We were repeatedly told by RIM that applications, 4G, Android access, e-mail clients and everything else that were absent would be coming.
This can be aggravated if owners are rough with their Android device, i.e. dropping it or swinging it around quickly.
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Xperia E will launch on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) for the latest Android user experience3.
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Its Web browser is based on the Webkit engine, which also powers Safari and Google Chrome, i.e. iOS and Android.
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Osaka, Japan - Panasonic today announced the development of a new solution to protect personal data such as photos, videos, documents and e-mails stored on Android smartphones.
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In addition to a Google Web Reader application, users will be able to read Google e-books on apps for Android, iPhone and iPad devices.
Rounding out the next three devices were Android tablets at 10.7%, E-readers at 10.6% and a bit surprising was Portable Macs at 9.8%.
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They would mostly run Android, sport single-core ARM chips, relatively-short battery life (think 4-5 hours), inferior touchscreens (stylus, anyone?), and often a poor selection of apps (subsets of the Google Android Market or, in the case of e-readers, none at all).
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Remember Yotaphone, the twin-display Android smartphone (color LCD in front, e-ink in back)?
E-readers and tablets (including Amazon's Kindle Fire e-reader, which is a modified Android tablet) were a popular holiday gift item last year.
Amazon, buoyed by the success of its Kindle e-reader, is expected to launch an Android tablet within weeks.
Once it's in wider use, Mailbox will likely add more features, support additional e-mail clients and develop an app for Android devices.
Initial products offerings from E-Fun include the APEN digital pen and Nextbook Android tablets.
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PCs and laptops can also display ePub e-books, as can high end phones such as Google Android devices and Apple's iPhone.
The digital products can be accessed through its Kindle range of e-readers and tablets as well as other devices based on iOS and Android platforms.
That touch technology is a feature that Amazon has yet to offer in an e-reader and one that consumers may come to expect as multi-touch Android tablets and other iPad competitors flood the market.
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With rising e-commerce facilitated by sophisticated user-friendly applications on the iPhone, Blackberry, Android and Symbian, we expect mobile shopping to draw sales sales volume away from Avon until the company can expand its online and mobile presence.
The e-newsstand would include apps from media companies offering versions of their publications for smartphones or tablets running Android, say people familiar with the matter.
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