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40GB tablet for under $275? 32GB SD card for Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 arrived
The new Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 is a great little tablet for a very reasonable price ($249). However, the price of that price is having only 8GB of internal flash storage. And, only 4.6GB of that space is actually usable for end-user storage. Fortunately, the Tab 2 7.0 has a microSD slot for storage expansion. So, I bought the SanDisk microSDHC 32GB Flash Memory Card for $22. I inserted it and copied a couple of files from my notebook to check its storage. It is working fine so far.

You can find my review and photos of this new Android tablet over on BYTE:

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2: The First Must-Have Android Tablet
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May 4, 2012
PAC-MAN Kart Rally for Windows Phone: Great looking graphics. WiFi multi-player mode too!
Fans of “Kart” racing games will enjoy PAC-MAN Kart Rally for Windows Phone which was released today for $4.99. The game has great looking graphics and smooth animation. Kart control is challenging but not impossibly so.

The game’s unique feature is the ability to for up to four Windows Phone owning players to compete in a multi-user mode over WiFi. All participants need to have the app installed on their phone. I have not tried the multi-player mode yet.

Disclosure: Microsoft provided the game free of charge for evaluation purposes.
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May 2, 2012
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (7-inch display) running Ice Cream Sandwich arrived
My Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 running Ice Cream Sandwich (Android OS 4.0) arrived. Look for a review and thoughts about tablets with smaller-than-10-inch displays in BYTE soon.
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April 28, 2012
TweetCaster Pro for Android crashing like mad on my Honeycomb tablet. Switched to freshly updated Twitter for Android 3.2.0
I like TweetCaster Pro for Android ($1.99 in the Amazon App Store and $4.99 in Google Play) a lot. In fact, it has been the default Twitter client on Android phones and tablets that I use. Unfortunately, however, it has been crashing nearly everytime I open in on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Honeycomb 3.2) in the past few days. It crashes so often that I deleted my account settings in the app and switched back to the recently updated Twitter app. The Twitter for Android 3.2.0 update provides the following enhancements.
1. Updated design and improved relevance of Discover stories
2. Activity in Discover tab shows who your connections follow, updates to their lists, and which Tweets they retweet and favorite
3. Spelling suggestions and related searches in search results
4. Username autocomplete in search
5. New push notifications for when your Tweets have been retweeted, favorited, or when you have new followers
6. New languages: Traditional Chinese, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Hungarian, Thai
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April 26, 2012
LinkedIn app upgrade adds iPad support
I’m not a big LinkedIn user. However, if you are and have an iPad, the LinkedIn for iOS 5.0.0 update is just the thing for you. In addition to working with the iPad’s larger display, the update also provides a New calendar feature lets you see LinkedIn profile information for people you’re meeting with.

You can learn more about the updated app in this LinkedIn blog entry.

Introducing LinkedIn for iPad
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April 25, 2012
Google Docs app became Google Drive on Android. Widget disappeared. Rate going up 600%?
Google finally announced its Google Drive product that competes with Dropbox, Box, Microsoft SkyDrive and other cloud storage products. One of the effects of this launch is that the Google Docs for Android app was updated and renamed Google Drive. Installing the updated and renamed app on my Android tablet resulted in its widget disappearing from my home screen. This was remedied by installing the updated widget. But, it would have been nice if Google had done that for me during the update.
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April 25, 2012