03/11/2010
CNET.com
The global smartphone market is still RIM’s to lose, with Apple in the pole position to profit from its mistakes. But new ComScore data on the U.S. smartphone market suggest that both should be worried by what they see in their rear-view mirrors:
While Android still claims only 7.1 percent of the U.S. smartphone market, [...]
12/14/2009
Giga Om Offices At Pier 38
A handful of Android-based tablets will be released over the next few months, offering bigger screens and a more immersive experience than smartphones and eschewing bulky QWERTY keyboards in favor of touchscreen navigation. But is the Android operating system enough to entice users to pony up a few hundred dollars [...]
11/19/2009
IDG – Online
Processor makers ARM and MIPS Technologies are both aiming to simplify and accelerate the use of netbooks, MIDs (mobile Internet devices), set-top boxes and picture frames that run on Google’s Android software platform.
Earlier this week, ARM rolled out the Solution Center for Android, which provides software, training and hardware to companies developing [...]
11/09/2009
Bestmobilecontracts.com
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon is really getting around these days. Not too long after Sony Ericsson confirmed that their XPERIA X10 will have an Android operating system running on the 1 GHz processor, we now find LG announcing its own Snapdragon Android mobile phone. Details are still sketchy as they released the announcement along with launching their [...]
11/09/2009
Unstrung
Users buying applications on the Android Market store will soon be able to pay for them on their phone bills at the end of every month, rather than paying for them with credit cards.
T-Mobile USA announced this week that it will have the ability to charge to a subscriber’s monthly bill as it launches [...]
11/03/2009
Thomson Reuters – Helsinki
HELSINKI, Nov 3 (Reuters) – Sony Ericsson (6758.T) (ERICb.ST) unveiled its new X10 flagship mobile phone on Tuesday, its first to run on Google’s (GOOG.O) Android operating system, but said it would not go on sale until early next year.
Android has gained a lot of traction this year as handset vendors [...]
10/27/2009
FierceWireless
Sony Ericsson is planning a product launch event Nov. 3, and speculation is mounting that the company will reveal its first phone based on Google’s Android platform. The phone, which has been rumored for months, has variously been called the Xperia 10 or X3, and is believed to be running a new user interface from [...]
10/26/2009
Financial Times – San Francisco Bureau
The Apple iPhone, which has been setting the bar in touch-screen smartphones, could soon be overtaken by an army of Google-powered handsets.
Android-based phones – handsets that use the open source Google mobile operating system – are on the march as non-iPhone carriers look for a rival to Apple’s device.
Since its [...]
10/20/2009
TheStreet.com
Exclusive: Google Plans Its Own Android Phone
Scott Moritz
NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Move over Apple (AAPL Quote), Research In Motion (RIMM Quote) and Motorola, (MOT Quote) Google (GOOG Quote) is jumping into the smartphone market with a Android phone of its own.
In what is likely to be seen as disruptive to the wireless status quo, Google [...]
