The boys over at engadget have had the opportunity to spend some quality, hands-on time with the new Samsung Galaxy Tab. To check out the pics for yourself, be sure to hit up the source link below, and let us know what you think of this new device in the comments!

Quality time with Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab

Heard of the yet-unreleased Samsung Fascinate? Of course you have. Well, now, it can be seen puffing out its chest to the DROID X, a fellow brother in the VZW Android club. While the rumored release date for the Fascinate is still sitting pretty at somewhere between September 8th and 10th, there have been plenty of shots of this baby out on the town. The device will also be available on pay-as-you-go plans. Gallery of pics after the break.

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Samsung Fascinate takes some pics with a DROID X

In more tablet news for the day, Toshiba has made their oft-rumored Folio 100 tablet official. It has been announced at IFA after sitting on the show floor for people to point at for awhile. According to the press release, the tablet will include:

• 1024 x 600 10.1″ capacitive touchscreen
• Tegra 2
• 16GB built-in storage
• SD card expansion
• HDMI out
• 802.11n WiFi
• 1.3 megapixel webcam
• Android 2.2 with Flash 10.1

Sounds pretty impressive on this end. Toshiba is also claiming that their new baby will get 7 hours of battery life through regular use – that’s 65% web, 10% video, 25% standby –  and a weight of 1.7 pounds. It comes with Opera included, as well as Toshiba Media Player, FBReader, Fring, Documents To Go and Evernote. Toshiba has put the price at €399, and says that it will be releasing in the Middle East, Europe and African markets.

Be sure to let us know what you think in the comments! Full press release after the break.

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Toshiba Folio 100 Tablet now official, hitting hungry public in Q4

Kind of like the hidden menu at In-N-Out (if you don’t know what that is, I’m sorry you’re so deprived), there are some nifty hidden codes that can be used to accomplish certain tasks on your Android phone. Some of them do fairly basic, practical things, while others can be used to perform complete alterations, such as factory resets.   You should be careful when using some of these codes, because once you do (again, factory reset), they can not be undone.

*#*#4636#*#*

This shows the following information about your phone and battery:

• Phone information
• Battery information
• Battery history
• Usage statistics

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Secret codes for your Android phone

It’s not like we didn’t know it was coming, we just didn’t really know every gritty detail, but now we do. As promised, Samsung revealed the Galaxy Tab at IFA today and released a slew of information about the device as well, just check out the specs:

Note that there will NOT be a WiFi only version.

Continue after the break for the official commercial, as well as some additional photos.

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Galaxy Tab goes website live, has a commercial as well

Sony Ericsson, makers of a wide range of Android devices, including the recently released Xperia X10, has announced their goal of becoming the world’s largest supplier of Android phones.  Ericsson currently enjoys 17 percent of the global market share, behind an unnamed rival (Motorola? HTC?) sitting at 23%

Chief Executive Officer Bert Nordberg made the statement at a briefing in Beijing, although did not give a time frame for when this takeover of the global lead might occur.

Sony Ericsson aiming to be largest Android supplier in the world

All of you ESPN Fantasy Football fanatics out there might have been gearing up for another season without an easy way to manage your team on your Android phone.  Well, thanks to an app called Huddlehub, you will now be able to import your Yahoo and ESPN teams and enjoy a complete management experience.

Here are the developers plans for the application:

Right now we are going to be releasing a Lite and Premium version of our app. The Lite application will be available this upcoming Monday, September 6th. The Lite application functionality will include on 9/6: 1) Add/Drop players, 2) Import Teams, 3) View Rosters, 4) Live Scores, and of course 5) registering/logging into HuddleHub. Come 9/9 (the first day of the football season) we will have Start/Bench available for the Lite version of the application.

The premium version of the application (launch date undetermined) will have all of the aforementioned features with Injury Player Notifications, Free Agent Notifications, and a Touchdown tracker.

So, the Lite version, which boasts quite a few features, will be released on Monday, September 6.  You can sign up here to be notified about updates and information about the premium version.

HuddleHub to bring ESPN Fantasy Football to Android

A while back, we brought you a story about the Android Market licensing server, and the ways in which it can help developers protect their applications from piracy.  Today, we’re going to look at a key component of that licensing server, which is the License Verification Library (LVL).  The LVL simplifies the process of adding licensing to your app, and helps to make it more secure from illegal piracy.

No security system is perfect, and the LVL is no exception.  However, effectively utilizing this tool can make a hackers life so miserable, that they may be far less inclined to try and crack your application for illegal distribution.  Here are some methods developers can use for preventing hackers from attempting to disassemble the LVL code from the application.

• You can obfuscate your application to make it difficult to reverse-engineer.
• You can modify the licensing library itself to make it difficult to apply common cracking techniques.
• You can make your application tamper-resistant.
• You can offload license validation to a trusted server.

If you are a developer and are looking for a very in-depth look at the License Verification Library and the ways in which you can implement it, hit up the source link below.

Securing Android applications with the License Verification Library

The Fascinate is slowly but surely generating more buzz for itself. For some reason Big Red doesn’t seem to care much about the super-amoled-sporting device. I bet if it had a little red Droid eye they’d be hyping it up!

Anyway, the Fascinate finally landed on the Galaxy S minisite yesterday and today it makes another appearance on youtube:

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With still no launch date, Samsung rolls out another Fascinate commercial

If there’s one thing about Android users, it’s that they’re never satisfied with “stock” settings. If it has the ability to be changed, we’ll change it and if it doesn’t have that ability, we’ll figure out a way to make it have that ability.

When it comes to launchers, that is especially one of the most changed things on an Android device. The latest launcher tweak believe it or not comes from the LG Optimus Z phone. The launcher itself is pretty attractive, it looks like the love child of HTC’s Sense and Samsung’s TouchWiz:

Looks pretty good right? I thought so and so did xda-forum member aalopez10. (S)He liked it so much that he ripped it out of the Optimus Z and made it available to all Android phones and users. It works on his (her) EVO but won’t guaranty it’ll work on your phone.

So if you’re feeling brave, head on over to the XDA thread and grab the apk’s (NO ROOT REQUIRED!) and let us know your results in the comments.

Use the LG Optimus Z launcher on your non-LG Android phone