I came across a booth by hardware designer and manufacturer FlaStar Technologies at CES. Like Compal, they do research and design for tablet hardware for businesses requesting their services. There was nothing too special to get excited about, but some of the customizations made to Android on one of their tablets weren’t the worst I’ve [...]

I have to admit going in the NEC dual-screen Android tablet that we have heard about for quite some time now wasn’t really impressing me. I figured it would be just another sub-par Android tablet with a gimmick that would make it if anything less functional. How would that second screen work without inevitably getting [...]

Creative had their own nicely-sized booth on the show floor at CES and had their latest Android-based products on hand to show. The Ziio is a 7-inch tablet powered by Creative’s own custom chipset that allows them to handle high definition video and high quality audio of all sorts. I got a quick hands on [...]

I ran into the folks at Touch Revolution at this year’s CES. Their product? Displays. Nothing to get up in arms about, right? They created a couple of concept devices, though, which I now find myself really wanting to see come to reality. The biggest of which was an exercise bike with a nicely-sized display [...]

Android on TV is nothing new – not even considering Google TV, other manufacturers are using Android as it is to create their own television solutions. VidTonic seemed to be yet another oyster in a barrel of many, but they won me over with one cool thing: you can customize ANYTHING about your TV. How [...]

We’ve seen Google TV come polished with Sony Internet TV and the Logitech Revue. While they haven’t caught on like we hoped and expected, I still view television as a growth market for Android and the Google TV platform in general. A company at CES called Cideko (warning: site has annoying music) definitely agrees- they [...]

I will get this out of the way: if you want a TV with Android inside, you want Google TV. You don’t want one of the several models shown off at CES featuring half-baked versions of Android running alongside — but not integrated directly into — the TV viewing experience. Having said that, we checked [...]

Up until know a couple of separate services have existed to help you avoid costly traffic tickets, the two I’m thinking of being standalone radar detectors and smartphone applications like Trapster that rely on users reporting known speed traps and red-light cameras that your phone alerts you to based on location data. Cobra iRadar is [...]

Just last week, we were reporting that eLocity would be bringing out 7 new Android tablets – the A10.x series. (Replace .x with #1-#7.) eLocity caught my attention with a decent-sized CES booth on the show floor and I rushed over immediately to check them out. We learned that most of the tablets would be [...]

We saw, and it was good. I’m speaking of Honeycomb, of course, and after getting an extensive look at the tablet-specific version of Android on-stage at Verizon’s keynote at CES 2011, Matias Duarte sat down with Engadget to talk more about what went into its creation and what it’ll allow hardware vendors to do once [...]

We know Netflix is trying their hardest to bring instant streaming goodness to all Android handsets, but dammit they’re trying. The LG Revolution was announced at CES this week, and while we’ve already gotten our hands-on time with it, we completely missed the fact that it has a Netflix app installed. The spot was made [...]

You guys have been sick to your stomachs with Samsung’s apparent lack of interest in dual core processors – even if we know they’re whipping up one of their own. You had to guess Samsung wasn’t going to go too far into 2011 without a dual core announcement of their own: they’ve confirmed that they [...]

Well this is just a tad bit su.rprising. Samsung has announced new blu-ray and TV offerings which utilize Google TV to give end-users the “Smart TV” that everyone thinks we need these days. We’ve heard the rumor before – and just the other day Samsung said they were only “looking into it” when I asked [...]

ViewSonic’s undoubtedly trying to expand their scope in a consumer electronics world now dominated by smartphones and tablets. Their ViewPad series was introduced as a line of tablets that weren’t all too bad for your money, but today’s announcement of the ViewPad 4 adds cellular radios to a 4-inch rendition – that means they’re now [...]

When you think of Huawei, you think of quick, cheap cookie cutter phones to release to carriers so they can apply their own branding. Huawei had something different in mind when introducing the Ideos X5, though: they wanted to be as big, as fast, and as good as any of the bigger manufacturers on the [...]

We’ve been waiting for one of the popular few on-demand video streaming sites to announce their wares for Android, and thanks to Samsung spilling the beans at their press conference at CES earlier today, we can finally confirm that it’ll be headed our way sometime soon.  No further details were given on the application, but [...]

I thought she was a celebrity that I was supposed to know but didn’t. Maybe she was Catherine Zeta Jones beautiful daughter? Apparently not… she is indeed famous, but famous for the very commercials she was introducing (which doesn’t make her any less gorgeous). At the T-Mobile Press Conference at CES 2011, the T-Mobile Girl [...]

Verizon and Samsung might not be sure what to call the thing — hell, they might not even be sure enough to give it the Galaxy S label — but that doesn’t mean they didn’t want to show it off. The so-labeled Samsung 4G LTE Smartphone might have been previewed a bit prematurely at CES [...]

The LG Revolution might look pretty familiar to you, and if you’re astute you will recognize that it is Verizon’s version of the internationally-known LG Optimus 2X, in appearance anyway. We can’t find any confirmation that it’s 1GHz processor is the same dual-core Tegra 2 found in the 2X. Our quick time with the handset [...]

This is admittedly one of the shortest hands-on videos we’ve done in our lives, but regardless, it allows you to take a closer look at the HTC Thunderbolt. It’s HTC’s first 4G phone for Verizon and it’s due out in the next few months: Specs include: 4G LTE on Verizon Wireless 4.3-inch display 8MP camera [...]