Today is a good day for Google who has been battling Oracle in a patent infringement case, claiming that they infringed upon some of Oracle’s patents with Android. For a bit of a backstory, it was in regards to two different patents, one that is a “method and apparatus for resolving data references in generated [...]
LG has been making quite a splash in the smartphone market these days with their popular android devices and cutting edge specs of phones like the Optimus 2x and G2x. Both the first phones in their market to house a dual core processor. The NVIDIA tegra 2 none the less. This time around LG is [...]
Earlier in the week, before the Galaxy S3 swallowed up the entire internet, Nokia decided to launch a fresh batch of litigation against a number of its rivals. Its fired off 11 suits in total against HTC, RIM and Viewsonic covering a total of 45 patents. The company has filed suit with HTC and Viewsonic [...]
Samsung announced a great partnership at their launch event for the Galaxy S III. People who buy the smartphone will also get 50GB of free storage for two years from DropBox, a leading cloud storage service with Millions of users. Cloud hosting has become increasingly popular as Internet speeds have increased, at least in many [...]
Ice Cream Sandwich aka Android 4.0, is a major improvement and being that there’s a lot of devices still running Gingerbread, the previous version, newer devices are getting upgraded as time goes on. With Verizon and an update schedule that leaked which rarely happens (sarcasm), looks like three smartphones will be getting the upgrade to [...]
Our sources familiar with the matter have gotten some tasty tidbits to share with us about the upcoming version of Android, Jelly Bean. The word is that there’s Galaxy Nexi – that belong to members of internal test groups for google – out there running preview builds of Jelly Bean If you’re visiting Android Headlines [...]
Google Drive launched today and has been making the rounds. Being that hundreds of Millions of people have a Google account, this is a great way for the company to offer another potentially valuable service which is tied into many other services that people already use. Over at Engadget, they compared Google Drive to three [...]
The long awaited arrival is finally here. Google Drive is officially available from drive.google.com and so far, the response is fairly positive. A cloud storage service from Google has been talked about for some time and it wasn’t until recently that it was clear that the tech giant was going to be coming out with [...]
The F word. Not the four letter one, but the one that gets Eric Schmidt a bit heated if you mention it to him: Fragmentation. Google has been serious about eradicating this problem in the past year. Ditch development on Honeycomb, go all in on Ice Cream Sandwich, and have manufacturers ship new phones with it [...]
Back in 2008 AT&T predicted that the internet would be full by 2010. Now althought this clearly hasn’t happened, carriers like AT&T are clearly concerned about the increasing levels of traffic over their mobile networks and in particular the amount of video being streamed onto our handsets. In the States, Canada and to a lesser degree Europe these concerns are reflected in the gradual disappearence of unlimited mobile data plans.
Where once we merrily downloaded massive files onto our phones and streamed audio and video to our hearts’ content – these days increasing numbers of us have to watch what we do lest we overstep our data allowance. As my Granny used to say, “Look after the kilobytes and the megabytes will look after themselves dear.”
When I bought my HTC Wildfire S it came pre-installed with a weather widget. The graphics of this widget were about the finest I’d ever seen – magnificent animations and beautifully drawn. The way these swish and artistic little videos blew me away left me thinking “Who needs an iPhone?”. I don’t think I have [...]
I hate to be the bearer of bad news fellow Thunderbolt owners, but as per an HTC representative, the Android 2.3(Gingerbread) update has been delayed once again. According to the email below, the update slated to fix all those reboots and deliver some delicious additions including skype w/ video, netflix, and better battery life has [...]
Mobile gaming is huge business. Whilst the iPhone has been the leader in this fast growing market, Android is fast gaining pace with games such as Galaxy On Fire 2, Need For Speed and Modern Combat 2 entering the scene, and with Android 3.1 bringing the option to install a variety of USB accessories and [...]
Open Feint is considered by most to be the “Game Center” of Android, even though it has cross-compatibility with iOS. It’s the largest connected network of game scores, friends, and achievements on Android. Their newest feature, GameFeed, enhances our experience even more! You can get updates on your friends scores and games on the fly [...]
Well ever since people started to put together the iWatch (iPod Nano new gen + watch band), I’ve been somewhat intrigued to see the real potential of something like that. If you want a better watch pairing device, the I’m Watch is something to look at. The design looks really slick and slim, but as you [...]
Isn’t Android, Googles Platform? Yes you heard me correctly, Android the platform built mostly by Google with help from notable companies such Qualcomm, HTC, Samsung, nVidia etc is actually Microsofts biggest money-maker in the mobile sector! Reportedly generating around 5 times as much money as Windows Phone 7 is! Heres the gist of it. In [...]
5 Great Android Games Full disclosure Kidromulous is a moniker I have used to blog about Android and I’ve been making top ten list with it so I decided to share some of them with you here starting with the five Android games I recommend right now with a second set of 5 coming in [...]
Does Chrome and Android = One OS To Many For Google To Handle? It is fair to say that Chrome OS is a polarizing subject. Websites, blogs and commentators vary from singing its praises to saying its useless. How does it fit in with Android though? Can an OS that relies so much on the [...]
Right now we are seeing Amazon expanding technologically across the board, and their release of the Amazon Appstore for Android has seem to be quite successful. One of the major reasons the Amazon Appstore has been able to succeed, is the availability to download a free paid app every day. While that is primarily why I [...]
For those of us in the UK and in possession of either the HTC Desire HD or Incredible S you should be seeing the update to Gingerbread or Android 2.3. UK Vodafone customers have had the update for little over a week now, beating un-branded / locked versions to the party which is for a network locked [...]
Samsung have announced that they will be giving the owners of the Galaxy S, Galaxy Gio,Galaxy Fit and Galaxy Mini an update to the latest Android OS for phones, Gingerbread. The news comes on the day that other devices are expecting to see the Gingerbread update, the HTC Desire HD and Incredible S. The Samsung Galaxy S [...]
One of the more frustrating parts about rooting your android is the searching of ROM updates, especially if you decide to try a new flavor of Android every now and then. Once you find what you are looking for you then get the file upload site choices. If you actually signed up for one of [...]
Looks like Google have made good on their Keynote promise to give Verizon Motorola Xoom users first access to the new Music Beta service. People are starting to recieve the email below allowing them to get started. Hello Motorola XOOM user, We’d like to tell you about some changes to the Music player on [...]
HTC needs a plumber I’ve said many times that HTC needs a plumber with all the leaks of their test roms and the leaks just keep on coming. Now it’s the T-Mobile G2 that has made its way into the hands of eager users. This leak comes with a new radio version and a rather [...]
There were rumors ahead of Google I/O that there would be Google TV announcements, then there were rumors that there wouldn’t be Google TV announcements. Then Google dropped the Honeycomb bomb and introduced us all to the reality of Android Market on the Google TV platform. Sometime this summer Google will release Honeycomb 3.1 [...]
Honeycomb 3.1 SDK released Honeycomb’s feature set on phone’s. There’s has been much said about this and some controversy about the source code for Honeycomb being delayed because it’s just not made for phone’s. Well Ice Cream Sandwich is official now and we know that some iteration of Honeycomb will hit smartphone’s in the near [...]
Invitation Only The new Google cloud music beta has just been initiated and it is accompanied by a new music apk and a free 20GB of cloud music storage accessible from any device with an internet connection. The first step to start enjoying the new Google Music beta is to get an invite so if [...]
On the heels of the rollout of Android Honeycomb 3.1 to Motorola Xoom users, Google has released the corresponding update to the Android SDK. This is being released as an add-on to the existing SDK, so developers can make sure their apps will be up to date with the latest and greatest. In addition to [...]
Google I/O kicks off, Ice Cream anyone? So Google I/O has kicked off in a big way with some pretty major announcements and though Google Music may be a big deal to some, I am actually more intrigued by NFC or Near Field Communication. This is why I have put a lot of effort into [...]
DoubleTwist really doesn’t like to rest on its laurels does it? Having added wireless syncing at the end of last their going one better now by adding a slew of new features to their popular music app (anyone at Google IO can check them out). While NFC hasn’t been doing much on anyones Nexus S [...]
So much has happened in the Androidverse today its hard to quantify everything but this we can! All you lucky Verizon Motorola Xoom users can now update your software to latest Honeycomb. While it is no Ice Cream Sandwhich this is still a big update which includes amongst other things resizable widgets and USB host [...]
One of the feature announcements of the Google I/O keynote was the new Android Open Accessory initiative and this one is absolutely a game changer. Based on the Arduino open-source electronics project, the premise is to bring connectivity between your Android device and all of the things that you interact with on a daily basis [...]
There has been quite a bit of controversy of Honeycomb since it launched with the Motorola Xoom a few months back. Most of the scrutiny has been about the fact the Google has not yet released to source code for Honeycomb, which is laymen’s terms means it isn’t open-sourced, which is a big part [...]
Google are set to not only take over the way in which we communicate but also the appliances in our home. They demonstrated how this will work by plugging an Android phone in to a bike and seeing how many calories had been burned. It is hoped that the announcement will encourage manufacturers to make accessories so that [...]
Android Ice Cream Sandwich Made Official Android Ice Cream Sandwich was just announced moments ago at Google I/O 2011. It’s okay to be excited as it looks to be an amazing release and the greatest change of Android to date. The main component of Ice Cream Sandwich is choice meaning that you can choose between [...]
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