Articles Tagged Android
British Telecom Suing Google
British Telecom (BT) has become the latest in a long line of companies to lunch a law suit against Google. Last Thursday in Delaware, BT filed a suit claiming that Google was infringing upon over six of its patents. After Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility things seemed to calm down just a tiny bit in the legal wars, so we hope this isn’t an indication of a continuance of hostilities.
Ice Cream Sandwich Soon for Nexus S
Google recently announced an official rollout of Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, to GSM/UMTS versions of the popular Google Nexus S over the coming month via its Google+ account. The speedy availability of the update is a positive indication of what we hope to become a future trend across Android devices. Google hopes that Ice Cream Sandwich will be the version of Android to herald in a new era of reduced fragmentation of Android versions across numerous devices. Basically what that means is that from Ice Cream Sandwich onwards it will apparently be easier for manufacturers to update their devices, allowing companies like Samsung or HTC to release Android updates much faster than they have previously been able to.
Adobe Flash Player Receives Update
The days of Adobe’s mobile Flash Player may be limited, but there’s still a bit of life in it yet. Apparently disappearing after it’s made compatible with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the popular mobile service is still kicking on, despite its imminent doom.
Sony Ditching Ericsson from Title
Now that Sony’s acquisition of Ericsson’s 50% share of Sony Ericsson has gone through Sony has announced its next logical step: dropping the Ericsson from the brand title. As of somewhere around halfway through next year Sony smartphones will simply be labelled “Sony”.
Androidland Launched in Australia
Australia's largest carrier, Telstra, has pulled a world-first out of its pocket and launched an Android specialty store in Melbourne called Androidland. As the name implies, Androidland is an Android specialty store, much in the way the Apple store caters only to its own products, and offers Android fans their own brand-centric hub for everything Android.
No Flash Support in ICS Confirmed
The other week Adobe stunned the tech world by effectively admitting defeat in its war against Apple over mobile Flash for smartphones. In what was a pretty huge announcement Adobe stated that support for Android Flash would be terminated in order to focus on HTML5.
Motorola RAZR Review (Euro)
The Motorola RAZR is basically the European version of Motora's new DROID RAZR handset. It's a high end Android 2.3.5 device that takes a slightly different approach to physical design that some of the handsets we’ve previously seen from Motorola. Its sharp edges with just slightly contoured corners make for a more intriguing first impression than a device like the Motorola Atrix, but where the RAZR truly sets itself aesthetically apart is with its profile.
Google Music Cloud Announcement
A couple of hours ago Google held its official Google Music announcement live over the web. We tuned in to see what kind of goodies Google would be offering with its new cloud tunes service and whether or not it could potentially contend with the other cloud options that are cropping up everywhere. From what we heard we found ourselves tentatively impressed.
HTC Zeta a 2.5GHz Quad Core?
Some pics have cropped up on Engadget about a mysterious phone that’s rumored to be coming from HTC. Specs include Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, a 4.5 inch display, 32GB of storage, an impressive 1830mAh battery, an 8MP camera and 1.3MP front-facing camera. Most intriguingly the HTC ‘Zeta’ is said to be on its way with an absolutely astonishing quad-core 2.5GHz processor.
HTC Might Not Have First Quad-Core
Earlier this week we did a post about how HTC could be the first manufacturer with a quad-core handset in reference to leaked information about the HTC Edge. Now information is starting to hit the web about quad-core research being conducted by LG, Samsung and Motorola, all of whom are trying to be the first on the market with the next gen of super-phones.
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