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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Blue Ant Q1 BT headset review
A few weeks ago, the editor-in-chief of AndroidGuys elected me to test and review a brand new Q1 headset. First, because I am his favorite writer (yeah right) and secondly because I have the Motorola Droid that has version 2.0 and above, I suspect that’s …
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Thursday Night Podcast Tonight 7PM Pacific, 10PM Eastern!
Join Scott Brown and co-host Matthew Patience tonight at 7PM Pacific, 10PM Eastern, 0200 UTC round 2 of the Thursday Night AndroidGuys Podcast! If you listened in last week, you’ll remember that we gave away a TON of stuff from ZAGG and AndroidSwag! This week, …
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Mint App Will Come to Android
There’s good news for those Android users who are looking for a budgeting and expense tracking app! Mint, the company behind the popular finance app that has been very successful on the iPhone platform is coming to the Android Market.
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LG Handset Showing in Verizon inventory, is it the Aloha?
Phonearena.com is reporting that they have gotten an anonymous tipster sent along the image to the left. Look closely and you will see LG VS740 with Google as being listed in their system. Of course there is very little other information on what handset it …
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Google adds Universal Search to Suggest to Mobile Platforms
On their official blog, Google is announcing that they have rolled out Universal Search to their Suggest functionality for mobile platforms. This feature has been enabled for users on the Google homepage since last December and is now live when you search on your Android …
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ThickButtons For Thick Fingers!
I’m a big dude. I’ve got big hands. There are times I miss my G1 and it’s hard keyboard (not bad enough to ditch the Nexus though). But, thanks to ThickButtons typing has just got a bit easier for those of us who are “less than delicate”. I’ve been switching back and forth between this keyboard and the beta Swype keyboard for the last few days.
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App Review: MLB At Bat 2010
Being a displaced Boston Red Sox fan, I am always looking for ways to either watch or listen to my hometown team while living elsewhere in the country. Not to sound Apple like, but being an Android G1 user, there is now an app for …
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Have Keyboard, Will Travel: Android Phones Capable of Using USB Keyboard.
In an article over at jkontherun.com, it seems that some enterprising Android enthusiasts have found that some Android powered devices have the ability to support USB keyboards built into their stock firmware. As the author of the article points out, it is not as simple …
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3G Issues Proving to be Super Phone’s Kryptonite
It seems that the 3G issues that the Nexus One continues to have may be hardware related. According to an article at TmoNews, Nexus One users are able to change their 3G signal levels just by how they are holding the unit! This is happening …
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Motorola’s Droid Update Detailed, Sorta
It’s already publicly known that Motorola plans to roll out an update to the Droid which will see it pick up Android 2.1. We’re waiting for the update to hit, literally any day now. As we wait for the official word, we thought we’d recap …
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How Much Longer Will Android be the Underdog?
The perception of us Android users is much like the Linux crowd: thick black-framed glasses, translucent skin that hasn’t seen daylight since who knows when, and a foreign dialect that sounds slightly like a techno form of Klingon. BUT for how much longer? For the …
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Conspiracy Theory: Is Apple Orchestrating a Media Attack on Google?
For various reasons, I’ve had plenty of free time on my hands lately. And since I’m an Android Guy, I was closely following the CES 2010 developments. I was also reading all I could about the Nexus One, what kind of impact that it was …
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Did Google Shoot itself in the Foot with Nexus One?
Microsoft sure thinks so. In a quote from Microsoft’s Robbie Bach taken from Bloomberg, it seems the software giant thinks that Google may have bitten off more than it can chew. The Bach Quote from Bloomberg: “Doing both in the way they are trying to …
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FixIt!: Google Calendar and time zones
One of the best features of Android is the integration with Google’s services. If you are using Gmail and Google Calendar, you will like the fact that everything will be seamlessly synchronized between the cloud and your Android device. The issue is that any problems on …
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