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The Motorola Xoom is an impressive piece of tech. The preferred size of a tablet is quite a personal thing. The Xoom being somewhere between that of larger tablets like the iPad, and smaller tablets such as Dell’s Streak 7 is quite a good place to be. However, as with many tablets, the weight is still an issue. Holding the 730 grams Xoom in one hand for any period of time can become a strain. Motorola [...]

Image by clintonjeff via Flickr Originally dubbed The Playstation Phone, Sony’s Xperia Play is the first Smartphone to feature a gamepad. Something that hasn’t really been attempted since Nokia’s N-Gage, which was launched in 2003 and re-released in ’08. It works. The phone slides out to reveal the gamepad, which functions exactly as it should. With a d-pad, X, O Triangle, [...]

HTC have a earned a reputation in the mobile industry as building phones of outstanding quality. Recently we had the opportunity to play around with the Desire S and see if it lives up to that standard. The original Desire was like the showcase product from HTC and was one of their biggest sellers of 2010. It bared a high resemblance to the Google branded Nexus One. HTC had a few tricks up sleeves [...]

Imagine listening to the same music in every room of your house, at the same time. You walk from the living room to the kitchen and your favourite track goes un-interrupted. It almost sounds like an experience from a science fiction movie, but with Sonos it’s not only possible – it’s easy, affordable and bloody amazing! The applications are endless. You’re doing chores around [...]

Firefox 4 Beta now available for Mobile Mozilla’s Firefox 4 beta  has come to Android in beta form, it was released for Windows and Mac OS X in July this year. The browser has been through a ton of updates and fixes over the last few weeks. Firefox 4 Beta includes Firefox Sync to create a seamless Web browsing experience between desktop and mobile. With Firefox Sync, you can take your browsing [...]

Adobe AIR on Android Adobe AIR app is now available in the Android Market. This doesn’t mean much at the moment for us users, as the Adobe AIR app comes without any applications. Nevertheless, Adobe has listed on its website  few blog posts and videos from some of the  prerelease program developers who have created AIR for Android apps.  The  developers can now publish ActionScript 3 projects [...]

Apple reinvented the Tablet computing landscape with its Tablet iPad, competition soon followed with Dell launching Streak, Samsung  joined the fray with Galaxy Tab, Blackberry became the latest entrant with its PlayBook tablet launched earlier this week. We bring you a feature comparison of these four models BlackBerry PlayBook Apple iPad Samsung Galaxy Tab Dell Streak Screen size 7 [...]

Research In Motion If reports from Wall Street Journal are to be believed,Research in Motion (RIM)  could showcase the world its tablet as early as next week, at a developers’ conference in San Francisco. According to earlier rumors the Tablet PC is to be christened BlackPad, the rumors got more credibility when RIM registered blackpad.com. The touch screen tablet will measure 9.7 inches, akin [...]

Gmail app on Android 2.2 Google has updated the Gmail app for Android 2.2 Froyo, it now gets the ability to reveal more quoted text in the  email threads and introducing limited support for Priority Inbox. The Gmail app now has a “show quoted text” button,too view older parts of a conversation as needed.  Actions like reply, star, and archive now have a permanent place at the top of [...]

Source : www.developer.android.com Over 70% of Android based Mobile phones are now running Android Eclair 2.1 or Froyo 2.2 according to a  latest report on fragmentation of its Android platform released by Google. There has recently been a surge in the number of devices running Android 2.2, it’s now running on 28.7% of handsets. The swift leap can be attributed to the wide number of handsets that [...]