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 Sat, 18 May 2013 17:30:29 +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/tablet/samsung-galaxy-tab-7-7-gets-much-awaited-and-oft-delayed-android-4-1-jelly-bean-update/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/apps/app-review-goodreads-for-ios-and-android/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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