08/08/2011
PC Magazine
Smartphones, the hottest and highest-growth segment in consumer electronics, have become the latest playground in the patent arms race. While you’re at a store innocently trying to decide between a Samsung Galaxy S and an iPhone 4, there’s a war taking place among the makers of those fantastic little computers that fit into the [...]
/08/2011
Enderle Group
Qualcomm’s Android-ready hardware and patents may be the solution to the hit-or-miss quality of Android phones and Google’s ongoing intellectual property fiasco.
Google Android has been incredibly successful, but it has also been wrapped in a series of problems. A good deal of the problems come from Google’s attempt to tear down the software licensing [...]
07/28/2011
ReadWriteWeb
The new version of the Android Market promised by Google earlier this month has begun rolling out to Android 2.2+ devices in the wild. The first sightings of the updated mobile application were spotted by members on the XDA-Developers forum, who have already extracted the mobile application and made it available to others who just [...]
05/31/2011
ZD Net
Nokia’s biggest profit margin killing headaches appear to be Android, China and Europe and the company doesn’t have any answers.
Speaking on a conference call, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said that the company was getting whacked in China due to “mismanagement” and high inventory levels. Simply put, Nokia can’t move phones in China. The [...]
04/26/2011
All Things Digital
The mercurial U.S. smartphone market has a new favorite and it’s not the iPhone.
It’s Android, which is now the leading smartphone OS in the States in market share, according to a survey released this morning by Nielsen.
As of March 2011, 37 percent of smartphone users own an Android device, said Nielsen–significantly [...]
04/22/2011
PC Magazine
BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) — The rise of the Android operating system seems to have gotten the attention of just about everyone, as Google Inc. is under attack by various patent holders looking to derail the software and the company. The beneficiaries are Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
The most recent court loss for Google [...]
04/2011
TechNewsWorld.com
Google’s new version of Android, Honeycomb, promises many new features, among them a holographic interface and 3D capabilities. However, those terms are sometimes thrown around rather loosely to mean many different things. What should users expect to see in the display when when they boot up a Honeycomb tablet for the first time?
Every time [...]
02/02/2011
Giga Om
The arrival of low-priced smartphones is an event many have been waiting on for some time. Sure there are often buy one, get one deals or one-day specials where you can find a smartphone for as little as a penny, but in most cases, such deals are tied to expensive plan commitments that last [...]
01/14/2011
Business Insider – Online, The
Google’s Android platform is most often compared to Apple’s iPhone, because they’re the two most advanced smartphone platforms, belong to the two giants of Silicon Valley, and because they compete over consumer mindshare, developer mindshare, and bragging rights.
But if you look at the data, it’s not the iPhone that has [...]
01/07/2011
Wall Street Journal
Huawei Technologies on Friday revealed details on its newest smartphone running on Google’s Android operating system, in the latest show of the company’s aim to boost its profile and its penetration of new markets with low-priced Android phones.
Huawei
Huawei’s touchscreen Ideos X5 The touchscreen Ideos X5, which runs on Android 2.2, will go [...]
