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…
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Why get a Galaxy Tab instead of an iPad 2
The Galaxy Tab 10.1 gets a lot of flack for arriving in its newly svelte body late to the tablet…
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…
Samsung Galaxy SIII Review: Can Samsung keep outdoing the competition?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg2rwyEYe5c] I spent the last week with two Samsung Galaxy S IIIs—a Sprint version and an AT&T version. Sprint’s version…
Google banks four times more revenue from iOS devices than Android devices
Google gave a testimony to Congress last year claiming it earned two-thirds of its mobile revenue from iOS devices, but now…
Review: A month with the Samsung Chromebook
TL;DR: This is the first Chromebook effort that fulfills the ChromeOS mission: good quality, excellent (MacBook Air-like) design, low cost…
Kindle Fire HD review: Why can’t this just be an Android device?
I (and, to be honest, more my kids) have used the Kindle Fire HD for over a month, and I…
Apple gets Samsunged: New Galaxy S II adverts poke fun of the barista’s latte-making art, suggest Siri is no good
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tmEegvUpGA] Samsung kick started its anti-Apple Galaxy S II campaign with a November 2011 advert that enraged people who would wait…
Almost comical, unintended consequence of of Apple’s patent win: Your manufacturer/carrier might actually update your Android phone
Something funny just hit me. Samsung’s “pure Google” Nexus S phone was hit with a number of software infringements in…
Affordable prepaid Android phones reduce iPhone to single-digit share in countries without carrier subsidies
Entry-level prepaid Android phones sell for as low as $50. Last year, the iPhone was the best-selling smartphone in the…
Samsung & Apple take half of global smartphone market, Android & iOS hit 80 percent
Research firm Gartner released its numbers today for “Worldwide Mobile Device Sales” during Q1 2012. There are not many surprises…
Cluzee, Siri wannabe, hits Android Market
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeDZ4Trn_jk] Calling Cluzee a Siri competitor would be inaccurate as any Siri challenger would have to be built right into…
‘Samsunged’ ad plays up Android’s built-in turn by turn navigation
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vOSgfvTC35A] We’re told this campaign will culminate in a Super Bowl advertisement next month. It’s always entertaining to see the big boys…
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…
Galaxy Nexus attracts lines at Verizon stores, so much for Samsung’s bashing of iPhone line sitters
You probably know by now that Verizon has finally begun selling the Samsung Galaxy Nexus for $299 on a two…
In-Depth profile of Motorola tracks its rise and fall (and future)
If you want to learn what happened behind the scenes in the tumultuous world of Motorola in the past decade,…
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…
Smart finally beats dumb, smartphones hitting 51.8 percent of global sales in Q2
In the circles most of us hang out, it might seem incredible that featurephones – aka dumb phones – were…
Eric Schmidt: “Android efforts started before the iPhone efforts. And that’s all I have to say”
According to the Associated Press (via Winnipeg Free Press), Google’s Eric Schmidt attended a press conference during his first visit…
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…