Samsung will favour Android and it’s own Bada OS over Windows Phone 7 for new development according to the head of marketing at Samsung Mobile, YH Lee. In a Reuters article Lee said “We are Prioritizing our Android platform. Android is very open and flexible, and there is a consumer demand for it.”
Only one new Windows Phone 7 phone is scheduled to come from Samsung this year. “There is still some professional, specialized demand there,” Lee said. As for Symbian; “We are not seeing visible demand” was the marketing head’s …

The IFA in Germany means this week is now unofficially ‘International Android Tablet Week’ and the specs, photos and videos just keep coming from around the interwebs.
We covered the Samsung Galaxy Tab in our previous Android Tablets Roundup, but it went official today at the IFA. No firm pricing and launch date as yet. We’ll have the android news on this and other tablets as soon as it comes in. Here’s a quick reminder of the device and it’s spec.

Android 2.2
7-inch 1024×600 screen
Weighs 380g
ARM Cortex A8 1.2 GHz processor and PowerVR …

The Android tablet deluge continues unabated with Archos announcing 5 new Android tablets. Our recent Android Tablets pre-lanuch roundup covered the hottest yet to be released tablets, and some of these Archos offerings appear to be worthy additions to that group.
Archos have gone for a naming convention that signifies the screen size, and decided to brand them all as ‘tablets’. This is fine, although you might raise some eyebrows telling your friends about your new 2.8-inch 320×240 tablet. The 28 and 32 are really media players by another name, but we can …

Android Tablets (or Pads) are sure to be the next big thing on the Android News horizon, and reports of planned device releases keep coming thick and fast. Manufacturers are racing to own a slice of the soon to be lucrative Android Tablet market in field driven by technical wizardry (and maybe price).  We recently reported on the ViewSonic View Pad 7 which is just one of a few contenders in the space.
So, what device to lust after? Which Android Tablet gives us a warm ‘credit card at the ready’ feeling and which leaves …

ViewSonic has taken the wraps off their first Android tablet, the 7-inch Viewpad 7. The good looking mid-size pad sports Android 2.2 on a capactive screen, 3MP rear camera and a VGA font-facing webcam. For your data needs it packs an integrated GSM/3G modem and can be used as a standard Android phone.  (Although we question how many will want to hold a 7-inch slab of glass to their face. Headset use seems to be more likely).

The standard fayre that we’ve come to expect and love from our electonic gadgetry …

Just over a week ago a leaked version of 2.2 was made available to Motorola Droid X users. The news seems to be bad for those early adopters with Motorola taking a firm stance against the leaked Froyo ROM and not offering an upgrade path to the official OTA update. The guys from Moto said, via their support forum:
“WARNING: Do NOT load the leaked 2.2 upgrade that has been floating around on the Internets. There is currently no upgrade path from that load to the official 2.2 load that will …

There’s no denying that, when it comes to mobile gaming, you could argue that Android currently lags behind the offering on Apple devices. Google might be one step closer to changing that with a recent acquisition of mobile social game developer, Social Deck.

Social Deck games were downloaded no less than a million times in 2009. Their game portfolio includes Color Connect, Shake & Spell and Pet Hero. The company is based in Toronto and San Francisco and was founded by Anish Acharya and Jeson Patel who came from Amazon and …

This week, we’re taking a look at See The Light, a puzzle game from a new developer by the name of The Animal Farm Creations. In See The Light, the aim of the game is to direct different coloured lights to their respectively coloured goals. This is achieved through strategically placing mirrors and other objects on the game grid to redirect the light beams. Here’s the description from the official Android Market:-
A puzzle game set in deep space, See the Light challenges you to manipulate light using mirrors, lenses, energizers, …

Following on from the last update regarding the elusive Enso ZenPad and it’s Chief Apologist, Alberto Armandi, we thought we’d update you with a little more information. Firstly, we received a communication from Enso offering us the chance to receive a review unit of the ZenPad. We haven’t taken them up on the offer for a couple of reasons- firstly, we didn’t feel it was right to deprive a genuine paying customer of a ZenPad just to help Enso prove that the tablets actually exist, especially given how few of …

Gamevil yesterday announced that the sequel to their very successful Android baseball game Baseball Superstars is now available on the Android Market. The original sold very well and featured in many folks’ top 10 games lists for the platform. The sequel promises more of the same and, unlike many new titles these days, is Android 1.5 compatible, so all of you Hero users who are still awaiting an update will be able to play. At $5.99 though, it’s not as cheap as a lot of the games on the market. …