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Artist Chris Bishop has designed another new T-Shirt for the Andy series. It’s called Android: Winning and it depicts the Android army up against the iOS army in battle. That’s about accurate when it comes to the same war in the smartphone game, we’d say. Android is seen smashing an iOS-branded helicopter. This is actually [...]

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 [...]

Comscore have released their Q4 2011 numbers for smartphone market share in the United States. Earlier reports suggested Apple would take a great chunk of the share back from Android with the launch of the iPhone 4S, and while they did have a great spurt to close the year out it didn’t hurt Android as [...]

Laser tag is fun. But seriously, who has all that equipment or… you know, friends for that matter? Well, one such company is looking to bring laser tag into the 21st century with their new smartphone peripheral called Xappr. Simply attach your Android device into the gun and whether you’re playing solo or multiplayer with [...]

Howdy, y’all. Seeing how it’s impossible for us to write up everything that comes our way throughout the day, we’ve got the Android Overload. It’s here we gather all these stories into a refreshing pool for you to take a dip into. So splash around and let me know if you find anything interesting. I [...]

The Android modding community is a great one all made possible by the tireless efforts of developers who seek to further enrich the Android experience by rooting and modding the software on their smartphones. Well, that whole ecosystem may soon be threatened with the expiration of the jailbreaking (and rooting) exemption law granted by the [...]

Research firm iGR did some studies and crunched some numbers and came up with not a lot that we didn’t already know here in the United States. Android’s leading (47%) iPhone’s trailing (24%) and everyone else is competing but aren’t exactly worthy of mention. The most interesting thing they found out, however, was who the [...]

Casual games are all the rage these days thanks to the huge success that is the Nintendo Wii as well as mobile devices like the iPhone. One such company, Brass Monkey, wants to take advantage of this trend by transforming your smartphone into a veritable Wii controller. Recently gaining $ 750,000 in funding, Brass Monkey [...]

If you’re living here in the states and have never heard of Android OEM, ZTE — I wouldn’t hold it against you. Despite being the #4 handset maker in the world, ZTE has largely been absent in the US market but it looks like could soon change. In an interview with Reuters, ZTE’s head of [...]

Like every year, Intel made a huge presence at this year’s CES showing off everything from ultrabooks, to tablets, to smartphones. As to be expected, we were most interested in the smartphone reference design they were flashing around the showroom and we nabbed some hands-on time with the device. More of a simple overview than [...]