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.
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.
We live in a day and age where having a home phone basically means having your smartphone in your home. While many have abandoned the home phone in lieu of having one phone bill to worry about, there are still a large number of people who either don’t have good cell service in their home, or simply don’t want an expensive cellular service bill. Now, thanks to ARCHOS and Android, those people can have a home phone that is a smartphone, without the worry of an expensive cell contract. Introducing the ARCHOS 35 Smart Home PHone.
Christmas is over, the gifts are opened, and now many of you out there are holding brand spanking new Android devices. Android continues to grow tremendously and boasts over 700,000 device activations every day, and so we ask: “Did you get an Android device for Christmas?” Whether is was that Samsung Galaxy Nexus you asked for, or the quad-core ASUS Transformer Prime that has been appearing and disappearing, we want to hear about it. Maybe you have a question about using a particular feature of your device, or perhaps you just want to share how “bad” your experience has been so far. We’re here to help, and we love hearing your opinions and feedback.
