Android

Ouya the Android-powered console launches June for US$99

Remember Ouya, the Android console seemingly gifted to us from the geek-gods? Well it’s coming June 2013 for US$99 and it’s available for pre-order…

ZTE (basically) confirms it’s launching a Firefox OS phone at MWC

ZTE, China’s second largest telecoms manufacturer, seems to have all but confirmed that it will push forward with plans to launch a Firefox OS-powered…

Budget-priced Samsung Galaxy Express quietly launched

Budget phones are looking to be more of whats in store for this year. Even the elite priced Apple iPhone range could be getting…

Pantech’s Vega No. 6 is a six-inch 1080p LTE monster phablet from Korea

Things are just getting ridiculous now. Is the Pantech Vega No. 6, a six-inch behemoth of a phone the largest phablet to ever hit…

The Intel Yolo is Kenya’s first cut-price Android-powered smartphone

Intel announced on Thursday evening the first smartphone targeted at the African market, the Intel Yolo. Intel are newbies in the smartphone market, but…

Samsung’s next-gen smartphone ‘Altius’ may be the Galaxy S IV

Sammobile, a fairly reliable source for Samsung information has dropped a vertible bombshell on us. On 15 April, Samsung may ship the “Altius”, a…

Samsung outs 8-inch Galaxy Note, just in time for MWC

Mobile World Congress is fast approaching and with it, a slew of phones you never heard of, or needed. Take the recently-announced 8-inch Galaxy…

Why Amazon’s Android tablet could be amazing

The majority of articles about Android all seem to start with the same statistic: About 1 in 2 of the world’s smartphones currently run…

Three reasons I love Android

Open source. Free information. The power to customise what I want, when I want. These are not simply words used to describe one of…

Intel looks for Google leg up in smartphone chips

Intel, left behind badly in the market for processors for mobile phones by comptitors like ARM, looking for a fast catch-up by teaming with…

Google gives HTC patent ammo in Apple fight

Long accused of milquetoast support for its Android licencees when they’re attacked, Google has suddenly escalated the Apple-vs-Android patent war by providing HTC with…

Nielsen confirms it: Android now most popular smartphone

Forty percent of all US smartphone customers now carry an Android device. According to data from a July 2011 poll, Android has the market…

Googarola and our four top predictions

As many words have already been written about Google snapping up Motorola as dollars changing hands in the deal. Here’s a Twitter-length analysis: “$12.5-b…

Google patent tantrum: Pot, kettle, black

In an acrimonious case of the pot calling the kettle a patent bully, Google’s top lawyer slammed Apple, Oracle, Microsoft and other companies, accusing…

Penny drops on new Honeycomb display tech

After a blog post to the Android developers blog, the penny has dropped why the Honeycomb 3.2 update is actually a big thing. It…

LG’s Optimus prime-time smartphone

Review: LG P970 Optimus Black. It’s big and it’s black. And really skinny. The obvious conclusion is that LG is going head to head…

Skype video calling comes to Android

It may be a little late to the video calling party, but as the 800-lb gorilla, Skype can be. The VoIP behemoth has just…

Every day 500,000 more Androids active says Google

More than 500,000 devices running Google’s Android software are being activated every day, a senior Google executive said on Tuesday. Andy Rubin, creator of…

Samsung Galaxy S II: The galaxy strikes back

Samsung scored a smash hit with the Galaxy S, a phone that almost single-handedly established it (along with Android) as a viable threat to…

Samsung firmly nails colours to Android mast

Samsung Electronics will depend on Google’s Android mobile-device software to run future versions of its tablet computers, a senior Samsung official said in an…

BTW, Android Paid-For Apps Are Go in Your Country!

After lots of stop-go-stop-go, users in most countries can now access Android paid-for apps from the Android Market. The announcement was made relatively quietly…

Best of Android packed into “Ice Cream Sandwich”

Google said it is packing the best of its Honeycomb tablet computer software into a new “Ice Cream Sandwich” version of Android for mobile…

Android steams ahead in US

Smartphones powered by Google software widened their lead on BlackBerry handsets in the US market during the first three months of the year, industry…

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South Africa’s online grocery boom signals digital shift

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

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Honor Magic V3, a Guinness world record attempt

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Vivo update – a big safety gain

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