Android now powers almost 60% of smart mobile devices
Research firm Canalys is out today with its latest report tracking worldwide smart mobile device shipments for Q1 with Android…
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Microsoft reportedly working on Android-compatible fitness band for Q4 release
Microsoft is planning its own entry into the wearable market, but won’t make it exclusive to Windows devices, according to…
Samsung will roll out its ChatOn Blackberry Messenger/iMessage competitor on all major platforms
Samsung is getting into the proprietary messaging format game with a new product called ChatOn it announced today. The service will…
Galaxy Nexus brings the heat, beating iOS 5 in browser speed tests, but falling in OpenGL Benchmarks
The first Ice Cream Sandwich handset, the Galaxy Nexus, hit the UK this week (US launch coming soon) and AnandTech…
Android tablets gain market share during Q3, still trail iPad in enterprise
According to research firm Strategy Analytics (via Bloomberg), Google’s Android-based tablets gained market share in the iPad dominated tablet market during…
Kantar Worldpanel: Android surpasses iOS as top smartphone in the UK
What HiFi is reporting that Android has surpassed the iPhone as the top smartphone in the UK, coming from a…
Google: 2/3rds of our mobile search comes from Apple’s iOS
As part of the Senate Judiciary hearings today, former former FTC official (and new Google employee) Suzanne Michel, testified under…
Google Play still tops App Store in downloads, slowly narrowing revenue gap
The Play Store continues to hold a growing advantage over Apple’s App Store in terms of sheer downloads, according to the…
Apple shows off new ‘Move to iOS’ app to make it easier to switch from Android
As part of iOS 9, Apple today has announced a new app called Move to iOS that makes the transition…
iPhone SE review: Requiem for a truly competitive mid-range Android phone [Video]
Straight up, the 2020 iPhone SE is a good phone. It probably won’t replace the phone in your pocket unless…
Android = iOS + RIM + Microsoft + Other
Gartner is out with their first quarter 2011 mobile phone market survey. The results are astounding. The first quarter belonged…
Nielsen: Android top phone OS in the US, HTC #1 Android vendor
Research firm Nielsen chimed in today with a survey that puts Apple as the leading handset maker in the United States…
Google testing new mobile site
[tweet https://twitter.com/nerderk/status/256020893275414529] As Google has done with past updates to its products, it appears to be testing a redesigned version of…
Wave Goodbye
All the way back in 2010, Google announced that Google Wave was on its last leg, and then last November…
T-Mobile CMO: 90 percent of T-Mobile smartphones sold this year run Android
From the Mobilize conference: T-Mobile’s network is 75% smartphones and 90% of those are Android. That means more than 2/3rds…
Is Japan's smartphone Android/iOS duopoly a sign of things to come?
(Cross-posted from 9to5Mac.com) A pattern is emerging in smartphones. Think about it, the same scenario has been playing out over…
Android increases lead over iOS in Q4 to 78% of smartphone market w/ 226m units shipped
Research firm IDC is out today with its latest report on the worldwide smartphone market highlighting shipments and marketshare by operating system…
Report: FCC clears Amazon’s next Kindle Fire with larger display, possible fall release
Amazon’s next-generation Kindle Fire could land in the fall with a larger display. At least that is what Nate Hoffelder of The…
Google Glass companion app MyGlass for iOS updated w/ photo syncing, bug fixes
Google’s companion app for Google Glass was updated this afternoon on iOS with a few minor changes. The update to…
Google’s latest Android ad is just as beautiful as it is simple [Video]
Google has today uploaded its latest “Be together. Not the same.” ad to YouTube, and it’s a profound statement of how…
Google said to be planning iOS support for Android Wear, could debut at I/O conference
Last month a developer managed to hack together a solution that enabled iPhone users to see their notifications on Google’s…
Hands-on with a functional 4.7-inch iPhone 6 clone w/ heavily detailed, skinned version of Android (Video)
It may look like iOS, but this functional “Wico6” iPhone 6 clone is actually running a heavily skinned version of…
Android leads in smartphone marketshare; iPhone, iPad leads in business, profitability
via techin5.com Henry McCracken over at Time has done us all a favor by collecting various data sets that illustrate the state…
BlueStacks now lets Android apps run on Macs
BlueStacks, the tool that allows Android apps to run on Windows, is now available for Macs. The software, which is…