If yesterday was Samsung’s turn in the limelight at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, today was very much LG’s chance to shine. The Korean company announced two new interesting devices with a 3D slant; the Optimus 3D, an Android phone and Optimus Pad, an Android tablet. Optimus 3D At first, the Optimus 3D doesn’t seem to … Read more

The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is fully underway and the first day brought plenty of gadget launches, not just from Samsung but also from Sony Ericsson. Three new phones were officially outed in total, each with a unique take on what a certain type of user wants from their Android phone. Xperia Play First up, … Read more

Ok, this is it, this is what every Android fan has been waiting for since you first saw Mr Jobs holding an iPad. Yes, this is Samsung’s new 10.1-inch Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Sure, Motorola got there first, but we all know Samsung’s Android track record which makes the new Galaxy Tab just … Read more

Ok, this is it, this is what every Android fan has been waiting for since you first saw Mr Jobs holding an iPad. Yes, this is Samsung’s new 10.1-inch Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Sure, Motorola got there first, but we all know Samsung’s Android track record which makes the new Galaxy Tab just … Read more

Ok, this is it, this is what every Android fan has been waiting for since you first saw Mr Jobs holding an iPad. Yes, this is Samsung’s new 10.1-inch Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Sure, Motorola got there first, but we all know Samsung’s Android track record which makes the new Galaxy Tab just … Read more

Ok, this is it, this is what every Android fan has been waiting for since you first saw Mr Jobs holding an iPad. Yes, this is Samsung’s new 10.1-inch Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Sure, Motorola got there first, but we all know Samsung’s Android track record which makes the new Galaxy Tab just … Read more

The Mobile World Congress is now in full swing in Barcelona, and Samsung started things off with a bang by announcing the Galaxy S II. The device builds on the phenomenally successful Galaxy S, introducing a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus screen as its stand out feature. The phone packs a 1Ghz dual core processor (probably the Samsung … Read more

The “Facebook Phone”; will that rumor ever die? It would seem not, with budget manufacturer INQ Mobile’s new Android phone, the ‘Cloud Torch’, coming optimized with deep Facebook integration. Erick Shonfeld over at TechCrunch managed to snag an exclusive video of the new device. So what does ‘optimized for Facebook’ really mean? The video mainly shows off how … Read more

Ok, firstly, forgive us for using such a blatant marketing term as ‘Retina Display‘. Apple, of course, coined the term to neatly summarize what might otherwise be known as a very high pixel density display. That said, whenever a friend thrusts their iPhone 4 in our direction, we can’t help but feel a very slight hint of … Read more

Today’s Android event at Mountain View was a chance for Google to show off Android 3.0, or Honeycomb, to a wider audience. The screenshots taken from the SDK image last week stole Google’s thunder a little; we might see events like these happen before SDK releases in the future. Many of us have already seen … Read more

At the Honeycomb event today, Google announced a the very long overdue, fully web based version of the Android Market. The main highlight being the ability to ‘automagically’ download to your device via a web link. Other notable features are the polished interface which blends video, images, user reviews and details about the apps. There’s also … Read more

Ah, the cheap handset. Die hard gadget fans may scorn at the lack of the latest OS, poor memory, and maybe the compromise in build quality, but the fact is that cheap handsets are an important part of the mobile landscape and make up the vast majority of total mobile sales. Vodafone 845 – Cheap Android … Read more

As if speculation about a release date for the XPERIA Play ‘PlayStation Phone’ wasn’t already great enough, Sony decided to throw a curve ball yesterday with the announcement of their ‘PlayStation Suite’ for Android and other devices. The software stack and related services will allow the emulation of PS One games plus offer a development … Read more

You may have noticed that things have been rather quiet on This Android Life over the past couple of months. Don’t worry, the site is still alive and regular service is about to resume. We thought we’d briefly let you know what’s being going on behind the scenes. The ownership of This Android Life changed … Read more

One of the things to love about Android is the choice of virtual keyboards that can be found on the Market. We’ve tried a good few of them here at This Android Life, but none of them has really shone as a clear winner and I personally have always gone back to reassuring familiarity of … Read more

“There’s a lot of smoke, and I tell you there must be a fire somewhere” said Bert Nordberg, Sony Ericsson SEO in a recent interview with the WSJ. He was referring to the much rumoured PlayStation Android phone, a phone that’s just kept appearing in the tech news this year without any firm specs or announcements. … Read more

So, you’ve used your Android Phone to play games, music, find a place to eat, find your parked car. I’d be willing to bet, however, that you’ve never used it to solve a Rubik’s Cube in a mere 12.5 seconds. No? Well, some enterprising geeks at this week’s ARM developer conference in Silicon Valley have. … Read more

The 10.1″ Toshiba Folio 100 tablet that we talked about a while ago in our roundup post has popped up for sale at UK retailer PC World. To recap, headline specs are 10.1″ screen, 1Ghz Tegra 2 processor, Android 2.2, 1024 x 600 display, 16GB. The price? A pretty down to earth, global recession conscious ?329.99 ($517). … Read more

The 10.1″ Toshiba Folio 100 tablet that we talked about a while ago in our roundup post has popped up for sale at UK retailer PC World. To recap, headline specs are 10.1″ screen, 1Ghz Tegra 2 processor, Android 2.2, 1024 x 600 display, 16GB. The price? A pretty down to earth, global recession conscious ?329.99 ($517). … Read more

Samsung’s much talked about, latest crazy idea, the dual screen ‘Continuum’ phone made its official debut last night with much fanfare. Obviously the stand out feature here is it’s innovative dual screen functionality. This is made up of one single big piece of glass covering a Super AMOLED screen divided into three sections: a 3.4-inch 800×480 main … Read more