According to The Wall Street Journal, Google is “pushing to become a significant player in India’s huge wireless industry,” working with local handset makers to launch low-cost Android-powered devices in the coming months. The search giant is reportedly in talks with the likes of Micromax Informatics, Spice Mobility and Olive Telecom to deliver products priced…
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iPhone 4 Didn’t Help Apple Market Share Versus Android
Although the Apple iPhone 4 sold out in just hours online and in stores, with long wait times afterward for those who wanted one, it didn’t really seem to help Apple’s decline in market share. Between April and July of this year, Apple’s market share declined 1.3% according to ComScore. Unsurprisingly, Google took a 5%…
Verizon Prepaid Data Plans Get Official on BlackBerry, Android, Palm and Others
After some pretty heft hints earlier this week, Verizon prepaid plans have gone live on a wide variety of handsets. It’ll cost you $30 for unlimited data for the month, or those with feature phones can 25 MB for $10 month. Verizon recently changed their prepaid mobile broadband plans, so offering something on the smartphone…
Toshiba’s Android tablet to feature Tegra 250 processor, Folio 100 name?
Toshiba is jumping into the Android tablet market and is looking to wow the world with its froyo-powered offering. According to leaked information obtained by Notebook Italia, the Toshiba tablet is dropping the SmartPad name and is now rumored to be named the Folio 100, a moniker that is not to be confused with the…
Verizon’s next generation enV Touch to be an Android handset?
According to leaked information, LG’s enV series of handsets may shed its feature phone roots and adopt Android as its underlying OS. Those familiar with Verizon Wireless will associate the LG enV brand with a series of messaging-centric feature phones that extend all the way back to the original “The V”. One of the more recent versions…
HTC Bee: an entry level Android 2.2 handset for Verizon?
Hardware specifications for the Bee, another mystery HTC handset, have emerged today. The Bee is a CDMA handset that could potentially launch on one of many CDMA carriers including Verizon, US Cellular, Alltel or Cellular South. The Android 2.2 phone is an entry-level offering that includes a 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7625 processor, a 3.2-inch display with…
Incredible and EVO 4G Android 2.2 source code released by HTC
Good news for DROID Incredible owners as HTC has released the 2.6.32 source code for the latest Android 2.2. update. The source code is available form download from HTC’s developer website. For the non-developer, this large list of files may appear to be gibberish but in the hands of a developer or savvy hacker, the…
HTC makes four of the top five best-selling Android handsets (and no one is surprised)
HTC is driving Android’s rise and is leading the pack with its myriad of handsets including the popular Verizon HTC DROID Incredible and WiMAX-enabled Sprint HTC EVO 4G. HTC was the first device manufacturer to produce an Android handset when it launched the T-Mobile G1 in 2008. Amazingly, recent sales figures released by the NPD…
Android Comprises 33% of US Smartphone Sales, Leaves iPhone and RIM Behind
Is it any surprise to anyone that Android is very quickly dominating the U.S. smartphone market? The Apple iPhone is just one phone on one carrier, so it’s not shocking that it’s being toppled by Android. And RIM, well, despite having several handsets on every major carrier (and some smaller ones, too), just isn’t looking…
Motorola Fires Shots at Apple in New Droid X Ad: ‘No Jacket Required’
Apple has brought on another load of drama onto itself after seriously mishandling the iPhone 4 antenna issue – partly by posting the Motorola Droid X on their antennagate webpage showing wireless reception problems similar to the iPhone 4. Now, Motorola is firing back at Apple and the iPhone 4 with its new full-page Droid…