Archive : Android

With the recent news of Google acquiring Motorola mobility for $12.5 billion, the whole mobile industry is shaken, Google is already a leader in various arena and with this new acquisition they can change the mobile hardware industry as well. But as with any big acquisitions this one again has some critics which says Google is actually buying a company which may be a liability as Motorola mobility [...]

This is definitely a surprise for all of us – Google has acquired Motorola’s mobile phone business for a whopping $12.5 billion. This acquisition has the capacity of changing the landscape of Mobile handset industry all over the world. Larry Page, Co-founder & CEO of the company wrote in a blog post “Motorola Mobility’s total commitment to Android has created a natural fit for [...]

Not long ago we posted how to run Chrome OS on your computer by creating a live USB and running it live, Chrome OS hasn’t been much in the news lately but the one platform that is making news is Android which seems to be a big hit on Smart phones and tablets. No wonder Google claims 550,000 android devices are activated a day yes you heard it right its 550K thanks to Samsung for topping the mobile [...]

If you are little disappointed with the news we posted this morning about Samsung Galaxy S II aka. Attain is coming with physical keyboard, now you have a reason to rejoice. There is news that AT&T is prepping up two different models of Samsung Galaxy S II and both launching around the same time. The first model we mentioned in the previous post will have a full features Qwerty keyboard and touch [...]

Here comes the beast ! Yesterday, large number of websites leaked images of a Samsung phone with a slide-out Qwerty Keyboard, but nobody was sure about the name of the phone. Today BGR has confirmed that the phone was actually Samsung Attain, a Galaxy S II variant for AT&T. New Images leaked by BGR clearly shows the model number SGH-I927 which is associated with a variant of Galaxy S II. The [...]

Some recent studies including Gartner, during the first quarter of 2011 reveals that Google’s Android has become the most popular mobile operating system, leaving one time smartphone giants Blackberry and Nokia far behind. Below is the Worldwide Smartphone Sales to End Users by Operating System in 1Q11 (Thousands of Units), prepared by Gartner Research. Android mobile operating system was launched [...]

So you bought a cool Android phone with loads of functions and countless entertainment opportunities. You are in your classroom and we all know history or literature classes are not so appealing first thing in the morning; or, you are taking a long trip by train and you have no one to talk to. Or maybe you do not want to talk to anyone. What do you do? Of course, your mobile phone is the best alternative [...]

Yes you heard it right it’s not a typo, it’s a 7 inch Android tablet at a price 10 times cheaper than a standard tablet available in market, and its being launched by a leading IT giant in India which were early PC manufacturers of India. HCL has launched Android tablets before with price ranging from $250 to $750 under the brand name HCL ME tablets, but this time they wanted to do something [...]

Last Week Apple unveiled iOS 5, it’s next version of Operating system for mobile devices including iPad, iPhone and IPod Touch. The new OS is surely the next step towards bringing better user experience. Some of the common features included in the new version is iMessages (which Google is hard at releasing for Android), newstand, twitter integration etc. Similarly Microsoft unveiled its next [...]

Last month we revealed that Samsung is planning to launch its flagship device Galaxy S II with all four operators in United states. The device will have different names with different wireless operators. AT&T will carry the device under the name of Attain, Verizon as Samsung Function and Sprint will have its name as Samsung Within. Today Samsung singapore facebook page itself revealed the plan [...]