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Samsung unveiled the third generation GALAXY S, the GALAXY S III, Android smartphone inspired by nature that can recognize your voice, knows your intention, and makes it easy to share instantly. The new Samsung Galaxy S III is powered by Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich and features a 4.8 inch HD Super AMOLED display with [...]

Not so surprisingly, Apple’s iPhone 4S grabbed the top spot in the best-selling mobile phone handsets in 4th quarter in US in a report by NPD group.  The second spot was held by Apple iPhone 4.  surprisingly Apple’s iPhone 3GS , the phone Apple launched years ago, took the third spot. In the 4th quarter, the [...]

Flurry Analytics, the mobile app analytics company that  offers solution to monitor how consumers interact with apps  in real-time, found that the number of downloaded apps on 2011 Christmas Day was close to quarter billion.  And the Christmas day also saw 6.8  iOS  and  Android device activations. With high tech gifts being unwrapped and explored, [...]

Apple announced that more than 100 million apps have been downloaded from its Mac App Store. Apple brought its successfull App store to Macs at the beginning of this year, 6th January 2011 to be exact. On the first day of launch Mac App Store downloads hit a million. And now in less than one [...]

Earlier this week, Google announced that its Android Market App downloads hit 10 billion and the Android Market is growing at the staggering rate of one billion app downloads per month. Today, Google shared more details about the growth Android Market and Apps downloaded as a infogrpahics with lots of stats on Android App downloads. [...]

Google proudly announced in its blog that the number of apps downloaded from Android Market place has gone past 10 Billion. Android Marketplace saw the milestone of 10 billion-th download this past weekend and now Android Market is seeing the growth rate of more than one billion app downloads per month. Android store opened in [...]

AT&T’s first 4G LTE smartphones, HTC Vivid and Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket is available for sale starting from today, November 6. The Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket is priced at $249.99 with a two-year contract and the HTC Vivid will cost $199.99 with a two-year contract. With the launch of two new Android smartphone [...]

Google unveiled the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus running Google’s next version of Android 4.0 dubbed as Ice Cream Sandwich. The major highlight of Android 4.0 is that it is designed to run on smartphones and tablets. Galaxy Nexus the first smartphone to have the new Android 4.0 is super slim, has the 4.65” Contour Display [...]

Verizon and Motorola announced that Droid Bionic will be available for sale beginning today, Sept. 8. Droid BIONIC is the first smartphone from Verizon that combines the power of 4G LTE with the power of dual-core 1 GHz processors. Droid Bionic boasts of 4.3-inch qHD display with 1 GB of RAM and it is also [...]

The much rumored and anticipated Amazon’s 7 inch Android tablet is real.  TechCrunch’s M.G.Siegler was able  to get hold of a Amazon Tablet that is in design verification testing and said that it is either in production or will be in soon. TechCrunch did not produce any pictures of the Amazon Tablet, but said that the [...]

Sony Ericsson announced at Sony’s press conference at IFA in Berlin that it is adding new Xperia arc S to its Xperia portfolio. The new Xperia arc S is the fastest and most entertaining Xperia™ phone to date. The new Xperia arc S is powered by Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread) and has a powerful 1.4 Ghz [...]

Google dropped a surprise bombshell early in the morning by announcing that Google is buying Motorola Mobility for a whopping $12.5 billion to supercharge Android and its patent portfolio. And with a single stroke, Google is set to become patent rich company from a patent poor one. Now, Google will have the much needed patent [...]

Dell quitely stopped selling its 5 inch Android tablet Streak 5.  Dell launched Streak 5 in last August, as its first attempt at tablet to take on Apple iPad. Announcing the”end of life” for Dell Streak 5, Dell said “Good Bye, Streak 5. It’s been a great ride.” in its website with the following picture. [...]

Acer announced that it is expanding its Iconia tab line of tablets with a first 7″ Android Honeycomb tablet, Iconia Canada. The Acer Iconia Tab A100 comes in two flavors one with 16GB of memory for $349.99 U.S and $399.99 CAD and the second with 8GB of memory for the price of $329.99 U.S. and [...]

Facebook has put to use its recent acquisition and launched a stand alone Messenger app. With Facebook’s new Messenger app one can send or get to a messages to everyone irrespective of whether they are on Facebook or just in your phone contacts. Launching Messenger, Facebook said Messenger is faster way to message in a [...]

Sprint announced that it is making 4G experience most affordable with Samsung Conquer 4G.  Samsung Conquer 4G is available from Aug. 21 and it is the first 4G Smartphone from Sprint to launch under $100 (and it is also Sprint’s 25th 4G-capable device). Samsung Conquer 4G will cost just $99.99 with a new two-year contract. [...]

Microsoft shot back at Google for accusing Microsoft of coming up with bogus patent claims and colluding with other companies just to prevent Google buying Nortel’s patents, to kill Android. Yesterday, Google’s David Drummond made these accusations directly in a Google’s blog post. David Drummond accused Microsoft to get into bed with its arch rival [...]

In an unusual move, completely out of blue, Google has directly attacked Microsoft and Apple for joining hands together to kill Android with bogus patents. Google made these accusations, in a blog post titled “When patents attack Android”, by David Drummond Google’s Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer. Google Recently lost its bid to [...]

Smartphone market is about to be hit by the next wave of smartphones. Apple is expected to release at least one new iPhone in early September. Motorola has started selling Droid 3, the next version of highly successful Droids. Google’s Nexus S has just arrived to AT&T customers. Plenty of new arrivals by this fall [...]

Samsung and Google announced that Nexus S, Samsung’s pure Google phone is available with AT&T. Till now Nexus S is available only with T-Mobile and Sprint. Starting from July 24, Nexus S for AT&T will be available at Best Buy stores for $99.99 with a new two contract. If you can not wait till the [...]

Skype announced that Skype users on Android devices can now make video calls using the Skype for Android app. The new Skype app allows users to make and receive free Skype one-to-one video calls to other Skype users on the iPhone, Mac, Windows PCs, and other Android phones. One can also make calls to landlines and mobiles around [...]

Samsung and American Airlines announced that American Airlines’ premium class fliers will get Samsung Galaxy 10.1, the new Android tablet, for entertainment. The new Galaxy 10.1 tablets will replace the existing entertainment devices in the premium class. American Airlines is planning to deploy about 6,000 new Galaxy Tab 10.1 devices starting later this year. The new [...]

Motorola announced that it will be launching Photon 4G, its first 4G smartphone with Sprint this summer. The Motorola Photon 4G is powered 1GHz dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and it runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Motorola boasts that the Photon 4G is made for on-the-users around the world for both business and personal needs. [...]

Google Transit, a Google map feature that helps to plan a trip using public transport, gets a great feature to help us save time and make it easier to plan trips. Till now Google Transit can tell us only when the bus was supposed to arrive not when will it really arrive. Google announced its [...]

A study by Nielsen Wire found that Android smartphones users consume more data than iPhone users. Analyzing about 65,000 cellphone bills in the U.S., Nielsen found that in the first quarter of 2011, Android smartphone users consumed an average of 582 MB of data each month, compared to 492 MB for iPhone users. HP Web [...]

Barnes & Noble announced that it is itroducing all new Nook eBook reader for $139. The major attraction of the new Nook, is that it has full touchscreen. The new Nook is ultra-light (weighing just 7.48 ounces (212 grams)) portable 6-inch eReader has the most-advanced E Ink Pearl display. All-New NOOK is thin and 35% [...]

Verizon Wireless and Motorola Mobility announced that the second-generation DROID X2 by Motorola will be on sale online from May 19 for $199.99 with a new two year contract. Droid X2 will hit the store shelves beginning May 26. The new Droid X2 looks the same as its predecessor Droid X, except for the new [...]

Netflix announced that it is rolling out Netflix application for the Android platform and Netflix free app for Android is available for select Android phones. Netflix hopes to expand on the list of Android smartphones it can play in the future. The five lucky Android phones that can playback Netflix content are HTC Incredible with [...]

Google developers conference 2011 Google I/O is over. At the conference, Google mainly focused on Android and Chrome. Just like last year, Google I/O this year turned out to be a huge success. However, unlike last year Google did not really pounce on Apple.  Although, Google’s Vic Gundotra could not stop himself taking a dig [...]

Google announced at its developer conference 2011 Google I/O that its finally launching its long due Cloud Music service in beta. The new service named, Music Beta by Google, is very much like the Amazon Cloud Drive and lets user upload their personal music collection to the cloud. It allows streaming the personal music to [...]

Google I/O 2011 has started. The developer conference Google I/O 2011 is all about mobile, Android and more. Unveiling the first day of Google I/O 2011, Google announced the impressive stats of Android success. Google said just little two and half years ago, Android was a one device, one country, and one carrier OS. Now, Android’s [...]

AT&T announced thinnest 4G smartphone Samsung Infuse 4G will be available for sale from May 15. Samsung Infuse 4G also feature largest 4.5-inch screen in AT&T smartphone line up and for any Samsung phone. AT&T customers get the exclusive opportunity to buy Samsung Infuse 4G from May 15 and it will cost $199.99 with a [...]

Fring announced that it is bringing Group Video Calling to iPhone and Android devices. The Fring’s Group Video calling is free and four fring-sters can share the video call simultaneously. The fring group video calling works in 3G/4G or in Wi-Fi. Download the fring frind app from iTunes and Android Marketplace. Launching world’s first group [...]

Google announced that it is launching Google Talk with video and voice chat for Android smartphones. The video chat capability missing till now on Android phones allows one to video chat with your friends right from your Android smartphone. Your friends can be either on a compatible Android phone, tablet, of Gmail with Google Talk on [...]

Nielsen company analyzing the US smartphone market found that Google’s Android has become the most wanted smartphone operating system. In a survey for January 2011 – March 2011, Nielsen found that 31% of consumers who are planning to get a new smartphone want a Android device. And 30% want iOS device and 11% want a [...]

Sony announced that it will be launching two new Android tablets with “the perfect combination of hardware, content and network with seamless usability” to offer a high-quality, engaging entertainment experience. Sony’s tablets are currently codenamed S1 and S2 and will be available in fall 2011. Both the Sony tablets are powered by the latest Android [...]

Verizon Wireless announced that Droid Charge, the first 4G smartphone from Samsung will be available for purchase starting from April 28. Samsung’s Droid Charge will be available at verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online at www.verizonwireless.com for $299 with a new two year contract. Needless to say, a customer wanting Droid Charge also need to [...]

Sprint launched a new eco friendly Android smartphone, Samsung Replenish for $49.99 with two year contract. The Samsung Replenish , the Android touch QWERTY device comes with three color options – Onyx Black, Arctic Blue and Raspberry Pink, and will be available from May 8 (except for Rasberry Pink version). Sprint is waiving the $10 [...]

Fresh off predicting the future of smartphone OS market share, Gartner has come up with its prediction for tablet market share from 2010 to 2015. Gartner report says that Apple’s iOS will dominate the market share through 2015. However, over the next two years Apple’s indomitable lead on tablet market share will decrease and Android [...]

There is yet another report of how the world is going to be Androidified. Gartner reports that Android will have grabbed nearly 50% of smartphone OS marker worldwide by end of 2012. Gartner says the by 2011 year end, Android will become the most popular OS with market share of 38.5% and it will build [...]

Samsung announced that Wi-Fi only Samsung Galaxy Tab is available for purchase from Sunday, April 10 for $349. The Galaxy Tab is a 7-inch tablet with touchscreen display at 1024 x 600 resolution and powered by Android 2.2. The Galaxy tab weighs just 13 ounces and 12 millimeters thin. One can easily fit the tab [...]

The International Data Corporation (IDC) reports that smartphones are going to rule the world of phones and smartphone market share is expected to grow 50% in 2011. In the latest quarterly report, IDC reported that smartphone makers will ship more than 450 million smartphones in 2011 compared to 303 millions in 2010. Kevin Restivo, senior [...]

Amazon wants to move your media hard drive into its cloud, so that you can access your media content from anywhere. Amazon announced that it is introducing a new cloud based service called Amazon Cloud Drive (www.amazon.com/clouddrive) to keep all your music in one place. In addition, Amazon also launched Amazon Cloud Player for Web, [...]

Samsung announced that it will be adding to two more tablets, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 8.9 powered by Android 3.0, to its family of Samsung Galaxy Tab. Both Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 8.9 are world’s thinnest tablets with its thickness measuring just 8.6 mm (compared iPad 2′s thickness 0.34 inch [...]

Amazon announced that it is launching Amazon Appstore for Android (www.amazon.com/appstore). The launch of Appstore by Amazon heats up the mobile App market dominated by Apple and Android Market from Google. Customers can explore Android apps using their computers and an app bought from the Amazon Appstore can be used on any of their Android [...]

Google announced that Nexus S is getting the 4G goodness with Sprint. Introducing Nexus S 4G, Google said it developed Nexus S 4G with Sprint with the goal of tightly integrating hardware and software. Google’s Nexus S offering pure Google experience is the first smartphone to run on the latest Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). Nexus S [...]

Earlier this week Motorola announced that Motorola Xoom with Wi-Fi will be available for purchase starting from Sunday, March 27. Launching the Wi-Fi edition of Xoom, Motorola announced that the Xoom Wi-Fi will be available from a variety of places including, Amazon.com, Best Buy, Costco, RadioShack, Sam’s Club (select locations), Staples and Walmart. The Xoom [...]

T-Mobile USA announced that it is bringing back Samsung Sidekick by upgrading it to the speed of 4G, T-Mobile Sidekick 4G. The new T-Mobile Sidekick 4G comes in two colors; matte black or pearl magenta. The new T-Mobile Sidekick is expected to available in the spring and it will be first offered to T-Mobile customers [...]

Google announced that Instant Previews, a fast and interactive way check the search results is coming to mobile starting from today. Instant Previews offers snapshot of websites with the search results and allows one to visually compare search results and makes it easier to choose the right result faster. Users of Android 2.2 and above) [...]

Last week, Android users had a big scare as Google removed 21 apps from Android Market due to malware threat giving access to the device without users’ knowledge. Last night, updating on the malware issue, Google said it is remotely removing the malicious applications from affected devices. In its blog Google said, on last tuesday [...]

Apple’s next genration iPad 2 is here. And recently Motorola joined hands with Google to launch Motorola Xoon, the first tablet running on Android designed for tablets. Reviews of Xoom were pretty good. Although it was widely perceived as bit pricey, it was considered as a worthy competitor to iPad. Now Apple has launched its [...]

Motorola Xoom, the firs tablet running on Google’s tablet version of Android and the first real competitor to Apple iPad has hit the store shelves. Motorola Xoom is widely received with favorable reviews, but the general opinion is that Xoom is bit pricey. Motorola Xoom was probably the most anticipated tablet after iPad. Google’s tablet [...]

Motorola Xoom running on Google’s new Android for tablet is out for sale. The 10.1 inch Motorola Xoom costs $599 with a new two-year contract with Verizon or $799.99 without a contract. If you are wondering how good is it? The verdict on the first real competitor to iPad is out. Generally, Motorola Xoom was [...]

Verizon announced that the Android based Motorola XOOM Tablet will be available on the Verizon Wireless Network on starting from Thursday, February 24. And Verizon will be offering Motorola Xoom for $600 with two year contract. Motorola Xoom is priced at $799.99 without a contract. Verizon Data Plan Pricing and Speed Verizon’s 3G data plan [...]

Best Buy stores have started accepting pre-order for the Android Tablet, Motorola Xoom. Motorola Xoom is available for pre-order only from Best Stores, not from online. Once pre-ordered, one can pick up the Motorola Xoom on Thursday, February 24.  As of now Best Buy seems to be accepting pre-order for Motorola Xoom with 3G only [...]

After a number of rumors with price ranging from $800 to $1,200, Motorola Xoom tablet gets a price for real. Reuter reported that Motorola Xoom with 32 GB storage and 3G capability will cost $799 with contract from Verizon. Motorola Xom 3G is upgradable to 4G when it is available. The Wi-Fi only version Motorola [...]

HTC announced at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona that it will be launching two Android smartphones HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa that are completely social. Both will have a dedicated Facebook button to enable one touch access to Facebook service. HTC says that the Facebook button on these smartphones is context-aware and will pulse a light [...]

The pre-sales of Motorola ATRIX 4G begins today, Sunday February 13. AT&T customers have the exclusive opportunity to pre-order the 4G smartphone Motorola ATRIX 4G for $199.99 with a two-year service agreement. Motorola ATRIX 4G is expected to be available from AT&T by March 6 or earlier. The Motorola ATRIX 4G is powered by a [...]

AT&T announced that its first 4G smartphone, the HTC Inspire 4G will be available for customers starting from February 13, just three days after Apple’s iPhone 4 from Verizon. HTC Inspire 4G will cost $99.99 after a two-year contract and will be available from online and AT&T retail stores. And HTC Inspire 4G requires a [...]

Motorola unveiled new Android based tablet Motorola XOOM at CES. The new tablet Motorola XOOM will be the first device to run on Google’s new Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system. Honeycomb Android 3.0 is the first Android version specially designed for tablets. Motorola XOOM boasts 10.1-inch widescreen HD display, a dual core processor with each [...]

Fresh from launching the latest version of Android, Android 2.3/Ginegerbread with the new Google Phone Nexus S, Google offered Android tips & tricks in its blog. In addition to general tips, Google also offered some Android keyboard shortcuts and a few Android apps that every Android users will love. Here are the cool Android tips from [...]

Motorola released a new YouTube video that looks at the evolution of Tablets, starting from Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic tablets to the modern tablet. The YouTube video ended with a teaser for a new HoneyComb Android tablet from Motorola at CES 2011, the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow to held from January 6-9 at Las Vegas. [...]

Swype announced that its 5th release of Swype Beta for Android is ready to be downoaded. Swype is a new way to enter text on your your smartphones without typing. Unlike traditional text entry method of typing, Swype lets users glide a finger across the virtual keyboard on smartphones to enter text. The new update [...]

Google announced that Google Nexus S is available starting today, Thursday, December 16. Nexus S available only from Best Buy stores and online for $199.99 with two year T-Mobile contract. Unlocked version of Google Nexus S with no contract is also available from Best Buy for $529. For a limited time, Best Buy is offering [...]

Google announced that it has improved Gmail for Android by adding Priority Inbox. Gmail’s Priority Inbox is Google’s approach to reduce the email overload that almost every user faces these days. In just a couple of months more users have embraced to Priority Inbox as it saves a lots of time. Google said it found [...]

Google announced the latest version of Android platform, Android 2.3, code named Gingerbread. Not just that, Google also unveiled a new Android phone of Nexus family – Nexus S. Making these two announcements Google said as of today more than 200,000 Android devices are getting activated worldwide and “we are not slowing down”. Google developed [...]

Google has finally made the Google Reader App for Android available. Google Reader offers an easy way to keep track of all the websites one is interested in from one place. The Google Reader App for Android supports all the basic features like unread counts, friends, sharing, liking, and starring. In addition to these basic features, [...]

With Android growing at an enormous rate, The Niesen Company asked a simple question, Which is the “most desired” mobile operating system in US? The simple answer to the question is Apple iOS just toppled RIM as the top mobile platform and iPhone is the most desired smartphone. Getting into the details what the survey [...]

If you want to droid-fy your life with any of the Droid smartphones with Verizon, now you have the opportunity to do with just a penny. Amazon Wireless is offering HTC Droid Incredible, Motorola’s Droid X, Droid II, and Droid Pro for just a penny with Verizon two year contract, as pre-Black Friday sales.  The [...]

Verizon announced that Motorola CITRUS will be available starting from tomorrow, November 11. Motorola CITRUS is an entry level smartphone powered by Android 2.1. Motorola CITRUS is affordable and costs just $49.99 after a $100 main-in-rebate with a new two year contract. Verizon also requires a nationwide voice plan (starting from $39.99 per month) and [...]

Verizon Wireless, announced that DROID PRO, the first Android smartphone for business use, will be available. Pre-orders start today November 9 from select Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online at www.verizonwireless.com. DROID PRO will be available at stores for purchase starting Nov. 18. The DROID PRO will cost $179.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate with [...]

T-Mobile USA announced that it will offer three new Android smartphones; T-Mobile Comet, LG Optimus T with Google and Motorola DEFY with MOTOBLUR, at affordable price of less than $100. In addition, T-Mobile also launched low-cost data plans to go with the affordable phones. T-Mobile said these new affordable Android devices and the low-cost plans [...]

Barnes & Noble introduced the first ever full-color touchscreen eReader, NOOKcolor. NOOKcolor is ready to be pre-ordered online (NOOKcolor.com) and from Barnes and Noble stores tomorrow for $249.  Barnes and Noble will begin shipping NOOKcolor on or about November 19, right in time for holidays.  NOOKcolor will also be available at Best Buy, Walmart and [...]

Sprint announced that it will start selling Samsung Galaxy Tab – the 7-inch Android mobile tablet, from Sunday, Nov. 14. Sprint will sell Samsung Galaxy Tab at select Sprint Stores,  Web sales and telesales at 1-800-SPRINT1. One can also pre-order Samsung Galaxy Tab from 25 October. Samsung Galaxy will cost $400 with new two contract with [...]

Google announced in its blog for Google Mobile Ads that Google’s AdMob will be bringing interactive video and interactive interstitial ads to the Android platform. Google said interactive ads have been one of the demands from from both advertisers and Android publishers. Google said the interactive ads on Android will help advertisers reach a cross-platform [...]

Ever since Samsung Tablet announced its 7 inch tablet  the talk of tech industry has been whether Apple will unveil a 7 inch iPad in 2011.  Yesterday, during the conference call announcing Apple’s financial results, Steve Jobs “dropped by” and beyond any doubts made it clear that there will probably never be a 7 inch [...]

In an unusual move, Apple CEO Steve Jobs attended the conference call on Apple Financial report and explained that Apple’s phenomenal growth made him to attend. However, the real reason seemed to be that Steve Jobs had a few things to say, actually lots of things. For more than five minutes he blasted Google for [...]

Earlier in September, Samsung announced that the all four major carriers in US, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon will get Samsung Galaxy Tab and the pricing will be decided by the carriers. The World’s first 3G Android tablet, Samsung Galaxy Tab, pricing with T-Mobile is available now. No surprise here, it is the same as with [...]

Google Goggles, a mobile app from Google that lets user search by taking pictures, finally comes to iPhone. Visual Search technology is still in primitive stage, so it can not search well on all images. As of now, Google Goggles is good at recognizing things like landmarks, books, DVDs, wine, artwork, and logos. To search using [...]

The much awaited app: Skype for Android is here. Launching Skype for Anroid Skype says now ANdroid users can save money and stay in touch with friends and family on the go. Visit skype.com/m from the Android phone to download. One can also download it from Android market. Skype for Android requires Android 2.1 or later. [...]

T-Mobile announced that it is adding new T-Mobile myTouch to its Android smartphones portfolio and it will be on T-Mobile’s new super-fast HSPA+ mobile broadband network. Although T-Mobile’s HSPA+ is not a 4G technology, the speed offered by it matches today’s available 4G speed. And this is the second smartphone after T-Mobile G2 that can [...]

Foursquare released its latest version v 2.0 to Android. Releasing Foursquare for Android, Foursquare claims “Now It’s the iPhone’s turn to be jealous”. The major change is the all new cleaned up experience. Foursquare says Tips and To-Dos are now out in the open, making it easy to share and plan your outings. And there [...]

Remember Google’s famous online phone shop, www.google.com/phone, where you can buy Google Phone Nexus One? Since Google is selling Nexus One in US from that site any more, Google has made www.google.com/phone as the new home of Google Phone Gallery .  Google Phone Gallery showcases all Android powered phones. Rolling out Google Phone Gallery, Google said Since [...]

Verizon announced that the limited edition DROID R2-D2 by Motorola will be available online at www.verizonwireless.com and in select Verizon Wireless stores starting tomorrow Sept. 30. The DROID R2-D2 by Motorola will cost $249 after a $100 mail-in rebate with a new two-year contract and a suitable talk plan and Data plan. The special edition [...]

Amazon.com announced that it is updating Kindle for Android, the free Kindle app that allows readers to read their Kindle books on their Android devices. The update brings a number of new features including the ability to search the full text of Kindle books by voice or text, seamlessly look up words and phrases in [...]

Dropbox, the leading easy to use file sharing service across devices over internet, announced new Dropbox apps for mobile devices. Dropbox introduced a new Dropbox app Blackberry and it also announced new releases of Dropbox app for iPhone, iPad, and Android. Dropbox for Blackberry brings file access and viewing directly to the Blackberry.  One can [...]

Google announced in its Gmail blog that it has released a new version of Gmail App for Android. The good news about the announcement is that from now on Gmail updates are not tied down to Android OS. Using the Gmail app, even if you are running on an old version of Android OS, you [...]

At Google Atmosphere in Paris, Google’s annual European event, Google announced that more than more than 3 million businesses have “Gone Google”. Within the businesses, schools more than 30 million users have “Gone Google”. Just six months ago, in March, Google announced that 25 million users have Gone Google.  Google claims that  ”Each day, thousands [...]

Early this morning, TechCrunch reported that Facebook is secretly working on building “Facebook Phone”. The rumor got little bit more interesting as Silicon Alley Insider reported that Facebook Phone will run on Android “For Sure”. Facebook: We are not building phone Facebook representative denied the rumor on Facebook Phone to Mashable and gave the following [...]

The hottest tech news/rumor for the weekend is pretty hard to believe with potentially huuuuge impact. TechCrunch reports that Facebook is secretly building its own low end smartphone to arrest the growing power of iPhone and Androids. Just like Apple and other phone makers, Facebook is working on the software and a third party will [...]

HTC, the Taiwanese based phone maker, announced two new Android based smartphones HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z and new HTC Sense.  The smartphones HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z will be available in Europe and Asian beginning October 2010 and HTC Desire Z will be available in North America later this year. [...]

Gartner, the technology research and advisory company, predicts that Android will become No. 2 mobile operating system Worldwide in 2010 and by 2014 Android will challenge Nokia’s Symbian for No. 1 position. In a press release, Gartner said that Android and Symbian will have the worldwide market share of 58% on mobile OS by 2014. Although [...]

T-Mobile unveiled its first smartphone T-Mobile G2 for its new HSPA+ network. The smartphone G2 with Google is specifically designed to deliver 4G speeds on T-Mobile’s new HSPA+ network. T-Mobile’s new HSPA+ network covers more than 55 major metropolitan areas across USA. T-Mobile boasts that HSPA+ delivers downloads at 4G speeds of today. Although HSPA+ is not [...]

Samsung will start selling its Android smartphone Samsung Galaxy Fascinate online today in US with Verizon Wireless. The smartphone will be available at Verizon stores starting from September 9. Samsung Galaxy portfolio that includes Galaxy Fascinate is one of the successful products from Samsung that shipped 1 million within 45 days. Samsung Galaxy Fascinate will cost [...]

Samsung USA announced in a press release today that it has shipped 1 million Samsung Galaxy S, a smartphone running on Android 2.1. Samsung Galaxy S was introduced US market in July 15 and now it is available with AT&T and T-Mobile. Samsung Galaxy portfolio boasts of four powerful smartphones: Samsung Captivate, Samsung Vibrant, Samsung [...]

Last week, Verizon announced the launch of Droid 2 Android smartphone from Motorola without any fanfare. The is available for sale from Verizon stores for $199 after $100 mail-in rebate with a new two year contract and eligible voice and data plans. Droid 2 for $100 If you are interested in buying Droid 2, stop [...]

Google announced it will fight against the Oracle’s lawsuit over Java in Android.   Yesterday, Oracle filing a lawsuit against Google, accused that google knowingly violated Oracle’s intellectual property. Oracle said, in a press release that In developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle’s Java-related intellectual property. This lawsuit seeks appropriate remedies for their infringement. [...]

Google introduced Voice Actions for Android smartphones. With Google Voice Actions, you can speak to your smartphone and make it obey your commands to do lots of things. In addition to searching the web using Voice commands, one can call any businesses, contacts, send emails and text, listen to music (not just the one in [...]

Dell announced in its press release that Dell will start the pre-sale of its tablet Dell Streak starting from this Thursday, August 12 and it will be available from August 13.  Dell Streak is Dell’s first Android based tablet that can also serve as a mobile. According to Dell, Dell Streak Tablet is designed to provide [...]

Verizon announced that Motorola Droid 2 will be available for pre- sale starting from tomorrow August 11 online. Droid 2 will be available at Verizon wireless stores starting from August 12. The launch of Droid 2 and its pricing were leaked even before Verizon announced it. Droid 2 is priced at $199.99 after $100 main-in [...]

Sony Ericcson and AT&T announced today that they are (finally) introducing Android based smartphone Xperia X10 to US users. Xperia X10 in black will be available from August 15 at at AT&T stores, authorized retailers and www.wireless.att.com for $149.99 with a two-year contract plus a minimum smartphone plan. Sony Ericsson’s website says that Xperia will [...]

A study done by Nielson Company reports that iPhone users are the most loyal and want to stick with iPhone OS. However, the majority of Blackberry users don’t want to have Blackberry anymore. In the Nielsen’s study among the current smartphone subscribers, who are thinking of switching, close to 90% of the iPhone users want [...]

Sprint announced that it will bring the latest Android version to its smartphone HTC EVO 4G. Sprint will roll out the Android 2.2 upgrade to HTC EVO 4G users starting from next week (The week of August 1).  It also claims that Sprint is the first carrier to bring the latest Android 2.2 to its [...]

Google Voice added a new feature to its mobile app on Android and Blackberry smartphones, that will allow users to make a call really quickly. Announcing the new feature in its blog, Google said Google is obsessed with speed and its mantra is faster=better. The new feature, called “direct access numbers”, works as follows. Till [...]

Motorola’s Droid X unveiled on July 15 sold out within a day at most stores in US, despite Verizon’s promise of enough Droid X in inventory. Verizon online store now says that Droid X will be shipped by July 27. The Droid X runs on Android 2.1 and its features boast of 4.3 inch touch [...]

The smartphone Motorola Droid X is hitting Verizon stores on Thursday. The Android based Droid X will take on the other two smartphones in the market, HTC EVO 4G and Apple iPhone 4. Verizon will hope to capitalize on the supply woes of HTC EVO 4G and the antenna issues of iPhone 4. The tech [...]

Apps rule the world of smartphones. However, till now to create an App you need to be programmer with many arsenals at your disposal. They may not be useful enough, if the App you created does not follow certain rules. App Inventor Requires No Programming Knowledge Google has unveiled a new way of creating apps, [...]

Sprint HTC EVO 4G White, Android based smartphone, is on sale exclusively from Bestbuy across US and it is available still now. HTC EVO 4G White by Sprint costs $199.00 with two year contract with Sprint. It also requires a suitable data plan. Sprint’s lowest monthly plan costs $69 plus $10 for 4G premium data. [...]

Motorola unveiled a Android based touch screen smartphone called Motorola CHARM. Motorola CHARM will be available this summer in US with T-Mobile USA. It is compact phone weighing just 110 grams with a 2.8 inch touch screen and a full QWERTY keyboard. It also features BACKTRACK navigation pad at the back of the phone behind [...]

The rumor that Verizon getting iPhone deal with Apple surfaces again. Every time the rumor comes up, it looks more real.  Today, Bloomberg is running a report that Verizon will start selling iPhone starting January 2011, citing two unnamed sources.  Both Verizon and Apple declined to comment on the rumor to Bloomberg. Since the introduction [...]

Apple announced at WWDC 2010 that Apple’s attempt to break into ad business using iAd to make debut on 1st July. iAd is Apple’s mobile advertising network based on iOS platform running on Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch. Apple unveiled iAd at its iPhone OS 4 meet in this April. iAd is built right into [...]

Sprint announced in a press release that the America’s first 4G phone, HTC EVO 4G set a record for the number of phones sold in one day ever for Sprint.  Till now Samsung Instinct and Palm Pre had the best record for sales. Although Sprint did not give a specific number for the HTC EVO [...]

The first 4G smartphone HTC EVO 4G in US is available for sale from Sprint network. Although HTC EVO was reviewed as a phone of the future, it’s major complaint is its poor battery life. Here is what the top reviews had to say about HTC EVO’s battery life. Wired.com: “Battery on the EVO is [...]

Sprint has started selling the next-gen HTC EVO 4G. HTC EVO 4G has generated a lots of buzz with many “first of its kind” features, including 4G network speed. The reviews of HTC EVO 4G phone has been in general very positive, except for a low battery life and not so wide 4G network. Here [...]

Sprint is selling HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 3G/4G phone starting today. Sprint is selling HTC EVO 4G from its online store as well as from Sprint retail stores, Best Buy, RadioShack, and Walmart. HTC EVO 4G is loaded with a number of new features, including a large 4.3 inch screen, dual cameras (front and [...]

Google IO’s second day’s conference started with a keynote address from Google’s Vice President of Engineering, Vic Gundotra.  The keynote was all about the cool new Android 2.2 (Froyo) and the digs at Apple. Google threw punches at Apple at every opportunity and did not leave anything to our imagination. Here is a look at [...]

Google unveiled a new version of Android, Froyo (code named for frozen yogurt), Android 2.2 at Google IO conference. Google also revealed impressive stats of Android, since it was unveiled in October 2008 . Here is the Android’s success in numbers 1: The first in web and app usage among all the smartphones (according to [...]

Google announced that it is going to stop selling the Google Phone: Nexus One from its web store and it will make the phone available through the retail stores soon.  Earlier in January, Google unveiled the much anticipated Google Phone and started selling the phone only through its website. The idea of selling the phone [...]

It is going to rain tablets soon. Major tech companies, like Acer, Dell, IBM, HP, Microsoft, and Nokia, and Google, are working hard to come up with tablet (iPad killer?) like devices soon. The most anticipated tablet might be from Google, given the rising rivalry between Google and Apple. // New York Times report that [...]