Android 4.0+ inches forward in overall platform share
Android 4.0+ Ice Cream Sandwich and Android 4.1+ Jelly Bean have notched a few percentage points in the overall breakdown of the platform. Moving up ever so slightly, the two builds have grown month over month while others slowly diminish. Most of the movement comes …
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Android Upgrades: Who To Trust
Of course the past won’t tell us the future, but it will give us expectations. Some manufacturers showed that they failed at upgrading their phones to a newer platform version. This article shows how much.
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German IFA Video Shows Xperia X10 Running 2.1
If you got a chance to read our Xperia X10 review last week, you know that the one glaring problem that we found with an otherwise slick, sexy handset is the fact that is has shipped with Android 1.6 as the OS version. We loved …
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Video Review of the Sony/Ericsson XPERIA X10 for AT&T
This week I had the privilege of receiving a XPERIA X10 from Sony to play with and review, man I love my job! I have to admit that at first I was not super excited about the X10 as a handset, for the simple fact …
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Google Adds “Double Flip” to Launch Gesture Search
Android users may be familiar with Google’s Gesture Search. The app allows you to search your phone’s data by writing characters on the touchscreen, but it’s usefulness was limited because it has not been truly integrated with the OS. To eliminate the need to actually …
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Sony Ericsson Increasingly Frustrated at HTC, Desire
Sony Ericsson is hoping Android 2.1 helps push their Xperia X10 onto the same stage as HTC and their Desire handset. The X10 may never arrive here in the United States but it appears to be doing well in other parts of the world. Unfortunately …
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Rumor: Samsung Behold II to Recieve Android 1.6 Beginning June 28th
The word around the campfire today is that the Samsung Behold II handset from T-Mobile will be seeing an update on June 28th. Sadly, this will be the only bump the phone ever receives as it’s just not capable of 2.0 or higher. We never …
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VIA’s Low Cost Android Tablets Appear at Computex 2010
It looks like the $100 tablets we previously reported on last week made an appearance at last week’s Computex show in Taiwan. Chipmaker VIA said that they had several tablets coming out that were in the $100 – $200 range, and today Engadget is reporting …
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Android 1.5 Still Biggest Slice of Fragmentation Pie
The latest figures are in from the Android Developers blog showing the relative number of active devices using the various flavors of Android. This is basically a chart that shows what handsets are currently active and looking for apps. Somewhat surprisingly, Android 1.5 still commands …
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Listen Up! Podcast #39 is On Demand
Our latest podcast, #39, is in the can and available for downloads and streaming. Joining me this week was resident AndroidGuy Sam Herren, Nick Gray (HTC Source), and Andrew Kamika (Androinica). Also, Nicole stopped by for a few minutes near the end to share are …
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Gigabyte’s Budget-Friendly GSmart Has Yesterday’s Specs
When it comes to handset makers, we have a soft spot for the ‘little guys’ who take to putting out handsets, competing against the likes of Samsung, HTC, and Motorola. There’s just something about companies like GeeksPhone and even that long-lost Kogan Agora that have …
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First Look at Android 2.1 Screen Shots
The first few images of Android 2.1 have made their way online and we’re more than pleased to share them. These pictures allegedly come from an HTC Hero running the newest build of Android. We’re excited to see this on “old” hardware like the Hero …
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Google Pushes Source Code for Android 2.0 – Developers Push it to G1 Within Hours
Android 2.0 SDK has been available for a few weeks now, but the source code has been held hostage. The word around the campfire is that Google hasn’t been too forthcoming with it. Most handset manufacturers have been stuck messing with Android 1.6 instead. No …
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Sprint Offers Up Android Anecdotes
sYesterday, David Owens, Sprint’s VP of consumer marketing, took part in an hour-long online chat with customers where he dropped a few Android bits that are worth sharing.
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European HTC Hero Skipping 1.6 Update
File Under: Good News/Bad News We just had an interesting email come across our inbox pertaining to the European version of the HTC Hero. One of our readers reached out to HTC to ask about whether or not their Hero would be seeing an update …
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