Sep 14
Hey Android. We didn’t forget about you this week, big guy. So here we have another batch of the best Android apps, from one for your travels to another for your workout and much more. More »
Sep 14
The iPad Mini rumors didn’t come true on iPhone day, but as a consolation prize, you can still have the best iPad apps of the week. This round you’re getting football, a visual music maker, and much more. More »
Sep 14
It appears that the HP smartphone is coming back to the universe with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich taking the wheel where webOS left off – that’s what a benchmark discovered in the depths of odd product testing is telling us this week. What we’re seeing here is a GLBenchmark set of test results that shows a device code-named Bender with the HP branding sitting right up top. Powering this device, if it is indeed a real device, that is, is a Qualcomm S4 dual-core processor as well!
This device is more than ready to break up the fray that HP’s now lost Palm group left when webOS was filleted several months ago. Gone now is the webOS software universe – gone to open-sourcing, that is – and in its place comes Google’s mobile OS. With Android 4.0.4 in the benchmark here we can expect at least Ice Cream Sandwich when an HP smartphone comes to the market – or maybe even 4.1 Jelly Bean by that time if we’re lucky! This device also shows a lovely 1366 x 720 pixel resolution display with 1.5GHz on each of its Snapdragon CPU cores.
This news comes right after HP’s relatively new CEO Meg Whitman spoke up on how they’ll eventually have a smartphone to their name in the future. They’re in no rush, she assured, but they will be coming back with a solid device. You can bet that they’re not going to be making the same “mistakes” they made in the past when this device hits the field.
[Thanks for the tip Noor!]
HP Bender Android smartphone appears in benchmark details is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Sep 14
I don’t wear a watch. I never have. If I did it would be more or less as a bracelet, but I dig the Sometimes Watch because it’s just so simple and cool. More »
Sep 14
With their millions of users, it is a tough task for social networks to keep their systems fool-proof against hacks and other vulnerabilities. Yet, the cleverest hackers nearly always find a way to go around it and somehow break into even the most secure systems.
The tech companies have often gone by the philosophy that to keep the system secure, they can really use the help of leading hackers. Apparently, Twitter is also abiding by it. The micro-blogging network has hired the notable Apple hacker, Charlie Miller, to be a part of its security team. (more…)
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Court forces Twitter to hand over Occupy Wall Street protestor’s tweets, Sony’s #TweetSinger app turns your tweets into songs,
Sep 14
Floods are becoming more and more common these days. Probably because people are still cutting down trees like no tomorrow and throwing their trash everywhere (which clogs up all the overtaxed drainage systems.)
It’s ironic, but what usually happens during extreme floods are water shortages all over the place. Not of floodwater (obviously), but of clean drinking water.
So designer Wang Can came up with the Source of Water concept. Basically it’s a tube filter that’s meant to be thrown right into the water that has accumulated outside. The water surrounding the canister exerts pressure on the tube, pushing the waters inside and through the filters, purifying it in the process.
Just think of all the lives that can be saved with Can’s concept – if it works to actually purify the dirty flood waters, that is.
[via Yanko Design]
Sep 14
Are you planning to get an iPhone 5? Do you have charge stations set up all over your home, car, and office? If you want to keep your setup intact, you’re gonna have to get some of those $30 adapters (or buy new cables altogether). So how many 30-pin-to-Lightning adapters are you going to have to snatch up to maintain the status quo in your nerd cave? More »
Sep 14
If you’re pumped up about the multi-core Android smartphone experience with NVIDIA, you’ll be pumped up to hear that they’ve broken the 5+ million downloads – and that rising star is still shooting upward! If you’ve got an NVIDIA-powered Android device and don’t have the TegraZone app on your device, you’ve got to grab it instantly! What the TegraZone offers up is not just a simple place to grab Android apps galore, but a great guide for you to see what’s possible on your high-powered machine.
The statistic being reported today suggests that the actual app – the guide – has been downloaded and installed on millions of devices across the earth. What you’re doing with this application if you have it already is exploring the NVIDIA-optimized universe. If you’re part of that 5 million download mark, you’re already deep inside the most dedicated gaming environment on the market today!
No other processor group has done exactly what NVIDIA has with their TegraZone initiative. Developers regularly team up with NVIDIA to optimize their games for their next-generation processors starting with the Tegra 2 – dual-core, and now working with the Tegra 3 as well – quad-core processing power with an extra core for low-powered tasks and standby computing for battery preservation.
Have a peek at our NVIDIA TegraZone category here on SlashGear that’ll give you everything you need to keep up with NVIDIA and their Tegra gaming universe – and keep that download number rising with a TegraZone download today!
NVIDIA TegraZone breaks 5 million download mark is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Sep 14
Well, we know there’s an LG event right around the corner and, if we were the betting type, we’d put our money on the flagship Optimus G making its stateside debut. Perhaps the biggest clue to what the company has up its sleeve is that the quad-core Snapdragon S4-powered handset just made its video debut. The sleek 4.7 inch handset is staring in its own commercial, currently posted on YouTube, that will be airing in the manufacturer’s homeland shortly after launch. The brief clip doesn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know, but we can’t find any reason complain about a few extra peeks at it before release. Check out the video after the break.
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Sep 14
A lot can go wrong on a night out drinking with friends—incarceration, questionable taste, the realization that you lost half the group two bars ago—but all of these things can be avoided with the right tools loaded in a smartphone. With these 13 apps, you will have full cups, manageable chaos, and a reasonable chance you’ll recognize the room you wake up in. More »
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