Tag Archives : Google Android

Apple reinvented the Tablet computing landscape with its Tablet iPad, competition soon followed with Dell launching Streak, Samsung  joined the fray with Galaxy Tab, Blackberry became the latest entrant with its PlayBook tablet launched earlier this week. We bring you a feature comparison of these four models BlackBerry PlayBook Apple iPad Samsung Galaxy Tab Dell Streak Screen size 7 [...]

Give way, iPhones and BlackBerrys, smartphone customers in U.S. have voted with their wallets and picked Android as their favorite in the second quarter of this year according to NPD , a market research company. Earlier NPD survey has shown Android-based smart phones outselling the iPhone in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2010. NPD  concluding that 33 percent of phones sold during the [...]

Google Maps Google had launched a new version of its Maps app for Google’s Android platform. Google has given half-a-dozen upgrades to Google Maps on Android in as many months. The update gets Google Maps a new logo, and   the Navigation features got more stronger and powerful with  a dedicated ‘Places’ icon which  allows users to quickly look up nearby places and is clearly [...]

According to an online dashboard Google provides to developers, nearly 60 percent of all Google Android devices that recently accessed the Android Market are running Android Froyo  or Android  Eclair. It took nearly nine months since Android 2.0 was introduced, but more than half of those frequenting the Android Market have the most recent and polished versions of Google’s mobile platform. 55.5 [...]

Google has announced last week  that it will close its Web store once the latest  shipment of Nexus One phones are sold out and sell only through its carrier partners, including Vodafone in U.K. and that day has arrived, and that was fast, we did not anticipate that it would be sold out so  soon. As shown in the image above, Google’s official online store for the phone now just shows an ominous [...]

Logitech was among the first of Google TV partners coming out with press release and information  the day Google TV was announced (May 20) at the Google’s developers conference,  since then  all eyes were on  the Logitech’s CE4100-powered Google TV box. Logitech had revealed that their Google TV box will be called Logitech Revue .According to Logitech, the name “Revue” was chosen [...]

Image via CrunchBase One of the significant and useful feature of mobile Operating system Android 2.2 Froyo showcased at the Google’s Developer Conference last week which go dwarfed by the announcement of  Google TV and Android Froyo  was  the ability of  Chrome-to-Device messaging service which allows you to automatically send links from your computer to your Google Android device. Google [...]

Image by ToastyKen via Flickr After categorically denying any involvement in the recent cyber attacks on Google, China has signalled its intent to improve its deteriorating relations with Google. In a recent press release, China has indicated that it would welcome Google Android without any restrictions. Google had postponed its smartphone launch in China after its announcement that it would [...]