Tech Review Android: Thursday, March 29, 2012

Samsung GALAXY Note

http://www.phonearena.com/phones/Samsung-GALAXY-Note_id6116

• Nice site with good info on Note
• Specs
• Dual Core processor
• 1.4 GHz
• 8 megapixel camera
• Price:  $600-$700

Samsung Galaxy S 4G Blaze is a solid choice at $120 price

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/cell-phones/samsung-galaxy-s-4g-blaze-is-a-solid-choice-at-120-price/7373?tag=nl.e539

• T-Mobile
• 42+ Mbps HSPA+
• T-Mobile
• No Apple iPhone
• try to offer a nice verity of Androids
• links to other reviews

Tech Review: Wednesday, March 28, 2012

What is XBMC?

http://xbmc.org/about/

• Opensource media player
• Linux
• OSX (Apple)
• Windows
• what about Android?
• designed for Home Theater PC (HTPC)

Microsoft Unveils New Plan to Speed Up the Web

http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/03/microsoft-unveils-new-plan-to-speed-up-the-web/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29

• New HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) 2.0 standard
• goal to increase page load time by 50%
• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
• standard body
• creating new HTTP 2.0
• faster, modern approach to internet communication
• SPDY ("speedy") 
• Google's proposal
• 50% percent faster
• supported by
• Chrome
• Firefox
• several large sites
• Google
• Twitter
• HTTP Speed+Mobility
• HTML5 WebSockets API
• Mike Beishe
• co-inventor of SPDY

Android Version

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history

I think the above picture is wrong.  Gingerbread is v2.3.

Slingbox SOLO - SB260-100 - Now on your Android Tablet!

http://www.buy.com/prod/slingbox-solo-slingbox-slingbox-solo-solo-sling-sling-media/205679959.html

• $130

Richard Clarke: China has hacked every major US company

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/richard-clarke-china-has-hacked-every-major-us-company/11125?tag=nl.e589

China's cyber heist

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/chinas-cyber-heist-20111214-1ousw.html

China's Cyberassault on America

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304259304576373391101828876.html

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/

• I believe that this is what is being used on Doloris Android

Google needs to take back Android from the OEMs

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/google-needs-to-take-back-android-from-the-oems/20246?tag=nl.e589

• Android 5.0 second quarter 2012
• Jelly Bean
• recommends virtual layer solution
• Google provides
• APIs
• hardware specifications

Tech Review: Android: Friday, March 16, 2012

Nexus Tablet

http://androidandme.com/2012/03/tablets-2/digitimes-echos-our-nexus-tablet-by-asus-rumor-could-launch-as-early-as-may/

• $200-$250
• 7"
• Tegra 3 Quad Core +
• Early May

NVIDIA announces Tegra 3 quad-core processor, we have all the details [Video]

http://androidcommunity.com/nvidia-announces-tegra-3-quad-core-processor-we-have-all-the-details-video-20111108/

• nice description of chip a capabilities with videos

Tech Review Android: Wednesday, February 29, 2012

These now HTC phone look pretty good.

http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/#all

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/htcs-one-big-challenge-courting-power-users/70285?tag=nl.e539

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/cell-phones/htc-sense-4-may-set-the-bar-for-android-smartphones/7308?tag=nl.e505

Turning and Android into a desktop machine:  http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/02/ubuntu-for-android-turns-your-phone-into-a-desktop-computer/

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1011

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/02/ubuntu-for-android-canonical-brings-ubuntu-desktop-to-docked-smartphones.ars?comments=1#comments-bar

The new 4-Plus-1 NVIDIA Tegra 3 looks awesome:  http://www.androidcentral.com/nvidia-dubs-their-tegra-3-architecture-4-plus-1-hints-big-mwc-presence

Four normal cores for power and one low power core for when doing low power tasks.

Adobe abandons Linux:  http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/adobe-abandons-linux/10418?alertspromo=&tag=nl.rSINGLE

Comparing ICS with iOS 5:  http://www.retrevo.com/content/blog/2012/02/how-do-new-features-android-4-compare-ios-5?cmpid=Email

Looks like my dream Dell could cost over 7 thousands dollars:  http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=ussoho1&fb=1&l=en&oc=SWCT73B&s=soho&vw=classic&dgc=BF&cid=74951&lid=2034069&acd=10997295-361116-FWamscjh