Asus announced this morning that its popular Transformer tablet will receive the update to Android 3.1 starting tomorrow.  The update introduces re-sizable widgets, Movies in the Market, some UI tweaks and a overall provides a much more stable experience.  You can see our hands-on with the update on a Motorola XOOM here.

If you can’t wait for another day though, there is a leaked build already floating around in a variety of forums.

Via:  Facebook

Cheers Dave!

Update:  Ignore this post.  The image is obviously just one giant sh*tty Photoshop job.  We’ve pointed out 5 blatantly obvious flaws in this idiot’s work.

Almost 3 weeks now, we first reported news that Verizon may be planning to carry a 4G LTE version of Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab 10.1.  The device was only showing itself as the SCH-I905 in one of their internal systems at that time, but as of this week has been updated to reflect the actual name.  None of the other details have changed since our initial report, which means we should still see both black and white versions along with two storage size options:  16GB or 32GB.

Oh and if you needed extra confirmation about these devices, then we’ll look no further than Samsung’s CEO J.K. Shin who in an interview this week, talked about their plans to introduce an LTE tablet this year.  We’re assuming he meant this one.  

Back at Google I/O, a version of Evernote that was built specifically for Honeycomb and bigger screened devices was demoed, but was unfortunately without a firm release date.  Luckily for all of us, these app companies are starting to really use their forums as a place to test stuff and in the case of Evernote, have released a beta version of this new and impressive tablet version.  And while I’ve never really found a bunch of uses for this app like so many of you, I will say that the UI is very impressive.  If you are rockin’ one of the various Honeycomb tablets in the wild, this would be an app to check out.

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Via:  Evernote Forums

Cheers Joe!

The official Gingerbread (v4.5.596) update for the DROIDX started last night for soak test members, but a version has already been released for rooted users thanks to @P3droid.  There are essentially two different methods to get you upgraded since there are a variety of leaks running on people’s phones.  You’ll want to read all of the instructions carefully and decide which one is you before proceeding.  

We had to leave that big fat question mark at the end of the post title because there is something that just looks a little fishy about this new Nenamark benchmark that popped up in the last day or so with the name DROID Bionic attached to it.  Before we get into that though, let’s talk about what new goodness we’re seeing above.

First off, the PowerVR SGX 540 GPU stands out.  Why, you ask?  Well, because this GPU matches up to the new TI OMAP 4430 and 4440 dual-core processors that we’re pretty sure Motorola will be showing some favoritism to in the near future (in the DROID3).  This also means that the Tegra 2 by NVIDIA has been given the ax, which shouldn’t come as a huge surprise since most of the rumors surrounding the original delay of this device pointed at the T2 and 4G LTE not playing well together.  Maybe this new OMAP was able to show some LTE love?

The second thing we noticed is the “Android 2.3.3.” mention.  FINALLY, a phone in testing that’s not running Froyo.  The Bionic is slated to come out this summer, so it only makes sense that it would be running Gingerbread, but again, it’s just nice to finally see it.

The third thing is the screen resolution of 960×540.  qHD screen, anyone?  This could be both a positive and a negative which you can read up on over at this DROIDX2 post.

And now to the confusing part.  The Nenamark score of 24.0 flat is extremely odd.  If this benchmark actually happened, there would be a high, low and average – not just a single number.  It’s almost like the benchmark started, someone cancelled it, and Nenamark decided that was good enough to report.  Plus, the DROID3 pumped out a 45.20 on average just a couple of weeks ago, so there is no way the Bionic would put out anything less.

So we’ll take this as the Bionic finally going through testing, but we aren’t going to look at that number and criticize the hell out of it.  It’s either just getting prepared for testing and can’t perform or the benchmark was somehow cut off and then reported on.  Seeing OMAP is pretty interesting though, and something we’ll be paying close attention to over the next couple of months.  No more happy marriage between NVIDIA and Moto?  That sure was quick.

Via:  Nenamark, Ameblo

Our inbox blew up about an hour ago with readers who were able to “pull” the Gingerbread (Android 2.3) update for the DROIDX.  It’s tough to tell if all of these folks were “soak test” members or not, but we’ve known in the past that if the update goes live on Moto’s servers, that almost any can pull it.  So if you are running stock 2.2 and want to upgrade, now would be the time to check Settings>About>System Updates.

Oh, we should point out that our buddy @p3droid mentioned that you are able to SBF back to 2.3.340 afterwards in case this thing never gets rooted.

Update:  P3 is already preparing a .596 update for rooted users running the leaked .595.  Stay tuned, folks!

Cheers L, B, J, J, and S!