Samsung Electronics has officially announced that an update to the Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android will be launched for the Galaxy S II smartphone by the end of March 2012. The South Korean electronics giant confirmed through its official blog that its Galaxy smartphones and tablets can be upgraded to the latest Android OS. “Samsung Electronics plan to provide...
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Google has had a wonderful Christmas as users have activated 3.7 million Android devices on the 24th and 25th of December, according to one of the company’s executives. In a Google+ post by Andy Rubin, Google’s senior vice president for mobile, on December 28, he said, “There were 3.7M Android devices activated on 12/24 and 12/25. Congrats team-Android!”...
Online retail giant Amazon may be releasing its own smartphone in the future if an analyst report is accurate. Amazon may be looking to make it easier for consumers to purchase its digital content and tangible goods using their smartphones. According to Mark Mahaney of Citigoup’s research department, an Amazon smartphone could be ready for release in late 2012. He...
Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., does not have anything good to say about the Android operating system and Google apps, as he appeared at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Ballmer attacked Google’s Android, saying that the operating system is too hard for ordinary users to handle. “You don’t need to be a computer scientist to...
Now that the fuss and hullaballoo is settling down over the Apple iPhone 4S we were thinking that the Android Ice Cream Sandwich launch was going to bring us, well, more fuss and hullaballoo to be honest. It seems that isn’t not to be though. The operation system was set to be revealed to the world at the Samsung Mobile Unpacked event in San Diego next week but it has...
Security researchers at Trend Micro have identified a virus for the Android operating system, whose makers are using blogs as a redundancy and update mechanism. The security firm named the trojan “ANDROIDS_ANSERVER.A,” which poses as an e-book reader and is distributed to unofficial app stores in Chinese websites. These app stores are very popular in the country...
If you have an Evo 3D or Thunderbolt phone then you will want to know about the latest HTC Android security findings. It seems that any app you put on the phone with internet permissions can get into your contact details and your email account among other things and then send it off to someone else. That’s right, any old app which can access the internet can spirit away...
Samsung does it again. In its latest bid to dethrone the iPhone as the world’s top smartphone, Korean electronics giant Samsung is bringing out its new Galaxy Skin, a flexible mobile phone. Samsung’s new handset, which was unveiled at the Hongik University in South Korea last June, and later at the CES 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada, was developed by Prof. Haeseong...
The Samsung Nexus Prime, the first Android smartphone that sports Google’s Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, has been reported to head to all carriers. The next Google phone has been spotted by people from The Droid Guy at the Verizon Developer conference in Las Vegas. They stumbled upon a man, identifying himself to be a Samsung employee, who was playing...
According to a recent study conducted by comScore, more than half of Android phones in the United Kingdom are from HTC. The report said that the Taiwanese smartphone giant is now pushing Samsung to second place. The MobiLens research of comScore provides an insight into the market share in the country enjoyed by smartphone manufacturers. Almost 20 million Android smartphones...