Intel’s Medfield chip has been making the rounds as they prepare it for prime time. Last week we got a glimpse of an Android prototype with the Medfield chip thanks to Technology Review. While their hands on provided us with a few adjectives such as “fast” and “smooth,” we weren’t provided with any real performance specs — that is, until now. VR-Zone got a sneak peek at just how well Intel’s first true SoC performs, and how it compares to its competition.
If you’ve ever wished you could use Apple’s Airplay functionality with your Google TV, then today is your lucky day. Developer Yossie has managed to piece together a semi-functional app called Airtight. Airtight works much like Airplay (minus the actual “works” part) by allowing you to stream videos and pictures from your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch directly to your TV. The app seems to still be in beta and doesn’t support many features such as:
Gameloft will be kicking off their New Year’s game promotion December 29, and will be offering all of their games from the Android Market for $0.99. Gameloft is well known for their console quality games and currently has 32 games in the Android Market. The promotion will run for one week and features hit titles such as Asphalt 6: Adrenaline HD, 9mm HD, NFL Pro 2012, and more. Most will remain $0.99 throughout the promotional period with the exception of Modern Combat 3, which will be discounted for one day only.
Christmas day has historically been a record shattering day in terms of new device activations and app downloads. This Christmas was no different according to these recent stats published by Flurry Analytics. Using a baseline average taken from the first 20 days of December, Flurry showed that new Android and iOS device activations rose 353% on Christmas day. While averaging around 1.5 million activations during the month of December, activations jumped to more than 6.8 million on Christmas day. Ho, ho, ho — ly rising reindeer! That’s a staggering increase and to get a better feel for just how impressive those numbers are, only 2.8 million devices were activated last Christmas day.
You may remember us talking about the HTCdev site which helps HTC owners unlock their device’s bootloader. That site while “official,” takes quite some time to update its list of unlockable devices. That is why xda-developer forum user frigid decided to go ahead an create his own utility to speed things up. Picture the HTCdev unlockable list on steroids and that’s what you get with the unofficial HTC Super Tool.
