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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Google Asks Court To Disquality Damages Estimate From Oracle

(ORCL) expert, in connection with intellectual-property litigation between the firms involving Google's Android software. In a letter to Judge William Alsup filed Monday, Google attorneys took issue with unspecified damages estimated by Iain Cockburn, ...

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Group Files FCC Complaint Over Verizon Tethering Tactics

By Chloe Albanesius Consumer group Free Press on Monday filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission against Verizon Wireless for allegedly requesting that Google block tethering apps in the Android Market. ...

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Is it time to switch your mobile OS?

While the improvements are welcome -- we're keen on the Camera app shortcuts, for example -- many of them are features that Android users have been enjoying for some time. They include notifications, over-the-air updates, and the ability to search ...

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ComScore: Android captures top spot in US smartphone market

By Rachel King | June 6, 2011, 6:50am PDT ComScore recently released the latest big statistics for the US mobile phone market, and everyone involved with Android is probably pleased right about now. Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and ...

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Android, Apple face growing cyberattacks

After a recent attack, Google last week removed 25 corrupted applications from its Android Market, but not before up to 125000 Android users downloaded the bad apps, says Kevin Mahaffey, chief technical officer of Lookout Mobile Security. ...

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Stuck with Android? There's an app for that

This has left me stuck on the Android platform. Now, don't get me wrong, while I find iOS to be the superior platform, Android is a worthy competitor. Its biggest problem is fragmentation -- an Android phone from HTC looks different than an Android ...

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Microsoft's 'Windows 8' Could Challenge Google Android in Tablets

In the process, an analyst says, it could threaten Android's tablet plans. Microsoft is taking a radical new direction with "Windows 8," abandoning many of the traditional Windows hallmarks in favor of a brightly colored, tile-centric interface ...

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Apps behind Android problems, says Motorola

By Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor Sanjay Jha, the Cehief Executive of Motorla Mobility, has said that 70 per cent of returns of Android devices are down to problems with apps and software, rather than hardware. Speaking to the Bank of America ...

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Poor education to blame for Android returns, not poor apps

Simply put, most new Android users don't know what they are getting into when they buy a new phone. Here's a quick, Occam's Razor-style approach to looking at the problem. To put things in persepctive, we start by asking how long a customer had to ...

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Android Phone Makers Push the Edge in Drive to Differentiate

3, 2011, 7:30am PT No Comments Android handset makers HTC and Motorola are extending their user interface skins in new directions to help differentiate their hardware, though in some cases, it could exacerbate Android's already sticky problem of ...

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HTC CEO: We're the largest Android developer, after Google

by Jessica Dolcourt HTC Chief Executive Peter Chou took the stage at Qualcomm's Uplinq conference in Sad Diego today to talk about Android and Windows Phone 7, but not before tooting HTC's own horn. The Taiwanese phone-maker shipped 25 million ...

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DroidDream Light a malware nightmare, booted from Android Market

By Ryan Paul | Published June 2, 2011 9:21 AM A number of malware-encumbered applications were found in the Android Market back in March, but the infestation was brought to a swift end when Google deployed its kill switch. ...

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Mobile OS Showdown: Android, BlackBerry, iOS, and Windows Phone 7

For this battle, we're comparing the four heavyweights: Android, BlackBerry, iOS, and Windows Phone 7. Symbian is on the fast track to extinction, and WebOS (found on Palm and some HP devices) is a minor player. Android: They say it takes a village to ...

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T-Mobile Launching HTC Sensation June 15 for $199

1, 2011, 7:25am PT No Comments T-Mobile's next high-end Android smartphone, the HTC Sensation, arrives on June 15 for $199 after $50 mail-in rebate and two-year contract. The 4G device boasts a high resolution screen and dual-core processor, ...

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