Motorola Droid 4 OTA update pushing out now
If you own a Motorola Droid 4 and haven't already received notice of the OTA update, you will definitely want to check for updates right now! Unfortunately this isn't ICS, but this update does bring a couple of great enhancements along with it, including improved battery life. Beyond just the battery life enhancement they have [...]
Google goes back to selling phones, Sense 4 smoothness [From the Forums]
It's been a good day in the world of Android. Plenty of news and rumors rolled out today, so if you missed out on anything — get yourself caught up. You can skip on back a page or two or head on into the Android Central to discuss all the latest.
HTC One X Forums [...]
Motorola RAZR launches in Costa Rica
Motorola sends word that its current international flagship device, the RAZR, has launched in Costa Rica?. As you'll recall from our review of the Verizon version back in November, the RAZR sports a dual-core 1.2GHz CPU, 1GB of RAM and an 8MP camera in a super-thin 7.1mm chassis. The device launches with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, but [...]
Tim Cook on ongoing Android litigation: ‘We’d prefer to settle, not battle’
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook commented on the ongoing litigation in the company’s earnings call today. He said Apple does not want to be the developer to the world, but he also said: “I’ve always hated litigation. We just want people to invent their own stuff.”
Apple is currently in litigation with Google/Motorola, Samsung, HTC, etc., and there [...]
Japan inches closer to Android/iPhone duopoly, as Apple gains marketshare
As of the latest research from Nielsen, we know the United States smartphone market has quickly become an iOS/Android duopoly with 90 percent of devices on either one of those platforms. While smartphone usage in Japan is still at 1-in-5 mobile phone owners, new numbers from comScore today show Japan’s smartphone market is also quickly becoming dominated by Apple [...]
Android Central weekly photo contest winner: Shapes and texture
Join me in congratulating the winner of last weeks photo contest, jumboadam. This picture of an old railing, taken with the Motorola Droid X, really captures the ideas of shape and texture, is nice and clear, and visually appealing. Those are the kinds of pics we're looking for each week. Nice work jumboadam, watch the email [...]
ShopAndroid Daily Giveaway #55: RAZR MAXX OtterBox Defender, Case-Mate Barely There for XOOM & more!
Happy Friday everyone! We're wrapping up another week of ShopAndroid.com Daily Giveaway's, and today we're featuring the OtterBox Defender Case for Droid RAZR MAXX, Case-Mate Barely There Case for Motorola XOOM, HTC Messenger Case, and the Mobi Hard Case for Photon 4G.
As always, just leave us a comment below letting us know which of these [...]
HTC Is Done With QWERTY Keyboard Phones
Touchscreens killed the keypad star. HTC is reportedly done with physical keypads and will instead focus on better on-screen keypad technology.
The word comes from HTC creative director Claude Zellweger speaking at a Seattle press event. “As a company the QWERTY keyboard we’re moving away from in general.” This likely doesn’t mean HTC won’t release another [...]
Tip: Bring Siri’s voice to your Mac with Samantha downloadable Voice for Lion
Since the introduction of Nuance speech technology in OS X Lion, which provides several new voice options in system preferences for the System Voice, many have compared the voice of Nuance-powered Siri on iPhone 4S to the improved text-to-speech included as free downloads within Lion. As noted by Reddit user Moosehadley, what you might not have realized is the [...]
Apple throws MobileMe users a free version of Snow Leopard to update to iCloud
MacGasm reported that Apple is giving away free copies of Snow Leopard to MobileMe users to ease their move to iCloud. iCloud only works on Lion. Apple is offering MobileMe users without Snow Leopard a free copy, so they will pay $30 to upgrade to Lion. Once on Lion, they can ditch MobileMe to start [...]