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Australian Court Wants iPad Numbers Before Final Ruling

September 6th, 2011

As you’ve probably noticed by now anywhere you turn Apple is suing someone over their patents. Last week we learned that Apple feels Android goes all the way back to 1992 and Andy Rubin’s days working for Apple.

In their lawsuit against Samsung in Australia, Apple has been granted a preliminary injunction. This means that Samsung can’t sell or participate in marketing the Galaxy Tab in Australia. There are similar preliminary injunctions going on around the world, including the one that caused Samsung to pull their Galaxy Tabs from their booth at IFA at the Messe in Berlin Germany.

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Tags: Android Apple Australia Galaxy Tab IFA Samsung

WOW: Samsung Removes Galaxy Tab 7.7 From IFA Booth Confirmed By Samsung Mobile USA

September 3rd, 2011

Samsung Mobile’s Vice President of Public Relations, Kim Titus, has just confirmed to thedroidguy via phone that Samsung Mobile has removed the Galaxy Tab 7.7 from their booth at IFA 2011 happening now through September 7th at Messe Berlin in Germany.

Android Pit first reported on this earlier in the day as they noticed that not only were the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7′s oddly missing from the same stands they were at the previous day, but all signage for the Galaxy Tab had also been removed from the booth space or covered up.

Titus forwarded us this statement from Samsung

‘Samsung respects the court’s decision (The District Court in Dusseldorf) made on September 2

and therefore decided not to display any more the GALAXY Tab 7.7 in IFA.

However, we believe it severely limits consumer choice in Germany. Samsung will pursue all available measures,

including legal options, to defend its intellectual property rights and ensure its innovative products remain available to German consumers.’

Samsung has a court hearing in Germany later this month on the issue of patents pertaining to the Galaxy Tab.

photo: Androidpit

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Acer Releases Ferrari Liquid Mini Android At IFA, Too Bad It’s Got The Horsepower Of A Yugo

September 2nd, 2011

Big news out of IFA today as Acer has released another new Android device. This one is really a suped up Acer Liquid Mini. On the outside it’s sexy as hell, who doesn’t want a Ferrari Android device loaded down with racing apps, cool engine ring tones and slick Ferrari inspired apps.

That’s all well and good until you realize all Acer has really done is team up with Ferrari to give it’s Yugo of a phone a hot cool paint job. I’m sorry but if you paint Elijah’s 2003 Jetta Ferrari red it’s still just an older car with a pretty paint job. What do I mean, well you’d expect a phone labeled Ferrari to have good specs but here is what you have:

600mhz processor
512 mb of RAM
3.2″ screen
480p video
Android 2.3

Sorry, call me crazy but my initial reaction to seeing a Ferrari Android phone was that it would be at least a little bit fast, maybe a 1ghz processor, dual core? Shoot for it to be called Ferrari I was hoping for the Chuck Norris processor.

Don’t fret though we probably won’t see the Ferrari Liquidmini in the United States.

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Tags: 600mhz Acer Android 2.3 Gingerbread Ferrari IFA

IFA 2011 News: Navigon Unveils Next Generation of Android Navigation Apps

September 2nd, 2011

Although all Android phones feature Google Maps and Navigation, there are some users out there that prefer third party navigation apps. Some of the third party navigation and mapping apps have more indepth features because these companies specialize in one thing, and that’s navigation. Navigon is one of those companies, a trusted name in navigation.

Navigon announced today that their next generation of Navigation apps for Android will be available later this fall. Navigon says they have a new industry first approach to maps, map management and updates. They’ve also improved their user interface, making it more intuitive.

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Tags: apps gps IFA IFA 2011 Navigation Navigon. Android

Samsung Adds 7.7″ Galaxy Tab and 5.3″ Phoneblet, Galaxy Note

September 1st, 2011

Samsung mobile unpacked came at the end of the Samsung press conference at IFA this morning. After waiting through the presentations on smart tvs, new cameras, the Samsung Series 7 chronos and the new Wave 3 phone Samsung’s D.J. Lee got into the meat and potatoes of what we’ve been waiting for and that’s two great new Android devices.

Samsung introduced the follow up to the original 7″ Samsung Galaxy Tab in the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7. While on stage Lee announced that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 comes with a 7.7 inch superAMOLED screen and is the thinnest and lightest tablet right now. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 features the latest version of Android, Honeycomb.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab has a 1.4ghz dual core processor and 4G/LTE and HSPA+ options. It also features wifi channel bonding which will give you data nearly twice as fast as traditional wifi on tablets currently in the market.

The Galaxy Tab 7.7 measures 7.89mm and weighs just 335g making it the lightest and thinnest tablet on the market right now. Samsung is also introducing Game Hub with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 with access to premium and social games. It’s running Android 3.2 Honeycomb and TouchWiz. Overseas the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 will make phone calls. The original Samsung Galaxy Tab made calls overseas but that functionality was stripped from the U.S. versions.

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Tags: Android IFA IFA2011 S Pen S Schedule Samsung

Toshiba Working On An Ultra Thin Android Tablet To Release This Week At IFA?

August 28th, 2011

Thedroidguy team is everywhere this week, New York, Atlanta and Berlin Germany for IFA 2011. In addition to the big Unpacked show from Samsung we’re now hearing via phonearena.com and androidandme that Toshiba is expected to release an ultra thin Android tablet, and guess what, it’s not Nvidia Tegra 2. According to Androidandme the processor running this new Toshiba tablet is none other than the Texas Instruments dual channel OMAP4460 processor at 1.5ghz.

The Toshiba Thrive has seen sluggish sales. Many are speculating because of it’s size. Personally, it’s my favorite Android tablet that’s crossed my desk in the last 10 months. That’s because it’s a productivity power house. This week though we’re checking out the Lenovo tablets which are also supposed to be productivity heavy. Seeing an equally as productive, and faster tablet from Toshiba has us super excited about IFA.

Taylor Wimberly from Androidandme was at IFA 2010 with me last year where we both saw the Toshiba Folio which quickly earned the moniker “Failio” even the Toshiba reps saw the faults in the original Folio. It will be interesting to see if Toshiba steals the show with this ultra thin tablet.

Source: Androidandme via Phonearena image: Notebookitalia

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Tags: Android Android OS 3x Honeycomb Androidandme IFA IFA2011 Tablets Toshiba Toshiba Folio Toshiba Thrive

Samsung’s Unpacked App Reveals Galaxy Note, Galaxy Tab 7.7 And The Wave 3

August 25th, 2011

A reader of This Is My Next wrote in after discovering hidden within the Samsung Unpacked app for next weeks IFA show are three new device logos. The Samsung Galaxy Note, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 and the Samsung Wave 3.

We can safely assume that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 is the next installment of the Samsung Galaxy Tab line up. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 was unveiled at Mobile World Congress and then again in Orlando at CTIA alongside the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9. Let us not forget that the original Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 was released at last year’s IFA show in Berlin.

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Tags: Android Android OS 3x Honeycomb Galaxy Tab 7.7 IFA Samsung

Samsung Offers UnPacked App To Keep Up With Their Big IFA News

August 21st, 2011

At last years IFA convention in Berlin, Samsung made big news as they announced the original 7″ Samsung Galaxy Tab. After the initial press conference we went down to Samsung Mobile’s IFA booth that was literally the size of an airplane hanger where they showed off hundreds of the game changing tablet.

This year they are hoping to generate the same amount of excitement, and so far no specific product has been directly leaked out. By this time last year we all knew when we got invitations to Samsung’s event that we would see the original Galaxy Tab (see our first IFA story here).

As we reported yesterday, Samsung has offered up two teaser videos, and now with their Samsung Unpacked app you can keep up with all the Samsung unpacked news. We still aren’t sure what the news is however one of the teasers is very phone centric while the other one is just about the beach. Samsung also has the Galaxy Tab 8.9 yet to release and two 7″ tablets on a leaked road map.

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Samsung Mobile Prepping Something Big For IFA 2011 In Samsung Unpacked Episode 11

August 19th, 2011

Samsung Mobile has something big up their sleeves, actually it looks like 2 somethings big up their sleeves. They are doing another “unpacked” event at IFA 2011.

Samsung “Unpacked” at Mobile World Congress in Berlin was where we first heard about the Samsung Galaxy S II and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. Then the following month at CTIA in Orlando Samsung brought us another unpacked event where we heard about the US version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the US version of the, as yet to be seen again, Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9. Samsung’s former CTO Omar Khan did something unheard of and announced the pricing and availability of both tablets at that event. According to that announcement we have about 6 weeks left for the Galaxy Tab 8.9 to be released.

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Tags: Android IFA IFA 2011 Nexus Prime Samsung Samsung Mobile Tablets

Germany May Have Stopped Amazon But It’s Not Stopping The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

August 3rd, 2011

Earlier in the week we told you that Amazon has been forced to stop taking Android app submissions from German developers. This stemmed from a trademark infringement suit involving Apple and Amazon. Apple contends in the suit that they hold the trademark to the words “App Store” and Amazon needs to change the name of their “App Store”.

Our feeling here is that App Store is as common place as the grocery store is now. Apple was also NOT the first company to offer an e-commerce place to purchase and download applications for portable devices and mobile phones. That hallmark belongs to Handango and the days of Palm, then Windows Phone, years before Apple and the iPhone came online.

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Samsung Mobile’s 2011 IFA Device, The Samsung Galaxy Q?

July 18th, 2011

Last year it was all eyes on Samsung Mobile as we headed into IFA 2010 in Berlin Germany. They were releasing the original 7″ version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab which opened up the floodgates on Android tablets coming to market. This year, pocketnow, and other sites are reporting on Samsung’s possible IFA 2011 device dubbed the Samsung Galaxy Q.

Pocketnow is crediting etomato and juggly as their source for the story and they take it with a grain of salt however if the sources are correct, then we could be looking at an Android device wih a 5.3″ SuperAMOLED plus display. Although this device is rumored to be an Android phone it’s .3 inches bigger than the screen on the Dell Streak. As Anton Nagy asks, is this going to be the world’s largest smartphone or one of the smallest tablets. We’re hopeful that it’s the world’s largest smartphone, as Samsung has hit a grand slam homerun with their 10.1″ Galaxy Tab.

There are no other specs available right now but with IFA less than 2 months away we can expect the rumors to ramp up quickly. Just like last year we will be there live in Berlin to give you all the juice!

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Tags: Android Galaxy Tab IFA IFA Berlin Samsung Samsung Mobile

Google Translate For Android Updated With Conversation Mode

January 14th, 2011

We just received an email from our friends at Androidpit across the pond telling us that the updated conversation feature for Google Translate for Android that we saw together at IFA in September was ready.

In addition to conversation mode, improved language selection drop boxes and icons have been added to make the translation process more fluid.

Currently the conversation mode only supports translations between English and Spanish. It also has trouble with speed and dialect but its definitely a start. Also at IFA the translation was German to English and back so German could be right around the corner.

Source: Androidpit

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Tags: Android Google IFA