Adhering to Google’s third-quarter earnings report in the previous week, David Barnard, founder of App Cubby, established an intriguing observation on his company’s blog, Google declared a run rate of $2.5 billion for its cellular ad revenue based on third-quarter earnings, up from $1 billion a year previously.
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More than half the smartphones sold in Asia are running Android
The advancement of Android in Asia is strikingly impressive. So when Samsung and Google decided to shift the Galaxy Nexus event to Hong Kong, it probably had to do something with the latest report from ABI analysis that reveals a tremendous 52% of the smartphones in Asia are running Android; as opposed to the 43% of the smartphone merchandize in the US.
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Galaxy Nexus comes to Vodafone,Three, and O2 in the UK
Wondering who will be the lucky carriers, carrying the very first Android Ice Cream Sandwich-powered smartphone? Anticipate no further … As Samsung and Google revealed the latest Galaxy Nexus they specified that this product will be accessible all across the globe, and three of the most reputed and dominating(the market) British operators declared that they will be among the service providers.
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Now live on Samsung’s site, Galaxy Nexus sign up page
Go ahead to and sign up Samsung.com(but keep coming back here to be briefed) , to keep yourself informed about whenever the genuine and approved updates are accessible. Complying with, and allowing you to pick either of these – Verizon, Cellular South (now C Spire), AT&T, Sprint, US Cellular, T-Mobile, and MetroPCS networks; we are still restricted from recognizing which of these carriers the gadget will be released to. Keep referring to our blog, and you will be ahead of all your tech savvy buddies to get the latest info on the Galaxy Nexus from Samsung, as we do our best to care for your needs.
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Google to operate Motorola “At arm’s length”
The search gian, implored that the other Android manufacturers had nothing to be vexed about, when Motorola was taken over by Google. Not allowing it any particular favors or privileges, they would operate Motorola as a wholly discrete unit. Ingeminating this claim, during a Wednesday evening interview at AsiaD, Google mobile chief Andy Rubin said ‘that the companydidn’t buy Motorola for its hardware, but for its patents.’
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6 Million Android tablets sold– Andy Rubin
Have you ever wondered how well are the Android tablets selling?
According to the god father of Android, Andy Rubin , who provided a detail about it, 6 million tablets have been sold at AsiaD yesterday. We had previously heard that only 3.4 million Honeycomb tablets have been sold till now, from developer estimates, previously this month. If these developer estimates were to be precise, that means that a little over half the Android tablets out there, are Honeycomb.
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Google Nexus Prime Shows Up on Singapore Online Store
The Google Nexus Prime, the first Android Ice Cream Sandwich device that will be manufactured by Samsung has been spotted on a Singaporean online store.
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Motorola sued by Google-funded patent firm
Motorola Mobility is being sued by a patent holding company that is partially funded by Google. This lawsuit is one of the many innovation-stifling mobile patent disputes currently engulfing the smartphone industry. Continue reading “Motorola sued by Google-funded patent firm”
Google Docs updated for Android based tablets
Google just unveiled a series of updates which will make Google Docs much more usable on their Android based tablets. The entirely new design has been customized to ensure optimum usage of large screen space.
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Samsung teases the Nexus Prime
At CTIA , Samsung and Google are expected to unveil the next Android flagship which is rumored to be called the Nexus Prime. The teaser clip briefly shows a device with a highly curved display.
Contact points for a dock can also be spotted on the side of the device. Check out the teaser video below. The phone should be unveiled on October 11th at CTIA with Android 3.0 ie Ice Cream Sandwich on board. Continue reading “Samsung teases the Nexus Prime”
Sony Ericsson CEO Prefers Android Over Windows Phone
For quite a while it had been rumored that Sony Ericsson is getting ready to use the Windows Phone platform for its mobile phones.
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Google Nexus One receives Android 2.3.6 OTA [Instructions to manually update]
Google Nexus One which is also known as the grand father of Android phones and Google’s first Nexus device get’s updated to Android 2.3.6. Last update which Nexus officially received was of Android 2.3.4, now Google has decided to skip 2.3.5 and jump directly to 2.3.6. Well I have not updated my Nexus One yet as it is on CyanogenMod and I am sure they will be including Android 2.3.6 in their next nightly. The update does not have anything in particular except dome bug fixes. Follow the instructions below to manually update if you haven’t received the update yet.
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Google+ for Android v1.0.7 update brings Hangout and lots of new features
Google+ for Android has got a major update to version 1.0.7, that brings the Hangout to the Android phones (Android 2.3+ and front-facing camera) that lets you join a hangout on the Google+ stream. Huddle is now renamed as Messenger. This also brings move to SD card support and lots of improvements. Continue reading “Google+ for Android v1.0.7 update brings Hangout and lots of new features”
HTC coming up with it’s own OS?
HTC has been experimenting with the O.S used in it’s devices from a long time, it was the first company to adopt Android O.S, it also came out with devices running Qualcomm’s BREW and has been running Windows 6.5 from long back, recently they have also introduced devices running Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7. Now we are hearing that HTC is looking to develop it’s own O.S, is this HTC’s reply to Google buying Motorola or is HTC worried about future Android upgrades and it’s relation with Google? Reason could also be the recent lawsuit against HTC by Apple on HTC’s Android devices.
In surprising turn of events, HTC has sued Apple this time
Apple has been suing HTC from a long time for infringing various patents, just recently we had heard Apple telling that the whole idea of Android was taken from Apple because Andy Rubin who is the godfather of Android used to work for Apple some 20 years back, but this was not used in the case as Andy Rubin does not really work for HTC. Now HTC has had it enough and with the help of Google are trying to sue Apple.
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