The Next Web has reported that the Thailand government has inked a deal that would see them carry out the widest educational tablet deployment to date. They will be purchasing 400,000 Android 4.0 tablets from Shenzhen Scope at $81 a pop. They might even purchase another 530,000 tablets, bringing the total spend to $75.7 million. [...]

tl;dr: It’s a waste of money at even $35 When the Indian Government announced the $35 Android tablet, the Aakash, last year, heads turned. And although just about everyone expected it to be pretty bad, there were a few review reviews that said it’s not too shabby (*cough* Gadget Guru *cough*). I got a chance [...]

After the Samsung Infuse news today, and now the Pantech Crossover getting it’s update to Gingerbread you could have easily mistaken Android 2.3.6 to be the latest version of the platform. Unfortunately, that’s the sad truth of the situation. Anyhoo, here’s what you Crossover users can look forward too, as detailed by Pocketnow. New User [...]

There are more than a few "cheap" Android tablets available in my country, India, where by and large price is one of the most important factors when it comes to purchasing gadgets. After all, we’re the country of the $35 Aakash tablet, which is revered by quite a lot of people (personally, I’m quite a [...]

Most of MWC’s major announcements have already been had, but tucked in the Fujitsu booth we found an Android prototype that made quite the impression on us thanks to an obnoxiously sick set up specs: Quad-Core NVIDIA Tegra 3 Processor, Android 4.0 ICS, 4G LTE connectivity, 13.1MP camera, and oh yeah- it’s waterproof. We didn’t [...]

Not too long ago, Notion Ink released the alpha version of Ice Cream Sandwich for their Adam users, but as aspected there were quite a few issues. But the hard work of the team is starting to show results as Founder/CEO Rohan Shravan has shared the links to the beta files that should improve your [...]

Notion Ink has finally revealed a little more information regarding their upcoming Adam II Android tablet. Apparently the slate will be powered by a Texas Instruments 4400 series dual-core processor, complimented by a PowerVR SGX5xx GPU and running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. In an unexpected twist to their announcement, Notion Ink will be featuring [...]

Considering an Android Tablet for digitally reading your periodicals? Like the New York Times? Barnes & Nobles has conjoured up a deal that might be up your alley. If you commit to a 1-year subscription to the New York Times at $19.99/month, you can now get the Nook Simple Touch for Free or the Nook [...]

There are tech lovers all over the world, but we’re often given very different gadgets, services, and opportunities depending on where we live. One key example is Mobile Digital TV which has long been available in Asian Markets but has evaded American consumers for quite some time. This year, the Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC) [...]

Several months ago we saw a rather unknown company called Verzo pop up promising a new phone called the Kinzo. They went from not having a website to launching a product pretty darn quick, and we may be more excited about their approach to the handset game than the sexy handset they’ve designed. After buying [...]

Touch screens? That’s soooooo 2007. Say hello to the Kinect-ish gesture controlled Pantech Vega LTE for Korea. The device was announced back on the 6th with some pretty hefty specs and even without the knowledge of touchless gesture controls, the Vega LTE already had me drooling. The video below shows a Korean woman covered in [...]

Android netbooks seem to be on the rise and NEC wants to cash in early, it seems. This one doesn’t look nearly as good right now as the hybrids from ASUS – the Slider and the Transformer – but its thin and small design could be popular with those who want sort-of a traditional computing [...]

We haven’t heard of Verzo before and you probably haven’t either as their entire website is coming soon. But according to an exclusive over on Engadget, they’ve got an Android phone lined up for a September debut and we’re eager to see what the startup can produce. It’s name sounds like a Hollywood Ninja or [...]

Looks like Verizon will be getting some Pantech love in the near future as revealed in this FCC filing today. Pantech hasn’t made much of a splash in the Android scene here in the states but they may be trying to change that thanks to this Verizon 4G LTE enabled device. Still no word on [...]

Google has just added 2 new phones to their Phone Gallery in which they showcase some of the best (and worst) Android has to offer. Normally, I try to avoid posts on Android powered phones from non-English speaking countries like Korea but these 2 Pantech devices look so nice, I had to think twice. The [...]

It ain’t Honeycomb – heck it ain’t even Gingerbread – but the Viewsonic Viewpad 10 update to Android 2.2 will certainly be welcomed by everyone who owns the device. The upgrade also makes the Viewpad 10 instantly more attractive to potential buyers as the device was previously running Android 1.6. Don’t forget this bad boy [...]

So Apple’s iPhone 4 was introduced as the world’s thinnest smartphone, then LG vowed to trump them with the LG Optimus Black. And now NEC’s getting into this aggressive shoving contest: the NEC Medias is just 7.7mm thin. To compare, the Galaxy S 2 is 8.49mm, the Optimus Black is 9.2mm, and the iPhone 4 [...]

Visiting the Aluratek booth at CES, we were given tours of two of their most promising Android devices: the Aluratek Cinepad and Aluratek Libre. The first is a more fully functional 10.1-inch tablet that has a pretty full feature set including a USB port while the Libre is a smaller tablet designed as more of [...]

Like many Android products at CES 2011, the 35phone seemed unfinished and unpolished, but the concept here is rather neat. The 35phone itself seems just like another Android Phone, but with the accompanying dock and bluetooth tablet, you can actually use your phone from the larger screen. Here it is only seen working with a [...]

There were a lot of cruddy tablets at CES 2011 but the Hanvon HPAD was not one of them. The versions they had for testing were still beta builds, so we can expect improved performance once the device launches in July. But out of the gate, I really liked how Hanvon optimized Android for their [...]