Verizon Wireless COO John Stratton said Motorola will "be right there" when it unveils its 4G smartphones. Motorola only makes Android phones. Do the math. – Verizon Wireless will sell a 4G smartphone from Motorola
in 2011, which by default means Google’s Android platform will power the
handset.
Verizon COO John Stratton told the Wall Street Journal
quot;Motorola will be right there quot; when it comes time to roll out handsets
based on the company…
Google’s Android engineers defend the open source platform, arguing that carriers and handset makers who lock down their Android smartphones beg for rooting exploits. – Google’s Android team prefers that carriers and handset makers provide
unlocking mechanisms for Android smartphones so application developers can
tweak the operating system without circumventing Android’s security.
Android, which is aggressively challenging Apple’s iPhone in the U.S.,
is by natu…
A Verizon Tweet comparing Android and LTE to peanut butter and chocolate suggested that news of 4G Android smartphones can be expected at CES Jan. 6. – Are Googles Android and Verizon Wireless LTE (long-term evolution,
its chosen flavor of 4G) network a winning combination? In a Tweet, the
carrier compared the mobile OS and its new, speedy network to another
favorite duo, while dropping a blatant hint about what can be expected
at Januarys Cons…
Commoditisation of Android offering in the Smartphone market is leading to low profits claims Needham & Company’s Charlie Wolf who told investors last week that the smartphone market is at a critical point at the moment, driven by the flood of android programming devices and the recent arrival of Windows Mobile Phone 7.The smartphone market could soon follow the flat panel TV market where vendors are struggling to make a profit. The one exception claim Analysts will be the Apple iPhone programme
Motorola will unveil a tablet running Google’s Android 3.0 or Honeycomb operating system at the Consumer Electronics Shows next month; promo video snipes at iPad and Galaxy Tab. – Motorola has released a brief video on YouTube teasing the introduction, at
the Consumer Electronics Show in January, of a tablet computer based on
Google’s Android Honeycomb operating system.
The clip, titled quot;Tablet Evolution quot; and set in a museum, is a 1:36-minute
history lesson of a…
Google Android tablets will comprise 39 percent of the tablet market by 2012, nearing Apple’s 44 percent iPad share. The trend mirrors how Android handsets are catching the iPhone. – Apple’s iPad will command 44 percent of the total tablet
market by 2012, with tablets based on Google’s Android operating system nipping
at its heels with 39 percent, according to researchers at Piper Jaffray.
Apple that has the dominate position in 2010, selling 90
percent of the 14.5 million t…
Google said it is rolling out upgrades for its Android-based Google TV service. The Netflix app got smarter and Google launched a Remote App for Android and iPhone handsets. – Google this week is issuing its first over-the-air upgrades to Google TV,
enriching the Netflix application preloaded in the service and offering a
Google Remote application to control the service.
Google in October launched the ambitious Google TV service, which lets users surf the Web and TV ch…
LinkedIn for Android is somewhat baked, launched in beta. However, users must jump through hoops to test the fledgling application on their Android handsets. – LinkedIn users with Android smartphones have long felt
left out, but that is set to change as the social network for professionals launched
its LinkedIn for Android application to beta Dec. 16.
LinkedIn for Android offers many of the same features available to mobile
users of LinkedIn’s BlackBer…
The guys over at Google weren’t lying back in September when they said they’d be carrying out more frequent updates to Gmail following its release for Android. They’ve actually made a bunch of updates all based on user feedback and comments. These updates come in the package known as Android 2.3.2. The newest version of [...]
Google Dec. 16 launched Google Maps 5.0 for Android with dynamic 3D vector graphics and offline capabilities in an effort to make the app more interactive and reliable. –
Google has added 3D and offline capabilities to its new Maps 5.0 for Android application, making the app more interactive and reliable for people trying to get a handle on navigation.
Google Maps has rendered streets and buildings using a flat tile graphics for the last five years. The company …
The Google-branded Samsung Nexus S rolled out Dec. 16 from T-Mobile for $199 and a two-year contract or unlocked for $529. The handset is Google’s second in the Nexus line, following the Nexus One, which was relegated to developer phone status after consumers declined to purchase it online en masse. Google learned from that gaffe by launching the Nexus S at Best Buy online and its brick-and-mortar stores, with availability at Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy in the U.K. coming next week. The device, the first smartphone based on Google’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS, is a gorgeous piece of hardware that recalls the handful of other gadgets in the Samsung Galaxy S line with its 4-inch Super AMOLED screen. However, while those devices are flat, the Nexus S sports a contoured finish for easy grip in the hands. Like its Android predecessors, the Nexus S has a 1GHz processor. Even so, we’ve no doubt this is the fastest Android device yet after testing it against a Motorola Droid X with Android 2.2 and a 1GHz processor. In short, it loaded most Web pages and some applications faster. We were also able to test out one of the key new features of Android 2.3: near field communications, or NFC. The new OS and the Nexus S are preloaded with NFC capabilities. Check out what we learned about Android 2.3 and the new device in this review and in this slideshow. – …
Google’s Samsung Nexus S is a speedy entrant running Android 2.3, the Gingerbread build for the OS. Great phone for T-Mobile customers who want to upgrade to Android. – Google last week sent me the Samsung Nexus S, the first Android 2.3-based smartphone and follow-up to the
ambitious but ill-fated Nexus One launch at the beginning of the year.
With hardware built by Samsung and software built and or assigned by Google, the Nexus S launched from
Best Buy’s online…
Ekahau Mobile Survey delivers a nice mix of WiFi stumbling tools and performance measurement to Android-based smartphones and tablets, supporting many Android devices running Android OS 2.1 or higher. Mobile Survey ($299) is sold through the Ekahau Web store, rather than the Android Market, so the device to be used with Mobile Survey must support non-Market application sources. The software performs both active and passive WiFi scans with the ability to measure detected network performance against multicriteria templates tailored for specific network use cases. Unfortunately, Mobile Survey is hampered because most Android smartphones don’t support 5 GHz 802.11n and only have a single transmit/receive chain, even though the software claims to be able to handle the higher frequency band and better antenna configurations. To read the full review, check out "Ekahau Mobile Survey for Android Troubleshoots WiFi Networks". Or if you have experience with Ekahau Mobile Survey, share your thoughts at http://labs.eweek.com. – …
Android handsets now handily outsell BlackBerry smartphones
at Verizon, says ITG Investment Research. With an iPhone likely, things for RIM may worsen. –
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Apple iPad and Google’s Android operating system joined the BP Oil Spill, Haiti Earthquake and the World Cup on Twitter’s top 10 Twitter Trends for 2010. Culled from 25 billion tweets. – Apple’s iPad and smartphones and gadgets based on
Google’s Android operating system joined tragic disasters on Twitter top 10
Twitter Trends for 2010, derived from scrutinizing tweet content of more than
25 billion tweets users published this year.
Twitter used its analytics software to calculat…
Google is already leveraging the near field communications capabilities in Android 2.3, launching special NFC-enabled stickers in Portland local businesses. NXP is helping in a big way. – Google has begun distributing special stickers with near field
communications (NFC) technology to let business owners in Portland,
Ore., tout their wares right from their
doors.
NFC is a short-range wireless technology that lets devices communicate from
within a few inches of each other. User…
Google’s Android Market is getting a new carousel view and a streamlined discovery and purchasing process; Google is also making it easier for developers to tout their wares. – Google said it will improve its maligned Android Market application store
this month, making it easier for consumers to find, purchase and download
developers’ apps.
Android Market sports well over 100,000 applications, one third that of
Apple’s App Store. Yet to many users, Android Market feels…
News Analysis: When it comes to Android tablets, there are lots of choices, no two of which are the same. – The problem of which tablet to choose has grown significantly beyond the
once default choice the Apple iPad. Now there are a number of Android tablets
on the market, and there are more tablet choices coming. Viewsonic is starting
to offer a tablet that works with either Android or Microsoft Windo…
Dell’s Streak will receive its Android 2.2 update in mid-January, at least for those who own AT&T SIM-locked versions of the hybrid tablet PC-smartphone. – AT amp;T Dell Streak owners in the United States, take heart: your
update to Android 2.2 (Froyo) is “hopefully” arriving in mid-January. For
months, users have questioned when the 5-inch tablet PC, released earlier this
year running Android 1.6, would receive the operating-system upgrade.
“…
Yahoo is adding Local Offers to its Local deals Web service, which is available in beta for computers, iPhones and Android handsets. Local is the answer to Facebook Deals and Groupon. –
Yahoo contributed to the latest crush of local-related
news Dec. 8 by making its refreshed Yahoo Local service available in limited
beta for computers and Apple’s iPhone and Google Android smartphones.
Compare the current and new Yahoo Local services.
The top menu has changed from vertically…
