Android

Dragon Touch A97 Android Tablet Benchmarks and Review

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So I had been using the DragonTouch A97 Android Tablet from TabletExpress for several weeks and let both of my kids ages 10 and 7 play with it too.  The tablet for a $119 budget Android tablet exceeded expectations for the price and my youngest kid even liked it more than his $229 Kindle Fire HDX though this was because of it’s size being 10.1″ vs the 7″ Kindle Fire HDX and because it had … Read more

Moto 360: The New Boss in Wearable Tech

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Wearable tech these days is the new trend which every company wants to jump in, and here it is, the Moto 360, a smart watch by Motorola: A Google company. The Moto 360 was officially reveled by Motorola on March 18th, and would run a fresh flavor of Android OS ‘Android wear’ which was recently announced by Google, and is especially designed for wearable devices. The looks are really polished and slick, yet bold at the same … Read more

Unboxing the Dragon Touch A97 Android Tablet

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Recently Tablet Express sent me the Dragon Touch A97 to review and I have been spending just around 3 weeks with this impressive budget Android tablet and will be doing a small series to cover honest opinions of this Android 4.2 Jelly Bean tablet that is 9.7″ and is priced at under $120 on Amazon right now. Here is my unboxing video of the Dragon Touch A97 Android Tablet. The tablet itself is actually very … Read more

Google Nexus 8 Launching in April?

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A few sites picked up on the Digitimes report last week that Google was once again partnering with Asus and releasing an 8″ version of the Google Nexus tablet in April.  This is an odd choice being only 1″ larger than the Nexus 7 and I wonder if this is to more directly compete with the 8.9″ side of the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 so that it can have an exact tablet in this … Read more

Ex-Nokia Employees Release New Smartphone “Jolla”

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This week has seen the release of a new kind of phone called the Jolla, pronounced (Yol-la) the phone uses an Operating System called Sailfish an OS which was abandoned in 2011 by Nokia who opted for the Windows Phone Operating System. That was when the Ex-Employees built their own smartphone to use the OS. The original name for the OS was MeeGo and according to Antti Saarnio, chairman and co-founder of Jolla the OS was … Read more

How to Take Screen Shots on the Kindle Fire HDX

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All Kindle Fire Tablets (Only method for Kindle Fire (1st and 2nd Generation) You can take screenshots from all Kindle Fire tablets using Eclipse, which is the standard desktop developer tool for Android. Connect the Kindle Fire tablet to your development computer as described in Setting Up Your Kindle Fire Tablet for Testing. In Eclipse, from the Window menu, select Open Perspective > Other… > DDMS. Select the Kindle Fire tablet, and click the camera … Read more

RAVPower 14000mAh External Battery Pack Review

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When it comes to mobile devices these days people want to have a device that they can rely on that will give them the longest battery life possible. Nothing can be more frustrating than when we receive an important call, email or text and notice that our phone has only about  3-5% left on it making that important response back seem like a game of “Beat the Clock” However I was given the opportunity to … Read more

Say Goodbye to Custom ROMs with Xposed Framework for Android

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If you have an Android phone, you may have tried a different ROM at some point of time, but now with the Xposed framework, you don’t have to flash a new ROM to change the theme, Icon pack and other settings. The Xposed Framework allows you to make all kinds of modifications to the stock ROM safely. The only requirement is to make sure the phone is rooted, and the instructions for rooting almost all … Read more