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 …

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 …

Today we’re taking a look at a free game called Brick Annoyed, developed by Omikron. Brick Annoyed is yet another Breakout clone. A brave (or silly?) move considering the Market is teeming with them, but then the format has always been popular. To give the format a little twist, there are also geo-location based high scores. Here’s the official description from the Android Market:-
Brick Annoyed is classic arcade game. You have to destroy all balloons on the screen to advance to the next level.
Gadgets will fall from some balloons and …

So, after we were told by HTC representatives that the Android 2.1 update was coming at the end of April, it now transpires that the update won’t be seen until June. Tech Radar received word from a Google rep at the Google Maps Navigation launch event that current HTC Hero owners, who have been waiting for an update, any update, since Android 1.6 appeared in September last year…that’s 7 months folks. During that time, we’ve been told that the 1.6 update was on it’s way, but then, in October, …

Whilst it’s not directly related to Android, it is, the iPhone is, at the end of the day, the benchmark for success for Android devices. Even the most ardent Android fanboy must grudgingly admit that the design team at Cupertino really know their stuff. Apple continue to churn out highly desirable, well designed and simple to use devices, that’s the formula that’s made them so successful. Because of this, I watched the OS 4.0 event yesterday, waiting for Steve Jobs’ killer “one more thing” closer, but there was no big …

With all the hype surrounding Apple’s recently launched iPad, it’s not surprising that there are a number of lower cost alternatives currently poised to start flooding the market. Android, as an open source OS, and one of the buzz words du jour, is obviously a popular platform choice for those tablet manufacturers. There is also statistical evidence that more developers plan on coding for Android than for the iPad. All good news for us Android fans, right? Well, there is one issue that’s been something of an elephant in the …

AT&T have been receiving a fair bit of criticism following their decision to restrictively lock down their first Android handset, the Motorola BACKFLIP. Google has been ditched as the default search provider in favour of Yahoo and only apps from the official Android Market can be installed. But what are the wider implications of AT&T’s attempts to stifle the openness and freedom which are, at the end of the day, probably Android’s biggest attraction for both developers and consumers alike?

Following a discussion conducted in a bar over the weekend (the best kind of discussion as far as we’re concerned), we thought we’d put together a list of the applications and games we’d most like to see being released on the Android platform. We’d love to hear your suggestions too. Who knows, maybe some enterprising and dynamic developer is reading this and will roll up his or her sleeves and start coding one of your suggestions.

Now that we’ve had a bit of time to digest yesterday’s bombshell news that Apple are suing HTC over 20 patent infringements, the majority of which seem to be related to the Android software rather than HTC’s hardware, we ask; why didn’t Apple sue Google? We also whip out the crystal ball and try and guage what this all means for Android and what happens next.

It was announced today that Flash 10.1 isn’t the battery hog that Steve Jobs seemed to indicate it would be. Experts around the world expressed their un-surprise at the news. It’s all just more fuel to the fire in the war of words between Apple and Adobe. But, could there possibly be an ulterior motive behind the feud?