Archive of the Category 'Android'

LG Pitches up against Apple’s iPad

Friday, den 20. August 2010

LG have announced that they will be creating a new tablet based on Google’s mobile operating system, Android. In an interview with Wall Street Journal for an article, the marketing VP made a claim that it would be “better than the iPad”. They have said that their tablet will not only be focused on viewing [...]

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Android Top Selling Smartphone OS in America

Thursday, den 5. August 2010

The NDP Group in America have reported that Android is now the top selling Smartphone OS in the US. They’ve attributed this to the new handset innovations by both HTC and Motorola. Last quarter Android accounted for 33% of smartphones sold, followed up by Blackberry with 28% and Apple’s iPhone in third place with 22%. [...]

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Facebook Updates Android Application

Wednesday, den 4. August 2010

Facebook have launched a new update for their Android application. This new update brings a much needed overhaul in graphics along with a host of new features including a new photo reel, support for events, friend requests, video playback in the app, a draggable notifications drawer and more. Unfortunately there are still a few features [...]

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Google Adds Places to Maps Android App

Thursday, den 29. July 2010

Google have been updating their Map App on Android quite frequently recently with the addition of a number of new features including a free GPS Navigation feature. The latest addition to Google Maps on Android is a new Places section which allows users to search for Restaurants, Petrol Stations, Hotels and more. Users can then [...]

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Google Launch Android App Inventor

Monday, den 12. July 2010

Google have announced the launch of a new Android App creator called the “App Inventor”. This new program allows anyone to create apps for the Android OS without any coding knowledge. It uses a simple user interface in which users drag and drop boxes into the app to create their own unique app. See below [...]

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Yahoo Enters the Android Market

Thursday, den 1. July 2010

Yahoo have announced the release of two new free apps and a free widget for the Android market. The first of the applications to reach the Android market is their Yahoo! Messenger app, and the second a Yahoo! Mail app. The widget for Android is a simple search widget (like the Google Search widget) which [...]

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Free Google Navigation Comes to Mainland Europe & Canada

Wednesday, den 9. June 2010

Google have launched their popular Google Navigation app for Android to most of mainland Europe and Canada. This has been highly awaited by Android users who have yet to try it out for themselves. Confirmed countries so far include: Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, and Belgium. For those of [...]

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Google IO 2010 – Day 2 Roundup

Friday, den 21. May 2010

So Day 2 is now over at Google IO, so I think its time for another roundup of announcements.
First of all Google introduced Android and gave some interesting statistics including:

Google are now activating 100,000 devices a day
There are now 50,000 Android Apps available to download with 180,000 active developers
There are now over 60 Android powered [...]

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Google IO Event Starts Tommorrow

Tuesday, den 18. May 2010

The Google I/O Event 2010 will be starting tommorow morning in America. The Google I/O event is a big conference in which Google showoff everything they’ve been working on and what they plan to work on in the future. This will include Google Search, Google Android, Chrome OS, Google Chrome and way more. You can [...]

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Android Overtakes iPhone Market Share in the US

Tuesday, den 11. May 2010

Engadget have reported that Android has now overtaken the iPhone’s market share in the US. Android now has 28% of the smart phone market share, the iPhone follows Android with 21% and RIM (Blackberry) are still number one with a strong 36%. This is a massive growth for Google’s mobile OS which was struggling to compete with the iPhone in late [...]

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