Posts under 'Android' category.

by on August 5th, 2010

blackberry-torch-9800-mainBlackBerry recently announced their latest touch screen phone the BlackBerry Touch 9800. Guys at crackberry have made this video comparing the browser speed of BlackBerry Tourch 9800 webkit with iPhone 4 Safari and Samsung Captivate Android 2.1. No spoilers, check out yourself who wins. [image & video via crackberry]

by on August 3rd, 2010

TechRadar reports that Google Android phones are outselling Apple iPhones in US so far in 2010. This shows that Google is selling more phones than Apple.

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image via ZDNet

Google Android has gained 27% of market share in the first 6 months of 2010 whereas iPhone has 23% share. Right now, Android phones like Motorola Droid X and HTC Evo are selling rapidly in US.

by on July 8th, 2010

Now that Apple has confirmed that the software fix which improves how iOS 4 displays signal strength, won’t actually help iPhone 4 with its signal problem, the time has come for Motorola to capitalize on it.

iPhone 4 and Droid X

image via friskymongoose 

Apparently, it won’t be easy. Apple is doing a fine job of overcoming the critics and selling millions of iPhones. But if Droid X has what Motorola claims, then it might prove to be a worthy opponent for Apple’s smartphone.

While the company is engaged in a fierce advertising campain against Apple’s iPhone 4, we thought it would be nice to compare a few interesting features of the two Rivals.

by on May 30th, 2010

Guys at XDA have successfully managed to port Android 2.2 “Froyo” to HTC EVO 4G.

Toastcfh, an XDA user has posted a video of an HTC EVO 4G running Android 2.2 “Froyo”

by on May 20th, 2010

Today at Google I/O keynote, it was announced that Android 2.2 “Froyo” will be available soon and they are releasing the SDK revision 4 to developers.

Watch the video for the highlights from the latest Android platform release.

by on May 20th, 2010

Google TV is unveiled with the tagline “TV meets web and web meets TV”. The basic idea is to bring internet experience to the TV with open platforms Android and Google Chrome.

Google is working with Logitech and Sony to put Google TV inside televisions. Google TV looks good in the video above but one can really judge it after experiencing it.

by on May 18th, 2010

One of the most popular book reading app “Kindle” is coming to Android devices this summer. It’s already available for Windows, Mac, iPhone, Blackberry and iPad (or you can get the Kindle device).

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The Kindle app for Android will allow users to buy books right from Android devices.

by on May 18th, 2010

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Android 2.1 upgrade for Android mobile devices is still rolling in. Based on Sense UI, the HTC Hero is also promised to get the official upgrade soon. Although there is a ROM that just got leaked on the internet having 2.1 upgrade for Sprint’s HTC hero.

by on April 28th, 2010

Android flash

Andy Rubin, the Vice President of engineering for Google, says Flash will be coming with the Froyo version of Android. Andry Rubin said this in an interview with the New York Times’ Bits blog.

by on April 22nd, 2010

Hackers have successfully ported Android to iPhone 2G. The first release is not flawless but they are working on it to make it better.