Android News

Given the fact that some of HTC’s biggest competitors have been patent hoarding lately, HTC decided to do a little shopping of their own. What they came back with was graphics chip maker S3 Graphics and their patent portfolio from Via. In what could be seen as a very smart move by the Taiwanese company, [...]

This is interesting. Research firm BTIG polled 150 different Verizon Wireless stores in 22 cities and came up with the following statistic: the HTC Thunderbolt is outselling Apple’s iPhone 4 at 28% of the locations polled. (And we’re sure they own a lot more stores than 150.) We can’t put too much stock into their [...]

By now it is becoming old hat to hear analysts spew smartphone figures with Android as the central theme, but here is one more for good measure. Research firm Ovum has taken a look at the current smartphone market and predicts that global shipments will double to 653 million by 2016. Where will much of [...]

News has come through the wire that Samsung Ventures has invested $ 15 million dollars in a company called MasterImage 3D. As you might have guessed, they create 3D mobile display technology that’s already being used in theaters and will soon be in phones from many known manufacturers. It’s an interesting move from Samsung, though [...]

Another look into Android’s time machine, today, has led some analysts – particularly those from IMS Research – to believe that, by 2015, Android tablets will account for 28.4% of the market share which will be shared with RIM’s PlayBook, Apple’s iPad, HP-Palm’s webOS, and Microsoft’s Windows (no version was specified, of course.) According to [...]

[Note]: Figured I’d put this here instead of cluttering the comments up even more. I did originally make the mistake of saying that Google’s .47 flaws per 1,000 lines of code were well “above” the average of 1.0. I acknowledged it and corrected it. No, I’m not dumb, I’m just human. Also, I omitted the [...]

These days, it seems there isn’t a month that goes by without a security firm pointing out some potential flaws in Android. This time, Coverity – based out of San Francisco – has gone deep into the Android source code and came up with some interesting numbers. Per every 1,000 lines of code, .47 defects [...]

Motorola’s looking to get their feet wet with web applications for Android-based phones (or phones with webkit-based browsers, more accurately) by purchasing 280 North – the team behind the easy-to-learn web framework Cappuccino. The sale went down for $20-million and it said to help put Motorola in a better position to create better Android experiences [...]