May 19, 2013

DROID - News


Motorola Android Tablet to be known as DROID XOOM

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Motorola reportedly named its forthcoming Android Tablet as DROID XOOM. Running on Android Honeycomg the DROID XOOM tablet features a dual-core processor under the hood. The front and rear cameras are 2MP and 5MP respectively and the DROID XOOM will come with 32GB of storage pre-loaded with a microSD slot on board to add more. [...]

First 4G Smartphone from Verizon comes on January 26?

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We are just 2 weeks away from CES 2011 and rumors over Verizon 4G Smartphone is on high. And now it’s said   January 6 will be the date when Verizon releases its first 4G enabled smartphone. But no details about the Phone are available but some rumors go behind HTC. The name of the upcoming [...]

Verizon Contest; Chances to get 2 Apple iPads, 2 Motorola DROID X and More

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Grab the opportunity to win not one but two Apple iPad units along with a multitude of other digital electronics this festive season then, Verizon Wireless is running the All Decked Out competition which has a grand price of $10,000 worth of electronics and includes such great tech gear as… Two Apple iPads, two HTC [...]

Meet the Creative ZiiO Tablets

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We had reported the release of Creative’s 7-inch Ziio Tablet, now it’s going to review the both 10 and 7 inch tablets, The display – although our time with the tablet showed that it was fine, it’s not going to win too many awards, principally because this is a resistive 1024×600 display – or 480×800 [...]

Verizon offers the Motorola Droid 2 R2-D2 Smartphone for $199.99; save $50 now

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Verizon Wireless has just announced the the Motorola Droid 2 R2-D2 collector’s set is now only $199.99 after a $100 mail in rebate and new 2 year activation. Back in late September when the handset was launched, the price was $249. A good $50 above the price of most high-end models like the Motorola DROID [...]

SwiftKey gets an Update with HD Skin and new Keyboard Layout

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SwiftKey, the intelligent text prediction app for Google Android smartphones, received a significant update Wednesday that adds a new HD skin, UI improvements and five new languages. It’s designed to improve SwiftKey’s look on high resolution screens, such as those found on tablets. Update also features support for Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Danish, Norwegian and Polish, [...]

Motorola DROID X gets a Boost with new Update Version 2.3.340

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The Motorola Droid X users now can finally get their devices updated to the Android 2.3.340 version, after endless trials, complaints, confusions and untimely releases. It remedies some bugs (for example, the handset remains locked after long key presses and the “Force Close” camera error is a thing of the past), improves some existing features [...]

Motorola Android Tablet with “Honeycomb” Demonstrated

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Motorola demonstrated an unnamed (although dubbed the Everest) prototype tablet slated for sometime in 2011 featuring a “dual core 3D processor” by NVIDIA, Who preps for that growing Android gaming market with dramatically improved gaming performance, likely Tegra 2 or a later variant. It also comes with Honeycomb, Android’s tablet focused OS. Andy Rubin fiddling [...]

Truphone Introduces Desktop Application; Replacing the Name “Truphone” to “TRU”

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Truphone is going beyond mobile by launching a desktop application that brings the same benefits the company’s mobile users can already enjoy to a computer near you. VoIP telco Truphone have released a desktop app to allow pay-as-you-go VoIP calling from PCs, Macs and Linux. Truphone, In other words, using the Truphone application on your [...]

MetroPCS Plans 4G LTE Android Handset in Q1 2011

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Imagine unlimited talk, text, and 4G data for only $55 per month. That is the no-contract plan that MetroPCS is offering right now on their first LTE handset, the non-Android Samsung Craft. MetroPCS already has a 4G LTE handset – the Samsung Craft QWERTY slider – but this is just a feature phone, not a [...]

Minor OTA Update for Motorola DROID to be released soon

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There is no denying that the original first-gen Motorola DROID has seen better days. With a processor speed about half of what is available with the Motorola DROID 2 Global model, and smaller storage to boot, the latest iterations of DROID phones can run circles around Time Magazine’s 2009 Gadget of the Year. If you [...]

Gameloft Offers Android Games and Dungeon Hunter HD for Free As part of Christmas Campaign

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Major game developer Gameloft currently has a Christmas campaign and the company is offering a free title every day for iOS and Android, along with discounts and sneak previews. To take part, you just need to follow Gameloft on Twitter. Each day sees a game being discounted or given away for free for a number [...]