Samsung has confirmed to TechRadar that it will be bringing a slide-out QWERTY device running Android to the UK this year. The new phone will sit below the Samsung Galaxy S in the Koreans’ Android range, with Carey McGregor, senior product manager at Samsung, confirming the new product: “We’ve got another device coming through this year, which will be a slider QWERTY device, with a landscape keyboard. “It won’t mirror the Galaxy S (in terms of specs), it will be more mid-range, more along the lines of the Galaxy Apollo .” Samsung Galaxy i5510? McGregor didn’t confirm which version of Android the phone will be running, but it’s likely to be Android 2.2 given the release schedule
Hot or Not Mobile is a new iPhone application that allows users to rate and interact with a variety of “hotties” (and “notties”) right from their portable iDevice. And, what’s more, the app is free to download, though a pretty hefty subscription fee is required for more advanced features.
One of the iPhone’s biggest gaming hits has finally arrived on the Android platform, with Rovio Mobile’s phenomenally addictive Angry Birds making the jump to a new platform in beta. Angry Birds has been a massive seller on Apple’s App Store, and the calls for it to arrive on Android have been many and volumous. And that dream is now a reality, with the company announcing on Twitter that the app is now on the Google platform.
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Samsung has confirmed that it will be bringing out more tablets in the next year, with a different operating system to the current Galaxy Tab. WP Hong, head of product planning for Samsung, confirmed that the next upgrade for the Galaxy Tab would be Google’s Gingerbread, but wouldn’t be picking up the next generation of Android: “The next platform we’ll be using [on the Galaxy Tab] will be Gingerbread. Depending on our international partners, we’ll be working to upgrade from Froyo to Gingerbread.” Honeycomb FTW “Moving forward, with Honeycomb, that will be used in the next generation tablet, as it [Honeycomb] is specifically optimised for different type of tablet, and will be used on another product only.” TechRadar exclusively revealed the new name of Google’s forthcoming Android iteration, so it’s interesting to see that it will be fully optimised for tablets – meaning we probably won’t see Honeycomb-enabled smartphones.