The feverishly sought-after Nexus 7 isn’t yet officially on sale — but it has begun to appear at resellers eager to chase early adopters by breaking the on-sale date, possibly mistakenly, possibly on purpose. The Verge managed to get their hands on one of the 7-inch tablets from Adorama in Manhattan before Google requested a …
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Google’s first tablet, the Jelly Bean-sporting Nexus 7, seems such a jaw-dropping bargain that many people have been wondering how the search behemoth can flog it for £159 without losing any money. The answer? It’s not. Parts alone add up to about £118 for the 8GB model, according to a teardown by UBM TechInsights that’s been priced up by Fudzilla. …
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Sony is working on a successor to its Tablet S it seems, after plans were submitted to the FCC, the US phone governance body, for a tablet with the designation ‘SGPT1211’. The filing, spotted by Xperia Blog, doesn’t cover just one device, but six. Three for the US, and three for Canada, named SGPT121, 122 and 123. The original Tablet …
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Google Now is the most exciting new feature of Jelly Bean — the brand-new version of Android — and its amazing location-based prompts and info have already made a big impression. But despite it being exclusive to Jelly Bean, the febrile mind of ‘febycv‘ has ported the feature onto Ice Cream Sandwich. If you’re lucky enough to own one of …
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The International Trade Commission has rejected Apple’s attempt to impose an emergency ban on US imports of the HTC One X, after a ferocious patent dispute between the companies that resulted in a lengthy import inspection last May. The ITC ruled last December that HTC infringed on Apple’s patent for ‘data tapping’, automatically formatting documents to allow a dialler program …
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Ice Cream Sandwich — aka Android 4.0 — is finally on more than 10 per cent of Android devices (10.7 to be precise), a mere eight months after its launch. Its share of the droidspace has shot up from 7.1 per cent in the last month, however, according to figures from Google. This sudden change is likely down to the …
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