Droid Sector

Good idea of touch-sensitive bezel, no space is wasted with on-screen buttons like in Honeycomb.

Zinio provides digital editions of the magazines, delivering the exact same material you get in print – surprisingly big collection and in many languages. PressDisplay is the same, but for newspapers. They are currently available for selected Android devices such as Galaxy Tab. Fortunately you can get a hacked version from this XDA thread or here. It will work on a phone, although it looks much better on a big tablet screen.

Zinio

PressDisplay

Motorola XOOM, Dell Streak 7, Asus Eee Pad Memo/Slider/Transformer.

Our new site is now open! It’s an Android phones and tablets database + a wiki with links to reviews, forums and firmwares. You can also search and compare devices by specifications.

www.droidsector.com/devices

P.S. 50% discount is available until January 7, 2011 on all our software.

Notion Ink demonstrates video playback via HDMI, using Adam as a big digitizer/touchpad and connectors on both sides. As you may have seen in earlier videos, you can also connect flash drives, wireless mouse and keyboards.

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Showing swivel camera, connecting flash drive and wireless mouse via USB.

Videos showing Panels and Launcher, which allows to jump to and rearrange panels. The virtual keyboard have arrow keys.

Notion Ink is going to post one video per day for each application or principle that comes with Adam.
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Samsung proves that ads can be informative and funny.

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Nexus S is the first smartphone to feature a 4” Contour Display designed to fit comfortably in the palm of your hand and along the side of your face. It also features a 1GHz Hummingbird processor, front and rear facing cameras, 16GB of internal memory, and NFC (near field communication) hardware that lets you read information from NFC tags. NFC is a fast, versatile short-range wireless technology that can be embedded in all kinds of everyday objects like movie posters, stickers and t-shirts.

Gingerbread is the fastest version of Android yet, and it delivers a number of improvements, such as user interface refinements, NFC support, a new keyboard and text selection tool, Internet (VoIP/SIP) calling, improved copy/paste functionality and gyroscope sensor support.

More info: http://www.google.com/nexus

TechCrunch review

A CEO of Blue Frog Gaming talks about Android fragmentation:

One thing I always hear when reading about mobile development is fragmentation. Steve Jobs, who talks about Android so much because he isn’t worried about it, harps on it relentlessly. Just today I read, on an Android blog, the following quote:

“In an iOS world, you only have to write code once and know it is optimized for every phone that’s been sold.”

Bahahahahaha. Yeah right. I do iOS development, and let me tell you, fragmentation there is a huge problem. First off, there are different OSes on different devices. Here’s a chart of that:

Compare that to Android:

Pretty similar. Android in this case has the benefit of having fewer OSes in play.
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The app supports all the basics you’d expect like unread counts, friends, sharing, liking, and starring, but it also has a whole lot more, including:

• Multiple accounts
• Synced preferences
• Full subscription features (subscribe and search from your phone)
• Search

The UI is nice and fast, and the usual “Share” integration with compatible (Twitter, Tumblr..) apps is present. You can enable an option to jump to next/previous articles with the phone’s volume keys.

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