Toshiba Folio 100 also featuring with 802.11 b/g/n wifi, add external memory with SD/MMC card reader, bluetooth v2.1+EDR, mini-HDMI, USB 2.0 port, support Adobe Flash 10.1 and DLNA, 3G and the battery life up to 7-hours. It will be available in UK on October 2010 with price GBP 329.

Piloting your new advanced tank, code named Alpha, you will be shooting it out with various units such as tanks, planes, AT guns and more. Fire your main cannon and watch as the enemy explodes into pieces. Use your guided missiles to bring down enemy planes or anything else that needs blowing up!

Tank Recon 3D allows you to choose between Mission and Survival mode. Jump right into the action with Survival mode and see how long you can survive. The longer you last the harder the enemy units become. When you’re done, submit your high score to the Internet for bragging rights.

Play Story Mode to go on various missions that will ultimately decide whether you defeat the Evil Hepion forces or explode trying. Playing through the missions takes time and is no easy task but fortunately the game supports saving your progress at any point. If you do manage to complete the missions, try them again but this time choose Hard or even Mental!

Features:

• Real-time 3D graphics (OpenGL ES).
• Story Mode with 4 different missions to complete.
• Instant action with Survival Mode.
• 3 difficulty levels (Normal, Hard and Mental).
• 9 different enemy units.
• Submit your score over the Internet leaderboard.
• Save and resume your game.

Appcelerator surveyed 2,733 of its 51,000+ developers from June 15-17, 2010, a nearly three-fold increase in response from our March 2010 developer survey. With more input, this survey goes into more detail on the perceptions for each of the six major OS platforms: Apple (iOS), Google (Android), Palm/HP (webOS), Microsoft (Phone 7), Nokia (Symbian/Meego) and RIM (BlackBerry). Top-level findings include:

• Interest in tablet application development has spiked since Apple‟s iPad debut in April.
• When stack ranking platform potential, developers give the long-term edge to Google.
• While iOS and Android maintained a high level of interest, second tier platforms lost ground.
• Large organizations are expressing even more interest in mobile than smaller ones.
• Porting applications across platforms is the number one developer pain.
• Multitasking tops the list of iPhone 4 features.

Download the full report or explore additional survey findings below.

The Droid’s dominance is no surprise – the device has been in the market since November of 2009, backed by an overwhelming advertising and marketing campaign and bolstered by the tech frenzy of holiday shopping.  It currently accounts for just over a third of all Android traffic.  What is surprising is that the Evo – launched on June 4^th – has already reached 1.93% of the Android market, swiftly catching up with the Nexus One (2% of the market), Google’s first self-branded and self-promoted mobile device.

Among the cellular networks, Verizon has so far taken the most advantage of Android’s popularity, with Verizon phones accounting for 49% of Android traffic coming into the Chitika network.  T-Mobile ranks second with 23%, followed by Sprint with 19%.  AT&T, which has seen great success as the iPhone’s exclusive network, contributed a mere 1.1% of Android traffic to the sample looked at for this study – even less than U.S. Cellular, which clocked in with 1.4%.

In order to come up with these results, Chitika looked at a sample of 821,201 impressions from the first two weeks of June coming into their advertising network.  It should be noted that, true to Android’s open-source and incredibly diverse nature, some 8% of the operating system’s traffic in the sample was from unrecognizable devices or devices with extremely low usage.  Cellular provider market share is based on the provider most strongly associated with individual handsets (for the purposes of this study, Nexus One is considered a T-Mobile device).

[Source: Chitika]

Here are seven websites for your bookmarking pleasure. Each one acts as a directory, a review site, a screenshot gallery and a stats board for the wonderful world of Android mobile apps. Take a look around these sites, and let us know in the comments if we left out any good resources.

1. The Official Android Site

We first have the official Android Market website. However, rather than being an exhaustive guide to the Android app universe, the site is currently “a showcase for some of the featured and top ranked applications and games available,” according to its landing page. To get the full, official Android Market experience, you’ll have to check your mobile device. However, we expect this to change relatively soon, especially as more Android apps become available on devices other than our phones.

The site has a decent list of featured and top apps with brief descriptions and two screenshots each.

2. Androlib

This resource has a listing for just about every Android app known to humankind. It’s searchable, thoroughly categorized and contains relatively accurate stats for number of downloads and star rating on Android’s 5-star scale. It also contains frank user reviews, screenshots, QR codes for download, and, when available, video demonstrations.

One drawback is that the developer-supplied descriptions are often less than descriptive and, in the case of free trial and subscription apps, can be downright deceptive at times. When in doubt, check the user reviews. The UI is also a bit cluttered, and pages can be relatively slow to load.

The site also contains stats, forums and special sections for games and the top app of the day.

3. Cyrket

For data geeks, Cyrket is the holy grail of Android-related sites. This one-man project uses “advanced data analysis and extraction to help users find apps to buy and to allow developers to learn how their applications fit into the extended ecosystem of the mobile application marketplace,” or so says the homepage. There are also plans to include a blog with specific, interesting findings and better ways to discover new apps.

With all this advanced analysis comes a highly useful breakdown of apps’ ratings. For example, would you rather know that an app gets 4 stars in the Android Market, or that 80% of users gave the app 4 stars and 15% gave the app 5 stars?

You can also find QR codes, screenshots, descriptions and user comments for most apps. Apps can also be searched and sorted by popularity, rating, price and other factors. Finally, the interface is simple but clean and useful, with a bare minimum of advertising to interfere with your discovery process.

4. AndroidZoom

AndroidZoom is a straightforward, easy-to-use app directory. Its app pages contain descriptions, screenshots, rating and QR codes, but no user feedback such as reviews or comments. The site does, however, show similar or related apps from the same and other developers. You can also see the most viewed and most downloaded applications, and you can browse apps by category or search term. Apps can be sorted by popularity, rating, date submitted and whether they’re free or paid.

It’s a colorful site full of large-text links and friendly-looking icons; this is another site that’s simple and gets the app-finding job done.

5. App Store HQ

This site has the usual suspects in features: Search, browsing by category, screenshots, QR codes, etc. A unique factor of App Store HQ is that it aggregates Android app reviews from around the web, including sites such as this one.

You can browse through apps that are generating a lot of buzz on the web or apps that are heating up in Twitter mentions.

Posts and tweets are aggregated onto an app’s page, so you can get a good idea of real-time activity around an app before you decide to download it. This, we like a lot.

6. AndBOT

AndBOT is probably one of the best-looking sites when it comes to researching Android apps. It’s also thoroughly outfitted with a blog and regular app reviews.

You can check out the latest apps, browse featured apps or peruse applications and games in a wide variety of categories.

For each app’s page, the site pulls in comments from the Android Market proper and includes stats, screenshots and a QR code for instant download.

You can also see developer info and app permissions.

7. AppBrain

Finally, we have AppBrain. This site has search, rankings, categories, screenshots, related apps and on-site commenting features. It’s also got a fairly simple layout. One of its unique factors is being able to see changelogs for new versions and dates for how quickly an app progresses through the number-of-downloads tiers.

Better yet, users can sign in with a Google account to enjoy site membership, which includes the ability to make lists of apps, install apps with a single click and write reviews.

Logged-in users can also see “My Apps,” a collection of the apps they’ve installed already; they simply use the AppBrain free mobile application to sync their AppBrain account to their mobile devices.

[source: mashable]

Symbian’s lead was convincing, too, recording a score of 339 for click through rates (CTR) on a scale set by mobile ad measurement researcher Smaato. Android phones scored 118 and the iPhone just 111 as Google platform devices passed the iPhone for the first time.

As the operating system that refuses to die, Symbian is still widely used in Europe and the U.S., even though it is generally utilized in less sophisticated phones than Androids and iPhones. The Symbian OS was nourished by Nokia, but is now independent of the Finnish firm, which still dominates the world’s handset market share sweepstakes.

The overhauling of the iPhone by Google in ad clicks also plays out against increasing competition between Google’s Android phones and Apple’s iPhones. In recent days, Google AdMob’s top executive has complained that Apple is trying to restrict its use on Apple’s iPhone.

In a blog post, AdMob chief executive Omar Hamoui stated: “Apple proposed new developer terms on Monday that, if enforced as written, would prohibit app developers from using AdMob and Google’s advertising solutions on the iPhone… This change is not in the best interests of users or developers. In the history of technology and innovation, it’s clear that competition delivers the best outcome.”

The Smaato monthly report for CTRs indicates that Apple is feeling pressure from Android phones. “This data,” according to the report, “helps to show that even in its home markets, the iPhone, while still strong, is not the top performing OS in terms of CTR – which could well be one of the reasons Apple is looking to try to re-invent mobile advertising to engage its users.”

The HTC EVO from Sprint works on the 4G network that runs about three-and-a-half times faster than the 3G network.

The screen, apps and widgets will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has fiddled with the HTC Incredible. The speed will be unfamiliar, though. The phone runs on a 4G network, which, in my test, runs about three-and-a-half times faster than a 3G network. The EVO, which works on both 3G and 4G networks, is $200 with a two-year contract after rebate, and is available online and from Sprint, Best Buy, RadioShack and Wal-Mart.

First, let’s get our definitions clear. In this case, 4G stands for the fourth-generation network(available in 33 cities across the country), not the fourth generation of a handset. It’s the network that brings the speed. But a phone itself has to have the hardware built in to work on a 4G network to use the speed. Even though Apple’s iPhone 4 is the fourth generation of that phone, it doesn’t work on a 4G network. So make sure you have a salesman carefully define terms when you are phone shopping.

The EVO comes with a respectable suite of features. It has a 4.3-inch touch screen with pinch to zoom, and acts as a mobile hot spot, so you can connect up to eight Wi-Fi devices, for an additional $30 a month.

It also comes with a front-facing 1.3 megapixel camera for video chatting. The camera on the back is 8 megapixels with a dual LED flash. It also captures video in 720p high definition, and can play it back on your TV through an HDMI cable. It also has an FM radio, but you can only listen to it using wired headphones; the cable doubles as an antenna.

The phone comes with 1 gigabyte of built-in memory and an 8-gigabyte microSD card, but can support up to 32 gigabytes.

The EVO also has what we’ve come to think of as standard features, like a 3.5-millimeter headphone jack, stereo Bluetooth and GPS.

In my test of the phone, I used the speed-checking Web site Ookla to measure speed, which is  possible because current Android phones play some Adobe Flash. I had 4G downloads of 3.61 to 3.86 mbps, compared with 3G downloads of .77 to 1.28 mbps with the same phone. To put that speed in perspective, a 30-minute video on iTunes is about 300 megabytes. On a 3G network it would have taken me four to five minutes to download. On 4G it would take about one to 1.3 minutes.

I should point out that when the phone was on Wi-Fi, it was even faster, averaging 7.2 mbps. And using Wi-Fi doesn’t count against a data plan.

Stephanie Vinge-Walsh, a Sprint spokeswoman, said Ookla and other such sites were largely inaccurate. She said the company used a “scientific” measure, which generally finds speeds one to two gigs faster than Ookla did, though not always. But she agreed that the speed I measured was within the expected range.

Putting the phone to the test repeatedly with streaming video from “ABC Mobile Originals” in the featured TV videos found the EVO falling short. The shows were slow to load, occasionally froze in the middle and returned error messages saying I had no network connection, and “Sorry, this channel is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later or contact Customer Care.” The company said it was most likely an application issue.

These glitches aside, the phone was smooth, fun to use and over 4G, fast. Maybe even good enough to buy in a 3G market.

A 4G network is available in these cities: Atlanta; Milledgeville, Ga.; Honolulu; Maui, Hawaii; Boise, Idaho; Chicago; Baltimore; Kansas City, Mo.; Las Vegas; Charlotte, Greensboro, High Point, Winston-Salem, Raleigh, Cary, Chapel Hill and Durham, N.C.; Portland and Salem, Ore.; Philadelphia; Harrisburg, Lancaster, Reading, and York, Pa.; Dallas/Ft. Worth; Houston; San Antonio; Abilene, Amarillo, Austin, Corpus Christi, Killeen/Temple, Lubbock, Midland/Odessa, Waco, and Wichita Falls, Tex.; Seattle; and Bellingham, Wash.

Sprint says it plans to add more cities to 4G this year, including Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, St. Louis and Washington.

[via NYT]