Sprint appears poised to be the second US carrier to offer the Motorola Xoom Android Honeycomb tablet, with accessories starting to appear for the 10.1-inch, 1280x800 slate. In fact, the accessory pictured above is said to be the same protective case whose existence was tipped by BGR earlier this week. According to reports from that site, the initial Sprint Xoom will only sport Wi-Fi, with WiMax support not coming until an unknown future date. That would match the pattern of the Verizon Xoom rollout, wherein high-speed LTE data won't be available until well after launch. (Edit: Verizon's ...

The slimmed-down ten-inch tablet from Toshiba which we've seen around Christmas time turned out to be the final design for the Toshiba AT200. The manufacturer just announced that it will arrive to the U.S. as the Excite X10, running Honeycomb but being Ice Cream Sandwich-ready. The specs, as we've already seen, are a step forward from the Thrive. Packing a 1.2GHz TI OMAP4430 processor, the Excite X10 will operate with the help of a full gigabyte of RAM, and display images on the 10.1-inch IPS display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. There's a combo of a five-megapixel main and ...

The Asus Padfone, introduced by the manufacturer at the end of May, was initially tipped for an MWC 2012 official launch but now, thanks to Asus itself, we have an official confirmation. Whether you'll want to buy the Padfone or not is completely up to you. The concept of a smartphone docking deep inside a tablet is appealing and innovative by itself, as are specs like the rumored quad-core nVidia Tegra 3 SoC. At the ongoing CES, Asus confirmed, despite having a prototype on display, that the Padfone will be officially unveiled at MWC in Barcelona at the end of February. We'll be there to ...

Until Samsung and Apple settle their differences regarding the thinnest device among the Galaxy S II and the iPhone, Huawei is stepping in at CES to unveil the world's thinnest smartphone. 6.68 mm! Yes, thinner than seven millimeters is how thick the Huawei Ascend P1 S is. As for the specs, it's also one of the fastest in its class. Check it out: 4.3-inch Super AMOLED display with qHD 960 x 540 resolution, dual-core Texas Instruments OMAP 4460 Cortext-A9 CPU clocking at 1.5 GHz and supported by the PowerVR SGX 540 GPU, and powering it all is Android 4.x Ice Cream Sandwich. There's an ...

For all the benefits smartphones have brought us, there's no denying that they, and cellphones in general, have had some negative impact on manners and propriety. Many people no longer think twice about checking-out at a grocery store while on a call the entire time, perhaps not even saying a word to the cashier directly. For some of us, these kind of lapses mean we forget that our phones' speakerphones are for use in private, and not for broadcasting both sides of our conversations to the general public just because we don't feel like holding the phone to our ear. If that one in ...

Intel has not only decided to finally take the mobile device market seriously, but they've just shown us how quick they can be in providing us with results. Just a couple of days ago Intel confirmed that they would be launching a Smartphone with their Intel Atom Z2460, but to our surprise, their launch partner was no longer LG but instead Lenovo with their announcement of the K800 Smartphone. There are two key reasons why you'll want to consider an Intel smartphone in the future. First of all, it's battery life. The device seems to handle complicated processes with so much ease that the ...

The anticipation was pretty big and so was the buzz around the Nokia Lumia 900 which finally made its way, at least on paper, to AT&T's 4G LTE Windows Phone line-up. The device will be available later this year with the carrier. The looks should be familiar: the "head-turning" design is the one used on the N9 and Lumia 800 as well. We got our hands on the Lumia 900 at CES which, inside its polycarbonate housing, packs a 1.4GHz Qualcomm APQ8055 + MDM9200 (WCDMA) combo, 512 MB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage out of which 14.5GB usable, 4.3-inch AMOLED ClearBlack glass touchscreen with WVGA ...

Yesterday we took a look at the Polaroid SC1630, a digital camera with a big optical zoom and Android running at its core. There are plenty of other non-smartphone gadgets being demonstrated at the CES this year that come very close to being one, often lacking only a cellular radio. The latest we've heard about is the Phillips GoGear Connect 3.5, a Gingerbread-running media player. Phillips has been producing the GoGear line for some time now; we first looked at the family when GoGear was still running Android 2.1 back in 2010. There have been several iterations since then, with the GoGear ...