TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » Android http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 21 May 2013 20:36:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Notion Ink Adam II: A new Adam? http://www.teleread.com/android/notion-ink-adam-ii-a-new-adam/ http://www.teleread.com/android/notion-ink-adam-ii-a-new-adam/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 16:30:48 +0000 Paul St John Mackintosh http://www.teleread.com/?p=84976 Reports on Androidos.in and later picked up on Engadget and elsewhere have outed the Notion Ink Adam II Android tablet, successor device to the much-hyped Adam device produced by India’s Notion Ink Design Labs, and apparently supported by the Indian Department of Science & Technology Technology Business Incubators program. Documents indicate a reasonably specced and very price-competitive tablet, [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/android/notion-ink-adam-ii-a-new-adam/feed/ 0 Flipboard 2.0 Comes to Android with Curated Magazines http://www.teleread.com/android/flipboard-2-0-comes-to-android-with-curated-magazines/ http://www.teleread.com/android/flipboard-2-0-comes-to-android-with-curated-magazines/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 19:59:59 +0000 Jeremy Hill http://www.teleread.com/?p=84683 Flipboard for Android finally received an update to version 2.0. The biggest new feature of this update is the ability to create and share personalized magazines. This feature was first introduced for iOS a couple months ago. Flipboard 2.0 also utilizes Android’s native sharing functionality. You’ll be able to save content to a Flipboard magazine from other [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/android/flipboard-2-0-comes-to-android-with-curated-magazines/feed/ 0 The Ultimate Evernote Guide, Part 4: Exploring the Android App http://www.teleread.com/android/the-ultimate-evernote-guide-part-4-exploring-the-android-app/ http://www.teleread.com/android/the-ultimate-evernote-guide-part-4-exploring-the-android-app/#comments Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:23:16 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=83659 The Ultimate Evernote Guide: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 TeleRead’s Joanna Cabot has been doing a great job with her still-ongoing Evernote Guide, and she asked me to contribute an article on Evernote for Android. While the Android version has all the same basic functionality of the iPad version, Android’s [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/android/the-ultimate-evernote-guide-part-4-exploring-the-android-app/feed/ 0 Dictionary.com app now sporting a new look on Android http://www.teleread.com/android/dictionary-com-app-now-sporting-a-new-look-on-android/ http://www.teleread.com/android/dictionary-com-app-now-sporting-a-new-look-on-android/#comments Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:30:41 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=82593 No, dictionary apps aren’t sexy. But for the avid reader, they are a useful addition. Sure, most e-reading apps and e-readers have integrated dictionaries, but sometimes it’s nice to be able to look up an unfamiliar word anywhere. That’s how I use the Dictionary.com app on my Nexus 7. It’s always been a functional app, [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/new-york-times/new-york-times-now-available-on-flipboard-for-android-and-kindle-fire/feed/ 0 Want to run Android apps on your PC? No problem! http://www.teleread.com/android/want-to-run-android-apps-on-your-pc-no-problem/ http://www.teleread.com/android/want-to-run-android-apps-on-your-pc-no-problem/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:36:23 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=77451 OK, folks—this is something seriously cool. Over at The Next Web (and Liliputing, and probably a million other tech-obsessed sites and blogs by the end of the day), there’s a recently-published post about a new app known as WindowsAndroid that actually allows you to run an Android operating system (Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0, to be specific) [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/android/want-to-run-android-apps-on-your-pc-no-problem/feed/ 6 Kindle for Android vs. Kindle for iOS http://www.teleread.com/kindle/kindle-for-android-vs-kindle-for-ipad/ http://www.teleread.com/kindle/kindle-for-android-vs-kindle-for-ipad/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:00:53 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=76713 A common complaint about Android apps in comparison to iOS apps is that Android apps are often missing features or seem “unfinished” and not as polished. While I’ve found that to be true in some cases, the Kindle app is a particularly grievous example. While books in the Android version are easy to read, sync [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/android/toddler-vs-tablet/feed/ 1 REVIEW: Rikomagic MK802 III – How To Turn Your TV Into An Android Tablet http://www.teleread.com/android/review-rikomagic-mk802-iii/ http://www.teleread.com/android/review-rikomagic-mk802-iii/#comments Thu, 27 Dec 2012 06:00:42 +0000 Paul St John Mackintosh http://www.teleread.com/?p=75942 I was lucky enough to be gifted with an Android PC on a USB stick this Christmas: the Rikomagic MK802 III model, latest in a series from one of the originators of this category, although there are plenty of other makers and models now. And though it’s obviously not something you can carry around to [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/impelsys-ipublishcentral-platform-powers-new-bowker-book-as-an-android-app/feed/ 0 What would a $99 Nexus mean for e-reading? http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/what-would-a-99-nexus-mean-for-e-reading/ http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/what-would-a-99-nexus-mean-for-e-reading/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:15:06 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/?p=73209 The Verge is carrying what it considers a mostly credible rumor that Google is preparing a low-end $99 Nexus tablet for release by the end of the year. Among the company’s rumored manufacturing partners is Quanta, known for putting together OLPC’s XO-1 and XO-1.5 budget notebooks. The Verge discusses the possible hardware configurations to be [...]

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