Tweet The Huffington Post reports today that the iPhones most advertised feature almost was born on Android well before its deal with Apple. Siri was being tested as a feature for Verizon’s DROID line of devices. The company tested the app extensively and even shot a few commercials highlighting the feature. We all know [...]
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Tweet Some of you might not be aware that Apple doesn’t own the rights to the iPhone name in every part of the world. There’s a few places where they have no rights to the name and can’t even sale their devices with the name IPhone attached. One company in Brazil called Gradient owns the [...]
Tweet I’ll be the first to say that a quality platform doesn’t need a million apps to be good. A few hundred good apps will always be better than a few hundred thousand bad ones. With that being said, this is still a huge accomplishment. The Google Play Store is now the home for over [...]
Tweet According to information released from Chitika, Android now holds a dominate share of mobile web traffic. You would think that since Android held the lead in market share that it would own this category as well. That wasn’t the case in May of this year where the iPhone held a massive 72% of the [...]
Tweet LG’s Nexus has made its way into the news for yet another day. This time around the upcoming device was handled by a Russian website called the Onliner. They set the device next to a few different items one of which was the iPhone 5. Apple’s latest flagship device looks small in comparison to [...]
Tweet The US Court of Appeals has ruled that the Galaxy Nexus sales ban can now be lifted. The device was the first US casualty of the Apple patent nonsense. The device was pulled from sale for a short period of time. Google and Samsung managed to get out an update that allowed the device [...]
Tweet Yet another market share study has been released and guess who’s still number one? Android takes the top spot for worldwide market share in smartphone yet again this time taking a dominating 68% of the market share in Q3. With the release of the iPhone 5, things could change a few percentage points but [...]
Tweet Samsung has been on the offensive lately after the release of the iPhone 5 from Apple. Their latest ad campaign pokes fun at the workers at the Apple Store as well as makes a statement that the average Joe should be able to tell which device is better. They simply put the two devices [...]
Tweet The other day we learned that there are 1.3 million Android devices being activated every day. That number included 70,000 Android tablets. For comparisons sake, there are around 188,000 iPad activations a day. Keep in mind the Android tablet figures doesn’t includes devices from Barnes & Noble and Amazon’s Kindle Fire. If you include [...]
Tweet Reports are now coming in that Samsung is working with the carriers to push out a fix that would remove the software that’s in violation of Apple’s patents. The list of device that has been ruled to infringe on the patents can be found below. All of them are older devices that run an [...]
