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N900 owners have been able to press their Sixaxis controllers into service on their handsets for quite sometime, but Android tablets have been stubbornly stuck to a USB tether. That is, until now. Dancing Pixel Studios’ Sixaxis Controller app for Android does exactly what you expect — allows you wirelessly control games on your Google-powered device with a PS3 gamepad. It’s not the simplest setup on Earth. You’ll need to be rooted, and before you can pair it with your phone or tablet you’ll have to connect to a PC via USB and fire up the SixaxisPairTool. The app also doesn’t play nice with most HTC devices or newer Samsung ones. Thankfully, before you drop your hard-earned $1.67 on the app you can download the free Sixaxis Compatibility Checker. Don’t miss the video after the break, and hit up the source links to download both now and make pulling off a hadouken that much easier.

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We feel like if you’re going to buy an Eee Pad Transformer, you may as well spring for the $150 docking station — you know, the thing that makes the tablet so noteworthy. And we don’t need to remind you it also happens to be a solid value proposition: the dock brings not just a full keyboard, but two USB ports, an SD card reader, and up to seven hours of extended battery life. There must be some people content with just the slate, though, because ASUS is rolling out a trio of accessories that offer pieces of the docking station’s functionality. Head on over to Amazon Germany and you’ll find individual USB and SD adapters for €19 ($27) a pop. And though it’s not listed with the adapters, NetbookNews also spotted a €29 ($41) stand with a USB port, SD slot, and headphone jack. Before you get too excited, though, Amazon is saying the adapters will ship one to three months from now, which leaves you quite a bit of time to save up for the full keyboard dock. Just saying, folks.

ASUS Eee Pad Transformer stand and adapters surface on Amazon Germany originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The defense industry may already have its share of deadly high-tech toys, but when it comes to the latest in mobile, it’s often left to watch from the highly-secured sidelines. Enter Elektrobit Corporation with a just announced Specialized Device Platform that crafts made-to-order, Android-based devices for the public safety, security and aforementioned defense markets. Citing its lower cost, faster development approach, EB’s service marries the “best of the traditional mobile world… with product-and industry-specific features” so clients won’t have to deal with last year’s Android OS. Oh wait, actually they will. The currently on offer Froyo-flavored, 1GHz single-core OMAP3 model packs a WVGA capacitive touchscreen (either 4-, or 4.3-inch), 5 megapixel camera, VGA front-facing camera, WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS with quad-band GSM, tri-band UMTS / HSDPA and CDMA2K / EVDO support. Clients interested in a 700MHz LTE, Gingerbread option — that’s right, no Ice Cream Sandwich — will have to hold off until the first half of 2012, when the company’s 1.5GHz dual-core OMAP4 models will be available for production. Alright, so these specs aren’t exactly bleeding edge tech, but hey — who needs a quad-core phone when you’ve got this.

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HTC launched a new set of developer tools today that could lead to better apps for its Android phones.

The OpenSense software development kit, which is now live on HTC’s developer web site, lets developers design applications that will specifically interact with HTC’s custom version of Android, HTC Sense.

Sense is a custom graphical user interface created by HTC, built atop the Android platform. The Sense interface serves to differentiate HTC phones from devices made by Motorola, Samsung, LG and others. So instead of picking up an HTC device and seeing the same screen you would on many other Android phones, you get HTC’s particular flavor of Android.

Developers can use the tools to create apps that utilize different HTC-specific Android traits, like the stylus pen that comes with the Flyer tablet, or Android’s stereoscopic 3-D display.

The new OpenSense platform is a step in HTC’s progressing differentiation strategy. If HTC can lure more developers into creating apps that interact with Sense, that means more content available specifically for HTC devices — which, in turn, gives potential customers more reasons to purchase HTC-made products.

HTC is hosting the toolkit at its developer resources page, found here.

Image: Jon Snyder/Wired.com

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