Mobile Jaw
In the past, screen captures on Android have meant rooting the device. Some devices had special key combinations that would allow for a screen capture. Google just didn’t include this as part of the operating system, so some devices would do it and others not. For the devices that you could do screen captures on, [...]
According to a Canalys report issued on August 1st, Android market share has exploded over the last year, and now is the leading mobile platform in 35 out of the 56 countries that Canalys tracks. Mobile shipments now exceed 107.7 million units, a growth of 73% over last year. The total number of Android based [...]
There are settings that should be backed up to the cloud and there are settings that should not be backed up. With Android, it’s all or nothing, and the worst part is that you don’t know what “all” contains. On Android, if you look under Settings / Privacy, you’ll find an option called “Backup my [...]
Things have taken a not-so-rosey turn for Android this week. The popular mobile platform from Google is powering a growing number of mobile devices. As Microsoft found at many years ago, along with that success comes virus and malware. The latest to hit Android is a malware app called DroidDreamLight and it’s just as bad [...]
The tablet space it really heating up as of late and LG doesn’t want to be left out of the game. Last week they launched the new Optimus Pad with a 8.9 inch display, running the latest version of Google’s Android and the only official tablet version of the operating system – Android 3.0. The [...]
Samsung’s Nexus S smartphone is truly a one-of-a-kind device. As more Android devices poor on to the shelves, this device stands out as a pure Google experience. The hardware is all Samsung, but internally, there’s nothing added by Samsung, other than device drivers. The UI, and experience is all Google, like it or not. Recently [...]
Samsung and Future Shop took to the streets of Toronto earlier today to celebrate the launch of Samsung’s Nexus S exclusively available from Future Shop. If you found yourself around Yonge and Dundas Square or even over by Union Station, you may have noticed people with white shirts displaying the Nexus S on the back. [...]
Yesterday, HTC took to the stage in London to officially launch their latest Android powered smartphone – the Sensation. It will be exclusively available in the US from T-Mobile as the Sensation 4G, and on Vodafone as the Sensation. Regardless of the name, you’ll be looking at a lighting fast 1.2 GHz Dual core Qualcomm [...]
Here’s an interesting piece of news that I came across today. Microsoft is getting involved with the European Union’s antitrust investigate regarding Google. The claim from Microsoft is that Google is not sharing information with the Windows Phone team so they can build a more feature rich YouTube client for the Windows Phone platform. When [...]
We all knew this day would come at some point, although many didn’t expect it this soon. According to IDC, there was more smartphones sold in the forth quarter of 2010 than PC sales. Computes sold 92 million units while smartphones exceeded that by an additional 9 million units reaching 101 million smartphones sold. In [...]
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