The Moto GLAM (XT800) has been announced for Korea. Already successful in China, Android powered Glam features a FWVGA (480 x 854) touchscreen display, GPS, DLNA, HDMI-out, 3.5mm headset jack, 5MP autofocus camera with D1 (720 x 480) video recording, 256MB RAM, 512MB ROM, and a 550MHz TI OMAP Processor. Unfortunately, it does not have Froyo.
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The app’s name is WakeVoice, it’s not yet available in the Android market, but when it does (within “the next day or so”), it may just revolutionize the way you look at your alarm. Using Android’s speech synthesis (TTS) engine, your alarm clock can actually talk to you. It can announce customize message, the weather forecast, and even the latest news.
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The video below has two contenders – the existing and new AMOLED displays – going heads-up with a bona fide hammer. You can see pretty early on that the existing…
Here is the first hands-on video of the new Toshiba TG02, what's new - the touchscreen technology has been resistive swapped with capacitive, the device has become a wee bit…
Distribution of prices in the various app stores
Google’s Android Marketplace contains primarily free apps – 57% by Distimo’s estimate (Androlib says 62%). This is much more than the competition. Less than a third of the apps in their catalogs are free. Even so, half of apps in most app stores (save for the Windows Mobile and BlackBerry ones) are under 2 US dollars.
The Apple App Store in general has about 28% free apps, but it differs quite a bit when it comes to paid apps. The iPhone apps run around 2.62 USD (average price for the 100 most popular apps), while iPad specific apps cost 6.02 USD by the same metric. (more…)
The official rollout of Android 2.2 is underway starting with the latest news of the Nexus One update. Tech site Recombu has received word from HTC that at least three…
Yes, the Touch Pro2 is technically an old smartphone from early last year. However, the handset never really made it to UK store shelves as it was originally released as…
Engadget’s review: "In the end, we’re left with two orphan devices — phones that feel like they should have been killed before they made it to market, but somehow slipped…