ASUS is all about creating new mobile products that transform, and their latest creation is large enough to rival Unicron. The ASUS Transformer AiO (all in one), is a dual-booting 18.4-inch computablet. Unveiled at Computex 2012, the Transformer AiO is equipped with an Intel Ivy Bridge processor, 18.4-inch screen, and can switch between Windows 8 and Android 4.0 operating systems effortlessly.
The next highly anticipated smartphone from Samsung will be hitting T-Mobile at the end of the month. That’s right, on June 21st, T-Mobile customers will be able to pick up this Android 4.0 device powered by a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor on T-Mobile’s HSPA+42 network. The Galaxy S III will come in your choice of Pebble Blue or Marble White, and will feature phablet-like specs, including:
In case you haven’t heard, Instapaper quietly snuck its way into the Google Play Store today. I’m going to tell you a little bit about Instapaper, its significance to Android, and why this Android user won’t be buying it. Instapaper is a popular service for saving web pages for reading later. It not only saves pages for reading later, but also strips them down to a clean text-only format for easy reading.
It’s a nice concept, which when released back in 2008 for iOS, was original and extremely useful. But over the course of the last four years, Instapaper’s developer Marco Arment has spent most of his free time insulting Android and its fans… and now he wants us to give him money? Let’s take a brief look at the Instapaper app and its history to show just how insulting this is.
AT&T "toll free" plans will provide free access to some online content
Unlimited data plans are becoming scarce options for smartphone and tablet users. Sprint remains the only carrier to offer an unlimited data plans. Most Verizon and AT&T customers, however, need to make do with tiered data plans. Tiered data plans get more cash from customers and deter customers from overloading mobile networks with excessive data use.
As a result, a lot of us try to avoid excessive data use by limiting the types and amount of content that we access when using a device’s 3G or LTE connection. That, in turn, blocks many content companies from capturing ad or subscription revenue from mobile users. That reality is leading major content companies to complain to the carriers and which AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson recently said may lead to “toll free” data plans.
Sunday is here and you know what that means. I’m sure many of you are here to find out if you won the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 WiFi we were giving away last week. Don’t worry, we’re going to announce the winner as well as the winners of the $15 Google Store gift cards. Plus, you’ll have the chance to win some more cool Android swag.
