Monthly Archives: July 2011

Space-shooters are usually a fairly fiery affair, with many types of guns, weapon upgrades, power-ups and more. Dodge does away with all of that, while keeping the very essence of a space shooter: Dark background, fast action, and stuff blowing up all over the place.

Your vector-looking spacecraft is the fastest thing on the screen, most of the time. And as the header implies, you have absolutely no weapons; you can’t get any, either. All you have is agility and maneuverability.

The Nest from Bluelounge looks a little like a bowl, but it’s much more versatile than that.  The plastic bowl has a colored rubber lining that makes it a safe, secure stand for a phone.  It can also serve as a storage valet for your keys and other pocket stuff.  The rubber lining and sloped [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/07/29/bluelounge-nest-universal-multi-function-tabletphone-stand-and-storage-tray/

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Motorola announced dismal device sales in its earnings report on Thursday, with tablets faring near the worst among the company’s products.
The company shipped 11 million mobile devices over the past three months, according to the quarterly statement. Yet only 440,000 of those were tablet devices. In other words, the Motorola Xoom Android tablet flopped big [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/07/motorolas-android-tablet-sales-fizzle-out/

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The Photon 4G is Motorola’s new powerhouse smartphone, another in a trend of increasingly powerful handsets debuting this year. We had some hands-on time with the phone before its debut next week.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/07/motorola-photon-4g-sprint/

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We’ve come to Friday, and it’s been a fairly busy week for us here at Android Central. Although we skipped the podcast it was a good week. As you roll on into the weekend, make sure you head on back and catch up on the things you may have missed out on — or just join us the forums for more.

• Motorola Droid X Forums - Gmail update + launcherpro dock notification
• Sprint Photon 4G Forums - Have Photon questions? Ask them here
• Samsung Droid Charge Forums - Stop the annoying start-up / shut-down sounds

Ready for another mobile operating system? Alibaba certainly is, having just unveiled its Aliyun OS. The new entrant will apparently be “fully compatible” with apps from Android through a proprietary Waterloo-style emulation layer. We don’t know exactly how that’ll work, but come September we’ll find out when the new OS ships on a rebranded Tian Hua K-Touch, the W700, for ¥2,680 (or around $416). We’re also interested in the firm’s tightly-knit cloud services, with users receiving 100GB to store their “contact information, call logs, text messages, notes and photos” — accessible from both PCs and Aliyun-toting handsets. With future plans for tablets and “other devices” in the works, coupled with incessant hinting from Baidu, those of you hellbent on fierce OS competition might want to consider relocating to China.

Continue reading Alibaba announces ‘cloud-powered’ Aliyun OS, K-Touch W700 phone

It had to happen eventually, and here it is: Toilet 2.0. Nope, it’s not a toilet designed specifically for number twos, but it will handle those admirably, as we shall see. No, the Toilet 2.0 concept is a smart, modern take on the old-fashioned WC.
First, it is lighter, stronger and thinner than porcelain thanks to [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/07/toilet-2-0-concept-flushes-the-competition/

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If you’re in Canada and looking to pick up the  Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant, you may want to check out Virgin Mobile. They are currently offering this device for just $349.99 with no contract, which looks like a great deal compared to some of the other carrier’s prices. And with carriers changing data plans left and right, there’s no better time to look into pre-paid services.You can find full details at the source link below.

Source: Virgin Mobile; via Mobilesyrup

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidcentral/~3/XtfHKPdSwlA/virgin-mobile-offering-samsung-galaxy-s-vibrant-350-contract

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Starting today, Facebook will pay $500+ to anyone who exposes a vulnerability that could compromise user data. To qualify, you must be the first to report it and give them time to fix it before going public. [Facebook via TheNextWeb] More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/4la48Pnpecw/facebook-will-pay-you-to-break-its-website

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