The Firefox team has been hard at work trying to improve upon their mobile browser and release a version with an optimized tablet experience. They teased us back in August — showing off some Firefox magic on a Honeycomb tablet — and now, thanks to this latest update, they’ve given us the chance to experience it for ourselves.
Amazon released an update to the Kindle Fire bringing it to verision 6.2.1. The update includes a much needed performance boost among other things. While this is great news for most Kindle Fire owners, it also brings some disparaging news to those who have rooted their device. This update will indeed remove your root privileges, and unlike previous updates, you won’t be able to re-root the device using the SuperOneClick utility. Of course the majority of Kindle Fire users aren’t going to care about this, and while it’s a minor setback for the hacker community, I’m sure they’ll have a fix soon. Interested in knowing what improvements come with the latest 6.2.1 update?
Who doesn’t love a good contest? This one’s for all you Twitter users out there. Motorola is holding a Twitter sweepstakes entitled #WhiteRazrXmas, and will be giving away six Motorola White DROID RAZRS to six lucky tweeters. The contest officially started yesterday but runs daily thru 12/25 so you still have plenty of chances to win. What exactly do you have to do to enter? First, you’ll have to make sure you’re following @motorola, then all you have to do is send out a tweet wishing someone a #WhiteRazrXmas and you’re entered for that day. There’s only one entry per Twitter username per day, so multiple tweets in one day aren’t going to improve your chances.
That’s it. Simple and sweet. Now head on over to the official rules page to read over all the specifics before entering.
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Amazon is offering up the HTC Rezound for a price that not even Dr. Dre can beat. The Rezound is a top tier device that hasn’t garnered the respect it deserves due to bad release timing (RAZR and Galaxy Nexus). Amazon is now offering the Rezound for only $149.99 to anyone wishing to sign up for a new 2-year contract or any existing customer with a qualifying upgrade. $149.99 really is an amazing price for a device that features specs like these:
ARCHOS has been at the low-cost Android tablet game for quite some time but has yet to really make a splash. They’re hoping to change all that and piggy back off of the recent success of low-cost tablets such as the Kindle Fire. Today they have announced their plans to launch the first ever Honeycomb tablet for under $200. The majority of sub $200 tablets have been running on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and even though Ice Cream Sandwich is right around the corner, having a Honeycomb tablet that costs less than $200 might just attract some post holiday interest. Let’s take a look at what we know so far about the ARCHOS 70b and what it plans to bring to the table.
