Google’s Android Market now has a web client. Finally! And guess what else, it’s already live. Hit the source link below to get exploring.
Developing… check out our liveblog of Google’s Honeycomb event for the latest.
Android Market gets a web store originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
We’re holed up in Building 43 of the Googleplex here in lovely Mountain View, California for today’s event promising an “in-depth look at Honeycomb, Android ecosystem news, and hands-on demos” — and if you ask us, that sounds like a trifecta of potential awesome. We’ll be liveblogging all of the action and hopefully following up with some hands-ons, so keep it locked right here for all the little green robots (and — just maybe — large black tablets) that you can handle.
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Live from Google’s Android event! originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Onkyo is giving us a taste of what next, revealing its plans for future tablet onslaught that will leave no operating system untouched — well, Android and Windows anyway. For Windows 7 lovers, the company’s three SlatePC tablets, the TW317A5, TW217A5, and TW117A4 are all going to see updates through the year, including Oak Trail power from Intel sometime before June. Meanwhile, the 10-inch Android SlatePad TA117C1 and TA117C3 will receive built-in 3G and will be joined with a 7-inch, ARM-powered model later this year. Ruggedized tablets are mentioned too, but no plans for a US release for any of them. No surprise there.
Onkyo tablet roadmap shows a selection of Android and Windows devices in a variety of sizes originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
A few lucky souls managed to get their Notion Ink Adams early — only to have them brick themselves. The rest were delayed and, well, it’s all a bit of a mess. Now there’s another way to get a taste of Ink but on some currently available hardware. User gojimi over at the inimitable xda-developers forums has ported seven applications from the Notion Ink suite to Viewsonic’s G-Tablet, including the Calendar, Keyboard, QuickOffice, and the Browser. Some don’t run perfectly and we have to say that’s something of an unfortunate target, but gojimi does indicate it should be easy to move them to any other ROM. So, you know, make it happen!
Notion Ink apps ported over to Viewsonic G-Tablet, promise not to brick it too originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Heads up high-speed data fans — more carrier-exclusive smartphone and tablet offerings are headed your way.
On Wednesday morning, T-Mobile announced its Galaxy S 4G smartphone and G-Slate tablet. The phone will be available sometime this month (we’re speculating a release in conjunction with the forthcoming Mobile World Congress), while the tablet has an even more vague drop date of “spring” availability. Neither have confirmed price points as of yet.
The Samsung-manufactured Galaxy S 4G isn’t drastically different from its 3G predecessor, the Vibrant. It’s got a 4-inch capacitive touch screen (like the Vibrant), a 1-GHz Hummingbird processor (see: Vibrant), plus a 5-megapixel camera capable of capturing 720p video and a pre-installed 16-GB microSD card (Vibrant, Vibrant, Vibrant).
In fact, except for the newly-installed front facing VGA camera for video chat and 4G-capable ST-Ericsson radio, this thing ain’t much different than a Vibrant. (The 4G does, however, come with Inception loaded onto the phone in its entirety, instead of Avatar, like the Vibrant.)
But Samsung’s first Galaxy series of smartphones did break the 10 million sales mark in early January, so popularity and user-familiarity could outweigh a lack of product innovation.
The T-Mobile G-Slate with Google by LG (yes, that mouthful of a title is accurate) is a bit more exciting to us. The 8.9-inch capacitive touch screen will be capable of both playing and recording 3-D and full HD video content, complete with in-box 3-D glasses to watch your 3-D home movies with (here’s to hoping they aren’t the cheap cardboard kind).
The “with Google” branding counts for something as well. The G-Slate will run the much-anticipated Android version 3.0 (a.k.a. Honeycomb), Google’s Android OS update “optimized for tablets.” And just like the forthcoming Honeycomb-powered Motorola Xoom tablet, it’ll be running on a 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 processor.
The tablet will also include a back facing 5-megapixel camera capable of recording 1080p HD video as well as taking snapshots, and the front facing 2-megapixel camera comes stock for all your video chatting needs. The 32GB of on-board storage will hold your glut of jpegs and video files.
While the new Galaxy S 4G isn’t wowing us on pure spec-power alone, we’re excited to see what the G-Slate has in store for us.
Photo: Galaxy S 4G/ Courtesy of T-Mobile
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Look, let us just sum up the Galaxy S 4G for you: it’s a Vibrant with Froyo, a front-facing camera, and Inception. After reading through the new details T-Mobile’s outed on its latest HSPA+-equipped Android smartphone today, that’s really the best way to describe it… and let’s face it, Avatar (which, you might recall, came bundled with the Vibrant) was getting kind of old and played out anyway. Naturally, like T-Mobile’s other video call-capable devices, the front-facing camera will make use of Qik; other preinstalled third-party apps will include Kindle, doubleTwist with AirSync, and T-Mobile TV for streaming content from ABC, Fox, PBS, and others. You’ll also get a slight battery capacity bump from the Vibrant to 1650mAh, undoubtedly to counteract the effects of the beefier radio. Revolutionary, no; evolutionary, quite! We don’t have a date or a price yet, but the carrier says we can expect it this month. Follow the break for the full press release.
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T-Mobile promises Samsung Galaxy S 4G for launch this month originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Though it was technically announced back at CES, T-Mobile just barely talked about the LG G-Slate there, spending more time chatting up Dell’s Streak 7 and letting Motorola’s Xoom get virtually all of the Honeycomb attention. Well, that’s changed today with a handful of official new details: turns out the G-Slate features a 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 processor, 32GB of internal storage, both a gyroscope and accelerometer, and — this is key — stereoscopic rear-facing video cameras capable of 1080p 3D capture, one of which doubles as a 5 megapixel still camera with LED flash. There’s also a third 2 megapixel camera up front for video chat over T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network or WiFi. Going back to that 3D business for a moment, you’ll need glasses (it’s unclear if they’re active or passive) to enjoy recorded or downloaded 3D content on the G-Slate’s 8.9-inch display — but you’ll also be able to output 1080p video over HDMI to the external display of your choice. Pricing is still an open question, but the companies are now comfortable enough to say that we can expect it “this spring,” so go ahead and start thinking about all the blooming springtime plant life you’ll be filming in three glorious dimensions. Follow the break for the full press release.
Update: While T-Mobile hedges its bets with a “spring” launch, LG says that it’ll be hitting US soil in March as one of the first Honeycomb tablets. The honor of being first will almost certainly go to the Motorola Xoom — Google’s in-house “dogfooding” tablet.
LG G-Slate fully detailed by T-Mobile: 3D viewing and recording, available March (updated) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We’ve gotten a bunch of tips in the past hour or so that the Android Market is doing weird things, and we can corroborate this on our Nexus S here — we’re just not able to download stuff. Apps look like they’re starting to download, then they suddenly vanish into thin air without a trace and without an error message. Our Droid 2 is still fully functional, though, so this definitely isn’t consistent; really, we’re just wondering if this outage might have something to do with tomorrow’s Android-themed festivities at the Google campus, which — naturally — we’ll be attending. So how is everyone faring out there tonight?
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Android Market acting weird — is it a precursor to tomorrow’s event? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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If you were to prepare a list of most under-served smartphone form factors, portrait QWERTY ranks high on the list; few manufacturers have dared to dabble in it so far, despite the fact that there would seem to be a treasure trove of potential users in the BlackBerry realm who live and die by the Bold / Curve layout. Motorola has given it the most high-publicity shot so far with entries like the Droid Pro, Charm, and Flipout, and it looks like Samsung might be prepping a head-on Droid Pro competitor for Sprint thanks to some shots that have emerged on PocketNow today. We have precisely zero details on the hardware specs, the possible launch time frame, or really anything else at this point, but we’ll keep an eye out.
[Thanks, Theodore L.]
Samsung prepping portrait QWERTY Android phone for Sprint? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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