Free Android App of the Day: Treasures of Mystery Island Android App

The Treasures of Mystery Island Android App by Alawar Entertainment, Inc. is a game where the object is to reak the curse of an angry god and find hidden treasure of unimaginable worth. Your seek-and-find skills will be challenged like never before as you beat 20 captivating episodes set in a world time forgot. You’ll [...]

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HTC Ville With Android 4.0 Headed To T-Mobile Later This Year? [Rumor]

If you’re a T-Mobile customer and the recent news of Galaxy Nexi and other high-end, Ice Cream Sandwich packing superphones arriving this year for all those other carriers has got you down, things may start looking up for ‘ol #4 in 2012. According to Pocketnow, the rumored HTC Ville could be making its way to [...]

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3G Equipped ASUS Transformer Prime Not Hitting Anytime Soon

If you were holding out on the current ASUS Transformer Prime in hopes of a 3G compatible version with your favorite carrier you may want to exhale. Chances are looking pretty slim for a 3G equipped T-Prime dropping this year with the company saying in a statement, “no such product exists on its current roadmap.” Bummer. Well, at least you can finally justify purchasing the more high-def TF700T model we got our hands on at CES last week, launching in Q2 of this year. . . . → Read More: 3G Equipped ASUS Transformer Prime Not Hitting Anytime Soon

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When Panorama Photos Aren't Enough–360 Smartphone Videos With Dot

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Dot–a short name for a small gadget that lets you film 360 degree videos on your Android smartphone. The camera add-on was released for iPhone last October and Android shutter bugs will finally get their hands on the cool little lens system in the first half of 2012. Video samples after the jump!

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Russian Space Probe Crashes Into Pacific Ocean

Phobos-Grunt, the failed Russian space probe that was slated to visit the Martian moon Phobos, crashed into the Pacific Ocean, Russian news agencies report.

The probe hit Earth at around 12:45 p.m. EST Sunday, some 775 miles west of the coastal island of Wellington.

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Vertu Constellation T luxury high-end smartphone released

Vertu Constellation T luxury high-end smartphone released The luxury touchscreen smartphone has finally launched by Vertu. Latest device is called the Vertu Constellation T that seen early this month. The Vertu Constellation T is being to its first touchscreen smartphone, which brings a 3.5-inch capacitive touch nHD AMOLED display along with a rear-facing 8-megapixel digital [...]

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Asus has been quietly creating some of the most compelling Android-based tablets on the market, with the Eee Pad Transformer taking the slender form factor championed by the iPad and giving user the option to combine it with a keyboard dock that helped it to compete directly with laptops. Now the Asus Eee Pad Slider is out, refreshing the style and setup of its predecessor without compromising functionality.

Android 3.1 is preinstalled on the Eee Pad Slider and the whole thing is powered by a dual core 1GHz processor. With the first glut of 1.5GHz tablets making an appearance and the promise of quad core chips for 2012 this might seem like a little bit of a problem on paper. However, Asus proves that there is no hindrance in using a slightly older chip as long as you can make the most out of its available resources. 1GB of RAM joins the processor, letting the Eee Pad Slider handle multitasking with aplomb and you can get up to 32GB of onboard storage with the option to add extra memory via microSD card.

The 10.1 inch touchscreen display of the Eee Pad Slider is bright, colourful and features a resolution of 1280x800, which is fairly typical of devices of this size. However, what is most unusual about the tablet is the fact that its screen can be push upwards, popping out at an angle to reveal a full QWERTY keypad underneath. This invites the user to place it on a flat surface or their lap and then type freely while other tablet owners are tapping out emails one character at a time via cumbersome onscreen keyboards.

It is difficult to overstate just what a difference having a full physical keypad makes. If you like sending emails or browsing the web from your tablet then you will appreciate that sometimes you will wish you were still using a laptop. The Asus Eee Pad Slider lets you get the best of both worlds, with its slim tablet design not being overly compromised by the build in keypad. This does mean that it is a tablet aimed at the serious business user, but in a market where the iPad 2 dominates the mainstream it pays to be different and distinctive, which is precisely the aim of the Eee Pad Slider.

You can expect to get the usual collection of Android applications and features on this latest Asus tablet, but the manufacturer has added a few of its own to keep things interesting. There is the Asus Launcher widget which lets you get a quick overview of multiple features, from appointments you may have programmed into the calendar to the current weather and even what music is playing, just like portable media players bundled in with a personal organiser. You also get Polaris Office, which lets you create and edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations when you are on the move. In short, the Asus Eee Pad Slider is a tablet that is bursting with things to do.

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Motorola DROID 4 to be $250 on Two-Year Contract?

The good boys over at Droid-Life have gotten their hands on another MAP list that shows us the pricing of several new devices.

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Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL Partner on Advertising

In a bid to counter some of the Internet's larger ad giants--most notably Google and Facebook--Microsoft has joined in an advertising partnership with AOL and Yahoo.

However, Microsoft isn't framing the agreement as a response to its competitors in that arena. "Other players in the industry are welcome to join us," Rik van der Kooi, corporate vice president of Microsoft Advertising Business Group, told Reuters Nov. 8. "This is not in response to anybody in particular."

Under the terms of the agreement, each of the three companies can sell premium display ads belonging to the other two. That will allow the trifecta to more efficiently unload premium advertising inventory, although their competition over advertiser spending and other segments will continue apace.

Facebook and Google continue to battle for their own significant shares of the online advertising pie. Although Microsoft's product portfolio gives it diverse streams of revenue (in contrast to Google, for example, which depends on advertising for an overwhelming percentage of its bottom line), its recent emphasis on Web and cloud services makes advertising a more prominent concern. Greater ad revenues would also allow Microsoft to absorb some of the massive losses its online division accrues on a quarterly basis.

Microsoft is already in partnership with Facebook. A number of the latter's features, including the "Like" button, feed social data into Bing, Microsoft's search engine. That wouldn't stop Microsoft from making a more aggressive play for the same advertising-dollar pool that feeds Facebook, of course, and nor would that stop AOL or Yahoo, which presumably view Facebook as more of an existential threat.

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Acer tease Iconia Tab A700 at CES 2012 — 1.3GHz Quad-Core, 1080p Display, Android 4.0 (video)

Acer quickly showed off a tablet whilst giving a presentation pre-CES 2012 and The Verge later got their hands on it to find out it’s the Acer Iconia Tab A700. The Iconia Tab A700 is pushing the boundaries for tablet specs with a 1.3GHz Quad-Core Tegra 3 CPU, 1920×1080 FHD Display and, of course, Android [...]

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4 Android travel apps you should know about

Anyone who travels even a couple of times a year needs a travel app on her Android smartphone. Having all of that information right in front of you, whenever you need it, is more than a convenience. At times it can save your hide. Here are a few of the best travel apps for Android. [...]

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Steve Jobs Biography Criticizes Microsoft, Ballmer

A good chunk of Walter Isaacson's new biography of Steve Jobs focuses on Microsoft and Bill Gates.

In the book, he characterizes former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates as "a business person" but not someone who necessarily made great products: "He ended up the wealthiest guy around, and if that was his goal, then he achieved it. But it's never been my goal, and I wonder, in the end, if it was his goal."

In the same passage, he also discussed Microsoft as a company. "They've clearly fallen from their dominance," he said. "They've become mostly irrelevant. And yet I appreciate what they did and how hard it was. They were very good at the business side of things. They were never as ambitious product-wise as they should have been."

Microsoft, of course, would strenuously disagree with those assertions. The latest edition of Windows has sold more than 450 million licenses, and the company continues to maintain a dominant position in business software. While the jury's still out with regard to its cloud efforts as revenue generators, platforms such as Office 365 are making inroads against Google and other companies in that area.

But Apple has framed itself as primarily a mobility company, with products such as the tablet and smartphone, and that area has also proven troublesome for Microsoft. Windows Phone has attracted critical praise but not enough sales to dent either the Apple iPhone or the growing family of Google Android devices; and Microsoft remains largely absent from the tablet game until the launch of Windows 8 sometime in 2012.

Jobs also had some things to say about current Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. "When the sales guys run the company, the product guys don't matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off," he said. "It happened at Apple when Sculley came in, which was my fault, and it happened when Ballmer took over at Microsoft." As a consequence, "I don't think anything will change at Microsoft as long as Ballmer is running it."

Microsoft's efforts with Windows 8 (particularly when it comes to tablets) and its revamped Windows Phone strategy (which involves a host of new manufacturing partners, including Nokia, in conjunction with the wide-ranging "Mango" software update) will determine whether Jobs' prophecy plays out. If those efforts succeed in a big way, then Microsoft could have a turnaround story in mobility to rival Apple's own. If they fail, then Redmond has some very serious problems.

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Motorola Mobility Cleared Of Apple’s Infringement Claims By ITC, Faces Other Battles

International Trade Commission Judge Theodore Essex decided in Washington today that Motorola Mobility did not violate three of Apple’s Patents, as the Cupertino tech giant had claimed. Two of the patents related to touchscreen features, including multi touch, and a device’s ability to recognize various types of manual input, like sliding and pinching gestures. The third, as Bloomberg explains, "is for a way to add components without having to run an installation program or rebooting." This case comes as one of many in a long saga of attacks on Android for allege… Continue Reading Here Motorola Mobility Cleared Of Apple’s Infringement Claims By ITC, Faces Other Battles Liam Spradlin – rss.feedsportal . . . → Read More: Motorola Mobility Cleared Of Apple’s Infringement Claims By ITC, Faces Other Battles

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Microsoft, CEA Take Different Views on CES Pullout

Microsoft sparked a tech-world furor Dec. 21 with the announcement that, starting in 2013, it will decline to provide a keynote speech or booth at the Consumer Electronics Show.

"We have decided that this coming January will be our last keynote presentation and booth at CES," Frank Shaw, Microsoft's corporate vice president of corporate communications, wrote in a posting that day on The Official Microsoft Blog. "We won't have a keynote or booth after this year because our product news milestones generally don't align with the show's January timing."

Microsoft will continue to participate in CES, he added, "as a great place to connect with partners and customers across the PC, phone and entertainment industries."

Indeed, CES doesn't always coincide with Microsoft's timing for its more high-profile releases. For example, at the 2011 edition of the show, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used his keynote to hint at Microsoft's movement into tablets with Windows 8, but the company nonetheless chose to wait for several more months before providing a glimpse of the operating system at work.

However, executives at the Consumer Electronics Association, which runs CES, seem to dispute Microsoft's pullout as unilateral. Jason Oxman, the CEA's senior vice president of industry affairs, told The New York Times Dec. 21 that Microsoft's ending its show presence was more of a mutual decision. "From our standpoint, it was the right decision as well."

According to Oxman, the CEA wanted a new company for that opening keynote slot long held by Microsoft. The newspaper paraphrased him as saying the split with Microsoft "had not been acrimonious."

For its part, Microsoft could use Ballmer's 2012 CES keynote (if not its significant presence on the show floor) to show off some of the Windows 8 tablets in development. But after that, it seems, all such announcements and unveilings will come on Microsoft's terms. Whether that dampens the ability of CES to draw industry buzz remains to be seen.

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Moneto Bringing NFC, Contactless Payments to any Android Phone with a microSD Card Slot

A built-in NFC chip may not be a deciding factor when purchasing an Android device provided a microSD card reader makes the list of specs. Moneto has developed a microSD card with a built in NFC transmitter that, when combined with the Moneto app, allows users to make contactless payments at any location accepting MasterCard PayPass .

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ITC sides with Motorola in patent case, Apple loses

Way back in October 2010, Apple sued Motorola for 3 patents across multiple devices, including the Droid, Droid 2 and Droid X. Their attempt is already losing, as the preliminary hearing went in favor of Motorola . . . → Read More: ITC sides with Motorola in patent case, Apple loses

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Android Market Hits 400,000 App Milestone Says Distimo

We're not even a week into 2012, but Google's Android team may already have reason to celebrate. Just a few weeks ago, Google celebrated their ten billionth Android app download, and now new research from mobile app analytics firm Distimo reports that there are 400,000 apps available in the Android Market.

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CES 2012: Huawei MediaPad Now Comes with Ice Cream Sandwich

Huawei announced yesterday, that the Huawei MediaPad will be one of the first tablets pre-loaded with Ice Cream Sandwich. These tablets were first launched back in June of 2011, and were the first 7-inch tablets running Android 3.2. Looks like now, Huawei is upping the ante and getting the tasty dessert for a better tablet experience. [...]

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[Update: Release Date] CES 2012: Verizon Wireless And Motorola Announce The Beefier Droid RAZR MAXX And The Original Droid RAZR In Purple

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Verizon Wireless and Motorola just took the wraps off the new Droid RAZR - the Droid RAZR MAXX, a familiar name we saw leaked a few weeks ago. The RAZR MAXX contains the following changes compared to the original:

• A beefier battery with an unknown at the moment capacity. What we do know is that it allows for more than 21 hours of talk time on a single charge. Update: It's 3,300 mAh.
• The MAXX is 8.99mm thin compared to the original RAZR's 7.1mm.
• The press release specifies 32GB total storage, but it's not
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