HP Android tablet comes with Tegra 4

HP has the last two years regularly made the news, unfortunately this was not always positive. A few years ago, the company bought Palm mostly for its WebOS, but a first tablet was already after 7 weeks of the market. The stocks were dumped and bought by fans who flock to the WebOS operating system replacement for Android. Now the rumors started that a HP tablet on the market will be running on Android.

HP does not have a lot of fun for the purchase of Palm for $ 1.2 billion. The HP Touchpad was shortly after its launch in the market. The promise that the Touchpad is the best in the world was going to be was not fulfilled by HP.

There have always been rumors that HP to launch with Android at all was experimenting. Some people even had a new Touchpad receive what Android operating system already turned on.

HP is currently the market leader in terms of tablet PCs if you do not count, otherwise the big competitor Lenovo upside down. Logical that HP has yet again in the market for mobile products will collapse because they are different for the future major problems foreseen.

NVIDIA Tegra 4-tablet
HP will the next time with more Android Tablets on the market and according to ReadWrite, the first tablet from HP with the new fast NVIDIA Tegra 4 chipset on the market.

The successor of NVIDIA's Tegra 3 chipset (Cortex-A9) is the Tegra 4 and this chipset, NVIDIA announced at CES. This is a quad-core chipset based on the Cortex-A15 specifications. There are few manufacturers that have indicated this new chipset to get started. NVIDIA will own a handheld gaming console with the name Shield on the market on this chipset running.

This first and equal top tablet would according to various sources, several months in development. We do not do big announcement expected in Barcelona, only a select number of parties will be behind closed doors have been given a preview.

Google wins
It is a victory for Google that there will be a major player in the market to make devices that run on Android. Not so long ago they found no android system suitable for a tablet, but with the growth of this market, the new versions of Android and the opportunities that the budget tablets companies can offer that has changed. Recently released HP already a Chromebook that runs on Google's Chrome OS.

HP Android Phone
the rumors that HP is also an Android phone will be release time being contradicted by CEO Meg Whitman. She explains that this year certainly no HP Android Phone on the market will come. But as we all know, there is nothing as changeable as the industry.

Useful Android apps on Windows 8

All Android apps since yesterday also be used on Windows 8, for example, on the Microsoft Surface tablet.

BlueStacks has since yesterday there for a Windows 8 version of its App Player available. The software is free to download at GetYourAppsBack.com, which is also necessary to put the apps on the computer. After installation of the App Player Android apps to install and work on the full screen width and with full touch capabilities.

BlueStacks delivered earlier an App Player for Windows 7 and Mac OS X. According BlueStacks are already 5 million downloads started BlueStacks.com. In addition, the company works with OEM partners such as Lenovo, the software immediately flour springs with new hardware.

The company exists since 2009 and received $ 15 million in funding from Andreessen-Horowitz, Radar Partners, Redpoint, Ignition Partners and Qualcomm.

Nexus devices to Android 4.2.2

there are reports of users who can install Android 4.2.2 on their smartphone. Only the Nexus 4 remains behind.

Slowly drip the reports of users of Nexus devices that an update to Android 4.2.2 dished. Users of tablets Nexus 7 and 10 and the Galaxy Nexus smartphone have so far been reported.

Improvements
Google reports that the new Android Jelly Bean offers improvements in performance and stability. Furthermore, there is actually very little known about the update. It is therefore not a major update, but according to users with Android 4.2.2 in any cases a problem with the Bluetooth streaming audio. It is a bug of the Nexus 7 in this case, which faltered streams via Bluetooth. It seems likely that the bug is included in this Android version, since Google last month reported that the problem was solved and the solution in the next Android version would be.

Nexus 4
The Galaxy Nexus seems the only smartphone that has received the update. The Nexus 4 seems according Tweakers not yet been included in the rollout of Android 4.2.2. Of that update is known that new baseband firmware for 2g and 3g will be pushed. It could be that the firmware is also more efficient battery consumption shall be of Nexus 4 devices. Users of smartphones Nexus 4 report that the battery is empty lapped by the device when the device is not on wifi, but with 2g or 3g is connected to the Internet. We were here in December already set to work.

Acer introduces 4.5-inch Android smartphone

Computer manufacturer Acer has Friday a new Android smartphone announced. The Liquid E1 gets a 4.5-inch screen and runs on Android 4.1.

It is a mid-sized car with a large-screen ips of 4.5 inches, but also with a narrow for that screen size resolution of 960 by 540 pixels. The dual-core 1GHz processor will speed records do not die.

The Liquid E1 also features 1GB of RAM and 4GB of built-in storage. Using a microSD card has the capacity to expand. Behind the device sports a 5-megapixel camera, while the built-in battery has a capacity of 1760 mAh.

The phone will come with Android Version 4.1.1 and not the latest version, Android 4.2. The unit is just under an inch thick and weighs 130 grams. When and for what price the Liquid E1 on the market, is not yet known.

Facebook for Android is updated and allows you to send voice message

Facebook for Android was updated allowing social network users can record and send voice messages to friends and contacts.

Moreover, as people said Facebook, the official implementation of the social network added some options to enrich the user experience and improved loading speed photographs.

Also incorporated the ability to share content in groups and pages directly from Android. To download the update, you can go to the Google Play Store and check for updates of your apps.

Android users get 50GB free from Mediafire

Not 2, not 5 but 50 GB may also Android users are free to upload the new app from MediaFire.

With most cloud storage services you do not get more than a few GB of free space. Skydrive with 7GB free yet generous, Google and Dropbox offer Drive respectively 5 and 2 GB for free. File Hoster MediaFire going there for a while heavily over. The site launched Wednesday its Android app and new users get up to 50 GB of free space.

Through his site offers Mediafire since last summer free 50 GB accounts, but there were no mobile apps. This autumn there was already an iOS app. And now, the site also houses the 50GB for Android users, with hardly any restrictions. The app can also directly upload screenshots and videos. But an option to automatically save all your photos via wifi to upload, like the Dropbox app, is still lacking. Folders automatically synchronize with other devices, such as Dropbox, MediaFire offers currently.

The app is only useful for those much free storage for files in the cloud will, and who want to share files with others. MediaFire is not suitable for easy syncing with multiple devices. According MediaFire come eventually Dropbox-like sync options, but there may need to be paid for.

The main limitation of the free accounts the maximum filesize: 200 MB. Files are also available with the free accounts to share with others, but they come first or on a page with ads correctly. Accounts that have been inactive for too long by Mediafire removed.

Mediafire is best known as a place where your music, movies or software to download, just like before when Megaupload. But the site wants more known as a personal file vault, a place for your own files. The Dropbox competitor came last week with new features for dealing with saved photos.

Dropbox for Android is updated

Last month we got an update for iOS Dropbox. Today, the company's cloud storage of choice for many, has done the same with an updated version of the Android operating system.

Among the improvements that we can find is the improvements that were already present in the version of iOS, and easily share photos, which will allow Android users to choose which photos or albums you want to share quickly.

Further enhancements include the ability to delete multiple photos at once to save time as well as improvements in the design and interface and correct minor errors.

The download is now available on Google Play, for those who have not downloaded or tested, it might be interesting to know some tricks to get more out of this application.