A recent survey probed the reasons why consumers buy iPad-style tablets, and where and how the devices are being used. Interestingly, non-iPad users reported 30 minutes more daily tablet use, on average, than iPad users.
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Users of Navi-X on XBMC or Boxee will be pleased to learn that a Navi-X app is now available on Android. All Media Online (Amo) has just released the first app exclusively devoted to browsing, playing, and downloading multimedia content on Android smartphones and tablets via Navi-X, an extensive, open source, community supported, media indexing web-service.
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In an email sent out today, Google notified owners of Google TV products that their devices would soon be updated to Google TV version 2. Among many other enhancements, Google TV 2 has a simpler and more intuitive user interface, and users can install selected Android Market apps on their devices.
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Two startups are about to go “chrono y chrono” with competing Android smartwatch gizmos. The “I’m Watch” exclusively targets smartwatch applications, whereas the “WIMM Platform” is meant to create “a new market of connected wearable devices that deliver timely, relevant information at a glance” — of which smartwatches are but one example.
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Netflix has released a new version of its video-streaming app for Android devices that officially adds support for Android 3.x (Honeycomb) tablets. The October 19 release of Netflix app v1.5.0 build 360 also extends Netflix’s Android support to Canada and Latin America for the first time.
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