After several years as a devoted Apple iPhone user, I have been tempted by the dark side — I am considering giving up my beloved iPhone for an Android device, and the main attraction is the openness of the ecosystem that Android takes advantage of.
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Why I’m thinking of ditching my precious iPhone for an Android
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Exynos-powered Kite tablet flies Android 4.0 and Ubuntu 12.04 for €309
Italian electronics firm DaVinci Mobile Technology is now accepting pre-orders for its Kite Full-HD tablet. This European slab features a 10.1-inch 1,920 x 1,200 IPS display, a Samsung Exynos 4412 quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of internal sto…
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Huawei G520 outed as an inexpensive, quad-core smartphone for China
Huawei put its best foot forward (twice) last week at CES, but it seems that the company has yet another smartphone up its sleeve: a 4.5-inch Android device known as the G520. According to Gizchina, the phone is said to wield a quad-core 1.2GHz Media…
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Insert Coin: Lomography Smartphone Film Scanner does as its name implies
In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you’d like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with “Insert Coin” as the subject line. The fine folks over at Lomography are at it aga…
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CES 2013: Tablet roundup
The tablet landscape has changed greatly in a year’s time, at least if you gauge what we’ve seen on the CES show floor. The 2012 expo was led mostly by high-end Android tablets. This year, Windows 8 understandably garnered much more of the spotlight …
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Refresh Roundup: week of January 7th, 2013
Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for …
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ASUS MeMo Pad makes quiet post-CES debut, offers Jelly Bean and 16GB of storage for $150
Despite a strong showing of slates in 2012, ASUS showed precious few tablets at CES last week. Missing from the show? Its latest MeMo Pad — a 7-inch 1024 x 600 tablet rocking Jelly Bean, 16GB of storage, a Mali 400 GPU, 1GB of RAM and a 1MP front-fa…
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Flipboard refresh supports Android 4.2′s Daydream mode
Flipboard readers on Android have a little more reason to celebrate beyond just the recent addition of tablet support. A quick update this weekend lets the curated news reader hook into Android 4.2′s Daydream mode: news covers can become part of a sc…
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Groupon Payments comes to Android, starts catching up to Square
Use Groupon Payments for your business? You just got a little more choice — the popular deal broker just updated its Android app to support credit card transactions. The update brings the fledgling payment service a little closer to Square, which ha…
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The RK3066 Android 4.1 mini PC is the MK802′s younger, smarter, cheaper brother, we go hands on
When the MK802 Android mini PC landed in our laps, it caused more than a ripple of interest. Since then, a swathe of “pendroids” have found their way to market, and the initial waves have died down. While we were at CES, however, we bumped into the m…
