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Samsung most 'preferred' brand amongst Android vendors
Samsung most 'preferred' brand amongst Android vendors
According to a new iGR Research survey, Samsung is the most 'preferred' brand amongst Android vendors. Furthermore, the research puts Android's ...... 21 Jan 2012 - 6 comments
Infographic: Pulse app sees huge surge in downloads
Infographic: Pulse app sees huge surge in downloads
Thanks to Amazon's Kindle Fire, the news collecting app Pulse has seen a huge surge in downloads. The Pulse app, which uses RSS-feeds to ...... 20 Jan 2012
Sprint removing Carrier IQ from smartphones, starting this month
Sprint removing Carrier IQ from smartphones, starting this month
Sprint has confirmed today that it will be providing maintenance releases to its smartphone devices to remove Carrier IQ. In December, Sprint, ...... 18 Jan 2012 - 3 comments
Woz loves his iPhone, but prefers Android for navigation and voice recognition
Woz loves his iPhone, but prefers Android for navigation and voice recognition
Steve Wozniak loves his Android phone as a complement to his iPhone. He prefers it for navigation and says its voice recognition beats Siri. 17 Jan 2012 - 3 comments
Ultrathin HTC Ville rumored to be headed to T-Mobile
Ultrathin HTC Ville rumored to be headed to T-Mobile
T-Mobile will begin selling HTC's ultrathin Ville smartphone this spring, if the report from PocketNow is accurate. The device has been seen ...... 15 Jan 2012
Microsoft's extortion continues as company inks another Android licensing deal
Microsoft's extortion continues as company inks another Android licensing deal
Microsoft continues to force Android makers to pay up, and the company is now bragging that it owns 70 percent of the Android market. Thanks ...... 13 Jan 2012 - 11 comments
CES: What is the future of Motoblur when Google takes over Motorola?
CES: What is the future of Motoblur when Google takes over Motorola?
Recent comments by Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha seem to be at odds with Google's vision for Android. Will that change when the buyout is final? 12 Jan 2012 - 2 comments
CES: Motorola will make Android phones with Atom processors
CES: Motorola will make Android phones with Atom processors
Intel Atom processors will power new Android handsets from Motorola to be released later this year. 11 Jan 2012 - 1 comment
ViewSonic releasing ViewPhone3 Android phone
ViewSonic releasing ViewPhone3 Android phone
ViewSonic is expanding into the Android market. The company is expected to reveal their new low-end ViewPhone3 at CES next week. Sources ...... 08 Jan 2012 - 1 comment
Asus Transformer getting ICS very soon after the Prime
Asus Transformer getting ICS very soon after the Prime
Last week, Asus announced that its new Transformer Prime would be getting the Android 4.0 ICS software update on January 12th. Today the ...... 08 Jan 2012 - 3 comments
Rumor: Google building $199 7-inch Nexus Tablet with ICS
Rumor: Google building $199 7-inch Nexus Tablet with ICS
Two weeks ago, Google chairman Eric Schmidt suggested that the company is working on a Nexus Tablet that will be released in the near future. ...... 05 Jan 2012
1.2 billion apps were downloaded in the last week of 2011
1.2 billion apps were downloaded in the last week of 2011
Last week, we reported that on Christmas day, alone, 6.8 million iOS and Android devices were activated, 353 percent higher than the average ...... 03 Jan 2012 - 1 comment
Archos begins selling 80 G9 tablet with 250GB HDD
Archos begins selling 80 G9 tablet with 250GB HDD
Archos has announced the release of their much-anticipated 80 G9 tablet with 250GB storage. Unlike the base models of the Archos 80, the ...... 03 Jan 2012 - 4 comments
CyanogenMod modding music player for Android 4.0
CyanogenMod modding music player for Android 4.0
As part of CyanogenMod 9, the team behind the popular custom Android ROMs will tweak the default music player in Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, ...... 03 Jan 2012 - 1 comment
Sony confirms Ice Cream Sandwich for its tablets
Sony confirms Ice Cream Sandwich for its tablets
Sony has finally confirmed that its Tablet S and Tablet P devices will receive Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in the future. Additionally, ...... 28 Dec 2011 - 1 comment
Wow, almost 7 million iOS and Android devices were activated on Christmas
Wow, almost 7 million iOS and Android devices were activated on Christmas
The mobile app research firm Flurry has released data today showing off how popular the Android and iOS operating systems were this holiday season. ...... 28 Dec 2011 - 1 comment
Archos announces a 7 inch Honeycomb tablet for $199
Archos announces a 7 inch Honeycomb tablet for $199
Archos has announced a 7 inch Android Honeycomb tablet they will be selling for just $199 starting early next year. 23 Dec 2011
iPhone 4S flying off the shelves in the US and UK while Android reigns supreme in Germany
iPhone 4S flying off the shelves in the US and UK while Android reigns supreme in Germany
iPhone sales have rebounded since the launch of the iPhone 4S, but in some countries Android seems to be pulling away. 23 Dec 2011 - 6 comments
Swype update adds Dragon dictation tech
Swype update adds Dragon dictation tech
Swype for Android has received its largest update yet, adding the popular Dragon dictation technology. The tech comes via Nuance, which Swype ...... 23 Dec 2011 - 1 comment
Could the next gen Atom processor break ARM's stranglehold on mobile devices?
Could the next gen Atom processor break ARM's stranglehold on mobile devices?
Technology Review's preview of the new Medfield Atom processor from Intel suggests ARM could be in for some serious competition. 22 Dec 2011
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