An ad was posted on YouTube yesterday, and then later set to private view, which showed an unidentified Android Honeycomb tablet. It could very well be the next Motorola Xoom, considering that Verizon has been hyped up on all things Android lately, and Android-powered devices making up most of their smartphone and tablet selection. Their…
Motorola Milestone 3, next generation Droid, released in China
The original Motorola Milestone did pretty well on launch day, and the next-gen Droid 2 launch in the US helped save Motorola from bankruptcy and irrelevancy. The family also went a long way to triple Android’s popularity in the US market. Now the immense success of the Milestone / Droid family is being continued with…
Nigeria enjoys 31% mobile browsing penetration, US 6%
The mobile phone world seems to revolve around the North America, Korean, and UK mobile phone market, but there’s more to the mobile scene than what we usually talk about. Quirksmode.org put together a chart of how other countries are using their phones to browse the web. The countries covered include Brazil, China, Egypt, India,…
HTC Desire getting Android 2.3 Gingerbread after all
HTC is a company known for listening to how their customers feel and always work hard to fix the issues they might be facing. That’s just what they’re doing with the Desire’s Gingerbread update. After saying they will not be pushing out an official update for the original Desire, thousands of negative replies got them…
iPhone and Android almost tied for app ad revenue
Millennial Media, a market research company, just released its Mobile Mix report for the month of May to give us an idea of how the market is being split between all the major platforms. Wednesday, they released this chart showing us how Android and iOS are currently doing against Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry OS and…
New LG dual-screen Android phone spotted in the wild
For the last few years mobile innovation of the conventional form factor and layout of a phone has not changed very much, but today a new LG device (possibly the Optimus Android slider we’ve been hearing about) will change that up a bit. LG fitted a color display between a split QWERTY keyboard, which hosts…
Nuance app turns your iPhone into a wireless PC dictaphone
Typing and using your hands to do things these days is becoming overrated, and it seems Nuance is making sure we have more than one way to do fingerless input. Just today the company announced a new service for the PC and iPhone that enables a new kind of voice-based text input. For the PC,…
Google intros Android offline GPS navigation, mobile search improvements
Google is always working overtime to bring their Android users services and features that make their lives easier, and they continue to do so with some fresh updates to Google Navigation and mobile search. The update introduced to us today includes a new feature that catapults Navigation to the level of SD-based navigation systems. There…
iPhone 4 knock-off runs Android, looks great
Have you ever felt the urge to buy the iPhone 4 because of its great looks but didn’t want to give up Android? Well Gooapple has your solution. This new iClone is actually pretty amazing and does something no other of its kind has done ever done: grab my interest. The phone is built to…
How iPhone and Android users fail to get along
With all the serious news, rumors, and announcements going around the web these days, it’s always nice to see things like this. A new comic strip was posted by the guys at The Oatmeal, and included in a long list of thoughts about smartphones, one cartoon is of a usual conversation between a person that…