Samsung which has occupied a prominent second position in overall mobile phone shipments has come out with a proud achievement. Its new Samsung Galaxy S2’s has outshipped iPhone 4’s in South Korea. Samsung has shipped more than a million Galaxy S2’s in 30 days. This beats the iPhone 4 record for the country. If we […] Read more
Tada! Android is a money spinner for Microsoft and if all goes well in the legal department, Microsoft will be making a whole lot more. If that doesn’t shock you enough, get this : Microsoft is making more money from Android phones than from its own Windows phones. Here’s how it is happening. HTC has […] Read more
One of the arguments I hear a lot these days is : people are flocking to Android because it’s open. I am sure it is. Android is open. But what does it really mean to you? As a consumer or as an average consumer, what are you really doing with Android’s openness? And when did […] Read more
HTC the official manufacturer of Facebook phones – HTC Salsa and HTC ChaCha will be launching them in India. HTC Salsa is a full touch screen phone and HTC ChaCha is a 4 row QWERTY phone + touchscreen, which actually looks slicker and neater for a QWERTY phone. The price of Salsa could be Rs. […] Read more
Android caught the world by storm and Nokia off-guard. Top manufacturers like LG, Samsung and HTC are quick to spot the trend and launched Android phones, which the rest are trying to catch up. Android is an operating system of choice for low-cost smartphones. There’s no question about it. But is Android designed for just […] Read more
Just buy any phone and run Android or Android apps on it. If Myriad has its way then it could be true for most mobile platforms. Myriad has announced Alien Dalvik, which enables Android apps on non-Android phones, without any performance loss. A tall claim and Myriad has done this with Nokia N900. Support for […] Read more
Honeycomb the Andriod OS designed specifically for tablets is in the making for quite a while. Google has released a preview version few days ago and the final version isn’t too far away. Phandroid, luckily for us, has spotted Honeycomb’s logo. This could be rumor as well, but take a look. Via : AndroidOS Read more
Blackberry Playbook running Android apps – this is the preposterous sounding news of the day we are picking up from several sources. If true, this will really be huge. Bigger than Nokia releasing a Microsoft phone. Research in Motion (RIM) is contemplating on using a Dalvik virtual machine for its Playbook and future smartphones. Dalvik […] Read more
Dual SIM aficionados can breathe little easier now. We are picking up chatter that Motorola is bringing a dual SIM Android phone to India. Motorola Glam XT800 is a dual SIM (GSM+CDMA) 3G phone with 3.7 inch capacitive touch screen. It has a HDMI port, 5 megapixel camera, GPS and WiFi. Motorola Glam has 256 […] Read more
What’s the point? Well there’s no point in letting Google solve a sudoku puzzle for you. But it’s fun to try it out at least for once. It’s just amazing how the whole technology works. First off is the image scanning and then processing and then recognizing that the image is of a sudoku and […] Read more
Motorola has released a 4G phone at the CES event and it got everybody’s attention. Motorola Atrix has got the specs to die for – A dual-core processor, 1 GB RAM, 3.8 inch touch screen and 960×540 screen resolution. And that’s not what is getting the most attention. The software and the little dock that […] Read more
H T Impex, which usually sells computer peripherals under the brand name “Zen the Master” has entered the tablet segment with Zenpad 7. The tablet costs Rs. 13999, runs Android 2.1 and comes with 8 GB memory card. Zenpad 7 joins ten odd Android tablets which are already launched in India. Specifications Zenpad 7 has […] Read more
I fancy both Amazon’s $139 Kindle and Barnes and Noble’s new Nook Color. What if we can get the Amazon store on Nook alongside B&N’s own store and of course the color display? BlogKindle folks has done just that. Nook color is an entry level Android tablet and rooting on it didn’t take much time. […] Read more
Oh boy! Android is everywhere. It has changed the smartphone ecosystem. If you don’t have an Android app then you are so doomed. What can be the reason for this phenomenal success? There are multiple reasons but let’s not worry about that now. Let’s see what a phenomenal success looks like. A chart from AndroLib […] Read more
HTC Desire HD is available in India from Flipkart for a price of Rs. 27499. HTC Desire HD is an improved version of its predecessor HTC Desire. Desire HD runs Android’s latest operating system 2.2 (Froyo) and comes with an impressive 4. 3 inch super LCD WVGA capacitive touch screen. This is one of the […] Read more
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