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Google has just released the latest Android platform distribution numbers, and it still paints a rather discouraging picture for Android users. Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean, the two latest versions of the Android platform, combined find themselves on just 25.5% of all Android devices. Ice Cream Sandwich climbed from 20.8% last month to 23.7%,…
One week later and Appscovery now counts more than 100 apps, though that number includes the apps users submitted while we were in private beta. If you missed our previous post, you should know that Appscovery is our brand-new service that allows developers to publish information about their apps — it’s do-it-yourself service and all…
Sharp announced that it is starting mass-production of 5-inch smartphone displays with full HD resolution of 1920×1080 pixels this month. At 443 ppi (pixels per inch), these will be the highest pixel density displays we’ve ever seen. Period. In comparison, Sony Xperia V and Xperia S have 340 ppi, while the iPhone 5 has just…
Alongside the hot-new Sony Xperia TL, AT&T also unveiled the Huawei-made AT&T Fusion 2 for the prepaid crowd. It’s a low-end smartphone with specs that include a 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen, 3.2-megapixel camera, 800MHz dual-core processor, 512MB of RAM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, 1,400mAh battery, while Android 2.3 Gingerbread is running the show. Thanks to the dual-core…
Two Japanese carriers, NTT DoCoMo and KDDI, are showing off some cool tech at CEATEC 2012. The former is demoing its Grip UI that wants to make it easier to use your big screen smartphone on a packed train. The solution consists of a trio of grip sensors located along the two edges and across…
Japan’s Softbank is acquiring smaller rival EMOBILE in a deal that would make it the country’s second-largest mobile operator behind NTT Docomo. The carrier [Softbank] is paying 180.2 billion JPY (about $2.3 billion) to buy stock in eAccess, the firm behind EMOBILE. According to Reuters, the 52,000 JPY per share deal represents a premium of…
Sony unveiled a new smartphone in Japan – Xperia AX, which is a local version of Xperia V. In that sense it rocks Qualcomm’s dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor clocked at 1.5GHz, 13-megapixel camera on the back, 4.3-inch 720p HD screen, 3G/4G (LTE) and Wi-Fi connectivity, memory card slot, while Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich is…
The Sony Tablet S is no longer as interesting as it used to be when the company launched it but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t get occasional updates. Quite the contrary – everyone wins when companies treat its old customers with new software versions. After getting its serving of Ice Cream Sandwich, the Tablet S…
Of the two major PC chip makers, only Intel is pursuing the smartphone market, though with limited success. Sure their chip is featured in the recently launched Motorola RAZR i, but is that enough? AMD on its end seems uninterested for this market, but it too wants a piece of the pie. So if they…
If for some reason you’ve been looking with a dose of envy at Verizon’s HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE, you’ll want to know that the carrier now offers it for $50 less than what it used to – $99.99 instead of $149.99. However, that’s still more than what two third-party retailers, Amazon and Wirefly, are…