Back in June, Best Buy and Future Shop were taking pre-orders for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with an expected ship date of July 22nd. According to Best Buy’s website, the warehouse arrival time moved back to August 19th. At this time we don’t know why, but this is obviously bad news as I am sure a lot of people up north have been dying to get their hands on this super nice tablet.
[via bestbuy]
Recently, Google upgraded the Android Market, and yesterday they announced multiple APK support. With multiple APK support, developers can now upload different versions of an APK under a single product listing. Each APK can address a different need, be completely independent, and still share the same package name. Some of these differences could be versions, screen sizes, or GL texture-compression formats.
When a user looks at the app product listing, they will see the details, ratings, and comments across all the APKs since they are treated as a single product listing. When a user downloads or purchases an app, the Android Market will choose the right APK based on the user’s device.
This will make things a lot easier for developers that want to offer different versions for tablets and phones. Users are going to love this change as well since it will be a lot less searching for different versions which will result in a lot less grief.
[via android developers]
The above picture shows that Costco is pulling the Atrix as an “inventory pullback” and that a new handset is coming soon. Not only that, the new Planogram and signage is scheduled for July 24. Could this be for a new handset or some sort of an updated Atrix? We will let you know as soon as we hear something.
[via androidcentral]
There may be a lot of competition for Android device manufacturers, but things have really heated up for the processors. Dual-core processors are finally starting to appear in more devices, but behind the scenes, the battle for the next generation of processors is at full throttle.
Qualcomm just had their Q3 2011 earnings call, and on the subject of Krait, Qualcomm Executive Vice President Steven Mollenkopf said, “We sampled the Snapdragon MSM8960 ahead of schedule this quarter. Our first 28-nanometer device will really go commercial at the end of this calendar year.”
If you are in the market for a Dell Streak, you may be out of luck, at least for the time being because they quietly vanished from retail stores and online. One company employee said that it was discontinued, but then a customer service rep said that it was pulled while it receives an update. The only other info we got was that it would become available in early August and the update has nothing to do with Android.
[via engadget]
A while back, RIM promised that the BlackBerry PlayBook would be able to run Android apps. Well a leaked Android Player app shows that it is running Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread.
The most recent stats show that only 18.6% of devices are running Android 2.3.x and above. This is actually pretty pathetic since Gingerbread was announced 7 months ago. Will the PlayBook get Ice Cream Sandwich before most of us as well?
[via androidcentral]
I am not a big scrabble fan, but I became attracted to the different versions on Android because you can not only play against other opponents, but more importantly, play at your own pace. In other words, you don’t have to be connected from start to finish.
It has been a week since Electronic Arts unleashed Scrabble to the Android world so I figured it is time to do a little comparison. Because it was a hit on iOS, Words With Friends seems to be the favorite among most people, but Wordfeud has been on Android the longest, and has a decent following. Scrabble is only one week old, but it is the official app.
I am sure a lot of people will disagree with my findings, but I have to call it the way I see it. I won’t bow down to the mainstream media.
Lenovo announced the IdeaPad KI yesterday, and today it is available for pre-order. For now, it is the 32GB version, and they are listing it as having a regular price of $599, but it is on sale for $499.99 (your choice of white and silver or red and silver). It is expected to be available sometime in August, but they are showing the estimated ship date to be 8/1/11, which is just an estimate.
They are offering another option of black and silver with a leather case for $519 ($100 off) with an estimated ship date of 8/4/11.
Be sure to check out the unboxing video as well.
[via lenovo]
A class action lawsuit was started against LG claiming that the company failed to remedy various problems and defects with the G2x in an appropriate time frame. Terry Horvarth is the head plaintiff and is seeking to represent a class of those that have purchased the stock Android device.
Now all of a sudden, the Gingerbread update is available through LG’s proprietary Mobile Software Updater, but there has been no official announcement. We have no idea what bugs, if any, will be fixed, nor do we know if this is indeed the final build. It is possible that LG released it to satisfy the unsatisfied or maybe it is a mistake, which would result in it getting pulled shortly.
The chairman of the Senate’s antitrust subcommittee, Senator Herb Kohl, is recommending that federal regulators deny the AT&T planned purchase of T-Mobile.
”I have concluded that this acquisition, if permitted to proceed, would likely cause substantial harm to competition and consumers, would be contrary to antitrust law and not in the public interest, and therefore should be blocked by your agencies,” Kohl said on Wednesday.
Many members of Congress wrote a letter to the Justice Department and the FCC expressing concern as well. “We believe that AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile would be a troubling backward step in federal public policy–a retrenchment from nearly two decades of promoting competition and open markets to acceptance of a duopoly in the wireless marketplace. “Such industry consolidation could reduce competition and increase consumer costs at a time our country can least afford it.”