Company Marvell showed a 10-inch plate on Android and the ARM-processor Armada, allows you to watch video in 1080p without much damage to the battery. Itself Marvell specializes in the production of chips and not the actual producer of the tablet. Price and release date of the tablet is not yet known, as well as its specific name, but within a year he will almost surely.

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How would this not sound strange, but now "androidofony" Motorola, which designed for China, will initially support the services of search and navigation Microsoft Bing instead of the add-on Google. In particular, we are talking about widgets on the screen of the device – if it had been familiar to millions of Chinese Google Search and Google Map, but now will be replaced widgets Bing.

Despite the attractiveness of the search engine Google, Motorola had previously refused to part from him, allowing customers to use there the search engine Baidu.

Action enshrined today the signing of an agreement with Microsoft, dictated by Google's attitude to the Chinese market. Due to hacker attacks on Google's servers and permanent government bans on web search, restricting the rights of Chinese citizens, the American Internet giant began to think about how to leave China.

For example, some models of Android-smartphone from Motorola and Samsung has not entered the Chinese market, just because of the rigid (or glaring?) Policy developer platform. But as they say, holy place is never empty, so no one, so another company will take a niche formed.

Recall that against Google focus now serious enough force. We already know that Microsoft, being dissatisfied with the growing influence of Google, has signed an agreement with Yahoo, and possibly improving its relationship with its longtime adversary – the company from Cupertino.

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The company ARM stated that in 2010 the market could reach about 50 new plates from different manufacturers. Told the director of mobile units ARM Roy Chan (Roy Chen) in Taiwan, where she ARM unveiled two new tablet: 7-inch based on NVIDIA Tegra 2 of Compal Electronics and yet another, more compact model called the Armadillo. Both devices are running Android OS and equipped with a processor ARM, as the iPad.

One of the key players in this market, in addition to iPad, may become a device from HP, based on Windows 7 and with the support of Flash. As HP make special emphasis on this aspect. Although not specifically called the iPad, the naked eye can see that HP wants to start drawing more stones in the garden of his main rival.

"With this tablet you will get a full-featured browser on a palm, – said in a statement. – No truncated internet, no casualties. " iPad, recall, Flash support will not. HP even released a video demonstrating the Flash playback on your plate. The HP has a multitouch screen and externally similar to the iPad.

Via AppleInsider

On Wednesday, Google added a new way to search on phones running Android 2.0 and above, who called Gesture Search. Now you can search for contacts, installed applications, bookmarks, and music by drawing on the screen characters.

The system recognizes both lowercase and uppercase letters, and if it is something "not understand", then tries to clarify the request. Incorrectly typed characters can be removed with a horizontal gesture.

Gesture Search is a free download from the Android Market.

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Representatives of the Philips press conference was told of the forthcoming issue of the media player running Android 2.1. He will be called GoGear Connect and will be largely similar to the current flagship player Philips Muse, but in addition, will receive GPS, Wi-Fi and a bigger screen diagonal of 3.2 inches and a resolution of 480 × 320. There will also be player trackball style Nexus One, 8 GB memory card reader for microSDHC and HDMI-out, allowing to issue signals to 720p. Thus, the functionality of the player come close to the latest smartphones on Android.

Sales of new items will begin in July, and the price is still unknown.

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Gartner summed up the results of the smartphone market in 2009. A positive outcome of this year has ended for Apple, Google and RIM. In absolute terms, leading RIM with 19,9% of the market, but Apple and Google was growing fast. Apple increased its market share from 8,2% (in 2008) to 14,4% (in 2009). Android most of 2008 was not shipped, but next year this OS gained 3.9% market share.

As usual, the growth of some means a fall for others. Share Symbian fell below 50% – to 46,9%. The positions of Windows Mobile weakened with 11,8% to 8,7%, and operating system from Microsoft took the fourth position in the ranking. The share of systems based on Linux has declined from 7,6% to 4,7%: this reflected the transition of many producers on Android.

Proportion Palm webOS still negligible – only 0.7%.

If we talk about the market of traditional phones, there is still a leader Nokia with 36.9%. However, a year ago, it was higher – 38,6%. Next come the Samsung and LG, and they were able to improve the position: up to 19,5% and 10,1% respectively.

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In the submitted video, which laid out Electronista, shows the proprietary interface HTC Sense for Android. He obviously supports multi-sensory input and can output to display all home screens simultaneously. Perhaps this version of the interface appears on HTC devices based on Android 2.1, but be sure this is impossible.

It is expected that the forthcoming International Congress of mobile HTC introduce at least one smartphone on the Android 2.1. HTC may show successor Hero – Legend, as well as several other flagship models, such as Incredible.

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Korean company Inbrics announced the upcoming release of mobile Internet devices M1-based Android 1.5. Novelty will be demonstrated at the International Congress of mobile communication, which will begin next week.

Despite the fact that the device is positioned as a MID, it has a 3G communication module and can operate as a regular phone. Form factor is also close to the traditional smartphone. Among the characteristics are the following: ARM Cortex A8 processor at 800 MHz, 16 GB of memory, slot micro SD, 3,7-inch touch screen AMOLED-screen, sliding QWERTY-keyboard, 3-megapixel camera plus a VGA-camera on the front panel, GPS, Wi-Fi, 3G or WiMAX.

In Europe, sales of M1 will start either late this year or early next. Pricing was not announced.

Via Electronista

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Site TechRadar wrote that the last new Samsung based on Android, Galaxy 2, will have a large OLED-screen diagonal 3,7-4 inch, 1-GHz processor Quallcomm, 5-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, GPS and Android 2.1. Site showed a photo and Galaxy 2, however, poor quality and of dubious origin.

Chances are good that this phone will be presented in February at the International Congress of mobile communications.

Via TechRadar