Android This Week: iOS 5 vs Android; Sprint adds Droids; Market improves

11, 2011, 6:00am PT No Comments Android owners haven't seen a major software update since the arrival of Honeycomb in February, but iOS devices are bout to see one this fall. Appleintroduced some of the new features that iOS 5 will bring to current, ...

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Virgin Mobile: No Android Skins For Us

By Sascha Segan Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that Virgin's new Motorola Triumph smartphone runs a relatively stock version of Android 2.2, while Motorola's new Photon 4G and XPRT phones for the main Sprint brand use Motorola's Blur software ...

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SMS is doomed: Google working an Android iMessage, BBM competitor

Eventually, even dumbphones will move to smarter platforms like Android and take advantage of ubiquitous data networks. I don't shed many tears for the carriers in this situation. They've been making a killing by overcharging consumers for texting, ...

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1: A slim and sexy Android tablet

By JR Raphael Computerworld - In the realm of Android tablets, standing out from the pack is becoming an increasingly challenging task for manufacturers. With its new Galaxy Tab 10.1 device, Samsung has managed to set itself apart with a quality few ...

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Combined Android Models Advancing on IPhone

The [ Apple (ticker: AAPL)] iPhone continues to be the best-selling smartphone at nearly every store we surveyed with iPhone sell-through about matching all [ Google (GOOG)] Android handsets combined at most stores. Within Android, the Samsung [of ...

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Android Market Still Dwarfed by App Store

By Damon Poeter After some heady reports in recent months touting gains by Google's Android Market against the larger Apple App Store, researchers are reassessing their assumptions. The latest such reality check comes from mobile app sharing service ...

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Wi-Fi 16GB

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Wi-Fi 16GB Review, by Melissa J. Perenson June 8, 2011 The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Wi-Fi is the first Android tablet to effectively challenge Apple's iPad 2 at what Apple does best: Design. Let's face it, when it comes to ...

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