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This past Thursday, Google unleashed their new mobile wallet platform and completed field tests in New York and San Francisco. This new platform, (a rehash of the older Google Checkout) will allow people with certain NFC phones, to pay for merchandise in retail shops by tapping their phones against a payment terminal. Does this seem …
You could take away buttons and add more screen real estate, which to some people, wouldn’t make sense because a larger screen is much more expensive than putting in a few buttons. Therefore, from a manufacturing standpoint, it’s either take away the buttons and just have a smaller device, or keep the buttons and have a slightly larger device. We’ll see what they choose, but the leaked photo seems to have me believing that Ice Cream will be bringing devices with full frontal displays. With tablets beginning to flood the market, larger screens seem to be the way things are headed. What are your thoughts on this approach? Do you think this is the long awaited, rumored Nexus 3?
Google has been sued successfully and lost for use of Linux on it’s server platform. Although this may not be a huge loss to Google financially, this issue could extend to the Android platform. Bedrock Computer Technology has also sued AOL, Yahoo and Amazon to name a few. Will companies like Bedrock Computer Technologies impede …
Microsoft is rumored to be adding a newly popular feature in Windows Phone 7, and that is Near Field Communication, or NFC. It will supposedly ship on smartphones later this year, which means the software/OS part could be part of the Mango update. Nokia said that it would be implementing NFC on most of its smartphones in 2011, so this could be a push by the Nokia-Microsoft partnership. Read more…
The technology group Ovum is predicting that by 2016 Android will drive the smartphone market growth by double. The predictions see Android owning 38% of the market, Apple owning 17.5 and Blackberry holding 16.5%.
Google Maps has had a traffic layer for a while now, but Google released an update today which will include traffic information while navigating and will automatically re-route you based on that information. Read more…
Seeing how saturated the market is with netbook’s and tablet’s these days, we want to know what you think. Are there too many options available that make your decision harder when deciding what to purchase? Or do you feel like you should have several choices available?
Either way, the decision’s not always easy for everyone so this article will help those who are currently shopping for one and aren’t sure what to do.
Sources say Google is claiming that Microsoft is stealing their search abilities and have had little influence on people’s search habits. It seems while Bing is growing, Yahoo and Google are both down a few percent as you can see in the chart above.
Either way, it doesn’t look like many Google users are bothered by any of this because each of the services are still being used. Let us know what you think after you see the statistics inside!
Recently Google pulled one of the most popular Visual VoiceMail applications from Android Market, PhoneFusion. The reason is because they were said to be citing a violation of the developer payment rules. Basically, they were targeted for not processing application payments through Google Checko
Some of us were curious and now we don’t have to be because we know for sure. LG will be debuting their very own 3D, glasses free Optimus device at the Mobile World Congress show which is February 14-17 in Barcelona, Spain. Will you be there? We can’t wait to hear more details!!
The title and image says it all. Google will be giving you an in-depth look at Honeycomb, demo devices and Android’s ecosystem February 2, 2011 at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Update! It appears the two carriers are clashing for the title of #1 Read on to find out more about the discrepancies!
For months now users of AT&T have asked why aren’t there more high end Android devices available? Most of us imagine it’s because of the iPhone popularity, which is probably going to change soon. With AT&T no longer having the iPhone all to themselves they are finally putting more focus on Android devices.
Android Community was just sent a tip that may make some of you upset, if it’s true. If you’re an Android user waiting on Android 2.3 (aka Gingerbread) update to be available on your device, sounds like that wait may never end.
The race for the lead is on! Numbers are increasing consistently and Nielsen has the results spreading around the web like wildfires. According to November data from The Nielsen Company, the popularity of the Android OS among those who purchased a smartphone in the last six months (40%) makes it the leading OS among recent acquirers. This is the most recent recording available.
Now we all know Epic is the coolest device in the universe and if you own an iphone go [Edit by Courtney]…but a new cool device was just announced..you guessed it everyone the one and only Nexus S!!!
