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Someone took the pain of organizing the members of Indian parliament information from 1951 to 2011. The result : a highly useful Lok Sabha app. Developed by KCP Technologies Ltd, Lok Sabha Android app is a highly useful and highly functional mobile application. Lok Sabha is KCP’s first Android app. Lok Sabha app lets you […] Read more
You should love Chinese phones by now. The sheer ingenuity they bring to the world of copying, is well, ingenuous. I can’t help but mention the most innovative low-cost phones which Micromax, Karbonn and Spice sell in India are Chinese inventions (for the most part). What happens when the inventions go a little upscale? We […] Read more
Remember Panda for Google Search? Remember how blogs and websites complain about the changes in search rankings when Panda is unleashed? A similar sentiment is flowing across Android app developers. This time, the search is in Android market. The anger on the Android forums is partly financial – one developer said downloads had been cut […] Read more
While Mozilla announced that it is working on a cloud based mobile OS based on Linux kernel to rival Google’s Android, Alibaba has unveiled an actual cloud based mobile OS. Called as Aliyun, this new mobile operating system is apparently free, based on Linux and is tightly integrated to cloud, avoiding the need to install […] Read more
Concept phones are fun. If we are lucky we can actually see them in production and get our hands on it. May be that’s how we got our hands on mobile phones and touch screen phones. Samsung Skin is a super flexible AMOLED phone concept which has a bendable touch screen. The phone is so […] Read more
Android success on smartphones has been phenomenal. The same success couldn’t be replicated to the tablet platform. As per off the hand estimates, there could be anywhere between 1 million to 5 million Android tablets out there. That is a paltry number when compared to iPad numbers and the number becomes insignificant if we count […] Read more
Mobilewalla, the app discovery engine, has released its iPhone and Android apps today. Mobilewalla tracks more than 800,000 apps in four different app stores, gathers social media sentiment around the apps and ranks the apps. Mobilewalla provides a score which is called as Mobilewalla App Score (MAS) which gives an indication of how well the […] Read more
HTC Bliss which surfaced few weeks back as a rendered image, is now turning out to be true. Two images have surfaced of what is a touch screen bar phone in sea foam green color. From the picture there isn’t anything which makes it a lady’s phone. You know we have seen quite a few […] Read more
Beetel, Bharti Airtel’s telecom product arm, has announced the launch of an Android tablet – Beetel Magiq. Looks like the tablet is already on sale at retailer Sagar Telecom. Beetel Magiq costs Rs. 8900 and is 3G enabled. AndroidOS has dug this up and the looks and specifications are quickly pointing us towards Huawei Smakit […] Read more
Android first started as a startup by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears and Chris White. It was acquired by Google in 2005. Since then Google made sure that Android became a success it is now. With more than 130 million Android devices out there and 550,000 devices being activated everyday, Android is on one […] Read more
An important news just passed on my Google+ stream. Samsung Galaxy SL is getting a Gingerbread update in India. The update is available via Samsung Kies. Open it up and it might actually be waiting for you. We have not confirmed this yet. Leave a comment if the story is indeed true. Check out our […] Read more
Not that iPad needed a proof that it is the best tablet out there, simple math done by John Gruber of Daring Fireball actually reveals that very few Android tablets were sold and iPad is indeed the king of tablets. Only 1.21 million Android tablets were sold versus 28.73 million iPads sold. Based on the […] Read more
Finally Karbonn has entered the Android race with Karbonn A1. Karbonn A1 has 2.8 inch capacitive touch screen and 3.2 megapixel camera . It runs on Android Froyo version 2.2 with 600 MHz processor. It supports 3G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Thanks to Froyo, A1 can act as a Wi- Fi hotspot. Karbonn A1 supports Adobe […] Read more
Mozilla has announced a new mobile operating system which will be truly open in it strict sense, unlike Android. The new operating system is called “Boot to Gecko” and will be developed in the open, source code released to public as it is being developed, suggestions taken in and a open mobile OS built. Boot […] Read more
Samsung ‘is’ the new smartphone king, if the analysts numbers are right. The right usage would be, Samsung might have surpassed Apple and Nokia and is inching towards the smartphone crown. As per Bloomberg, Samsung might have sold 18 million to 21 million, Nokia has sold 16.7 million and Apple have sold 20.3 million smartphones. […] Read more
Android market will support multiple APK files from the same app. APK is the android package kit or the executable of an android app which sits on your Android phone. Till now a developer can only push one APK file for the application. What this means is, the developer has to pick the best platform […] Read more
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