Android

Four months on, we roast the Galaxy Note 8

I’m a bit scientific-minded, me, so I like to do things scientific-like. So I took the Samsung Note 8 tablaphonelet and made some telephone…

Insane Android security flaw affects a potential 900-mil devices

Bluebox Labs, a “stealth startup” focused on mobile security, recently posted a fairly damning report that pokes holes in the integrity of almost every…

System Monitor review: Android’s best stat app

This article won’t matter to many of you, however, to the fellow nerds it will appeal to, I could not recommend System Monitor fervently…

Netsurfer Dual Tablet review: thrifty Android goodness

Change is a constant in the gadget world. Devices get larger and thinner, operating system become more user-friendly and our wallets become just a…

Google gears up for Android gaming console, smartwatch

An Android console from Google itself? According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, it may happen. The WSJ spoke to “people familiar…

Feedly review: Google Reader’s best replacement

When Google announced that it would be shutting down its very own RSS reader, I was outraged and immediately started looking for reasons why…

Sony tries again with Xperia-like SmartWatch 2

According to Gizmodo, Sony’s trying once again to impress us with a handheld, interactive timepiece. Sony’s SmartWatch 1 was a disaster, will SmartWatch version…

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…

Why it’s a good time to be developing mobile apps in Africa

The African mobile developer community should be smiling right now, what with being ideally placed to take advantage of a number of factors that…

The tablet: A fringe gadget

Tablets are fringe gadgets. Once we acknowledge this simple truth, Apple’s dominance with the iPad makes perfect sense. In 2011, we still tend to…

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…

Everyone calm down, RIM is going to be just fine

Research In Motion recently announced a lower than expected outlook for the upcoming quarter, making its investors nervous and dropping its stock price by…

Honeycomb and Xoom: Just one look and then my heart went boom

I’m in love with Android Honeycomb and I want it right now. Google held a special event at its headquarters in Mountain View on…

Gadget fetish of 2010: It’s all about the tablet

When it came to gadget fetishes of 2010, it was all about tablet computing. Yearning for a device that was bigger than a smartphone…

Are you looking for the best smartphone in the country?

According to Gartner, smartphone sales increased by 96 percent in the third quarter of 2010. Over 80-million of more than 400-million handsets sold over…

The hitch-hiker’s guide to the Samsung Galaxy i9000 S [Review]

The universe is a vast and ever-expanding entity of incomprehensible size. As one attempts to make sense of it, certain shapes take form that…

Android now second biggest smartphone platform after Nokia, says Gartner

Google’s Android mobile operating system surged past Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s Blackberry in the third quarter to become the second biggest smartphone platform after…

Kenya’s Maasai vets and the Android connection

There is much excitement in the developed world over the strides that have been made in the mobile market during the last couple of…

Going Android? Start with these eight apps

Everyone at my office got iPhones last year, but I didn’t really think the screen would last in my pocket next to my keys…

Android expected to dominate mobile app market by 2013

According to a recent survey by mobile research firm, research2guidance, the smartphone app market is enjoying explosive growth and is currently worth $2.2-billion dollars,…

How I divorced my iPhone and ran off with a cellphone named Desire

My iPhone and I had been together for close on two years, when an SMS from a total stranger made me think the time…

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