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Archos Home Connect 35 Android Clock & Internet Radio Now in the US

It seems to be no end to the number of devices that are designed to run Google’s Android operating system, and the Archos Home Connect 35 is definitely one of the most interesting of these.This small blackish device is actually a battery-powered alarm clock and internet radio that was created to become your fav...

15 December 2011
11:08 GMT

ARM Doesn't See Intel's Tri-Gate Technology as a Threat

An ARM Holdings official has recently stated that the company doesn't see Intel's recently announced 22nm Tri-Gate technology as a threat to its own chips. Tri-Gate enables Intel to build more energy efficient processors that could take by storm the mobile CPU market. ARM Holdings has become one of the m...

7 May 2011
13:51 GMT

HTC Bliss Android Phone for Women Leaked, Comes with 'Charm Indicator'

HTC is reportedly working on a woman-centric Android smartphone that is expected to be announced by the end of the year. It appears that the Taiwanese manufacturer is trying to make Google's mobile platform more appealing to women, a segment of the market that has great potential. According to TIMN, citin...

5 May 2011
03:41 GMT

Android 2.3 Gingerbread Update for Galaxy S Halted, Google Says Issues Were Found

One of the first carriers to offer the Android 2.3 software upgrade for Samsung Galaxy S owners, Vodafone UK has recently issued a statement in which it explains that the deployment of the update has been halted.According to Vodafone UK, the roll out of the Gingerbread software has been temporarily suspended by Googl...

19 April 2011
11:23 GMT

Motorola Working on Proprietary Web-Based Mobile Platform

Motorola Mobility, one of the few brands that fully embraces the Android franchise, is working on a new web-based mobile operating system intended to replace Google's mobile platform. Apparently, Motorola has started developing its own platform since Oracle's patent lawsuit against Google's Android ...

24 March 2011
06:18 GMT

Android Leaves BlackBerry and iOS Behind in the US

Google's Android operating system has finally managed to win the battle against Apple's iOS and RIM's BlackBerry platforms on the United States smartphone market, recent data from The Nielsen Company shows.With 29 percent market share on the US smartphone OS area, Android is the king of the hill at th...

4 March 2011
14:38 GMT

Prices for Windows Phone 7 Smartphones Will Drop, Nokia Says

Nokia's presence at the 2011 Mobile World Congress was rather based on the recent partnership with Microsoft, instead of focusing on new mobile phones announcements. Those who were still waiting for the company to showcase a MeeGo device were surely disappointed by the fact that the Finnish company gave up all h...

21 February 2011
09:20 GMT

DIY Android TV by Vidtronic to be Released at CES 2011

We've witnessed the Android OS from Google being implemented into a whole range of devices, from smartphones to multimedia tablets, but it seems that the people over at Vidtronic might have come up with a completely different (yet equally innovative) use for the Android, namely a TV that you can assemble yoursel...

28 December 2010
03:16 GMT

Velocity Micro Cruz T301 Android 2.0 Tablet Pops Up

Velocity Micro seems to be quite keen on getting as many products as possible out onto the market in time for the Christmas shopping spree, the company rolling out a third Android tablet, the Cruz T301, in a fairly under-the-radar manner, the product simply popping up for sale on Amazon.According to Laptoping, who�...

17 December 2010
04:03 GMT

DIA Parrot by nodesign is the Ultimate Android-Running Minimalist Digital Photo Frame

Since digital photo frames have lost quite a lot of their initial coolness factor, creating such a product that still appeals to the general public is a pretty difficult task, one that, however, the people over at Parrot seem to have successfully completed, with the help of nodesign agency, when creating the DIA.The ...

15 December 2010
09:58 GMT

Say Hello to the Android 1.6-Running Eken M001 Internet Tablet

Since the gates of Android Tablet heaven have really opened up in the second half of 2010, it should come as no surprise that plenty of products coming from lesser-known companies are starting to make their way onto the market, including here the device you'll read about as follows, namely the Eken M001 Google A...

29 November 2010
14:41 GMT

Get Your Android LED HDTV Now from People of Lava

Although it's been touted for quite some time now, it would seem that the development work on one of the world's first-ever Android-based HDTVs, the People of Lava Scandinavia “Window to the World”, is finally done, since the company has finally listed these advanced Internet TVs as being availa...

16 November 2010
14:41 GMT

Google I/O 2010: Android 2.2 Froyo Is Lightning Fast

The second day of the Google I/O 2010 developer conference just kicked off with two major announcements, Android 2.2 and Google TV, neither of which were exactly surprises. The first part of the morning’s keynote was dedicated to Android. The latest and greatest version is here, Android 2.2 codenamed Froyo, and...

20 May 2010
14:35 GMT

An Official Android Tablet from Google May Be Coming

Tablet PCs are all the rage right now and it’s easy to see why. Apple has recently released the iPad and the hyped device seems to be living up to its expectations, at least in terms of sales. Now more than ever, device manufacturers and Apple competitors in general want in on the game. Google is becoming one o...

13 April 2010
11:54 GMT

Roewe 350, the World's First Google Android-Powered Car

Google is known for its ambitious plans, and more often than not they succeed. Still, few might have actually believed when the project started out that there will be Android-powered cars by 2010. But it's happening, the first car to feature Android will hit the streets, literally, next month in China. The Roew...

20 March 2010
05:53 GMT

User Satisfaction Granted with iPhone, Palm Pre and Android

A recently published customer satisfaction study from CFI Group shows that the customer audience is no longer dominated by business users, and that smartphones like Apple’s iPhone, Palm's Pre or those powered by Google's Android OS are the leaders in consumer satisfaction. Moreover, the CFI Group Smar...

1 October 2009
02:31 GMT

Acer's Android Phone Is Likely to Come This Year

Taiwanese computer vendor Acer, the third largest in the world, is expected to release its own mobile phone that will run under the Google Android operating system before the end of the ongoing year. In addition, the company is also reported to be working on the development of other phones that will sport the Windows...

22 April 2009
09:51 GMT

HTC Magic Officially Comes on Vodafone on May 5

HTC Magic, the second Android-powered mobile phone, was expected to come to Vodafone in April, yet the wireless carrier is set to make the device available in the UK only on May 5. The good news here is that the Magic is already available for pre-order on the company's site, as well as through Vodafone's re...

21 April 2009
03:44 GMT

T-Mobile Launches HTC Sapphire 1.0 as G2 on April 21

T-Mobile sent out invites to a press event held on April 21 in New York City, and everyone jumped on the news, expecting the mobile phone operator to unveil at that date its second handset powered by the Google Android operating system, though there was no hard evidence on the carrier's exact plans. It seems t...

13 April 2009
06:20 GMT

Huawei to Release the T-Mobile G3 Android Phone

According to the latest news on the web, we'll be able to see a G3 mobile phone launched on the market as soon as the third quarter of the ongoing year. The handset will come to T-Mobile, will run under the Google Android operating system, but will not be manufactured by HTC, as the first two Android devices, th...

8 April 2009
09:32 GMT

Samsung to Launch Its Android Phone in June

According to the latest news on the Web, we should be able to see the first Samsung mobile phone powered by Google’s Android operating system launched on the market as soon as June this year. At the same time, it seems that the company wants to launch two more Android-based handsets during the ongoing year, at ...

4 April 2009
04:24 GMT

Android Receives a Document Viewer

One thing that the Google Android operating system seems to have missed up until now is the presence of a document viewer that would work on the G1. Yet, now we learn that it has finally received one, in the form of the Office file editing app Documents To Go developed by DataViz for the mobile phone platform. The ...

3 April 2009
10:25 GMT

Rumor Mill: HTC Magic Launches on May 1

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC announced back in February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona its second mobile phone based on the Google Android operating system, the HTC Magic, and also unveiled the fact that the device was to go on sale in the European market through the wireless operator Vodafone. Since...

2 April 2009
09:48 GMT

Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile Now Available for Android

Hands-on Mobile, an important mobile technology company as well as an award-winning developer and publisher of mobile entertainment, announced the availability of its highly-acclaimed Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile on the Android open-source software platform. Since its first launch in November 2008, the game has exce...

5 March 2009
10:37 GMT

Orange France Announces HTC Dream Availability

Following UK's Vodafone launch of the HTC Magic Android-based smartphone, it seems that Orange France will be the first to bring the second Android phone – HTC Dream. Even though it is not a member of the Open Alliance, Orange managed to strike this deal that will see it as the only carrier that will offer...

5 March 2009
09:59 GMT

Steve Ballmer Confirms Windows 7-Based Netbooks

It appears that two of the world's largest companies in the IT sector are preparing for a head-to-head battle for a dominant position in the netbook market. Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft and the Mountain View, California-based search giant, Google are expected to provide two new operating systems designed ...

25 February 2009
10:46 GMT

Next G Phone Might Come to Vodafone

According to the latest news on the Web, Vodafone and the Taiwanese mobile phone manufacturer HTC might be close to inking a deal for an upcoming version of the so-called Google phone. It seems that the two companies are discussing about the next generation of devices based on Google's Android operating system, ...

16 February 2009
07:57 GMT

ARCHOS Announces New Android-Based IMT Device

ARCHOS, a technology innovator and leading provider of portable media player solutions, announced that it planned to add to its offering a new ultra-thin Internet Media Tablet (IMT) that also featured mobile phone capabilities, through the combination of Google's Android telephony stack and ARCHOS' multimed...

10 February 2009
10:51 GMT

More Than 40 Android Phones to Come in 2009

The first Android-powered mobile phone was launched about four months ago, and yet the expectations for the platform rise higher and higher every day. According to the latest news on the web, we might be able to see around 40 new handsets running the operating system launched during the ongoing year. At least this is...

7 February 2009
05:04 GMT

Android-Powered HTC Dream Goes to Australia and Singapore

Australia and Singapore have finally received the first load of mobile phones that run under Google's Android mobile OS and software. The new handsets went live on the specified markets on Thursday, with Singapore Telecommunications, which has added to its offering the 'Dream' smartphone developed by H...

5 February 2009
06:37 GMT

Windows Mobile Bests Apple iPhone in Enterprise Apps

Despite the fact that Microsoft has been losing consistent ground to competing products with its Windows platform for mobile phones, the Redmond company's operating system is still preferred over rival OSes when it comes down to corporate applications. According to statistics from Evans Data's Wireless Deve...

27 January 2009
06:38 GMT

Palm's Pre to Support webOS and Android Simultaneously

The highly-expected Palm Pre is reported to come with a couple of more capabilities than we have initially expected. According to the latest news on the Web, the device would be able to allow for the porting of Google's Android platform on it, due to some features its processor includes. If the Android port is c...

23 January 2009
04:48 GMT

Motorola Will Still Develop Windows Mobile Devices

Las week Motorola was reported to be planning on cutting almost half of the jobs in its handset department. At the same time, the company was said to be considering ditching the Windows Mobile operating system in favor of Google's Android platform, yet it seems that it has recently denied such a move. The comp...

21 January 2009
05:15 GMT

T-Mobile to Offer Its G1 Phone in More European Countries

The T-Mobile G1 phone will start selling in several European countries in the following weeks, after already being available in Britain and the United States since October, announced German Deutsche Telekom's wireless unit T-Mobile. The G1 is manufactured by Taiwan's HTC Corp and comes with a touch-sensit...

20 January 2009
06:22 GMT

Google Updates the 'Jailbroken' Android

After hackers ridiculed Google's OS for G1 mobiles by bypassing it in no time, Google came out just as strong and fast with an update that placed everything right back where it all started. To be more explicit, this update is repairing all the flaws in the old system and getting G1 users to their previous status...

10 November 2008
04:42 GMT

Huawei Plans Android and Symbian Smartphones for Next Year

Huawei Technologies has a strong expansion plan on the move that is turning its enemy into a friend - what it actually does is including the world economic crisis into its plans in a very productive way. Huawei Technologies is the new big name to join the Symbian foundation even if their main sales of mobil...

10 November 2008
04:12 GMT

Google's Android Has Been 'Jailbroken'

This translates into very good news for G1 owners who now have a way to use the few inaccessible portions on the phone's Linux-based OS, which were, according to the manufactures, created to protect the system from any type of infestation.After some voices claimed that people should have complete ...

7 November 2008
08:09 GMT

VirusGuard - The First Android Compatible Antivirus Launched

Following the launch of Google's G1 two weeks ago, SMobile Systems announced that it would release one piece of dedicated antivirus software called VirusGuard. The antivirus intends to protect all phones running on an Android platform. No later than last week, an important flaw was discovered into G1's open...

6 November 2008
05:46 GMT

The Wait Is Over: T-Mobile's G1 Available Starting Today

T-Mobile USA just announced the national availability of the highly anticipated T-Mobile G1 with Google, the first Android-powered mobile phone. The T-Mobile G1 combines full touch-screen functionality and a QWERTY keyboard with a rich mobile Web experience, dozens of Android Market applications, and popular Google p...

22 October 2008
09:41 GMT

Motorola's Android Phone on the Way

Everybody is now thrilled and anxious about the release of T-Mobile's G1 on October 22, the world's first smartphone to run on the Google Android platform. The pre-orders for this device have literally gone through the roof, a reported number of about 1.5 million units having already been sold. With all thi...

20 October 2008
10:45 GMT

T-Mobile UK Brings G1

As of yesterday, users can pre-order Google Android's G1 on the T-Mobile UK website. In the press release that came to confirm the availability of G1, the UK mobile carrier presents the phone as built for Internet and as being the first one to run on the Android platform. And, indeed, so it is. The good news is ...

16 October 2008
05:06 GMT

T-Mobile's G1 Counts 1.5 Million Pre-Sold Units

T-Mobile's G1 seems to be a phone that is on many people’s wish-list. Almost 1.5 million of them, to be more exact. On October 6, we were telling you how T-Mobile had tripled the number of phones initially available for delivery on October 22. Well, all those phones are pre-ordered now. T-Mobile will have ...

13 October 2008
05:17 GMT

Google Android Market Will Offer Free Trials

The Android Market is designed to be for Google's Android phones (or, better said, for T-Mobile's G1 since it is the only Google Android phone on the market right now), what the App Store is for iPhones, meaning the place where users can download applications for their mobile devices.It is already a known f...

3 October 2008
10:13 GMT

Taiwanese HTC Producer Plans to Sell 2 Million G1s

The Taiwanese company High Tech Computer (generally known as HTC), already an important name when it comes to production of smartphones, has recently revealed the first phone based on Goggle's Android platform, the HTC G1. The device will start selling in the US on the T-Mobile network starting October 22, while...

2 October 2008
08:58 GMT

Google Android Phone Supports SanDisk 16GB Card

Last week, we were telling you that SanDisk would bring to the market 16GB microSDHC mobile memory cards, while also voicing what could only have been the question on most mobile phone users’ mind, meaning, how many of the existent devices would be able to support them upon release. At the same time, we also me...

2 October 2008
03:30 GMT

EA Games for Android

As it turns out, the Google Android platform has been enjoying a lot of media attention since the announcement of T-Mobile's G1 and, quite understandable, many developers have already showed great interest in it. Nokia and Motorola seem to plan to develop their own Android phones, while several games for G1 have...

2 October 2008
02:58 GMT

Motorola Confirms Android Plans

On Monday, September 29, we were telling you that Motorola was working on an Android phone. Sources were reporting, at the time, that the company was planning to expand its Android team from 50 persons to 350, which could only be regarded as a huge step towards the development of its own Google Android phone. With al...

1 October 2008
04:25 GMT

Gameloft Will Develop 10 Android Games

Gameloft, a well-known developer and publisher of video games for mobile phones and consoles, announced last week that it was planning to develop over 10 games to run on the Android open-source platform.This means good news, mobile games fans! Bubble Bash, the game that is currently available for iPhone and other mob...

29 September 2008
08:44 GMT

Google First Android Phone Released in New York

Yesterday, the highly anticipated launch of the Android phone took place in New York. Google's first-born “baby” phone was officially named G1, and is manufactured by HTC. You can now pre-order it from T-Mobile, but pay attention and act quick, as only limited quantities are available. U.S users can ...

24 September 2008
07:50 GMT

Google's First Android Phone Launching Tomorrow in New York

The highly expected Android Phone from Google will be launched tomorrow in New York during a press conference. Google chose Taiwanese manufacturer HTC to build its smartphone, but little is known about the exact model that will be used. With all that, it is almost sure that its name will be G1.If we are to follow the...

22 September 2008
10:00 GMT


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