Samsung Galaxy Tab roundup: Whole lotta’ Tab

The first day of IFA Germany has been huge for Android. We got to see some amazing stuff today, but nothing can compare to the Samsung Tab. Clearly, the device is going to be huge (and I’m not talking screen size here). What have we been able to gather up on the the Galaxy Tab? [...]

Toshiba Folio 100 announced

Toshiba unveiled a 10.1″ WiFi-only tablet today called the Folio 100. It will ship with a custom interface on top of Android 2.2 (with Flash 10.1 support), HDMI-out and a 1.3MP front-facing cam. It will be available in the UK in October, running £329, though a WiFi/3G version will launch later in the year at [...]

Samsung announces Galaxy Tab

Samsung announced their Galaxy S Tab today at the IFA conference in Berlin, Germany. The tablet will ship with Android 2.2, Froyo, and eventually be upgraded to Gingerbread, which most people have pegged as 3.0. As for the version following Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Samsung has said that it provides a different tablet experience and will power [...]

G2 clocked at 800MHz, still blazing

T-Mobile has unveiled an interesting image at their SCOOP site that depict2 a scorpion embracing their upcoming G2 Android. Of course, this generated some questions about dual cores because of some rumors we’ve heard in the past, including one about the Vision packing a dual-core 800MHz processor. That information is a bit confusing at this [...]

T-Mobile G2: $499 outright, $199 w/ contract/rebate

TMoNews has been one of the best sources for early information on the G2 so far, so it’s no surprize that they should be the ones to drop some pseudo-official price points. The shot below, which appears to be of a T-Mobile internal system, indicates that the G2 will run $499 outright and $199 on [...]

LG Optimus Pad

LG has been workin‘ that Android as of late and the folks from Multimediawereld.be were on hand for LG’s Dealer Days 2010 in Brussels, where a new Android tablet called the Optimus Pad was unveiled.

Very little information is available at the moment, but the tablet (like pretty much every other Android tablet) is said to [...]

Return of the Milestone 2 video

Yesterday’s leak of an official Motorola Milestone 2 teaser/promo was short lived, as the video was pulled from YouTube quickly after it burst into the blogosphere. But it has been reposted (probably by several accounts) and we have it embedded below.

For those of you that came a bit late to the leak and were only [...]

Samsung Tab is headed for multiple carriers: GSM/CDMA

When photos popped up of Samsung’s Galaxy tablet, Tab, bearing a white tape label with “CDMA” printed on it, the natural response was to look for the gadget on tablet-hungry Verizon (where it will be turning up) and to ask the question: “Will we see a GSM version?” The answer to that question comes today [...]

Fascinate in the wild

One day after Bing was announced for Verizon Androids, and around the same time that the complete Samsung Fascinate manual was leaked, several photos of VZW’s own Galaxy S surfaced, running Bing.

An anonymous tipster hit BGR with the following snaps, and the site is still pressing him or her for details on device specs, specifically, [...]

Motorola’s Defy should take a beating

Motorola’s newest ruggedized Android is heading for Europe in Q4 with Gorilla Glass, a 800MHz OMAP 3610 processor, 5MP cam with LED flash, and a 3.7-inch display at 480 X 854 pixels. The device will ship with Android 2.1, Eclair, under MotoBlur 1.5, though Android 2.2, Froyo, might come later.

Defy is Motorola’s second ruggedized Android, [...]

I love my $149 nook Wi-Fi

With all the hype surrounding the Kindle DX and the rest of the Kindle line, for that matter, one might think Amazon and Apple had the e-book market cornered and trembling. But there still are other viable options out there. I’ve tried Borders’ Kobo with it’s sloppy little d-pad, and a couple of Sony’s older [...]

Archos drops 5 new Android tablets

Not two hours ago I was writing about how the Android tablet game is getting so crazy that it’s extremely difficult to differentiate the wheat from the vaporware. Start-ups and rebranding distributors are all over the tablet market shouting Android this and that while shipping very little. But one company that proven its committed to [...]

New Verizon prepaid services to include Android devices?

Take this with the normal grain of salt you do leaks and rumors, but according to screen shots from the guys over at AndroidDoes, Verizon is releasing a new prepaid service that allows you to use Android devices. Pricing on the handsets themselves is still unknown, but unlimited data is going to run you $30 [...]