While not long ago, e-book readers were rudimentary devices far off from the capabilities of tablets, the thin line between a basic e-reader and a more complex slate becomes increasingly thinner and thinner and thinner.Amazon is the most important company “responsible” for mixing things up and the makers of the Kindle Fire are apparently planning [...]
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Samsung touts the virtues of its hardware, takes a subtle jab at Apple [Video]
May 12th, 2012 
dantek Samsung is not only the largest smartphone maker in the world, but also a top supplier of electronic components, from hi-resolution displays to processors and memory modules. It’s no secret that Samsung provides many of the components found in Apple’s wildly popular iPhone and iPad devices, including the much-touted Retina display and the A5X chip [...]
Microsoft playing dirty again, plans to ban Firefox on ARM-based Windows 8 PCs and tablets
May 12th, 2012 dantek Although for many it might be a model worth following, Microsoft has a longstanding tradition of not only discouraging competition, but trying to eliminate it by any means possible. That includes dirty, unorthodox, and sometimes even illegal moves through which they’ve managed to monopolize the desktop operating system market, and, for a long while back [...]
ASUS Padfone gets unboxing video, docks on docks on docks
May 12th, 2012 dantek The ASUS Padfone has been highly anticipated since it was first announced well over a year ago. After a bit of retooling it re-debuted earlier this year at Mobile World Congress, much to the intrigue of all in attendance. With a smartphone that docks into a tablet that in turn mates with a keyboard dock, [...]
Is your AT&T Galaxy Note hungry for ICS? A buttery-smooth leaked ROM might help
May 12th, 2012 dantek You’ve probably heard, read, and secretly wept knowing that folks in Europe that rock a Galaxy Note are now receiving the OTA update to Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich. Along with ICS, the update brings the promised Premium Suite for the Galaxy Note, which consists of several new S Pen-optimized apps.Stateside, the owners of the [...]
Wimax hits Virgin Mobile with the HTC EVO V 4G
May 9th, 2012 dantek Virgin Mobile this morning announced its first Wimax-powered Android smartphone, the HTC EVO V 4G. It’ll run on Sprint’s current 3G and 4G networks, as was foretold in its recent Q1 earnings call. Specs are as follows:4.3-inch qHD touchscreenAndroid 4.0 Ice Cream SandwichHTC Sense 3.6Mobile hotspot capability – Connect up to five Wi-Fi devices5MP camera with video [...]
Oracle v Google decision — the layman’s edition
May 8th, 2012 dantek You probably heard that a partial decision was made in the Oracle versus Google lawsuit this afternoon. Nobody won, nobody lost (except us end-users, who will have to pay for all this somehow), and in reality things have only just begun to get interesting. If you’re a lawyer, or pretend to be a lawyer on [...]
Flipboard available exclusively on Samsung Galaxy S3, other Android devices to follow soon
May 8th, 2012 dantek It wouldn’t be a complete introduction of a flagship device if there wasn’t anything exclusive attached to it. Otherwise, we’d have a ho-hum device to offer you, and frankly, that’s not what we are about here at Android Authority. As for the Samsung Galaxy S3, we’ve learnt that owners of this super phone will get free [...]
April brings HTC sales boost
May 8th, 2012 dantek Last month brought an improvement in monthly sales figures for HTC, according to reports from Reuters?. Figures released by HTC this morning put consolidated sales at NT$31.03 billion ($1.06 billion) — an improvement on the previous month’s NT$30.879 billion, though still some 20 percent lower than April 2011′s figure of NT$38.73 billion. The Taiwanese manufacturer saw falling [...]
Tablet shipments to surpass notebook shipments by 2016, says report
May 8th, 2012 dantek Just when you thought tablet adoption rates couldn’t possibly go any higher, a recent forecast report from NPD DisplaySearch claims that the next five years will see tablet shipments increase fivefold, up to a level where they will surpass notebook PC shipments. This significant increase in tablet sales could materialize due to the big investments [...]
