Amazon has the Samsung Fascinate for just a penny when you sign up for a new service plan with big red. It doesn’t get much cheaper than that, ok maybe it does, but this is a smoking deal on a Galaxy S series phone. Need more info on the device? No problem, head on over to our TalkAndroid review of the Samsung Fascinate, complete with sexy hand modeling and full frontal video action.
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Symantec has launched a mobile version of Norton for Android devices. It is currently in “beta”, and free for Android users. The main system requirements are that you are running Android 2.x and up, as well as have at least 1.8MB of storage available.
Norton Mobile for Android will protect against:
Samsung’s new tablet, the Galaxy Tab, is gaining a new partner in the solutions department. Samsung has now partered with Atmel, and is planning on using the company’s maXTouch for a touchscreen solution. What does the maXTouch bring to the table? According to the press release:
The Atmel maXTouch solution offers higher performance, better accuracy, faster response times and lower power than competing solutions to provide a better user experience. Its true unlimited touch functionality and faster performance enable advanced features including rejection of unintended touches, multi-touch stretch/pinch and rotate gestures, and handwriting recognition on larger form factor screens, ranging from mobile Internet devices (MIDs) to PC Netbooks and notebooks. The maXTouch solution is based on Atmel’s proprietary microcontroller technology, combined with software algorithms for a more robust touch solution.
Hopefully this new partnership will prove gainful for both companies. What do you think of this new partnership? Be sure to let us know in the comments. Full presser after the break.
If you are currently on a limited data plan, and are constantly worrying about how much data you are using, 3G Watchdog might be the app for you. 3G Watchdog offers a simple, easy to use interface that allows you set your monthly data allocation, as well as the day your billing cycle ends, and helps you to keep tabs on your data usage.
It will tell you how much of your data allotment has been used, and estimates how much you will use up by the time you reach the end of your billing cycle (assuming your usage remains consistent).
You certainly do not want to exceed your data allotment, so hit up the download link below to install 3G Watchdog and stop worrying about your data usage!
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Add this to your list of Android apps that lighten your financial burden of making long-distance calls. Vopium just released their mobile calling app to the Android platform and it packs some useful features. You can make international calls that save up to 90% on what you would normally pay. For example, here’s what the rates from the US to the UK are per minute:
Call any mobile USD 0.18
Call any landline USD 0.03
SMS USD 0.11
Not only that, calls to other Vopium OR Skype users are free! The app also includes a built in IM client that supports most of the popular chat protocols (gtalk, msn, yahoo, skype, aim, icq, and twitter). Vopium is not limited to Android either, as they have apps for other popular mobile operating systems. So feel free to make cheap calls to your non-Android family and friends as well. Hit the jump to read the full press release and grab the QR code to try it out.
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab will be utilizing user-generated advertising from Zooppa. The media advertising community has several big name companies already using its services, some of which are Microsoft, Hershey, Nike, and Sony to name a few.
Zooppa and Samsung are asking their community members to incorporate the slogan “It’s Go Time!” into the campaign, where we will see banner ads, prints, and videos that will answer the question “If you had a Galaxy Tab, what creative things would you use it for?“.
The creative winner of the chosen ads will win $30,000 US. Imagine the Samsung tabs you could buy your friends with that!
ABOUT ZOOPPA: Zooppa is the world’s largest source of user-generated advertising. With a community of more than 80,000 people, Zooppa offers brands an innovative model for developing creative advertising, building word-of-mouth and gaining consumer insights.
Contest details can be found here. Continue after the break for the full press release.
Less than a year after its initial release in November of 2009, TELUS has announced they will no longer be selling the HTC Hero. The move is likely influenced by the addition of higher-end Android devices to the TELUS lineup, including the HTC Desire, Motorola Milestone, and the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy Apollo.
You may be able to find some stock left in stores, but the Hero has been officially removed from online ordering. Goodnight, sweet prince.
[via intomobile]
Japanese electronics manufacturer Sharp has announced that they will be launching two Android tablets, a 5.5-inch and a 10.8-inch model, in Japan this December. The devices, dubbed “Galapagos”, will both feature support for WiFi, and will boast screen resolutions of 1024 x 600 for the smaller model, and 1366 x 800 for the larger.
Despite the “tablet” label, these devices are going to be marketed primarily as e-readers, and will be launched in coordination with a Japanese e-bookstore that will feature some 30,000 titles initially. The Galapagos is sure to see some competition in the form of Apple’s iPad, which was released in Japan just last month.
Sharp is projecting to sell roughly 1 million units, and is also in talks with Verizon for a US release sometime next year.
[via Mashable]
You’ve probably heard recently that the quickboot feature on the HTC Desire HD has been ported, along with a full ROM, to a couple other devices. It looks like this feature caught the eye of the CyanogenMod team, as a tweet came out this morning from @cyanogen, which simply stated:
Yeah, CM6 “does” too 
Included in the tweet was a link to a YouTube video showing off the fastboot option on a CM6.1 device. For those who don’t know, the quickboot option works by actually hibernating the device instead of doing a complete shutdown. Video below. Be sure to let us know what you think in the comments!
Seeing as Google has yet to add support in Android for languages like Arabic, Persian and Urdu, devoted XDA-Developers forum member Ayman al-Sanad has stepped up to the plate by creating libraries which bring support for Arabic to Android.
If you would like to install Arabic language support on your phone, visit the download page here, find your device, download the .zip file to your sd card, flash it, and reboot. It should be noted that this language pack appears to only support Android 2.2 at this time.
For further instructions and support, hit up the source link below.
[via XDA-Developers]