Google Docs, Enhanced For Android Tablets

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Google Docs team updated the Google Docs app for Android today to provide even better experience of Google Docs on your Android tablet. I was pretty pleased already how it behaved on my Asus EEE Pad Transformer but the new design makes it pleasure to work with. The Google DOcs team has customized the look to make the most of the larger screen space on tablets. The new layout consisting of a three-panel view, allows me to navigate through filters and collections, view your document list, and see document details, including a thumbnail preview of the document on one place.
No more opening of many documents before you find the right one.
All these are available in 46 languages on tablet devices with Android 3.0+ (Honeycomb) and above. Head over to the Android Market.

Kindle Fire Is Not A Tablet, It Is A Service! Bezos.

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Looks like it is, after getting some specs on the Amazon Kindle Fire, it looks like it is an enhanced e-reader rather than a tablet. So Apple can still breath a relief and I feel that the Amazon Kindle fire 2 rumor, more convincing.
Kindle fire does not have High MP cameras or 3G but it has dual core processor and a 7" IPS screen. Of course it comes with free Amazon Cloud storage and unlike Apple iPads, you can sync, whispersync, without cables! :) . Bezo's words, not mine.
But at $199 there is not much to complain when you look at the services Amazon offers, Music, Movies and Books. Also do not forget Amazon's own Android Appstore!
Going over the Kindle Fire, it's 7-inch 16-million color IPS display with a wide viewing angle and better color saturation. The display is protected by Gorilla glass, just like my Asus EEE Pad Transformer. The resolution is much denser than that of iPad. iPad has 132 pixels per inch and Kindle Fire packs 169 pixels per inch.
It has 8 Gigabytes of memory but don't fret over it too much. Unlike on other tablets, including iPad, this 8GB is a holding cell for Amazon's massive cloud. Like it can cache apps and services you use most, the rest will stay on the cloud until needed. Just think of Kindle Fire having limitless (as much as Amazon cloud storage) storage.
As we mentioned above, Kindle Fire is powered by a dual core CPU and Wi-Fi is the connectivity medium. All syncing is done via Whispersync, invisibly, in the background via wireless connection. Switching viewing options is also a breeze. You can finish watching at home, on TV, the movie you started watching during your lunch break at the office.

Eee Pad Slider SL101 Tablet Unboxed!

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As a very happy owner of Asus EEE Pad Transformer, complete with keyboard dock add on, I am very interested on other Asus Tablet creations.
Eee Pad Slider SL101 Tablet comes equipped with a NVIDIA Tegra 2 mobile processor, running on 1GB of DDR2 memory, and a choice of 16GB or 32GB solid state drives for storage. The display is like that of EEE Pad Transformer in size, a 10.1-inch IPS multi-touch display with 178 degree viewing angles. The unit is powered by a 25 W/h Li-polymer battery good for up to 8 hours of continuous use.
Well if it to your liking, you can see it being un-boxed here.

HP TouchPad On The Best Sellers List On Amazon.

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We got a HP TouchPad to play around with when it was released and thought "nothing" of it. It was something furthest from what we wanted from a tablet and Asus EEE Pad Transformer remains on the top tablet followed by iPad2 3G in our favorite tablet list.
But last breath fro the ill fated HP Touchpad is making waves, at least on Amazon with resellers from all over trying to offload the beast.
It has made the first and second place on the best seller list on Amazon!

Motorola Kore, Next Android Tablet From Motorola

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Looks like Motorola is gearing up for a new Android tablet. The new tablet seem to concentrate on the screen real estate rather than the real reasons the Motorola XOOM's failure to dethrone iPad2 or iPad.
The new tablet is slated to run Android Ice Cream Sandwich, and ditching the 16:9 screen ration for for squarish 4:3 ration screen, just like the iPad2. I am sure with assumed high resolutions like 2048 X 1536 will surely beat iPad2. Wake up Motorola, if your Motorola XOOM 16GB was $399, I would be holding it instead of far better Asus EEE Pad Transformer. If the tablet is tad lighter, it would have been a bonus as well.
There are also guesses that the slate will have Kal-El quad core processor from Nvidia. That wold be nice and people will ditch their notebooks, like I have with with Asus EEE Pad, with the keyboard attachment.
The name information was gleamed from some domain names Motorola registered last week, MotorolaKore.com, KoreMotorola.com, Moto-kore.com, MotoKore.com, and Motorola-Kore.com.

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Improved Google Search With Tablets!

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As a part of Google's on going efforts to maximize the user experience in it's search portal, tablets are getting a better experience when visiting Google now.

Tablet users will now find an improved interface, a simplified but improved to support touch. The search results page contents, text, buttons and other touch targets have been enlarged so that touch could be focused easily.

These improvements provide tablet users a comfortable and faster experince, when visiting Google.com, either in landscape or portrait mode.

Once a search is conducted, buttons below the search box will further provide ability to compartmentalize the results in to either images, videos, shopping etc. Large buttons will receive your taps easily and take you to your destination.

Experience the new enhancements by just visiting your home page :) www.google.com.

PS above image is on a Motorola Xoom, but it looks even better on my EEE Pad Transformer!

New Google Search experience for tablets - Official Google Mobile Blog

Asus EEE Pad Transformer Gets Android 3.2

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Starting 28th of July Asus EEE Pad Transformer will receive Android 3.2 update and as we have mentioned before, it will bring Netflix to the EEE Pad Transformer.
This is the last honeycomb update before the unifying platform for 'Ice Cream Sandwich' for phones and tablets.
Android 3.2 will also bring "Compatibility zoom" to tablets to make it more pleasant to use phone apps on tablets.
All said and done I am awaiting for mine to update.






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Let Google Maps 5.8 for Android Take You Places And More With Photo uploads, My Places, and more!

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Looks like Google Maps for Android is ready to take you places or help you to organize and keep the memories you made at various places. Because the first thing I read bout the Google Maps 5.8 for Android was that it can complement and improve, Google Places and Google Latitude, by (I have not downloaded the Google Maps to my Android Tablet, EEE Pad Transformer, yet so I will have to take Benjamin Grol, a Google Product Manager's word for it;

Upload photos for a Place

My Places as a simple way to manage the Places you’ve starred and recently viewed
Descriptive terms for Places in search results
Add a new Place on-the-go when checking in

With photo upload feature you can enhance others experience of places you have been by contributing photos of places you have been. If your photo is a striking one, your photo might end up being the profile photo of that place page!

My places and descriptive terms came to the desktop version of Google Maps this June but now you, moblie Google map user, can enjoy the same features. Descriptive terms will appear when you search places. If you press your phones 'Menu' button while in the Google Maps, you will be taken to 'My Places'.

The other notable feature is now you are able to add places while on the go. This will come in handy if one of your favourite places is not in the Places list. If you do a search on places for a location that you know exists and come up with nada, you can use the option, 'add a place', to add the place that can be checked in via Latitude. Do not forget that ‘Download map area’ has been renamed ‘Pre-cache map area.’

So the next thing for me and you is to get the Google Maps 5.8 for Android but make sure that you have at least Android 2.1+ OS on your device.

Google Maps 5.8 for Android adds photo uploads, My Places, and more

Android 3.2 Update Will Bring Netflix To Asus EEE Pad Transformer!

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Looks like Asus is testing Android 3.2 on EEE Pad Transformer, and there are talks of owners of EEE Pad Transformer getting official Netflix app. with the Android 3.2 update.
My EEE Pad just got the Android 3.1 update. So I am hoping that the next update will come sooner and bring what Asus tells us in the EEE Pad spec page.
Most of the Android tablets are getting the Netflix app or able to sideload the app. But EEE Pad Transformer owners are in a bit of jinx in the that direction. Yes of course you can root the device and jump through some hoops to get it working like the XDA forum explains.
I cannot root my device as I am developing a vertical market app and the people who are paying for the app wants absolute clean slate. So I am out of the rooting solution for the moment
So I will stay watching Netflix on my iPad 2 :) , yes I got one of those too but that is a whole another story.
I can tell you, I love my Asus EEE Pad Transformer (which is getting a partner, a 3G enabled EEE pad soon), in fact 64GB WiFI+3G iPad sat in the very box for a few days before I opened it. It is not bad but as far as I am concerned it lives up to and because of the hype. I have not put the iPad through the hoops like I have done with the EEE pad and before that the Motorola XOOM.
In any case if you are the rooting type follow the link to XDA Forums to find out how to do it. I am going to trust Asus and wait for them to provide me with Netflix App.