Today on the SlashGear test bench is the new Huawei Ascend P1 Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone. It was first unveiled at CES and we’ve been waiting for it ever since. As of late Huawei has been making some huge strides with their hardware to better compete with HTC and the Samsung’s in the world, and this phone is a solid attempt. Being one of their best handsets to date can it match up? Check out the rest of the review to find out.
The folks at ViewSonic have sent out their invites for the 2012 Computex conference complete with a couple of choice tips for mobile fans - including a bit about a 22-inch Android 4.0 ICS tablet. This Ice Cream Sandwich tablet is dubbed a "smart business tablet monitor" at the moment and we can't help but recall just hours ago when it was made clear what Steve Ballmer from Microsoft was using in his office - pretty much the same thing. Will you be able to resist such a magnetic piece of hardware?
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Sony has cancelled plans to upgrade the Xperia PLAY gaming smartphone to Ice Cream Sandwich, justifying its decision with negative feedback from carriers, developers and owners of the test Android 4.0 build. "After extensive in house testing with our developer teams and working with our partners," Sony said in a statement today, "we have concluded that a consistent and stable experience, particularly with gaming, cannot be guaranteed for this smartphone on Ice Cream Sandwich."
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If you're wondering when Google will finally put its stamp of approval on an official Android tablet, you'll have to wonder a little bit longer, but if you're one to believe speculation, then you can hang your hat on a launch day of either June or July of this year. According to a report from manufacturing insider Digitimes, production of the device is already set, with 600,000 units being ordered for the initial launch.
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Toshiba has outed its latest Android tablet, the AT300, a 10.1-inch iPad rival running Ice Cream Sandwich on NVIDIA's quadcore Tegra 3 chipset and promising up to 10hrs runtime. Measuring 8.95mm thick and wrapping its guts in an aluminum shell with a splash of Gorilla Glass up front, the AT300 also has a pair of cameras, with a 2-megapixel front-facer and a 5-megapixel main camera on the back.
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It’s been a bit touch and go with Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1. First shown off at MWC 2012 with a dual-core processor underneath the chassis, the tablet has yet to see the light of day. Rumors indicated that Samsung held off on the tablet to include a quad-core CPU, something they quickly denied. New info about the tablet has emerged from Tablet Community, with Samsung tweaking the design to accommodate the included S-Pen.
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At CES 2012, NVIDIA and ASUS took to the stage and announced the MeMo 370T, a quad-core Tegra 3 Android tablet that would cost just $249. Rumors have suggested that the tablet has since been cancelled, or possibly rebranded as Google’s Nexus tablet, but there hasn’t been any other attempts by a company to hit that price point with such powerful specs. NVIDIA has now laid out the concept as an official strategy, dubbed “Kai”.
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Over at the quietly brilliant manufacturer HTC's Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich list expansions are happening everywhere with new phones added to the list and phones already on the list getting updated schedules. This list is what HTC considers its nearly-definitive list of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich updates and can therefor be trusted about as far as you can trust any list on earth. Notably absent from the list are all of the HTC tablets released to date - you'll have to go rogue if you want that kind of hardcore underground tasty treat action.
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Last week it was revealed that various carriers across the world has placed pre-orders for the Samsung Galaxy S III to the tune of 9 million units. How about actual customers? We still don’t have any solid numbers, but Samsung and the Carphone Warehouse have put out a release saying that “thousands” have pre-ordered the phone in the UK, and that the numbers have “surpassed expectations.”
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Happy Monday, everyone. Yeah, it's time to go back to the boring monotony of the work week, but let's try to break that up with some interesting tech news. Sound good? Then let's start with this - HTC Evo 4G LTE shipping date now May 24. And speaking of LTE stuff, Verizon global 4G LTE comes to four new phones. Moving on to something unrelated to mobile, Microsoft releases Kinect for Windows 1.5.
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This week the folks at Motorola are doing their best to let the world know that their Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update schedule is based not on their inability to upgrade their devices, but on how willing they are to do so. In a bit of a sting to those who purchased Android devices with Motorola manufacturing over the past year or so, expecting the next Android system upgrade as they did so, the manufacturer has sent out a message to users that if ICS wouldn’t “improve” their devices, they would not be updated. Have a peek at the full list below.
It's no secret that when it comes to smartphones, Samsung sees only one company as its competitor - Apple. It believes, rightly so, that it has the most popular presence on Android so rather than fight against other Android manufacturers it has its eyes set solely on the iPhone. So it is really no surprise that the company has developed its own version of Siri. Will it be able to measure up?
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