It turns out that Amazon’s multiple device strategy may finally be coming to fruition.
We reported way back in early 2011 that Amazon was bringing a family of devices to market, with a phone and two tablets rumored to be somewhere in the testing process. While the timing may have been a bit off, [...]]]>
XMBC, the very popular open-source media center software, has been successfully ported to Android. The folks at XMBC tell us this on their blog -
Today we announce XBMC for Android. Not a remote, not a thin client; the real deal. No root or jailbreak required. XBMC can be launched as an application on your set-top-box, tablet, phone, or wherever else Android may be found.
If you don't understand just what this is, think of having Windows Media Center running on your Android device, fully customizable, open-source, and with full Python plug-in support. Now think of it on Google TV boxes, Android-on-a-stick style devices, or the Nexus Q. Music, video, internet apps like Pandora, all running on Android device. XMBC does all this, and more. Have a look at Wikipedia if you're not familiar with the media center concept.
For now, no public builds are available. There's still some things to iron out, and the folks at XMBC only want folks who can actively help fix the bugs using it. They've released the source code to make this happen, and you can find it (and more info) at the link below.
Source: XMBC
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TELUS has been pretty good as far as information surrounding their devices update schedule to Ice Cream Sandwich. There's another update now doing the rounds, and sadly it brings bad news for owners of the HTC Desire HD. The update for the Desire HD has been cancelled "due to poor device performance during testing."
While it's sure to be a bitter blow to owners of the device eagerly awaiting their turn to upgrade, if performance is an issue then it's the right decision to make. An update isn't worth waiting on, let alone accepting, if it doesn't make for a good user experience.
Additional Android devices featured on the latest documentation still shows August for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 with the 10.1 also slipping to August after we'd previously seen late July for the tablet. Also, there's prospective August 7 in market date for the LG Optimus LTE.
Source: TELUS via Mobilesyrup
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Verizon, some would say, led the pack for the sum of Android devices , they have. As such, that also means they lead the pack in terms of the number of people inquiring updates to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich , and now, the last flight (oh, be it said in passing, Verizon leads to those, too) can put some people ' the minds at ease. A series of devices are directed in trial or are already passed the test of the stages for updates of Ice Cream Sandwich and are now just waiting for approval until the OTA updates are sent:
Also mentioned the Droid Bionic, HTC Rhyme, Spectrum of LG and LG Revolution , but these devices are separated and not related to the list of ICS, which can mean that they ' ll release other software updates to address some bugs before. Considering that the leak came, Reddit is making all the false previous Samsung Galaxy S III which "leak" it before?
Source: Reddit; Thank you to all those who sent it!
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Google’s Project Glass is the team quietly working on Google’s augmented-reality glasses project, which will provide users with smartphone functionality without the smartphone. On it’s Google+ brand page, the Project Glass team has announced that the glasses are real, and have begun testing at Google HQ.
While it’ll still be months (or years) before the glasses are officially up for public consumption, Google has released a nifty video to show us what the future of augmented reality could be.
We recently conducted a poll as to whether people were actually interested in Google glasses, and a whopping 66% of you responded with a resounding YES! Obviously, people who read Android and Me are the early adopters, and we have to wonder how Android-powered glasses would perform in the general public. The glasses are rumored to go on sale sometime next year, and will likely cost about as much as today’s smartphones, so we won’t have to wait too long to see our dreams for a Star Trek future come to life.
Who out there is as stoked as we are for Google’s glasses vision to come to reality? Sound off in the comments.
