"Project Treble" is supposed to improve the update problem in the Android world - unfortunately, the full functionality is only available for devices that were delivered with Android 8.0 "Oreo". It almost seems as if the manufacturers are deliberately trying to slow down Treble: even devices that are only launched in 2018 (and therefore after the release of Android 8.1) [...].
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Amazon is also selling the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 shopping tablet in Germany from today, starting at 269 euros. For this price, you get a tablet with an 8.9-inch display and a resolution of 1,920×1,200. It also comes with 16 or 32 GB of integrated memory and dual-band WLAN. According to initial tests, the device is fast enough to read all the media that Amazon offers for
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With the Xperia Tablet Z, Sony is launching a tablet that matches the Xperia Z smartphone. The special features: a thickness of just 6.9 millimetres and IP67 certification. The latter means that the tablet can survive a dip in one meter of water for 30 minutes without damage. This makes it ideal for taking a dip, for example
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On Monday, weather permitting, Google will unveil the Nexus 10 tablet and give the well-known Nexus 7 a big brother. The device, which according to a report from BriefMobile has a resolution of 2,560 x 1,600 pixels at 10.1 inches, will be the new flagship among Android tablets. In addition to the display, which has a
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After ordering a Google Nexus 7 via a promotion on the website PostedPlanet.com, I had time over the weekend to get a first impression. For comparison, I have an iPad 3, which is in a different price league, but is the main competitor of the Android tablets. Google wants to compete with the Nexus 7 manufactured by ASUS,
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Samsung has suffered a major setback in the high-profile trial between Apple and Samsung in the USA: the court ruled that Samsung copied the design of the iPhone manufacturer from Cupertino and must pay a fine of over one billion US dollars. Apple also wants to obtain a sales ban, which would hit Samsung even harder. Apple naturally sees the ruling
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The website Posted Planet - in its own words "a new daily newspaper for new readers on the web, tablet and reader" - offers the Google Nexus 7 tablet in 8 and 16 gigabyte versions for order in its own store. The 8 GB model costs €209.90, while the 16 GB version costs €244.90. The only obligation
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Even if Apple does not refer to the third iPad as iPad 3 but only as "iPad", it still helps to make it clear which iPad is meant. So we will be talking about the "iPad 3" here 😉 As already mentioned in the previous blog entry, the main new feature of the current iPad generation is the display: with a resolution of 2,048×1,536 pixels
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Until now, there was no untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 with iOS 5 or 5.0.1; after restarting the device, the jailbreak had to be carried out again each time. Now there is a corresponding tool, Absinthe (report on PCGames.de), which performs the jailbreak under MacOS. An integration into the well-known redsn0w tool
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According to Golem.de, Samsung has announced that it will release Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" (ICS) next year for the current Galaxy Tab 10.1, 8.9, 7.7 and 7.0 tablets. The original Galaxy Tab (without a number) seems to be missing out, in any case Samsung has not yet made an announcement here. This means that Samsung's tablets that are closest to the
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