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Motorola Droid 2 R2-D2 Special Edition Live Wallpapers Leaked, Available For Download

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Applications, Droid 2, News, Videos

The R2D2 is coming later this month, but in the meantime P3Droid from MyDroidWorld ripped apart the system dump and weeded out the special edition Star Wars themed live wallpapers. He was also kind enough to shoot a few handy videos demonstrating them, and I must say, they’re pretty cool and will definitely be appreciated by any Star Wars fan. Kudos, P3.

Millennium Falcon Asteroid Field

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Jump to Light Speed

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Interactive R2D2

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Space Slug

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07
Sep
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Samsung Fascinate Buy-One-Get-One-Free Deal Now Available On VZW.com

Posted by Brad Ganley in Fascinate, News

The wait is over, folks! The buy one get one free deal for the Samsung Fascinate has just gone live on Verizon’s website. We know you’ve been holding out for it and it doesn’t get any better than paying for one and being handed two. It’s time for you to replace your old crappy phone with two Super AMOLED Android powerhouses. Get on it!

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source: Verizon Wireless

07
Sep
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Samsung Intends To Dominate The Tablet Market That Doesn’t Quite Exist Yet

Posted by Brad Ganley in Galaxy Tab, News, Samsung

As we all know, Samsung is very adamant about its famed Galaxy S’s older brother, the Galaxy Tab. We’re getting more details about it as days go by, but so far it appears that Samsung is planning on selling it exclusively through wireless carriers and has already secured several deals with Europe carriers.

What is very interesting is this quote they made in an article by the Wall Street Journal:

Mr. Yoon [Samsung's Product Executive] said Samsung expects to ship 10 million Galaxy Tabs and take a third of the global tablet market next year. Samsung

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07
Sep
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Froyo ROM Leaks Out For the Acer Liquid

Posted by Brian O'Toole in Acer, Froyo 2.2, News

For one of the first phones out with a Snapdragon, this sure has been some time coming. Over at the MoDaCo Android forum, poster LIQUID_USER managed to obtain what he has described as a “very early build” for Acer’s 3.5”, Éclair-running slate. Despite this somewhat unofficial status, the build Acer_LiquidF_0.007.00_EMEA-GEN1_05.01.01) is said to be quite stable, with most device functions working as normal, including wireless tethering and Adobe Flash.

As expected, performance benchmarks have increased but the CPU still can’t quite catch the Nexus One at its current clocking (on the other hand, the Acer…

07
Sep
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HP Zeen Android Tablet Spotted In The Wild, Printer Inexplicably Paired With It

Posted by Brian O'Toole in HP, News

I’m not exactly sure how this strange pairing was birthed, probably somewhere in a boardroom of extremely bored HP executives… but it looks like HP’s Tablet plus Printer combo is drawing closer to readiness for release. I thought one of the driving tenets of the tablet revolution was to obsolete printers, but obviously HP disagrees – hey, they’re the experts. The Zeen, as it’s appellated, is a 7-inch capacitive tablet which will be bundled in a $400 package with the C510 PhotoSmart eStation. While thankfully printing does not appear to be the Zeen’s sole raison d’être, it…

07
Sep
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Google Pushing Chrome OS For Tablets, Bringing Android To TVs, May Be Confused

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Devices, News

During his keynote speech at IFA, Eric Schmidt made some interesting comments in regards to Android, tablets, and TVs. Specifically, TV’s would be shipping with Google TV software on board (rather than as add-on hardware), and tablets will run Chrome OS rather than Android.

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That tablets will primarily run Chrome OS may come as a surprise to some people – after all, nearly every tablet that doesn’t run Windows (or iOS) runs Android. Hell, just take a look at this list:

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07
Sep
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LG To Deliver Dual Core Smartphones Using NVIDIA Tegra 2

Posted by Nate Kimmey in LG, News

It looks like LG doesn’t want Samsung to get all the dual core glory. The company has just announced their own plans for dual core smartphones, this time using the the NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor that we’ve already seen power a few Android tablets. The expected Q4 release of these phones (interestingly, the same timeframe as Samsung) seems to line up with the release of an Android-powered LG phone headed to T-Mobile. Unfortunately, without a name, there’s no way to tell if this will be part of LG’s Optimus series (currently, the only known…

07
Sep
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Samsung Fascinate Officially Coming To Verizon Starting September 8/9; World Feigns Surprise

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Fascinate, News, Verizon

Verizon sent out a press release this morning announcing that the Samsung Fascinate we’ve been hearing so much about lately will, in fact, be dropping on September 9 (as rumored). Even better, it’ll be up for sale online tomorrow (September 8\) – meaning you won’t be able to get your grubby paws on it until the 9th at the earliest anyway.

As rumored, pricing will be $300 with a $100 mail-in-rebate (MIR), for a final cost of $200. No word in the release if they’ll be running the rumored Buy-One-Get-Any promo we heard…

07
Sep
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Samsung Announces Orion – A Cortex-A9 Based Dual-Core Mobile CPU

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in News, Samsung

Remember the Cortex-A9 we talked about just a few days ago – the one that can clock in at well over 2 GHz on a 28nm process? Turns out Samsung has had its eyes on that bad boy for a while – they’ve now announced a mobile CPU based on the architecture (one caveat, though – the chip is manufactured on a 45nm process).

The lack of a major die shrink may keep things running at a more reasonable clip (1 GHz), but the improved architecture still allows for huge improvements over today’s tech. Namely:

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