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80% of new phones ship with Android or iOS [Report]
We’ve written about how large Android and iOS’ combined slice of the smartphone market is before. It doesn't look like that situation's about to change any time soon.Even in a shrinking mobile phone market, the two operating systems have managed to carve out a considerable lead for themselves.In fact, new research from tech analysis company IDC suggests that over 80% of smartphones shipped in the first quarter of 2011 rocked one of the two OS’.The company’s figures ...Phandroids, meet your dream bar accessory: KegDroid [Video]
Hey, are you geek who loves beer? Do you ever wish you could combine the two aspects of your personality? Well one Googler named Paul Karff might just have the perfect product for you.It’s called the KegDroid and it lets you select and pour beer from a couple of Kegs using an Android tablet.Okay, that’s might actually complicate things a little and the lay-person might find all the wires and gadgetry behind KegDroid a little confusing.The real ...Fake Instagram app spreads malware on Android devices
You may recall that Instagram released an Android app earlier this month, and managed to blow past 5-million downloads in the first six days after the version was released. Now it seems the launch has been used as an opportunity to capitalise on the popularity of the app and spread some malware.IT security website Sophos reported that there is a Russian clone of the Instagram website that offers downloads of a fake app. The app doesn’t seem to be a ...Celebs & their phones: iPhone, BB, Android or Windows Phone?
Despite RIM’s fall from grace, BlackBerry still enjoys large-scale endorsement from celebrities as well as the president of the United States, something once acknowledged on video by RIM’s ex-CEO Mike Lazaridis -- shortly before abruptly ending the interview. Most agree that iPhones are cool and you see plenty of celebrity Twitpic mirror shots with those, but how about Android and Windows Phone?I couldn’t find many celebrities using Android. Android isn’t cool yet and in an industry where image is ...Entertainment apps rule Android store downloads, not games
iOS users have fun, Android users get down to business, according to mobile app search company, Chomp.In its first ever annual app search analytics report, Chomp has revealed search data from the one-million-plus app searches per month which outline what the top apps are, what the trends are in apps and what the average price per app is.Chomp begins with the category share trend. Gaming, it seems, is on a downturn in the Android market. For iOS though, gaming is ...Will a split Android market doom the OS?
Antonio Rodriguez, a successful serial entrepreneur and now a VC, is very pessimistic about the future of Android.In this post titled: Android as we know it will die in the next two years and what it means for you, he argues that the splintering of the Android market into many different versions will create an unsupportable multitude of operating systems and mobile hardware that will doom the operating system.I used to think that, as with Linux and web services in ...Android is not winning
Fragmentation is busy killing Google’s OS, as Apple comes close to outselling Android for the first time.
Sales of Apple iOS and Android smartphones are now neck and neck in the US. According to research outfit NPD Group, iOS phones accounted for 43% of smartphones sold in the US in October and November. Android’s share? 47%. That's the closest Apple’s operating system has ever been to Google’s “juggernaut”.
But, "Android is winning".
Yes, Apple’s share of sales in those months ...HTC wounded by Apple patent lawsuit
Apple now has exclusive rights to use “one-tap screen commands” for its devices. This lays an all-mighty smackdown on HTC, which is now forced to end deliveries of “offending units” to the US by April 2012.A limited exclusion order now places HTC in a tight corner. Is the loss of one-tap screen commands a blow for HTC phones running the Android OS? Yes, as features such as calling a business via a mobile web page, sharing content and running embedded ...Twitter buys Android security specialists
The tech industry is scratching its collective head about a new acquisition by Twitter of a startup company that develops security software for Android smartphones. Whisper Systems, founded by the larger-than-life Moxie Marlinspike, a security researcher, cryptographics specialist and manic maritime enthusiast.The fit seems strange as Whisper focuses on on-device security software for Android phones – although Twitter may be looking for brains, not products, as it has taken some stick for the lack of security on its globe-spanning microblogging ...If Android’s so popular, where are all the Android phones?
It’s "all Android, all the time". That's what they’ll tell you. It's "totally blowing away the competition".According to Gartner, Google's pet project (which as we all know, doesn't generate any meaningful revenue) Android now commands 52.5% of the global smartphone market. Huh?Where are all these Android phones?On the face of it, the market share numbers make sense. You have a powerful operating system and ecosystem (second in number of apps only to Apple). You have numerous device makers, including ...
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