This week kicks off the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. We expect big news from Samsung, Motorola, HTC, LG and others. Will your carrier of choice get the Galaxy Nexus? Is there some new-fangled Android phone or tablet that hasn’t been leaked yet? We’ll be on the ground providing live coverage of all the big events [...]
December 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Twitter for Android Updated, Supports New Twitter
Today ushers in a new version of Twitter, with some pretty major changes. To go along with these changes, they have released a new Twitter for Android app. The app features an entirely new UI. The four tabs at the bottom are now Home, @ Connect, # Discover and Me. Home Home is where you [...]
December 7, 2011 By 1 Comment
Instagram Android App Coming Soon
Speaking at the LeWeb conference, CEO Kevin Systrom, confirmed that an Android version of the popular Instagram app is currently in development. “We have two people working on Android now,” said Systrom. “I’m excited to be able to see our numbers today nearly double.” Instragram is a free and easy way to edit, share photos [...]
September 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Android To Be Optimized for Intel Starting in 2012
Google’s Andy Rubin took the stage at Intel’ s Developer Forum to announce that in the future, beginning in 2012, Android will be optimized for Intel-made chips. “By optimizing the Android platform for Intel architecture, we bring a powerful new capability to market that will accelerate more industry adoption and choice, and bring exciting new [...]
September 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Eric Schmidt Confirms ICS Arriving This Fall, Doesn’t Like the Name
Google’s former CEO and current Executive Chairman doesn’t like the name Ice Cream Sandwich. If you check out the above video and fast forward to 30:27 or so, you’ll be able to catch his rather annoyed statement. Feel free to watch the whole keynote however, if you’re into that sort of thing, it’s pretty interesting. [...]
September 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
TouchType Survey: What Do Smartphone Users Really Want?
TouchType, the team behind the super-keyboard SwiftKey, has put together a really fascinating survey about what smartphone users are hoping to get out of their devices. Take a look at a few graphs below but visit the source link for the full report! [TouchType]
August 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Google To Buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion
Google today announced their plans to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. This move enables Google to be both the creator of the software and hardware. It will be interesting to see how the company manages their Nexus line of pure Google phones moving forward and the impact of this purchase on other manufacturers. HTC, [...]
August 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Google Has Strategy to Protect Android From Patent Lawsuit
John Lagerling, Google’s Director of Android Global Partnerships, spoke recently about Google’s strategy to protect Android from the patent lawsuit being leveled against them. While he didn’t have anything concrete to offer, such is the way of legal proceedings. Without going into too much detail, I do think that we have very strong paths that [...]
