Posted by Jamie Forestell Today, at the Mobile World Congress event taking place in Barcelona, Qualcomm has announced its new line-up of Snapdragon chipsets. The chips will reach speeds of up to 2.5GHZ, and offer 75% less power and also 12X the performance then the first generation snapdragon chips. The …
Read More »Motorola Mobility Acquires 3LM
Motorola secures 3LM by Jamie Forestell Motorola has announced the purchase of Three Laws of Mobility also known as 3LM, a company known for bringing security to Android devices.” The purchase will allow Motorola to focus on the security of their Android devices, and hopefully shift interest into the enterprise …
Read More »Samsung announces the Galaxy Tab 10.1 at MWC 2011
Samsung announced the new and upcoming 10.1″ Galaxy Tab to their lineup. The resolution will be a whopping 1280×800, and powered by a 1Ghz Dual Core Snapdragon cpu, running on Honeycomb Android 3.0 Tablet OS. Stay tuned for more information and we have no details on prices or availability in Canada..or even the …
Read More »Best Buy announces Motorola Xoom Pre Order Pricing at $1199?
Posted by Jamie Forestell Best Buy USA has posted the pre-order page for the upcoming Motorola Xoom……with a slight difference from the leaked screenshot..and by slight i mean $400 more! With the competition all coming out with 16GB models, one might wonder if Motorola has a 16GB up their sleeves. With …
Read More »HP TouchPad may be available as early as June for $699: Boy Genius Report
Posted by Jamie Forestell BGR seems to have great inside sources, once again breaking news that the HP TouchPad may be ready for retail as early as June. The WebOS tablet is also rumored to be priced at $699, which is $100 less then the Motorola Xoom. This information has …
Read More »Motorola Xoom available Feb 24 in USA, still no date set for Canada
Posted by Jamie Forestell There have been many leaks leading up to the release of the Motorola Xoom, including price and now the official launch date. We have confirmation thanks to Droid-Life, that the launch date is February 24 at Best Buy USA, and the contract price will be $799 USD. …
Read More »Blackberry Playbook to run Android Apps: Bloomberg
Bloomberg reports the Blackberry Playbook will indeed run Android apps. When RIM first announced the Playbook tablet, the industry cringed at the thought of an entire restructure of Blackberry applications as well as the need to develop new apps for the QNX OS. The Andriod marketplace has roughly 130,000 apps, …
Read More »Motorola Xoom US pricing confirmed to be $799
Well it’s official… Best Buy has released a circular confirming pricing info previously leaked by Verizon, that the Motorola Xoom Android 3.0 dual-core super tablet will cost a whopping $799 US with a contract!! I think this pricing is absolutely insane, as there are already dual-core Android tablets on the …
Read More »Motorola Xoom Superbowl 2011 Commercial – Empower the People
Motorola Xoom, by Jamie Forestell Well, sure enough, Motorola takes a big swing and a big hit at Apple. Empower the People ad spot, was broadcast during Superbowl XLV. Motorola Xoom is scheduled to be released in February/March, and plans to ship with Android 3.0 Honeycomb. The newest Android OS …
Read More »News Corp introduces an iPad newspaper: The Daily iPad app
Rumors have been circulating for months that Rupert Murdoch, of News Corp, was in talks with Apple to digitize an iPad only Daily newspaper. “New times demand new journalism,” said Murdoch. “There’s a growing segment of the population here and around the world that is educated and sophisticated that does …
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