Last year's Sony Tablet S wasn't perfect, but it was refreshing. It was a sign that Sony could still innovate, and that it wasn't afraid to try something different. The new Xperia S tablet is an improvement in every way. But it's still hung up on those same Sony snags. Read More >>
Featured comment by Jon D:
"Sounds like it would do well as a Nexus device, or even if you just root it and install ROMs
I like the IR blaster idea. More tablets could do with t..." More »
Sony's latest Xperia smartphones will arrive running Android 4.0, or "ICS," as Google nerds call it, although you won't really recognise it as the usual Android found elsewhere. Read More >>
It's looks like Android is not about to stop snowballing any time soon with the recent figures, direct from Eric Schmidt, that its daily activation rate has reached an epic 1.3 million a day. Bearing in mind these are unique activations we're talking about, it's truly mind blowing. If that wasn't enough, Android now has an install base of 480 million users. Not too shabby for the little green robot. Read More >>
Featured comment by Southern:
"And the members of my household, who now have eschewed Apple and Nokia devices in favour of some flavour of Android.
Seems that when you hold somet..." More »
Mobile network O2 has decided against releasing Sony's Android 4.0 update for a few of its older models, claiming it found the code wasn't performing particularly well on a handful of phones. Read More >>
Featured comment by wildgeeza:
"I wouldn't dump on Sony... however, I would Sony Ericsson.
Though, really, any "dumping" should be directed towards O2, who are the ones with holdi..." More »
It's been exactly a year since the original Sony Tablet S debuted. It was unique, and a lot better than the terrible Tablet P, but it never got to be all that popular. This year's Tablet S returns with the Xperia moniker and a set of improvements that should fix the flaws from the first time around. Read More >>
Featured comment by Kat Hannaford:
"Hey Thomas -- apologies for the late reply; only just saw this!
I'll bring it up with our developer; that definitely shouldn't be the case at all....." More »
Think Microsoft Surface is the only one that gets to have fun with a keyboard hidden in the tablet's cover? Hell naw, quoth Archos. The 101 XS Tablet is bringing some old-style clickity-clack to the tablet game. If only they'd made it, you know, work. Read More >>
Archos used to be so ahead of the curve in terms of tablets I think it basically forgot to keep innovating. Recently the French tablet-maker has gone the budget route, but the 10.1-inch generation 10 XS is a break from that mould -- super thin, light, and with a full clip-on convertible keyboard, just like the Asus Transformer series. Read More >>
Google Now's a pretty special component of Jelly Bean, with infinite possibilities. We told you how to grab it early for a select group of phones, but now that list has gotten much larger, and with it comes Google's awesome new voice dictation powers too. Read More >>
Featured comment by PrinterElf:
"SGSIII running whatever the latest release Codeworkx has pushed out, and oh-so buttery I could spread it on crumpets :-)
Was using Apex Launcher on..." More »
The Raspberry Pi has had some pretty great software upgrades of late, first was the super-speedy Raspbian, then a dash of Google Chrome, and now a big chunk of Ice Cream Sandwich. Android 4.0 is coming to your slice of Pi real soon. Read More >>
Featured comment by Adie:
"I'm seriously considering one of these to use as a "Smart TV", ie. have it permanently connected to my TV via HDMI so I can watch Netflix, BBC iPlayer..." More »
With the right skills, you can port Jelly Bean's Google Now over to your Ice Cream Sandwich Android device. If you want to try the oh-so-creepy predictive assistant, but you're not yet running a build 4.1 operating system, you can do so following a set of instructions posted on the XDA Developers forums. Read More >>
Sky has announced some exciting and much-needed updates for the Android version of its Sky Go app, with those currently able to install it on their mobiles and tablets now able to access the on-demand content that features on Sky's Anytime+ portal. Read More >>
Featured comment by aenimiac:
"Finally! Been waiting for an ICS update for months.
I wonder how long it will take them to update the app to work on Jellybean..." More »
Featured comment by Glenbot3000:
"That's understandable. I still don't buy the mass-apathy to develop for Android, but I'll take your word for it in the mean time. :P" More »
Matias Duarte is the Director of Android User Experience at Google, which means he's the artist who pretties up the green robot's gears. We got some one-on-one time with him at Google I/O, and he opened up about the Nexus 7, Jelly Bean, and why we shouldn't be so huffy about Android fragmentation. Read More >>
This thing is the Bluetimes Smart TV, which is being sold as a networked media player. But it's a bit more clever than that, as your £58 gets you a mini streaming device that's loaded with Android 4.0, making it a cheap Android computer/plaything that uses your TV as a screen. Read More >>
Featured comment by irononreverse:
"What's with the raspberry pi tag?
I've seen something a bit like this before, it was a Chinese TV Box and ran on Android. Except it streamed TV sho..." More »
Sony's mobile people have updated the extremely nice Xperia S to the very latest version of Android, releasing the finalised "Ice Cream Sandwich" build of Google's software for its current smartphone flagship. Read More >>
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