We went to a Motorola press event Tuesday, where the company presented us the Defy, a super resistant smartphone (Gorilla glass, water proof (at a limit of 1 m), ..). So We were quite curious about this phone, cause it is a pretty good looking device too. We have been able to play with it during a few minutes, We didn’t [...]

During almost a week, We had a LG’s Optimus One at home. This Android device is a mid-range affordable smartphone – it will be sold almost free with a 2 years contract here in France. It is running Froyo, it has a Qualcom 600mhz core, a 3,2″ LCD touchscreen, a 3 MP camera, wifi 802.11b/g, GPS, and Bluetooth. Basically, it has everything [...]

While everyone is talking about Android on tablets – after Android on mobiles -, Android may end up in planes. The next generation of Thales’ and Panasonic’s In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity (IFEC) systems will run Android by 2011 –  2013. Panasonic and Thales are very important companies in that business, so it is a major step for Android in the aviation sector – [...]

Yesterday, We got some fresh news regarding the expansion of Froyo: Android 2.2 is said to be on 29% of phones running Android. A huge step for a version which only reached most of the Android phones few weeks ago. We can now imagine that – in few months – Froyo will become the most popular Android version. This evolution is linked [...]

Yesterday, I finally got my beta tester Swype version. It doesn’t include a French pack and it is  QWERTY – not AZERTY – but this is wonderful, it works great on my Nexus One. The first time I tested that keyboard was few months ago on a Galaxy S – Swype is pre loaded on those phones. I knew it [...]

Since this winter, and since the iPad rumors get stronger and stronger – during CES, commentators were expecting the iPad to be introduced by Jobs – , tablets became the new tech companies battlefield. Almost every company has launched its tablet, from Asus to Sony, Apple, … Even if most of those tablets were only concepts, this phenomenon showed one thing: tablets [...]

Android took off more than one year ago now, and what has been a very young and under-development project is now one of the best mobile OS. I remember more than one year ago when the first Android devices arrived on the market (G1 but also here in France the HTC Magic), We were wondering where this project would go [...]

We’re now posting the official press shots of that new Archos’ Gen 8 . As You can see those are Android devices, with a special Archos layer over it.

Archos is well known for its achievements in the PMP and MP3 players areas. After all, Archos has been a pioneer in the MP3 players development, Apple didn’t invent that type of device, Archos had created MP3 players for a few years before the first Ipod was launched. Then Archos has fully developed PMP tactile devices, its 4th generation being [...]

So tonight we get to see the new line of Archos products. A few journalists already had the chance to review some of them. We get half an hour with the Head of Archos for Southern Europe. From what we know for sure that some of the devices are as small as 2.8″  and the range goes all the way [...]