the software in the form of Kinoma Play, an implementation of the platform that runs atop Android 2.2 Froyo. The Marvell also had a massive touchscreen loaded up with a desktop version of the software running in a simulator atop OS X for eager onlookers to fool around with.

Samsung Release Premium Accessory Suite For Galaxy Tab 10.1

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 now supported by exclusive accessory portfolio offering convenient, portable solutions in docking, charging and convertibility, which are available online at Samsung.com. The collection includes a full-size keyboard dock ($70) and a multimedia dock ($35) enabling HDMI pass-through, you can have Tab video on your TV, as long as you buy the separate HDTV adapter ($30). And there is also a book cover model ($60) you can leave on while using the tablet………

Mobile Web vs. Desktop Web

Mobile app use trumping web browsing for the first time and time spent with mobile apps per day per person reached an average of 81 minutes compared to 74 minutes on the Web. This growth in mobile app usage, clocking in at a 91% increase year-over-year has come primarily from more sessions per user per day, but mobile apps haven’t always been more popular than the Web……….

General Dynamics Bring Itronix GD2000 Delivers Notebook-sized Computing Power

General Dynamics just-announced Itronix GD2000 like a full-sized notebook, and powered by an Intel Core Solo processor. The pocket-sized GD2000 fully-rugged, ultra-mobile PC from General Dynamics Itronix delivers the power, durability and mobility that users have come to expect from our line of high-performance, fully-rugged, ultra-mobile PCs. This is Weighing in at 2.4 pounds, and can run for six hours on a lithium-ion battery

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Hitting Sprint On June 24th

Sprint has just announced that it will be carrying the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 beginning June 24 and this ultra-thin and lightweight Tab boasts a 10.1-inch HD touchscreen, Android 3.1 and a dual-core processor; power Galaxy Tab 10.1 with an overdrive pro 3G/4G mobile hotspot by sierra wireless or MiFi 3G/4G mobile hotspot by novatel wireless for access to blazing-fast Sprint 4G speeds. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will be the 16GB Wi-Fi version and sell for $499.99, to use the Sprint network they suggest you buy the MiFi or Overdrive. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 comes preloaded with the Samsung UX, Samsung Media Hub, Reader Hub and Social Hub and also the custom Samsung TouchWiz UX has a Live Panel menu for customizing the home screen and Mini Apps tray………..

Adobe Updates iOS Development

Adobe Systems extended its Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5 software solutions to Apple’s iPhone and iPad as well as Research In Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and developers can now use the Adobe Flash Builder platform to develop applications. Flash Builder 4.5.1 allows developers to create apps for a variety of popular devices and platforms without needing to recode large amounts of the software and the release aims to provide a number of socially orientated marketing tools on a single platform…………

Rumor: Apple’s iPhone 5 Landing On 7th September?

Apple didn’t show off iOS 5 this month just to sit on it until next year and iOS 5 will see release nearly simultaneously as the iPhone 5. Most likely release date for the iPhone 5 is 7 September 2011 and the general feeling is that Apple will postpone the annual iPod refresh and use the space to unveil the iPhone 5 instead………..