Tag: Android

More rumors about Motorola’s and Acer’s Android tablets

By now, almost everyone (everyone interested in Android, anyway) knows that Motorola is readying the release of an Android 3.0 Gingerbread tablet via Verizon Wireless.

While other companies will also enter the tablet market with the help of Android, Digitimes Research has it that Motorola will be Google’s “priority choice” when it comes to tablets – [...]

Motorola Charm with Android 2.1 Gets Official on Telus

The Motorola Charm that’s  on the way to T-Mobile has just gone official on Telus. We got a chance to try it out, and it’s looking like it’ll be a decent entry-level smartphone, with a few unique tricks. For one, this is Motorola’s second phone with a rear trackpad (much like the Backflip), which functions [...]

HTC Glacier Set To Be Fastest Android Smartphone Of 2010

The HTC Glacier could well become the fastest Android smartphone yet to be released if a slew of benchmarks and screen captures posted by a little known website are to be believed.
Alienbabeltech says that it has proof of the existence of the T-Mobile “Project Emerald” and that it is none other than the HTC Glacier, [...]

Facebook for Android finally updated

Facebook for Android has finally been overhauled for the legions of Google-phone users.
The new update brings a raft of changes, and offer some much-needed functionality to make the Android offering as compelling as the iPhone version.
The main updates are easily visible – a draggable notifications bar at the bottom of the screen will show you [...]

Android Attracts New Subscribers, iPhone Loyalty Still Strong

Android has seen significant gains in mobile operating system share over the last six months, though Apple’s iPhone OS continues to have the highest brand loyalty among its users, according to Monday data from Nielsen.
Research in Motion’s BlackBerry platform continues to be the number mobile OS in the U.S., but a poll of BlackBerry users [...]

Android smartphone shipments surge 886 percent

Shipments of Android smartphones worldwide jumped 886 percent in the second quarter from a year ago, according to a report released Monday.
Growth in the United States was particularly robust, market researcher Canalys said in the report.

The entire U.S. smartphone market grew 41 percent in the second quarter year over year, making it the largest [...]

Not Vaporware After All: Lumigon’s Android Phones Will Launch This October

In a world of identikit phones, Lumigon’s three Android phones announced at CES were like a fresh-faced booth babe amidst a sea of technerds. Holding true to their promise, the T1 will hit October 20th with some nice specs.

According to the Danish company, the T1 will have a 3.2″ capacitive TFT touchscreen with a 480 [...]

Kyocera Android Smartphone Arriving on Cricket

Cricket Wireless, the US-based operator, has just enlisted Kyocera’s Zio Android-based smartphone on its ‘coming soon’ webpage. Rumors say that the device will start ship on August 15th. Cricket also plans to release an new $55 unlimited rate plan, that would go with the smartphone, which supposed to be half the cost of AT&T and [...]

Google Android smartphone sales triple in the UK this year

Sales of smartphones running the Android operating system have tripled since the beginning of 2010, according to figures released yesterday. Market analysts GfK said that “around one in every eight handsets sold in the UK between April and June 2010 on a contract is Android-powered, compared to one in 33 on average between January and [...]

Motorola Rumored to Launch Android Tablet in November

According to an analyst, Motorola will debut a 10-inch tablet bearing Android 3.0 – also known as Gingerbread – in time for this holiday season.
Among the many companies rumored to be cracking away at Android tablets behind the scenes, it seems that Motorola has now thrown its own hat into the ring. The company responsible [...]