Category Archives: Android

Chrome Web browser comes to Android phones, tablets

By doris | Published: February 9, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com Google launched a beta version of Chrome for Android smartphones and tablets Tuesday, delivering a mobile version of the popular desktop web browser after a very long wait. Indeed, both Android and Chrome launched more than three years ago, and users have demanded unification ever since. Why bemoan the long wait? [...]

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Amazon Kindle Fire surges ahead in Android tablet use:

By doris | Published: February 6, 2012

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com A new report analyzing app usage purports to show that, in just three months, Amazon’s Kindle Fire has dethroned the Samsung Galaxy Tab as the top Android tablet — at least when it comes to people actually spending time on their devices. Flurry Analytics compared application sessions among all Android tablets [...]

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Sony tablets, smartphones to get Android 4.0 upgrades

By doris | Published: January 30, 2012

Full Story at Gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com The upgrades to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich continue with the entire Sony Xperia line of smartphones, starting this spring, according to reports. Those say updates may be applied to applied to Sony’s Android tablets as well. According to The Verge, sources say that Sony’s Tablet S and Tablet P “are [...]

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Polaroid goes digital with Android camera

By doris | Published: January 17, 2012

Full Story at money.cnn.com LAS VEGAS (CNNMoney) — Iconic film company Polaroid is determined not to get left behind in an increasingly digital age. A new Android-powered point-and-shoot camera is part of that reinvention. CNNMoney checked out the Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera at the Consumer Electronics Show last week in Las Vegas. The camera features [...]

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Android Market catching up to Apple in app numbers

By doris | Published: January 5, 2012

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com Choices are becoming more abundant in the Android Market, which has just hit 400,000 apps in the first flush of the new year. Distimo, a Netherlands-based company that tracks app store data, posted a blog entry that shows it reaching that milestone over New Year’s weekend, with free apps as the [...]

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Report: Android dominates US smartphone market

By doris | Published: December 31, 2011

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com As 2011 ends, Google employees, especially those involved with Android, will probably be popping a few extra corks, given that it emerged victorious in the latest bout in an ongoing war with Apple’s iOS for top smartphone platform. In a recently released report from comScore, Android made up nearly 47 percent [...]

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Samsung Galaxy S phones won’t have latest Android update

By doris | Published: December 25, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com Today Samsung announced that its line of Galaxy S phones, one of the most popular Android phone models of 2010, will not get Google’s latest version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich. That means about 10 million people who bought the phone are going to be stuck on the outdated version 2.3 [...]

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Pre-loaded Android apps leave phones open to attack

By doris | Published: December 5, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com Android phones, or at least some of them, contain a serious glitch that an attacker could exploit to steal data, eavesdrop on your calls or even wipe your phone clean. A team of computer science researchers from North Carolina State University discovered the flaw on eight smartphones from HTC, Motorola, Samsung [...]

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Verizon starts taking pre-orders for Droid RAZR tomorrow

By doris | Published: October 29, 2011

Full Story at Gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com The Droid RAZR — an Android device which Motorola Mobility president Sanjay Jha declared to be the world’s thinnest smartphone — will become available for pre-order on Thursday. The Droid RAZR will be available through Verizon Wireless and comes with a $300 price tag (assuming you’re willing to sign a two-year [...]

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Why Android and iPhone won’t go down like BlackBerry

By doris | Published: October 17, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Here’s a little secret BlackBerry doesn’t want you to know: It would be technically impossible for all Android phones or iPhones to experience a global four-day outage like the one BlackBerry saw this week, according to mobile communications experts. Why? The answer is in the technical details of how [...]

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Yes, Amazon’s Kindle Fire is a $199 Android tablet

By doris | Published: September 28, 2011

Full Story at Gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com Before Amazon’s press event even started, the big news slipped out of the bag: The Amazon Kindle Fire will be a 7-inch Android tablet with a $199 price tag. Then Amazon’s Jeff Bezos went on stage and unveiled it, showing off its movie playback capability and other media features.As rumors had [...]

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More people buying smartphones, mostly Android

By doris | Published: September 27, 2011

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com In a recent survey, more than half of people shopping for new phones chose smartphones. And the majority of those smartphones purchased in the past three months ran the Android operating system. While this suggests a very real surge in Android popularity, it also demonstrates a quirk of the iPhone buying [...]

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