The Internet has become part of the lives of the younger generations. What used to be a way for us to collect information and to easily access it has evolved in such a way that we can hardly live with being disconnected from other people.

With how much information we can access at every second of every day of our lives, it’s hard to untangle ourselves from social media. Social media spans several types, from collaborative projects like Wikipedia to blogs and micro-blogs and content communities that allow you to upload videos. You can also keep updated on what your friends are up to via social networking sites and you can make even more friends through virtual game worlds allow you to be an orc, a blood elf, or some other fantasy creature.

Social media has practically become second-nature to us, with a perfect place in our daily routines. After we wake up and grab breakfast, we sit around and scan our favorite websites for the latest news, whether it’s about world politics or just from our friends. In fact, some of us even find ways of using social media in our studies and our businesses.

We’ve put together some of the best social media apps for your Android device, so you can always be connected.

WordPress

Do you have something to say? Get the word out, literally. You can talk about everything and anything, all on your own space. WordPress is a website that lets you set up your own blog that you could practically do anything with.

Whether you’re writing about your day, that restaurant you went to, or a movie you saw, or you’re voicing your opinions on various political controversies, WordPress is your personal place.

With WordPress for your Android device, you won’t need to be at home to blog about things. The app lets you easily write new posts, edit content, and manage comments on your WordPress blog right from your Android device.

You can blog on the go, without having to rely on your computer back home. If you’re keeping a strict eye on your blog’s statistics, WordPress also allows you to easily check on your numbers. This app supports both WordPress.com accounts, as well as self-hosted WordPress (3.0 or higher) blogs.

SoundCloud

Though the Internet has made it convenient to communicate with other people via messaging, there’s nothing quite like actually putting a voice to your words. Are you aiming to be the next big Internet singer? Or, do you simply like the sound of your own voice?

You can record, listen and share your sounds with the official SoundCloud app for Android. You can record the song you’ve been practicing non-stop in the shower or an account of your day and share it either privately or publicly on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or Foursquare. That way, your friends can actually hear you and you can hear them, too.

Browse your friends’ own shared sound bites and comment on them. If you don’t have any friends who are on SoundCloud, it’s time to make some new ones. Using SoundCloud, you can browse and search user profiles and see followers. Get SoundCloud for your Android device today and start sharing your voice with the world.

Instagram

Life can catch us by surprise, so you better have a camera ready with you. Did your friends throw you a surprise party? Maybe you saw a street sign that made you laugh. Whatever you saw, capture the moment with Instagram and share it with with everyone else.

For those of you not in the know, Instagram is more than just an app that lets you take pictures. Instagram allows you to capture each shot with your choice of its filter effects. Once you’ve captured a shot that you like, you can share it easily with your other social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Foursquare.

If your friends are also on Instagram, you can follow them with a single click of the button. You can see what they’re seeing in the pictures they share and you can even give them a comment. Instagram has both rear- and front-facing camera support so it’s got you covered at every angle.

ShortBlogger for Tumblr

Even Tumblr’s users will be hard pressed to explain what this micro-blogging media site exactly is. Think of it as a love child between Twitter, Instagram, and WordPress. You can share not just your thoughts in a text post, pictures you took or drew, a recording of your voice or music that you like but also a whole lot more.

You can post both original content and reblog content that you’d like to share with your followers. See something funny, inspiring, or sad? Reblog it. You don’t have to enjoy Tumblr at home; with ShortBlogger for Tumblr, you can take it with you everywhere you go.

As long as you’ve got an Internet connection, you can view what the blogs you’re following have posted on your Dashboard. If you like what you see, tap the heart icon to like it.

ShortBlogger for Tumblr lets you view all your liked posts on one page, just like you could on your desktop browser. If you want to hold on to that image, ShortBlogger for Tumblr lets you save the image to your SD card. Get ShortBlogger for Tumblr today to start tumbling wherever you go.

Foursquare

Foursquare promises to help users explore the world around them and it certainly seems to deliver. What makes Foursquare so effective is that it lets you see what your friends are up to. See who was at where, at what time. If they’re there right now, head on over and join them for a cup of coffee or a plate of nachos.  You can even share your own experiences.

With Foursquare on your Android device, check in whenever you’re at your favorite haunt or a new place. Your friends will be able to see where you’ve been hanging out, too. Using curated lists of where to go, you can discover new places you can bring your friends and family to.

If you have a few good ideas of what places are worth visiting, make your own list. You can collaborate with friends on making a list, as well. Foursquare makes using it interesting by giving you badges that you can unlock through constant use. Start exploring the world around you using Foursquare today.

Friendcaster for Facebook

Of course, we can’t forget about Facebook. With Friendcaster for Facebook, you can enjoy all of Facebook’s features on your Android device. Update your status, upload a photo, send a message, and more with this app. It gives you instant real-time notifications as well as the full news feed.

Browse using Friendcaster’s sleek UI, you can comment on your friends’ own status updates, as well as like them. You can enjoy all of the pictures your friends post because Friencdaster makes full use of your Android device’s screen, allowing you to see all of those gorgeous photo details in full screen.

Checking in with this app is easy and you can also check out a map of all of your friends’ locations. If you’ve got more than one Facebook account, no problem because Friendcaster supports multiple accounts.

If you want to customize Friendcaster,  you can do so with themes. Pick any of the colors that suit your tastes or your mood. Friendcaster boasts that it’s the #1 third-party app for Facebook and it certainly seems like it delivers.

TweetDeck

If you don’t want the clutter of several apps for your various social networks, get TweetDeck for your Android device today. TweetDeck is a social browser for Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, and Buzz.

Because all of these essential social networks are available in one app, it’s easy to keep up to date on who’s doing what. If you’ve got a TweetDeck account, simply log into the app with those details and your various social network feeds will appear on the TweetDeck screen. This makes for easy browsing through updates, as well as replying to tweets, viewing Foursquare profiles and a user’s badges, and viewing a map of your friends’ locations.

If you don’t want to have to dig through dozens of updates to see if there’s anything for you, tap on the Me column. You can see things like Twitter mentions and Facebook notifications.

TweetDeck also lets you customize how you’d like to be notified each time there’s an update. Keeping up to date with your social networks has never been easier, thanks to TweetDeck. Get it for your Android device today.

YouTube

Another social media site that needs no introduction is YouTube. With YouTube for your Android device, you can browse YouTube’s millions of videos when you’re out and about.

The latest version of YouTube has been described by the developers as more seamless and more fun. When you launch the YouTube app and sign in, you’ll find your homescreen populated with your subscriptions for easy viewing and catching up.

If you’re looking for something in particular, YouTube has a Search function which should get you the results that you want. Tap on a video to watch it and you’ll see that it starts playing in the upper half of your device’s screen. Simply switch to Full View mode by rotating your Android device to Landscape mode.

You can now take advantage of your device’s screen and immerse yourself in whatever you’re watching. If you’re tired of simply watching videos, make your own video by tapping on the Camera icon. You can easily make a daily vlog (video blog) or record whatever shenanigans you’re up to.

Seesmic

Seesmic is another app that’ll let you manage your various social networks in one handy place. What sets Seesmic apart from TweetDeck isn’t just its UI but the fact that Seesmic allows users to create shortcuts to anything they want in the Seesmic app.

These shortcuts make it easy for you to access, say, your Facebook profile page from your homescreen without having to tap-tap-tap your way through. Make as many shortcuts as you like, for whatever purpose. Whether it’s to easily check your co-workers’ tweets or to easily get to the composer window, these shortcuts make Seesmic faster to navigate.

Of course, it’s easy for you to get carried away and to flood your homescreen with shortcuts, so go easy on making them.

Seesmic also offers features like multiple Twitter accounts support so you won’t have to prioritize one account over the others, cross-posting to multiple Twitter accounts and your Facebook at the same time and Twitlonger integration for those tweets that just can’t fit into 140 characters.

Google Currents

Putting the media in social media, Google Currents is a little different compared to the other apps we talked about on this list. Instead of keeping you just up to date with your friends, Google Currents gives you news in a gorgeous magazine layout.

Regardless of the size of your screen, Google Currents adjusts its layout for easy browsing. Start by picking which magazines you’d like to subscribe to. Google Currents gives you the option to subscribe to Forbes, The Guardian, TechCrunch, PBS, Saveur and more.

You’ll get articles, videos, photography, slideshows, livemaps and social streams to keep you updated on other things. It can be world politics, the latest developments in science or about the gadgets that matter to you.

If you find a few articles you’d like to read later, but you’re not sure when you can get an Internet connection again, simply save it for offline reading. You can then break it open whenever you’ve got a lull in your day or a long commute you’d like to enjoy.

You’ll never have an excuse not to be connected with the social world with these apps. Keep up to date on what your friends are doing, as well as provide them with pictures, sounds, and little tidbits about your own every day life.  What social media apps keep you connected?

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However, when the industry’s major players fail to make headway in a new technology area, we often see small, unknown companies shock us with their ideas and development. This is exactly the case in this example, where we failed to hear anything official from Samsung or LG, but we spotted something very interesting from… E.S.R. Labs.

Embedded Software Research Labs is the full name of the software startup company that is currently working on the Android Transporter project and the progress they’ve made so far is truly breathtaking. Android Transporter is a real-time WiFi Display for Android and has only been made to work so far on the Nexus S.

However, as you’ll be able to see with your own eyes in the video clip at the end of the post, the technology looks absolutely remarkable and might open up an entire new world of possibilities. The Android Transporter allows you to wirelessly connect a Nexus S to another Nexus S and display contents of one phone to another.

That doesn’t sound very impressive, does it? But what if we were to tell you that the guys at ESR Labs are confident they can make the technology work on any Android smartphone and tablet, as well as on TVs, beamers, and car infotainment systems? Does that sound like something you would be interested in?

It should, especially seeing that the project is quite functional, with good performance and responsiveness on the two Nexus S phones showcased in the video. I can’t tell you everything that would be possible if the Android Transporter project were extended to other gadgets and commercially launched; just think of how cool it would be to play a game on two phones, using one of the devices as a controller and the other one only for its display. Alternatively, imagine how easy it would be to link content from your phone to a TV or any other gadget.

Don’t forget to check out the video clip below showing you how the Android Transporter works. If you’re willing to help out the project’s advancement, you should know that there’s a thread on the XDA-Developers forum where you can talk with the Transporter’s developers. Better yet, you can go directly to the ESRLabs official website! Enjoy the clip and let us know what you think of this new project and its chances to be commercially made available in the near future.

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Eight megapixels seems to be the norm at the top end of the smartphone market (for example in the Samsung Galaxy S3 and iPhone 4S) with the occasional phone using 12MP (Sony Xperia S) and one or two with 16MP (HTC Titan II). But now that could all change as a company called OmniVision Technologies, who make camera sensors for phones, tablets (like the Asus Transformer Prime) and video equipment, has released a new 16MP chip. The OV16825 (don’t you just love part numbers?) is capable of full resolution 16-megapixel burst photography and can record 30 frames per second video at 4608 x 3456. For 3840 x 2160 video the frame rate jumps to 60 FPS, and 1080p HD video is at 60 FPS with extra pixels for electronic image stabilization (EIS) on top!

The actual sensor is fully programmable and handset manufactuers will be able to uses its inbuilt image processing functions, including defective pixel and noise canceling, image scaling, frame rate, exposure and gain. “The OV16825 provides top-tier imaging and video recording capabilities for flagship smartphones,” said Devang Patel, senior product marketing manager at OmniVision in a statement.

The sensor should enter into full production during Q4 this year which might equate to some interesting 16MP phones being available in time before the end of year!

Do you need 16MP?

But the question that begs to be asked is this – do you need a 16MP camera in your phone? Don’t get me wrong, I love smartphones with decent cameras. Many times I’ve wanted to take a picture of the kids or of a lovely view and the only camera I had with me was my phone. Yes to 4MP, yes please to 8MP… But 16MP? Is that too much? Putting it into context, Apple’s new iPad has a 2048-by-1536-pixel resolution display at 264 pixels per inch (ppi). Such a screen can show only one quarter of a 16MP picture. To put it simply: the average 16MP image needs to be shrunk down 4 times to fit on the screen. Ok, what about my desktop PC? The average screen resolution will be around 1600 x 900 and even top end monitors are only around 2560 × 1920. HDTV is 1920 × 1080 and so on. The question remains: how am I going to view these 16MP pictures in a non-awkward fashion?

I am sure there are some advantages to using 16MP over say 8MP in terms of quality and I am sure that there is a place for such high definitions in video equipment, but this is a phone we are talking about.

What do you think? Am I wrong? Do you crave a 16MP camera in your phone? Let me know by leaving a comment below!

However, if you try to do any of the things mentioned above while talking to someone on the phone, you might find yourself in a bit of a situation. Aside from the fact that you’ll lose focus from the actual conversation on the phone figuring out how you can send a photo or a contact, you’ll also be inefficient getting from the call to the phone’s menu.

The new Sidecar app might change all that, as it intends to revolutionize phone calls, as we know them today. The “first smart calling app” allows you to share videos, photos, locations and contacts while talking on the phone easily with a minimum of taps and time lost.

According to Rob Williams, Sidecar’s CEO, the process of sharing a picture through Skype demands twelve clicks from you, while sharing a contact with someone during a call usually requires five or more steps on a regular smartphone. With the new app, however, you can do these things and much more with only two clicks.

If that wasn’t enough, Sidecar will also allow you to make free VoIP calls anywhere in the United States or Canada, no matter if your recipient has downloaded the app. On the other hand, if they don’t have the app installed on their phone, you won’t be able to use the app’s other features and the recipient will receive a text message with instructions on how to download Sidecar.

The Sidecar app works smoothly on 3G, 4G, LTE and Wi-Fi all over the US in Canada, regardless of your carrier. The app is available on Apple’s Appstore and in Google Play and it is completely free of charge, so you owe it to yourself to go give it a quick spin.

In theory, it should work with any smartphone, but the Android version of the app is only reported to run decently on devices with Android 2.3.3 and up. Also, there are currently a large number of bugs and glitches reported by users in Google Play reviews, but that is to be expected from an app that has just been released; it will most likely be corrected in future updates.

You can check out a short video clip below showing you exactly how Sidecar works and why it could change the way we make phone calls. Have you tried the app for size? Is it glitchy, as some users complain, or is it as functional as the developers claim? Do you see yourselves using this app in the long haul? Let us know in the comments section below!

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We’ve seen a slew of low-cost Android 4.0 tablets flooding the market courtesy of some Chinese manufacturers. These devices, that fall in the $100 – $250 price range, are quite impressive in their own right, boasting impressive builds and form factors. The low-cost is thanks to compromises in display resolution, RAM (generally 512MB), cameras, processors (generally single core processors, or 1Ghz dual-core processors). Everything said and done, there is obviously something more attractive about a 1920×1200 display resolution with a 1.5 Ghz quad-core processor. That is, if you can ignore that $600+ price tag.

Will there ever be a way to produce and manufacture low-cost but high-speced devices? NVIDIA certainly seems to think so. At a recent shareholder meeting, NVIDIA Vice-President Rob Csonger revealed something called the “Kai” tablet project.

The Kai tablet project is an endeavor aimed at producing $199 quad-core tablets, and Csonger went on to explain that their strategy on Android is to enable quad-core tablets running Android Ice Cream Sandwich to be developed and brought to market at the $199 price point. He added that this project aims to develop powerful tablets at much lower costs by using a lot  of innovation developed by NVIDIA to reduce the power that is used by the display, while also using lower cost components found within a tablet.

The ASUS Memo 370T - Is it back?

It’s still unclear whether the “Kai” tablet design is a reference to be used by NVIDIA partners to manufacture competitive low-cost products, or is a final product by itself, or both. Either way, the above image of the tablet is very similar to the much-hyped ASUS MeMo 370T tablet. First seen at CES 2012, there have since been rumors of the eagerly-awaited $250 quad-core 7″ tablet has been cancelled, to the disappointment of many. It now looks like this, or at least something similar, will now be back on the market in the form of “Kai.” With Google I/O right around the corner, this might also give us some information on what to expect from the Nexus tablet that is likely to be announced at the event.

We already know that the $200 price point is ideal and favored by Android users, if the success of the Amazon Kindle Fire is  to serve as any indication. If we can get our hands on a similarly-priced quad-core tablet, these devices should fly off the shelves!

What are your thoughts? How good does a low-cost quad-core tablet sound? Do you think the Nexus tablet will be one such device? Is the $500+ price tag for currently available high-end devices completely meaningless now? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Taking up to 30 photos per second (or 5-10 on lower end devices) this app will give you the frame rate of the iPhone 4S’s superior 1080p video capture. Similar to that of the Galaxy Nexus, Fast Burst Camera also gives you zero shutter lag! That means that as soon as you press the camera button, your picture(s) will be captured instantly. Furthermore, you have to be in the app to utilize these features, and Fast Burst Camera comes pre-loaded with flash, focus and zoom.

If you’re looking to take fast action shots at sporting events, or even trying to take a picture of your dog or kids in full stride, Fast Burst Camera is what you need. Capturing multiple frames, Fast Burst will help you get the perfect shot. After taking a test run of the app with Fast Burst Camera Lite, you can pick up the full version from Google Play for just $3.99.

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Have you been looking high and low for a data backup solution? The trusted and award-winning Clickfree Backup is now available on Android, giving users an automatic data backup service. This app is the all-in-one solution to your back up needs, whether for online or local data backup. It’s also able to preview almost every file type that you may wish to backup. Aside from serving your backup needs, it also has other extra features. Read on to learn more about Clickfree Backup.

Clickfree Backup is a known and a trusted name if you’re talking about easy and effective data back up/restore solutions for Windows and Mac devices.  Though there are quite a number of data backup applications available for Android, Clickfree Backup wishes to get a slice of the Android user pie by coming up with this new app.

Main Features

Most of Clickfree Backup’s features are dedicated to the purpose of securing your important phone content without hassle. The app provides you with two back up options: you can back up your data to your SD card, but if that’s not enough, you can also back up to cloud storage via Dropbox.

Though it’s for automatic backup, you still need to select what files you wish to back up and specify if you want to save the files to your SD card or via cloud storage.

Clickfree also supports multi-device back up, where you can use the same SD card to back app several devices that you own, letting you find all your important files in one place in case you needed them.

The app also features a multi-category back up, allowing you to back up different file types, may they be photos, music, videos, documents, bookmarks, contacts, calendars, or your apps.

Once you have already secured a back up of an app, Clickfree Backup allows you to easily restore them in a flash. You can also do this to other data contents, thanks to the Easy Restore feature, where you can restore backed up contents with just two taps.

Though you can choose the file types that you wish to back up, that’s as far as you can get because the app doesn’t allow you to specify which individual files you want to back up. For instance, the app allows you to include videos in the back up process, but it doesn’t allow you to specify which videos; instead it will back up all the video files on your phone.

Extra Features

Aside from the essential backup features of the app, it also has a few extra features of its own. Clickfree Backup has a built in photo viewer where you can easily view the photos and images that you have already backed up from your phone.

Then, there’s the built-in music and video player, allowing you to watch or listen to your favorite videos and tracks. And, to help you out in your decision where to back up/restore your data, the app has a Space Management feature which helps you calculate the required space to restore/back up.

So if you want an app that automatically backs up all your precious mobile content, Clickfree Backup has got you covered. Try the app and see for yourself. You can download Clickfree Backup for free from the Google Play Store.

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Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Beam smartphone with a built-in nHD projector back in February, but the Gingerbread-running little guy has yet to see the light of day and still doesn’t have an official release date or a price tag attached to its name. Other than that, things are very dark for all of us who’ve been hoping to have a bunch of gadgets with built-in powerful projectors already at our disposal. It seems as if the rumor mill has been on high alert without any substantiation to back it up.

On that note, a rumor is going to be the subject of this post as well, but fortunately this does have some credibility to it, as it’s based on some leaked patents. Asus apparently filed a couple of patents for some notebooks with integrated projectors over a year ago. This is a great piece of information recently unraveled by the guys at patentbolt.com.

If they ever become manufactured and sold, the laptops could integrate the projectors into two different ways. First off, the projector could be built into the hinge connecting the notebook display to the base of the computer. The projector’s lens should face outwards from the side of the laptop in this specific design, allowing you to open up the display at an angle of up to 270 degrees, stand up the laptop like a triangle, and point its side at a screen to display your videos or presentations of choice.

The second design looks more straightforward, but less ambitious and is easier to grasp for a non-technical user. As you can see from the image below, the projector is simply attached to the notebook’s side and looks easy to detach as well, when not in use.

The patents, likely a ways off from becoming reality, gives us hope for progress in this market niche, both for laptops and for tablets. I mean, if such technology could be implemented to notebooks, why shouldn’t slates be up next? After all, they are more portable and Samsung’s Galaxy Beam has already proven that it’s possible to cram a powerful projector into an even tinier device than an Android-based tablet.

If you remember, MSI showcased a long, long time ago a tablet concept with an integrated projector at the CES 2011, so it’s obvious that the technology is there and the big companies need to just step it up and get down to work. Are you listening, Asus? We want notebooks and tablets with integrated projectors and we want them yesterday!

How about you, guys? Would you fancy a 7-inch Android tablet, for example, with a built-in projector allowing you to set up work presentations with no hassle. Would you share your family photos on a big screen in an instant? Would any of the two notebooks supposedly prepared by Asus interest you? How about the Galaxy Beam smartphone, are you waiting with impatience for it to be released?

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Australia and New Zealand have just been officially added to the Spotify support list and all three versions of the service (free, unlimited and premium) are already available in the two new countries. The service is also up for grabs for any computer or mobile user these days, with support for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Symbian.

The basic ad-supported service is free of charge, but will not bring you all the functionality that has made Spotify so popular during since its inception. Therefore, if you want to take advantage of all of the service’s great features and functions, you should either go for the unlimited subscription, available for $6.99 a month, or for the full premium version, at $11.99 a month.

If you’re from Australia or New Zealand and want to take Spotify for a spin on your Android device, you should know that the official app is available free of charge in Google Play. However, if you’re going to choose the free Spotify service, you’ll only be able to organize playlists and sync music that you already own. With the Unlimited or Premium versions, you’ll gain access to approximately 15 million songs from virtually all of the world’s major and independent labels, so the choice between the free and paid version is no-brainer.

The Australia and NZ launch comes with two exclusive Spotify apps, designed to showcase popular new music in each country. Triple J is the Australia-special app, while NZ Top 40 will bring the coolest and most popular tracks in New Zealand to your device. There are also special “G’day Australia” and “Kia Ora New Zealand” playlists to welcome new users to the Spotify world.

Spotify is set to expand even more and, aside from Australia, New Zealand, the US and most of Europe, which are today’s covered markets, the service should be made available soon enough in other countries. Ireland was supposed to get Spotify at the same time as Australia, but for some reason the launch there seems to have been delayed.

Are there any Aussies or Kiwis reading us? Have you tried or are you planning to try Spotify? Is it the best music streaming service that you’ve ever used?

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Following in the footsteps of the Transformer Prime, the Transformer Pad 300 has been released last month with pretty much the same tech specs as its predecessor, but with a plastic exterior replacing the sturdy and elegant Prime’s aluminum body.

Asus has released a bootloader unlock tool for the Transformer Prime as well in February, so this recent move involving the Pad 300 shouldn’t surprise anybody. Then again, we know a company or two (cough, Motorola, cough) that has several gadgets locked for a while and simply refuses to release bootloader unlock tools, enraging many of its users. In light of this, it’s nice to see Asus still caring about the Android independent developers community

Getting back to the Transformer Pad 300, you should know that the installation of the unlock device app is very simple and you can find the APK file on Asus’ official website, right under utilities. However, you should keep in mind that, if you choose to install the bootloader unlock tool, you will void your warranty and any damage suffered by your tablet in the unlocking process or later, while using custom ROMs, will have to be fixed with money from your own pockets.

If you’ve been avoiding getting the Transformer Pad 300 until now, you should know that it’s still available for around $399.99 on most online stores, with 32 GB of on-board memory. For that money, you’ll get a 10-incher powered by a quad-core 1.2 GHz Nvidia Tegra 3 processor and featuring a 1280-by-800 pixels resolution screen, 1 GB of RAM and 8 MP/1.2 MP dual cameras. The optional docking station, turning the TF 300 into a mini-laptop and extending the battery life to a whopping 12 hours, is itself still available and goes for around $140.

How about it, folks? Are you ready to give up your warranty for the chance to flash an unofficial software package on the Transformer Pad 300? Should we get ready for an avalanche of custom ROMs and new firmwares for Asus’ 10-incher? Will you be looking yourself to tweak things up in the ICS-running slate?

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