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What happens when you drop a Fujitsu Arrows Tablet in Water? Nothing, it’s Waterproof!

Fujitsu showed off a confident demo of their Fujitsu Arrows Tablet submerged for several minutes in water with no harm to the hardware. In fact, much of the phone and tablet devices they're showcasing at CES this year are waterproof, such as the super thin Fujitsu Arrows μ.Read Full Article

Fujitsu Arrows μ Touted as “World’s Thinnest” Smartphone and Waterproof

Fujitsu launched the Arrows μ (pronounced "mu") Android powered smartphone on NT Docomo. Touted as the "world's thinnest" smartphone at 6.7mm thin plus it is truly water resistant. In our personal demonstrations of the phone at CES it was just sitting in a bowl of water for several minutes.Read Full Article

GameTel Wireless Controller Turns Phones into Gaming Consoles, Android & iOS

GameTel demoed a neato Bluetooth wireless gaming controller for us at CES 2012 which turns your Android or iPhone into a game console. It has full game controller features including a D-pad, 4 action-buttons, options buttons and upper shoulder buttons.Read Full Article

Toshiba Excite

Toshiba Excite is the company's latest Android tablet aimed at the higher end segment of the market by introducing a 10 inch tablet slated for latest Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich); that is slim (0.3 inches), light (1.2lbs) and durable (magnesium casing with Gorilla Glass).Read Full Article

“Android on a Stick” Get Android on Any TV with HDMI

The company Always Innovating showed off a cool thumb-drive sizes unit they call HDMI Dongle which can turn and TV with HDMI into a Google TV per se.Read Full Article

How to make your Android phone look like Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

For those that want the look of Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) the easy way, you can by installing a few Android apps. Below we've included convenient download links to install the recommended apps...Read Full Article

Same Amount of People have Old Android Installed vs New Android [Stats]

Google released statistics showing the breakdown of the various versions of the Android operating system worldwide. The numbers show that about the same amount of consumers have older version Android 1.5 (Donut) as those with new Android 4.0+ (Ice Cream Sandwich); both at 0.6% market share. As more phones become upgraded, they are done so towards Android 2.3+ (Gingerbread) as the stats show more than fifty-five percent of all Android smartphones have this version of the operating system currently. Tablets, while not doing so impressive did have an increase from last month, up from 2.4% to 3.3% market share. Check out the stats after the break...Read Full Article

Android Market Surpasses 400,000 Android Apps

According to Distimo, an app store statistics aggregation company, Google's Android Market has surpassed 400,000 active Android apps; with an estimated 100,000 active publishers. Most, approximately two-thirds of the inventory in the Android Market can be obtained for free- this an eight percent increase since April 2011 due to the success of freemium apps business model, free to download with purchase opportunities within the app.Read Full Article

300+ Best Android Apps Reviews of 2011

300+ Best Android Apps of 2011 reviewed by the expert and industry leaders AndroidTapp.com. Every app listed is a top app indeed plus we have reviewed each giving our detailed unbiased analysis, pros versus cons, screenshots & videos, score rating, and more. There are a lot of apps here so we have created sorting options, use barcode scanner to download, along with quick download buttons for your convenience.Read Full Article

How to Download Free Music Android

"How to download free music Android?" is a question we get asked often, so we'll show you how it is done. As you would expect there are apps that help you do this. Below we've listed the (current) top 3 Android apps to get free music.Read Full Article

Here’s what the Typical Guy with an Android Phone Looks Like

Bluestacks, creator of software that allows Android apps to be run on Windows computers, surveyed their 145K Facebook fans to come up with a radical composite called Mr. Android 2011 to show what the typical guy with an Android phone looks like. As stereotypical as this may be, the picture seems about right... this from my own opinion of my friends and colleagues in the industry when we geek out at major telecom conferences or press events.Read Full Article

Gameloft HD Games will be Reduced to $0.99 Starting Thursday, for One Week

Gameloft just alerted us all their HD games in the Android Market will be reduced to $0.99 (with the exception of Modern Combat 3- this one will only be on sale one day). Staring Thursday December 29th 10AM PST through Thursday January 5th 10AM PST. Here are a few titles...Read Full Article

AppsLib Store Down?

Is AppsLib store down? Just brought that shiny new Android tablet for a steal of a low price, only to find that AppsLib store is down. If you have been receiving either of these messages: "Applications Under Maintenance" or "Your Device is not compatible" or "Check out your connection" then unfortunately you will have to wait a few days until AppsLib can handle the high demand of folks trying to browse and download apps.Read Full Article

Majesty: The Northern Expansion – from PC, now Play on Android!

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