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Updating to Gingerbread (Android 2.3) blocked by Google?!
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.
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Apple maintains U.S. market share lead through November but Android is closing in fast!!
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…
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How to cook a Nexus S Gingerbread style!
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!!!
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HTC and Samsung Take a look at Windows Phone 7’s Future
Windows Phone 7 is still new to the market as we know. HTC and Samsung both are really excited about this new contender in the phone world. It is still unknown though if Microsoft’s Mobile fame comes back and they become the top dog; but these device manufacturues are getting more and more excited as…
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Google Goggles Finally Available on Iphone
Not long ago Google Goggles was released for the Android platform and now have extended their technology to the Apple Iphone platform as well. With Google Goggles, you can now use the camera on your Iphone to search the Web. There is no need to type! Just take a photo to search for landmarks, logos,…
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Apple, Google, Microsoft, HTC, LG, Moto Sued!
Many of you know of the lawsuits going on between Apple and HTC. Well, now patent holding firm NTP has issued a statement suing major cell companies for infringing on their intellectual rights regarding mobile e-mail: “NTP Incorporated, the company founded by Tom Campana, the inventor of wireless email, yesterday filed lawsuits against Apple, Inc.,…
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Notes From Google I/O 2010
Google’s putting on the largest developer event of the year, May 19th-20th 2010, The Google I/O 2010. While they’ll be discussing various Google apps such as Google Chrome, the Google API’s, GWT, App Engine, and open web technologies, we’re mainly interested in Android. This year there will be about 80 sessions, more than 5,000 developers,…
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Google Closing Down Phone Web Store – Changes Coming
We all knew the Nexus One was a project by Google to help change the wireless industry as we know it. They were hoping to make things more open, similar to how GSM operates. By selling an unlocked phone, they were hoping to be able to offer it on every major US carrier, but that…
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Android Market on track to surpass Apple App Store
Google’s efforts to market the Android OS platform to software developers appears to be working. A strong open source community combined with developer events and free developer phones have lead to droves of applications popping up in the official android marketplace. It’s no wonder Steve Jobs and Apple have recently been in the news seemingly…
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Google Gives Voice To Google Maps For (Windows) Mobile
In the days before prominent instant messaging, there was this chat technology called IRC. In IRC, it was possible to be given voice by the operators of the channel. How does this relate to anything mobile news related? Google (the operator) has given voice to those who run Google Maps on Windows Mobile in the…
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Google Testing Android Froyo 2.2
It looks as if Google is already testing the next version of Android, version 2.2, dubbed Froyo. While digging through their visitor logs, AndroidAndMe came across some Android 2.2 devices browsing their site. As for a release date, the latest rumor is that it would be ready to go around May 19th, which is when…
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How Many Apps In That App Store?
Apps, apps, apps! With Google’s recent announcement that the Android Market has reached 38,000 applications, I decided to find out how many applications are in each of the major smartphone app stores. Remember that these figures are only for the number of applications in the official application store and do not include the total number…
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Sprint News Release : Nexus One Coming To Sprint
Well what do we have here? It looks like every carrier is jumping on the Nexus One bandwagon lately, Sprint being the latest. In a Sprint news release today, Sprint has announced that the Google Nexus One device will be arriving on the Sprint network, although a release date has not been decided upon. Sprint,…
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Google Offering Free Nexus Ones Or Droids To Devs
Google has announced a new program dubbed the “Device Seeding Program”, which will offer free Nexus Ones or Motorola Droids to proven developers (those in the Android Market with at least 3.5 stars and over 5,000 downloads). The end decision is of course Google’s, so there’s no guarantee that you’ll get a free phone even…
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Google Shopper: Android for Frugal
Google Shopper is the recently unleashed shopping application from Google Mobile Labs for Android-powered phones. It promises to easily lookup specifications, find reviews and compare prices based on product searches.
