Wednesday, July 27, 2011
 Gulfstream News | HTC Status Review: A Phone for Facebook Fanatics PCWorld Above those two keys, you'll find the familiar Android touch keys--Home, Menu, Back, and Search--built into the display. Below the keyboard is a button with Facebook's familiar "F" logo. This is the Share button, and it gives you quick access to the ... Android This Week: Facebook Phone status; MyTouch 4G Slide arrives; Nook Color ... AT&T (NYSE:T) To Launch HTC Status HTC Salsa Android phone |
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 0
 TFTS (blog) | Nook2Android Turns B&N Reader Into Full-Fledged Tablet Hot Hardware "When you buy a Nook2Android card you are purchasing the highest quality Sandisk MicroSD card and all the services to get Android and the added features as perfect as you would expect. You are not purchasing the software as it is provided free of ... Nook2Android turns Nook into full Android tablet Dual-boot your Nook Color with Android using a micro-SD card, $35 Nook2Android Turns Your B&N Nook Color Into A Full-Fledged Android Tablet ... |
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
 Forbes (blog) | Lenovo's Android 3.1-powered IdeaPad K1 tablet hands-on (video) Engadget For all intents and purposes, the K1 is a LePad dressed up in Android -- this one's packing a 1.0 GHz Tegra 2 chipset, a 10.1-inch (1280 x 800) capacitive touchpanel, Android 3.1, a two-cell battery (good for "up to ten hours") and a few minor software ... ThinkPad and IdeaPad K1 Android tablets, hands-on Lenovo Unveils IdeaPad K Android Tablet Lenovo's three new tablets try to tackle the iPad |
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 0
 TG Daily | Official Google+ client comes to the iPhone InfoWorld When Google+ launched late last month, Google released an Android app for the service and promised that an iOS app would join it soon; on Tuesday, Google delivered with an official native client for Apple's mobile platform. ... Google+ for the iPhone now available Google+ iPhone App Now Available Google+ iPhone App Now Live In The App Store (Screenshots) |
 The Hindu | Google+ Mobile App (for iOS and Android) PC Magazine Now that Google has released a mobile app for Google+ (free), available for Android phones and iPhones and iPodTouches (iOS5 is not yet supported, though), the social network itself is much more usable. Part of this success comes from the design. ... 5 big tech players; 5 bad Android apps How does Google+ compare to other Android social networking apps? |
 Tablets Planet | Toshiba Thrive: Full Review LAPTOP Magazine Toshiba enters the tablet market with the Thrive, a 10-inch Android device with full-size HDMI and USB ports. by Avram Piltch on July 20, 2011 Toshiba's not the first player to enter the Android tablet game, but with unique features such as a full-size ... Toshiba Tablet Stumbles Out of the Gate Toshiba Thrive Users Complain of Sleep Bug Toshiba Thrive review: Productivity meets common sense |
 The Tech Herald | FCC Filing Tips HTC Puccini Tablet, Possibly on AT&T PC Magazine Is AT&T about to get its first Android tablet? Details about HTC's alleged next tablet, nicknamed the HTC Puccini, surfaced in the Taiwanese manufacturer's filing with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which was first picked up ... Report: HTC's 4G LTE Tablet Coming Soon To AT&T |
Monday, July 25, 2011
 Reuters | Schmidt Dismisses Android Patent Suits, But Partners Unsure BusinessWeek If Android's mounting patent issues are a concern, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt isn't letting on. He dismissed the growing patent issues as "legal fun" at a Google mobile event in Tokyo and called out competitors for their propensity to ... Will Apple's Patent Attack Kill HTC? Of Course Not ITC Ruling Gives Apple Key Weapon in Smartphone Battles over Android Schmidt: Apple Reponds with Lawsuits |
Monday, July 25, 2011 0
We know that there are many of you waiting to get your hands on Virgin Mobile’s Motorola Triumph and if that is the case, you’ll be happy to know that some Best Buy stores are apparently selling the device earlier than its scheduled release date which is either tomorrow or July 20th.
It seems that a few Reddit users were able to stroll right into Best Buy and snag this thing for $300 ahead of schedule so if you’ve been waiting for it, you probably want to make the trip down to your local store to see if you can coerce politely ask the employees there if you can get your hand on some new Motorola hardware.
If you’re unfamiliar with the Motorola Triumph, it’s an extremely exciting phone because it boasts some pretty awesome specifications – vanilla Android, 4.1-inch display, extremely thin design – for an off-contract smartphone.
So, if you’re not into the monkey business that comes with mobile carriers and their contracts, this is probably a phone that you should be looking at, even if the contract is probably a little steeper than you’d like it to be.
For those who come home empty handed today, you luckily have a very short wait ahead of you before the phone undergoes a full-fledged release.
Have any of you been able to snag one of these early?
Via: Phandroid
Tags: Android, Google Android, Hardware, Motorola, Motorola Triumph, Triumph, Virgin, Virgin MobileCategory: Mobile
Adam is a technology blogger based in San Francisco, California who loves his iPhone 3GS and Motorola Droid 2 equally. You can follow him on Twitter or reach him by email at adam@notebooks.com.
By Stacy Cowley, CNNMoney tech editor
FORTUNE -- If you want to get a smackdown going, throw together five executives each angling for a lucrative piece of a $4 trillion market.
The retail payments space is one of tech's hottest battlefields. The reigning technology, magnetic stripes on debit and credit cards, is nearing the end of its 50-year run -- "it's just the U.S. and sub-Saharan Africa" left clinging on, quipped Verifone (PAY) CEO Doug Bergeron -- as NFC (near field communication) chips embedded in smartphones and other devices begin their ascent.
A new way of making payments opens the door for innovation. It also gives an army of new players the chance to try to wedge themselves into the payments stream.
Google payments chief Stephanie Tilenius wants to see phones replace payments cards."There's huge potential here -- it's like Amazon in 1999," Stephanie Tilenius, Google's vice president of commerce and payments, said at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech panel discussion on the mobile payments field.
Talk of "open ecosystems" and "co-opetition" dotted the discussion, but the reality is that only a few vendors will emerge as the industry's new kingpins -- and the fight to be among them is fierce.
One of the scrappiest upstarts is Square, which recently closed a $100 million funding round that valued the company at $1 billion. While the telecoms, payment networks, banks and new entrants like Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) try to hammer out the technical and business-model complexities of NFC and other new payment systems, Square is focused on solving immediate pain points with "products that just work today," said COO Keith Rabois. He blasted NFC-focused pay-by-phone solutions as "adding a new layer for the consumer and merchant on top of a broken system."
Those invested in the new solutions obviously see things differently. Retailers love the idea of gathering more point-of-sale data from their customers, Verifone's Bergeron pointed out, and Google thinks there's fortunes to be made in helping retailers target customers with personalized, real-time deals and offers. There's a big upside for customers as well: Instead of juggling coupons, loyalty cards, credit cards and receipts, the entire payment process can be unified into a one-tap transaction.
But getting all the warring factions together to make that happen is a Sisyphean task. The boulder rolled a few inches further up the hill on Tuesday as Isis -- the mobile payments joint venture created last year by Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile -- announced that it has lured American Express (AXP), MasterCard (MA) and Visa (V) into the fold. They join Discover (DFS), one of Isis's founding partners.
The next step is to win over the banks, Isis CEO Michael Abbott said. "As you evolve this ecosystem, the banks want to know what's in it for them," he said. "They own these customers."
Here's one thing the banks will love: An unexpected opportunity to cut down on the window of opportunity for fraud after a payments card is lost or stolen. Asked to comment on what Starbucks (SBUX) has learned in its experiments with phone-based payments, audience member Stephen Gillett, Starbucks' CIO, offered up an intriguing data point.
"I takes an average of 40 minutes to realize you've lost your wallet," he said. "If you've lost your phone, it takes an average of 5 minutes to realize it."
