Category: Android
Mobile Browser Market Share Australia – July 2011
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I was having a look today at the mobile browser market shares in Australia over the past month (June-July 2011). This is basically showing the popularity of the mobile phones most used for mobile internet surfing. We wrote about Mobile Browser Market shares for Australia in May if you want to check previous figures. The [...]
Google Android Overview [INFOGRAPH]
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In 2010 more handsets with Google Android were sold that any other Operating System handset. Windows 7 is now crowding the market even more and already receiving good reviews. Have a look at this infograph put together by cellphones.org showing an overview of how the Google Android operating system has gone to date. Infograph source: [...]
Infograph: How Popular Is The iPhone Compared To Android, BlackBerry, Nokia? [INFOGRAPH]
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Have a look at this interesting infograph on how popular the iPhone is compared To Android, BlackBerry, Nokia. Please note the stats are for the US but still very much useful to note. There have been some real movement in smart phone market shares over the past 2-3 years and this no doubt will continue. [...]
StumbleUpon Launches iPhone and Android Applications
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StumbleUpon has launched iPhone and Android Applications so users are now able to ‘stumble’ content for them mobile devices. The application lets you: – Easily explore pages in your favorite topics and on top sites (Flickr, YouTube, Photos, News). – The pages you bookmark from your phone are automatically synced with your StumbleUpon account on [...]
Android Market Update – September 2010
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With so much media attention always going to Apple and their iOS platform, its worth taking a look at how Android is fairing in the competitive mobile market. Here are some new stats worth taking note of in regards to the Android mobile platform: – 200,000 Android phones are sold everyday. – 97,000 (approx) applications [...]
Trojan Virus hits Android Phones
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There have been reports surfacing across the web that the first virus has been detected on Android phones. Computer Security company, Kaspersky, has found a an Android app called ‘Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a’ The app basically pretends to be a media-player application, but once installed sends SMS messages to premium high cost numbers without the owners knowledge. Often, [...]
Facebook upgrades Android app
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Facebook has done a much needed upgrade to their Android Facebook application. Android is now the 2nd most popular mobile operating software so it makes alot of sense for Facebook to upgrade their once bare bones application to something more powerful, similar to the iPhone app in terms of features. One feature that is still [...]
Cost of mobile apps? Apple, Android, BlackBerry, Windows, Nokia, Palm
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Its interesting to look at all the mobile smartphone Application stores and see the percentage of paid apps to free apps. A recent report by Distimo has found that more than half of all paid applications are about $2 of less. BlackBerry is however the exception as they do not allow application less than $2.99. [...]
iOS and Android Developer numbers [STATS]
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There are alot of developers now developing apps for both the iOS and Android operating systems. AppStoreHQ.com put together a survey of all their developers on both the iOS and Android and the stats looking something like this: – 43,185 iOS developers – 10,199 Android developers – 1415 developers building apps on both platforms. Apple [...]
AdMob May 2010 Mobile Metrics Report released, Android Apple battle
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Google’s Admob have released their May Mobile metrics report giving the latest information on mobile operating system market shares. The main fight is between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems. Apple is the clear leader at the moment but Android is making some significant gains. In terms of mobile ad requests, Apple is leading [...]
iPhone 4 v HTC Evo vs. Droid Incredible showdown
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Steve Jobs has finally told us how great the iPhone 4 is so why not compare the device against Google’s most advanced models. Who is better!? Andriod devices have become very popular over the last 6 months and models have been released and Google + HTC have pushed the devices to US and Asian markets. [...]
Google to launch iTunes competitor, Google Music
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It looks like Google will be releasing an iTunes competitor called Google Music for the Android phones. Google music will be a web based system whereby users can go view music and download to their device. Google music will be very much a cloud based music store. Google recently purchased a company called Simplify Media [...]
RUMOR: Google search to be replaced with Bing on iPhone
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There have been many rumors amongst tech news publishers that Bing will replace Google as the default search provider on the iPhone once OS4 is rolling out to devices globally. This is kind of expected especially considering that Google’s Android has been stealing market share from the iPhone over the last several months. Apple apparently [...]
Telstra HTC Desire reviews
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Telstra recently had an initiative to conduct HTC reviews by social media participants for the hot new phone HTC Desire. Several people where chosen from a variety of different social media sites and have been reviewing the HTC Desire. It looks like the social media reviewing has sparked alot of interest about the new phone [...]
Google I/O Conference Day 2
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Google unveils more details about the Android Operating System – Android 2.2 (code name Froyo) firmware update with improved speed (apps 2x-5x faster), market place and new features. Java Script runs 2x-3x faster on OS 2.2 The Android Market place has 50,000 applications and 180,000 developers. According to AdMob the Android operating system is No1 [...]
Telstra offering HTC Desire to social media reviewers
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Telstra recently showcased the HTC Desire to several Technology reviewers around Australian and the consensus was that the device is one of the better rivals to the iPhone. Telstra is now offering 25 of these phones to reviewers who currently use social media tools such as Twitter, Youtube or blogs for a 2 week review [...]
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