Android News

Minus for Android has been updated recently to include a couple of cool changes. Firstly, you’ll now be able to open Minus profile links using the app instead of staying within the browser. It’ll give you easy access to friends’ profiles without having to deal with a web UI over a native one. You also [...]

It’s Monday once again. I hope you all had a great Super Bowl weekend but it’s back to the daily grind. The brightside? We have a healthy dose of the Android Overload for you tonight. These are the stories that made it past our desks throughout the day and before we toss them in the [...]

Chances are, if you’ve downloaded your share of applications from the Android Market you’ve run into at least one situation where the the app will ask (sometimes require) the user to give it a 5 star rating in the Market before continuing. By clicking “yes,” a user will then be taken to the application in [...]

Rdio 2.0 for Android has been released today. It brings an all new user interface – one that looks a ton better than the initial release – and has gotten full support for Android 4.0. They’ve also added a ton of new features including profiles, top charts, new releases, recommendations and improved search. The user [...]

NPD have released their US smartphone figures for the fourth quarter of 2011. As you’d expect, Android didn’t give up the lead but iOS did come close to taking the crown for that quarter. They grabbed 43% of the share compared to Android’s 48%. These numbers, of course, were due largely in part to the [...]

2011 was a great year for Android. We saw a gobs of new devices launching with cutting edge dual-core processors, in what seemed like more of an arms race, than an attempt at giving the consumer what they needed. New devices launching, what seemed like, every few weeks on just about every carrier (except Sprint) [...]

Nullsoft, the developers behind the wildly popular Winamp music player, have released a Pro version app to the Market. The app itself is simply a key that unlocks the Pro features of the regular app. Alternatively, you could purchase the pro features via an in-app purchase. The pro version adds the following features: * 10-band graphic equalizer * [...]

Many of you might have heard about PandoDaily, a new tech blog that was launched on the 16th of January by Sarah Lacy, a former TechCrunch writer. One particular article caught my attention, primarily because of it’s title: How Google can save Android: Close it. License it. Swim in the Profits. The writer, Farhad Manjoo, [...]

The US government is ready to start handing out Android smartphones to high-ranking officials and soldiers stationed throughout the world, according to new reports. We’ve heard plenty of chatter over the past year or so about the government’s interest in deploying devices running Google’s mobile OS for military use, and, the powers that be have [...]

How was that for a relatively calm week in Android news? Despite a last minute scare the Google might be stripping of Galaxy Nexus of its Nexus-given rights (thankfully there was another explanation), we managed to make it through without too much drama. Things are sure to pick up in the coming weeks as Mobile [...]