The wait is now over. Samsung has just released some new details about its upcoming tablet named Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1; based on the Galaxy Note smartphone model. Finally, the Korean company tells more about the Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet. As every one is thinking, the tablet comes with 10.1 display with 1280×800 resolution, an S Pen to provide an endless possibilities of creativity as Sams... »
Android fan Marc Young from Ontario, Canada has made this brilliant Android robot. It has moving arms, antennae and head, but most importantly it looks really really cool & fun! Marc has cleverly submitted the design to the Lego beta pages to have it made into an official Lego kit. The problem is that Marc needs 10,000 supporters on the Lego beta projects site to even be considered. At the... »
A few days ago, I wrote about how Microsoft have upgraded their free email platform Hotmail to a new service dubbed Outlook.com. I mentioned in the article that I found Outlook to be very clean an modern looking; but with the trepidations that a lot of users have about Hotmail (such as spam) may well translate over to Outlook.com. So I wouldn’t be moving from Gmail. It’s been around a ... »
One of the members of the Raspberry Pi foundation recently announced that its inexpensive, credit-card sized Linux computer will be able to run Android 4.0 soon. Naren Sankar has been working on the port and is making great progress with hardware accelerated graphics and video working just fine. The only missing thing as of now is AudioFlinger support, which is responsible for sound on Android. Be... »
Once again Google’s open Android platform broke new ground for the market share lead, according to the latest press release from Canalys. This time Android surged by 20.5% from last year’s Q2 report to be at a whopping 68.1% of the global smartphone OS market share, due to the shipment of 107.8 million devices resulting in a 110.4% increase over last year (only 51.2 million shipments)... »
I’ve been meaning to review Linux Deepin for quite some time now and I’ve finally had a chance to create virtual machine and put it through it’s paces. For those of you that don’t know, Linux Deepin is a highly customised Ubuntu/Gnome 3 distribution that focusses and ease of use and good looks. So let’s take a look… First Impressions The first thing I noticed ab... »
Today it was confirmed that Microsoft have had to stop using the ‘Metro’ name for their new Windows 8 overlay. It’s been reported that Microsoft have had to start telling developers that they should refrain from using the word ‘Metro’ throughout their applications. Rather than using ‘Metro’, staff and devlopers are to (for the time being at least) refer to... »
Recently after a few developers found several files containing code for Multiple User account support in Android 4.1 Jellybean, zanderman112 from XDA-Developers found a way to actually put the code in action. Just like on Desktop OS's, if the tweak is enabled, the device you are using would have a login screen with many accounts to choose from, with a profile and customized settings for each use... »