All sources point towards Google making an announcement about additional services for Google Music, most likely the ability to purchase music and keep it in the cloud. You can watch it live at youtube.com/android at 2:00pm PST. In the teaser image sent with the invitation, it appears T-Mobile may be a part of this announcement. [...]
What does the Verizon iPhone mean for Android?
Unless you are living under a rock or totally not into technology news, you’ve learned that Verizon announced they will carry the iPhone 4 on their CDMA 3G network started Feb 10th of this year, just a littler under one month from now. That’s all fine for Verizon and Apple, but what does that mean [...]
Designer of webOS moves to Android
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 [...]
Google I/O – Day 2 Keynote Android Details Emerge
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 [...]
Google I/O Updates – Android
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 [...]
Android Smoothing Out The Rough Edges
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 [...]
Nook 1.3 Update – Hands-On
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.
Flash and Air Mobile Apps Port to Android Quickly
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 [...]
Google Looks to Avoid Android Fragmentation
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 [...]
Choosing a Smartphone, Part 3: Android vs. iPhone
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 [...]
