Since it first launched about a year and a half ago, the Amazon Appstore has been restricted to customers in the United States only. But not anymore. Earlier in the week Amazon announced the expansion of their Android appstore to include several European countries—the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. Amazon says customers can […]
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Updates for Kindle Android and iPad Apps Bring Much-Needed New Features
Amazon issued some updates for their reading apps this past week. They added some much-needed new features to the Kindle for Android app, and they also updated the Kindle for iPad app as well as the Kindle Cloud Reader, their web browser based app.
Instapaper App for Android Tablets and Phones Now Available
Instapaper has finally launched an official Android app, which is available now from Google Play for $2.99. It will soon be hitting the Amazon appstore and Nook appstore too, once it gets through the approval process. Instapaper made a name for itself on iOS (iPad, iPhone). What Instapaper does is it allows users to save […]
10″ Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 Incoming for $399, But Why?
Later this week Samsung is going to release a new 10-inch Android tablet, dubbed the Galaxy Tab 2, a somewhat confusing moniker to pair with their other new 7″ tablet also called the Galaxy Tab 2. Both show a new direction for Samsung’s tablets. The focus seems to be mainly on lowering the price. The […]
Firmware Update for Asus Transformer TF101 Rolling Out
Asus has released yet another software update for the original Asus Transformer TF101 tablet, version 9.2.1.21. If you remember from an earlier post, I and a number of other Transformer owners have had problems with the tablet ever since Asus upgraded the software from Android 3.0 Honeycomb to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
New Asus Transformer TF300 Tablet Released for $399
Asus has managed to make the Transformer brand one of the top names among Android tablets, and now they’ve got a new model, the Asus Transformer TF300. Unfortunately it’s not the rumored 7″ model for under $250 that everyone has been waiting for, but it’s still an interesting tablet nonetheless.
$99 Innovatek InnoSoul 7″ Android 4.0 Tablet
I came across another really cheap Android 4.0 tablet listed on Amazon the other day and it goes by the name of Innovatek InnoSoul. It is a 7″ tablet that runs Ice Cream Sandwich with a 1.5GHz A10 processor and comes with a camera, a mini HDMI port, 2160p video support, and access to Google […]
Read it Later Changes Name to “Pocket”, Drops Price to Free
If you’ve ever used the Read it Later app for Android or iOS, then you know it us a useful app for saving web articles to read later offline and even YouTube videos too. Read it Later has just changed to Pocket. Pocket has some new features, a new user interface, and is now free […]