Toshiba Regza 10.1" tablet

Toshiba have recently released a new 10" dual core tablet which runs android 3.0 honeycomb. With a whopping 1gb of ram and a 1280 x 800 display this tablet is something to die for. The screen for this tablet is said to be an “ Adaptive Display ” which works better in outdoor conditions , providing a superbly clear image. In terms of software and services, the tablet will integrate with Toshiba HDTV , Blu-ray players, laptops and other technology. It was recentley priced at $700 u.s dollars which is remarkably cheap for a tablet pc of this power.

Android 4.0

Every company has secrets right? Well every once in a while stuff gets said which shouldn't be, just like when android 4.0 was mistakedly mentioned in an interview. Apparently it is going to be called ice cream and be the smartphone equivalent of 3.0 which is specifically designed for tablets (see previous article) anyway, apparently it is meant to come out midway this year (2011) so stay tuned for more info.

Desire HD review

The desire hd is a high end smartphone made by htc. it is running Android 2.2 with the custom sense UI. it's a buttery smooth phone and showed absolutely no lag in the various HD apps we threw at it.

the homescreen has 7 different screens with customisable wallpapers and of course widgets. one cool feature of this phone is, by tapping the home button twice, you zoom out so you can view all your homescreens at the same time. As all android phones have, this has full multitasking and you can access the apps currently running by pulling down the notification bar.

This beast sports a 1ghz snapdragon proccessor so don't expect to have to exit any apps because of slow loading times. It houses 768 mb of ram and a 4.3" wvga capacative touch screen. The only problem we had with this phone is the rather limited 1.5 gb of storage space, however, this can easily upgraded by a micro sd card.

Overall this phone is a great buy for more serious smartphone users, however, if you don't need all this power I would reccomend to buy a cheaper phone, such as the HTC wildfire of the ideos *5.

App of the week - Launcher pro

This weeks app is launcher pro, a very usable, 3d home replacer. Launcher pro is a great app and out of all of the home replacers I've tested this one definitely stood out as the best. It has a great user interface and is very smooth. It's interface almost resembles HTC's sense UI. You can have up to 7 home screens and it has a wide range of transitions available.If you shell out a few dollars more for the full version you can get widget resizing, themes and many other features. Overall this is a great product and definitely one to put on your download list.

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App of the week

Hey guys I have started a new feature of DroidChest. Every week we review or make a demo of a free app off the android market. A demo of this weeks app will be posted shortly.

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Video

I recently made an Apad 2 spec video and i have only just uploaded it to youtube, so, here it is:

Android 3.0 honeycomb

Recently, Google has amazed everyone by unveiling the latest version of android, honeycomb. They have completely redesigned android from the ground up specifically for tablets. They have added a new 3d interface, a new browser and heaps of other features. Hopefully we'll be reviewing one of these tablets in the near future so stay tuned.