AT&T has confirmed that it’s getting the Sony Tablet P on March 4th for $399.99 when you sign a 2-year contract with the carrier.
After a long, long wait the dual-screen Tablet P is finally landing on AT&T. It features two 5.5-inch displays which unfold like a case for glasses. That’s what’s its unique selling point - the screens could be used together when viewing video (you just fully unfold the tablet), you can also them for gaming - one screen could serve as a display and the other could house the controls.
AT&T says the Sony Tablet P comes with 4G connectivity. But don’t be fooled into thinking that’s 4G LTE - Sony’s Tablet P only supports HSPA+speeds.
Hardware-wise, the tablet sports a 1GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, a 5-megapixel rear camera, 6 gigs of internal storage and the standard connectivity suite of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Now, the catch with the $399 price is the two-year contract which will add a monthly payment of a minimum of $35. Off contract, the Sony Tablet P price stands at $549.99. You do the maths, and tell us would you buy the Tablet P and how.
HTC made a thumping at this year's MWC expo by announcing its redesigned and reconsidered One line of smartphones - the flagship One X, the nostalgic One S and the affordable One V.
CEO Peter Chou took centerstage and, if you can get around his accent, made a very good presentation, managing to infuse excitement in the HTC aficionados. Besides the three slim handsets, we had details about the new HTC Sense overlay, the Beats Audio integration, and the new ImageChip tech that will take HTC's smartphone cameras to a whole new level
Now HTC has posted a 45-minute footage of the entire press event which we covered live as it was happening, but a video is worth a thousand pictures and a million words, so feast your eye below.
Android head Andy Rubin broke the news that there aremore than 450,000 available applicationson the Android Market recently, and with so many apps out there developers need the best statistics tools to keep track of how well their creations are doing. Google sees that and has now brought new statistics for Android appications.
Application Statistics is a set of dashboards in the Developer Console on the market that gives you information about your app: countries where it was installed, Android versions, device models and various other stats.
Now, Google is bringing tangible improvements to Android app stats with new metrics, new tools for analyzing the data and an overhauled UI that is much, much easier to use.
The most important novelty is the option to see installation by unique users and unique devices. You get to see active installs, total installs, and daily installs and uninstalls. Moreover, Google has added a timeline feature so you can see how stats evolve over time.
Finally, the whole stats page is redesigned - every significant metric in its own tab. Hit the source link below to see more about it, and log in with your developer’s account to try it out.
We finally know the Apple iPad 3 will get officially unveiled on March 7th, but what will it bring? Here are all the facts about the upcoming iPad 3, and while we can’t guarantee they’re real, we can guarantee that they’re all hilarious.
Imagined by The Joy of Tech, the iPad 3 (or 2S, or whatever Apple calls its next-gen tablet) will have a higher-res screen. Actually, it will have such a high definition that reality will look blurred. Another thing we’d take for nearly face value is increased battery life. “iPad 3’s battery life is so good, it has to wait for you to recharge!”
And if this starts to look like a Chuck Norris joke, that’s no coincidence. Check out the whole list of “facts” about the iPad 3, including a picture of it in Chuck Norris’ action jeans.
Our personal favorite is the last joke, which is not exactly a joke. “iPad 3 is so awesome Chinese workers pay to assemble it!” Now, this one is a nice reminder for those ultra-hyped Apple fans about the sweat behind this awesome gadget.
ZTE has almost made a name for itself this year, announcing some prettwell-spec'd Android smartphones, along with its plans to bring some of its best products to the US. This was probably enough of a reason to spawn quite some interest in the company at this year's MWC 2012 expo. We were also intrigued by the relatively new brand (as far as handsets go), so we were really looking forward to meeting these supposedly exciting handsets at the trade show.
Probably one of the most interesting products announced prior to the beginning of the event was the ZTE Mimosa X Android smartphone – a very powerful handset that could make for a nice first entry in the US market. Of course, we got a chance to play with the Mimosa X at ZTE's booth here and, how should we put it... the manufacturer still has a lot of work ahead of itself, before it's ready to compete with the big names in the industry. It's not that the Mimosa X is a bad phone, it's just not something that can excite us. Yeah, it does have a big 4.3" qHD display, which we're fine with, and it also has the dual-core Tegra 2 processor inside, as well as a 5MP camera, but the design of this thing – it's pretty much your random Android phone (in the bad sense).The ZTE Mimosa X is a typical black-plastic handset with no stand-out as far as appearance goes. As we said, it has a decent hardware, but even on this front it's not good enough in order to differentiate from the mid- to high-end crowd out there.
The ZTE Mimosa X is a typical black-plastic handset
The software running on this smartphone is Android 2.3 Gingerbread, although an update to ICS should also become available at some point. When this happens, ZTE will probably pre-install some custom UI, judging by what we saw with the prototype we tested at MWC. Right now, the ZTE Mimosa X is bound for a Q2 release. And, of course, if you'd like to learn more about this handset, please head this way for the full Mimosa X specs.
