Archive for December, 2011
Mr. Android 2011: What the Common Android User Looks Like According to BlueStacks
Our friends at BlueStacks, the folks who made the Android app player for Windows, has made an infographic of what the common Android user would looks like. We’ve got everything from their hair types and color to their glasses, from their pants to their shoes. Their country of origin, accessories, phone habits and more are all visualized [...]
Qello for Google TV Now Available
Qello has announced that their Google TV application is now available in the Android market. Qello is a service that brings to you a huge catalog (they claim to have the biggest) of live music performances and they deliver them to your television in HD. The ability to create setlists artist. You can mix and match multiple different artists to keep [...]
Verizon Activation Service Down? This Growing Thread at Their Site Suggests as Much
Something else of Big Red’s seems to be down but it isn’t the data network this time. A growing thread over at their support forums is filled with users who have been unable to activate newly purchased phones. One person says they had no problem activating their newly-purchased Android phone, but one person out of five pages of users [...]
Sony Offering 5 Movie Downloads and 90 Days of Music Unlimited to European & Australian Sony Ericsson Xperia Device Owners
If you bought or are planning on buying a Sony Ericsson Xperia device (including the Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman) sometime soon be sure to consider this deal Sony has going on. New Xperia device owners are being offered 5 movie downloads from Video Unlimited and 90 days of Sony’s Music Unlimited service. Those of you who already have [...]
Amazon Shipped 4 Million Kindle Devices This Holiday, Wouldn’t Show How Much the Kindle Fire Accounted For
Amazon has mentioned today that they have shipped four million Kindle devices this holiday season, a great feat for the company. This includes the e-ink readers they sell in different configurations as well as the Kindle Fire. Unfortunately Amazon didn’t give us a rundown of which devices did what exactly but we expect the Kindle Fire did [...]
The 10 highest-rated Android apps of 2011
As the end of the year draws nigh, just about everyone is putting together their wrap-up stories that are, let’s be honest, pretty predictable if you’ve been following tech news for 2011. But at least one story caught our eye this morning: Mobilewalla‘s app scores. Mobilewalla is one of many app aggregation services, though [...]
Verizon’s 3rd 4G outage this month ends, activation servers may be down now
Verizon Wireless customers have a lot to be angry at for the moment. The carrier posted on Twitter that the latest of its 4G outages is over, with the added message that 3G data and normal call functions weren’t affected. The half-day interruption in service was the third in December ,and the problem is becoming an increasingly black eye on [...]
The amalgamated Android user: you guys really like blue jeans
Generalizations are bad, especially when applied to people. (Generally speaking, of course.) But every once in a while they can be a lot of fun, too. To that end BlueStacks, the makers of the popular proprietary Windows software that runs Android apps, have put together the amalgamated Android man. It’s a statistical view of the Android [...]
IP expert says Apple could earn $10 for every Android device
Apple’s been pretty ruthless when it comes to Android litigation, even if their success rate has been hit or miss lately. After suing Samsung and HTC in the United States and everywhere else they can send a legal team, they’ve become the bane of many an Android OEM. In an interview with Bloomberg, intellectual property guru Kevin [...]
NewPCGadgets (Makers of Smartphone Coaster) Introduces TAB Rests
The folks at NewPCGadgets had everyone wanting one of their very simple, yet very useful products – the Smartphone Coaster – last year. Fast forward to now and they’re providing something for the big screen users. It’s called TAB Rests and is an extremely soft cushion for your tab to sit on. It slightly elevates the tablet [...]
