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Google wishes everyone a Happy Holidays, Android style

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Google has once again released their Happy Holidays from Building 44 video. “Happy Holidays to everyone in the Android community!” And for those not as family with the building 44 reference, that is Android. In short, what can you really say, this is Google wishing everyone a Happy Holidays. Of course, given we have a more »

Android 2.3 Gingerbread overtakes Froyo in the Android OS handset distribution

Latest stats coming from the Android Developer site is showing something important and relevant for the Android platform. The data which looked into devices that have accessed the Android Market for the past two weeks is showing that Android 2.3 Gingerbread and all its flavors is now the leading the Android pact when it comes more »

Google expected to partner with Texas Instruments for Ice Cream Sandwich device

Apparently a promotional image for Texas Instruments and Google Android has already been devised and TI will use the image for events starting in the Fall. Google will likely be creating an inaugural device for the iconic Android Ice Cream Sandwich platform — the OS version that works on both tablets and smartphones. For quite more »

Motorola quarterly earnings reports offer look at Xoom tablet sales numbers

Motorola has recently filed their Q2 quarterly results and this has given us a decent look at something that many seem to wonder about — how many Xoom tablets are being sold. And well, based on sales from this quarter and the previous quarter, it looks like Motorola has sold nearly 700,000 tablets in all. more »

Mozilla is building it’s own open mobile OS

There’s a lot of argument over just how “open” Google is with it’s Android OS, and now Mozilla is doing something about it. To combat the part-open-part-closed Android Mozilla will be creating it’s own mobile OS for smartphones and tablets currently named Boot to Gecko (B2G). Boot to Gecko will use the Gecko engine that more »

Rumor: details of possible Google Nexus 4G leak

After two Nexus devices for Eclair and Gingerbread it should be no surprise that Google is planning a new device to showcase the improvements coming in Ice Cream Sandwich. The next Nexus is said to be the Nexus 4G and some leaked specs indicate that it will be, for lack of a better term, a more »

Android Ice Cream Sandwich bridging tablets and phones in Q4 2011

At Google I/O the next version of Android was officially announced. The next version of Google’s mobile OS will be called Ice Cream Sandwich, and it will bring together Google’s Android tablets and smartphones later this year. The goal wit Ice Cream Sandwich is to bring some fo the Honeycomb features over to smartphones to more »

Google announces Android@Home

The smarthome idea has been around for a while, and Google seems to be trying it’s hand at the idea with Android@Home. Android@Home was announced today during the Google I/O keynote presentation, and aims to let you control your house right from your Android device. The first part of the Android@Home demo showed off how more »

Android 2.2 most used version with 61.3% or users

A full nine months and two versions after it’s initial release Android 2.2 Froyo is clearly the most popular version of Android at the moment. If not the most popular, it is at least the most widely used version. According to Google, of all the Market-capable Android devices out there, 61.3 percent are running on more »

Google updates Google Reader app on Android

Google has rolled out some changes for their Google Reader app on Android. According to Google, these are some of the “most-requested features” and they include a widget for the unread count as well as a news ticker widget and a mark previous as read. And as it had been, the Google Reader app is more »