The main engineer behind webOS, the very nicely styled alternative OS to Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone OS, Matias Duarte, has left Palm and webOS behind and taken on the position of User Experience Director of Android for Google. This is great news indeed as we’re sure this will bring in some better UI for Continue Reading…

Google I/O’s Day 2 Keynote has started, if you can watch it live, it is located here: Googe I/O Live YouTube Feed Main announcement, Android 2.2 is now official and they are running through the updates and features now. 8:40AM:  Daily Activation Rate of Android Phones is now: 100,000/Day Stated the previously known data, 2nd Continue Reading…

Just in case you weren’t aware, Google I/O starts today, right now.  So, we will be using this post to help announce the news as fast as possible.  I’m trying to keep track of the I/O live and will post updates here. 9:05am:  Just announced a couple extra surprises tomorrow, so the Keynote is moving Continue Reading…

It has been a long time since Android was first introduced to the world.  Back then, it wasn’t much to look like, and sort of reminded me of a mix between a Blackberry phone and Mac OSX.  Based off the Linux kernel, at first Android was more of an idea and a concept than a Continue Reading…

The Android-powered nook e-reader was updated to version 1.3 today, and I got a chance to go hands-on with it. With this update, Barnes and Noble has shown they’re committed to updating the nook, adding new features and making improvements. This is good, because version 1.3 of the nook shows some serious promise. Click through to see the new features.

When Apple officially killed the ability to build apps utilizing Adobe Flash and Air that are then compiled to run as a native iPhone App, they opened a door for Android.  The Flash and Air developers who have made a number of iPhone apps have been able to quickly move their apps from iPhone to Continue Reading…

It wasn’t long ago that I wrote a little article about Android Fragmentation, or the trend of having multiple versions of Android in the market and having many different Applications and Features, most of which were Google born, not compatible between each version.  This left many users feeling left out in the cold and behind Continue Reading…

In our third part of the “Choosing a Smartphone” series, we’re going to take on the 300lb gorilla that is the iPhone. I fully expect that our readers will get a little hot under the collar about this one. In our first post, we incurred the ire of the Windows Loyal, our last post made Continue Reading…

On March 25th, AdMob released it’s report for February 2010 covering it’s mobile metrics and ads served to mobile devices.  Cleary, Android was a big winner last year. “Android was the fastest growing operating system in the AdMob network year-over-year. Android’s share of smartphone requests increased from 2% in February 2009 to 24% in February Continue Reading…

In our recent profile of Palm WebOS, as we compared our favorite OS to Palm’s offering, we couldn’t help but notice a lot of similarities. More than that, there seem to be a lot of complementary features to the two OS’s; where one is weak, the other is strong. One area where Palm is weak Continue Reading…