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May 9, 2014

Meizu MX3 Problems

Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on May 9, 2014 at 9:10:55 AM
Meizu MX3 Problems
Smartphones come in many shapes and sizes and Meizu is an international brand that makes some compelling hardware for their target markets. While they were at CES showing off the MX3, we were given a chance to review it for a possible US market push. What we found was that not everything is where it needs to be.Next Page »
Tags Mobile Smartphone Android Meizu MX3 Flyme
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January 18, 2014

Meizu MX3 Unboxing

Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on January 18, 2014 at 9:43:28 AM
Meizu MX3 Unboxing
Welcome to the first unboxing article at ASE Publishing. We'll be featuring most of the products that come in with these types of short articles to get your taste buds all ready for the real review. Check out what's in the MX3 box as we open it.Next Page »
Tags Phone Video Mobile Smartphone Android Unboxing Meizu MX3
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February 19, 2013

Kingston Wi-Drive

Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:09:25 PM
Kingston Wi-Drive
Nothing beats a vacation. Well, except when you bring your mobile device with you and can't decide on what videos or music you should load since you don't have enough storage space. That part isn't so good, but why should you have to make that choice? Enter the Kingston Wi-Drive to mitigate your extra storage needs. It works with Android and iOS devices and is a portable NAS for your mobile devices.Next Page »
Tags Reviews Mobile Storage Wireless iOS Kingston Android Wi-Drive
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July 20, 2011

More Android Apps Found to be Malware

Poster: Rich
Posted on July 20, 2011 at 11:31:45 AM
Does this really surprise anyone? More Android phones are activated every day than any other phone. That alone paints a huge bullseye on it for hackers. If you use an Android phone, you really need to be careful as to what applications you're installing...

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In the study, Dasient analyzed the live behavior of Android apps to determine their security posture. Of the 10,000 applications evaluated, more than 800 were found to be leaking personal data to an unauthorized server, Daswani says.

In addition, the researchers found that 11 of the applications were sending potentially unwanted SMS messages out to other smartphones--the mobile version of spam, Daswani says.


http://www.informationweek.com/news/231002162?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL
Tags Google Mobile Software Announcement Android
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June 23, 2011

Hulu Plus on Android

Poster: Rich
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:44:43 AM
Hulu Plus is now available for six Android devices. Shouldn't applications that work on one Android device, work on another providing they are the same version? This kind of segmentation is one of the big things that suck with Android. This is awesome for Hulu users though. I'd love to have it for Windows phone. This should also add value for those who might be interested in aquiring Hulu.

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Launching in Google's Android Market yesterday, the new Hulu Plus app allows Android users who subscribe to the $7.99-per-month service to stream TV shows and movies directly to their mobile devices.

For now, the app supports just six Android phones--the Nexus One, Nexus S, HTC Inspire 4G, Motorola Droid II, Motorola Droid X, and the Motorola Atrix. But Hulu is promising support for more Android phones as the year progresses.


http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19736_7-20073618-251/hulu-plus-app-launches-for-android/#ixzz1Q7Oc2CSy
Tags Mobile Multimedia Television Announcement Android
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May 24, 2011

Miro Wants To Be Android's ITunes

Poster: Rich
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 11:22:05 AM
I've used Miro a long time ago for viewing free internet TV. It looks like their branching out. You can see the iTunes influence in the new application (a bit too much if you ask me). Evidently, it will sync media with your Android device. Which is one of the few things that Android hasn't accomplished on it's own yet. I used to own a Cliq XT from Motorola. Motorola had it own syncing software similar to this, but it could only be used with Motorola phones. Recently, Google unveiled it own cloud music storage solution which I imagine will sync with Android. It will be interesting to see which way consumers choose to go. Desktop apps or the cloud......

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"We set the bar very high. We want to be the open iTunes," said Nicholas Reville, co-founder and executive director of the Participatory Culture Foundation, which publishes Miro and the Miro Video Converter, a separate program that also comes baked into the standard Miro. "Millions and millions of people use iTunes and they do because they accept the restrictions, like with Internet Explorer. We see ourselves as the new Firefox." He also added that Miro has "around two million" monthly users.

Except for the lack of over-the-air synchronization, the new Miro is basically the old Miro plus DoubleTwist. If you haven't checked out Miro in a while, since Miro 3's redesigned interface the feature-heavy program has gotten much easier to use. It heavily resembles iTunes, with a left nav for navigating between your audio, video, connected devices, Amazon MP3 store, and Android marketplaces. The new right nav links to recently watched videos, recently songs played, and recent downloads, while the center of the program is where your media discovery and playback happen.


http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20064507-12.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Tags Google Mobile Software Announcement Android Miro Open Source
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May 16, 2011

Android Malware Up 400%

Poster: Rich
Posted on May 16, 2011 at 8:35:54 AM
According to Juniper Networks Android malware is up 400% since the summer of last year. That's pretty significant, but considering Android's growth in the market, not really suprising. Evidently, it's easy to develop malware for Android, and most people don't secure their devices with anti-virus (myself included). I just try and stick to one rule: don't download applications or visit websites unless they're reputable.

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The volume of attacks that target the Android mobile operating system has increased by 400% since the summer of 2010. Also in that timeframe, one in 20 enterprise mobile devices has gone missing.

Those two findings come from the "Mobile Malicious Threats" report released Tuesday by Juniper Networks, which sells networking hardware and security products.

While significant, the four-fold increase in malware targeting Android isn't unexpected. "You don't have to be extraordinarily smart to write mobile malware these days because most devices don't have any security tools to stop the malware," said Dan Hoffman, chief mobile security evangelist at Juniper Networks, in a telephone interview.


http://www.informationweek.com/news/229500572?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL

Tags Google Mobile Security Announcement Android
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May 12, 2011

Andoid Market Update Coming Soon

Poster: Rich
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:10:19 AM
The Android Market seriously needed a redesign. There's way too many applications without an effecient way of sifting through all of the crap. Unfortunately, having a relatively open market leads to a lot of garbage getting through. I don't like that Apple has an extensive review process that keeps everyone kissing their ass, but it's kept nonsense from crowding the AppStore.

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The Web-based version of the Android Market is receiving five new categories to help sort through applications: Top Apps, Editor's Choice, Top Developers, Related Apps, and Trending Apps. Each presents apps in a different way to make the discovery process more compelling and less annoying. Despite these improvements to the Web interface, the more important story is being told on Android devices directly.

Google announced a significant refresh to the Web interface of the Android Market on Wednesday and plans to push out an update to the Market on Android devices in the coming weeks. The goal of the update is to increase the visibility of the best applications and give developers (more) credit for their hard work.


http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal-tech/mobile-apps/229500075?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL
Tags Google Mobile Announcement Android Applications
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February 10, 2011

Android 3.0 Allowing Lower Level Hardware Access

Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 11:33:19 AM
Google will be pushing new programming APIs into Android 3.0 to allow closer to hardware manipulation. The higher you get in abstraction, the slower the programs will be (to a point). This will allow developers to get closer to the hardware to make more high performance programs.

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he new interface, is called Renderscript, said R. Jason Sams, an Android performance and graphics programmer at Google. He didn't say so in so many words, but the goal for the feature has to be better games on Android. It's a broader feature, though: it's used in Honeycomb's YouTube and Books apps.

"The target audience is the set of developers looking to maximize the performance of their applications and are comfortable working closer to the metal to achieve this," Sams said in a blog post yesterday. "The target use is for performance-critical code segments where the needs exceed the abilities of the existing APIs."

To that end, Renderscript exposes two hardware-accelerated interfaces, one for rendering 3D graphics and one for for power-efficient computing operations. To use it, Renderscript relies on a variant of the C99 version of the C programming language. And the Renderscript plumbing that comes along with Honeycomb, aka Android 3.0, makes the decisions about whether to run the computing jobs on regular or graphics processors.


Sounds like a bit of OpenCL is thrown into the mix.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20031301-264.html
Tags Google Mobile Software OpenCL Smartphone Android Honeycomb
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February 1, 2011

Android Tops Smartphone OS Sales

Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 11:17:16 AM
Nokia's Symbian has dropped to #2 in sales, but is still a huge part of the market. Android is outpacing other operating systems and with tons of new devices coming out, it is easy to see why. I doubt the iPhone on Verizon will do much to stop this. I'm up for renewal on Verizon, but I'm getting an Android phone.

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In the last quarter of 2010, manufacturers shipped 32.9 million Android devices, while Nokia shipped 31 million Symbian handsets globally, according to analyst firm Canalys. Android now holds a third of the market, compared to 31% for Nokia. Apple held steady from the same quarter in 2009 with 16.2% market share, while RIM slid from 20% to 15%. Microsoft fell from 7.2% to 3.1% last year, as it unveiled its new OS, Windows Phone 7.


http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/364816/android-tops-ailing-nokias-symbian
Tags Mobile Android Symbian
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January 3, 2011

10 Million Galaxy S Phones Sold

Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:37:17 AM
Samsung has released figures that peg the Galaxy S line as selling 10 million phones since the June launch. This is pretty impressive considering just how many Android phones there are on the market.

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Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s second-largest maker of wireless handsets, said it met a sales target for its most popular smartphone as the company seeks to narrow the gap with Apple Inc.’s iPhone.

Samsung sold 10 million units of the Galaxy S model in 2010 after introducing the device in June, the company said in an e-mailed statement today. The Suwon, South Korea-based phonemaker aims to double sales of smartphones this year as more customers use the device to make video calls, read electronic books and use social networking sites.


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-03/samsung-says-it-sold-10-million-galaxy-s-smartphones-since-debut-in-june.html
Tags Phone Mobile Samsung Galaxy S Android
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June 29, 2010

Samsung Galaxy S Launch Event

Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on June 29, 2010 at 2:27:17 PM
ASE Publishing will be at the Samsung Galaxy S launch event in NYC tonight. We'll have our digicamcorders to record the launch. Expect video coverage tonight or tomorrow. The Galaxy S is a new Android based smartphone that will be offered by a few different carriers. It looks like a GSM type phone, but they said it will be released for four carriers which might mean Verizon may carry it (or Sprint). I'd bet that all of them will have it in different versions.

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