PRTM Analyzes Android and Forecasts the Future
Global management consulting firm PRTM recently spent some analyzing Android as a platform by benchmarking 57 handsets from 12 companies. They were looking at specific criteria such as the formal...
View ArticleAndroid Eclipses Symbian to Become #1 Smart Phone Platform in World
For the first time ever, Android has wrestled away the top spot in smart phone market share. Topping Symbian with nearly 1 in 3 smart phones shipped, Android shows no signs of slowing.
View ArticleGoogle, Intel to Optimize Future Build of Android for Atom Processors
Get ready for even more innovation and choice in the Android universe. Intel and Google announced today that future builds of the Android platform will be written with optimization for the Atom...
View ArticleNew platform figures indicate Android 4.0 powers more than 100 million devices
The latest Android developer platform figures are online and show a steadily growing Android 4.0 and 4.1 experience. As of the 14 day period ending September 4, Ice Cream Sandwich now powers 20.9...
View ArticleAndroid 4.0+ inches forward in overall platform share
Android 4.0+ Ice Cream Sandwich and Android 4.1+ Jelly Bean have notched a few percentage points in the overall breakdown of the platform. Moving up ever so slightly, the two builds have grown month...
View ArticleIDC: Android hits 75% market share on fourth anniversary of platform
Four years in, nearly all the base are belong to Android.
View ArticleAndroid Version History: A Visual Timeline (Infographic)
Maybe you’re new to Android and want to know what all this talk about Gingerbread and Ice Cream Sandwich is all about. Maybe you’re the type who likes to live in the past. Whatever the case, we have...
View ArticleJelly Bean is now (finally) most common version of Android
More than one year after its debut, Android 4.1/4.2 becomes the most used version of the platform.
View ArticleJelly Bean moves forward, accounts for 40 percent of Android platform
Two out of every five Android devices accessing the Google Play Store over the last two weeks were found to run Jelly Bean.
View ArticleJelly Bean powers three in five Android devices
It’s a new month which means new Android platform figures. We like to check in once every few weeks to see how the Android landscape looks and get a sense for which versions of the platform are growing...
View ArticleEmbedded Alley Brings Android to MIPS Architecture Devices
Embedded Alley Brings Android to MIPS Architecture Devices, Expanding Android Platform Application Space Enables Android on RMI Alchemy Processor Family for Personal Multimedia, Digital Video,...
View ArticleElectric Pocket Puts a Fresh Face on Android, Offering PhoneFace Speed...
Electric Pocket Puts a Fresh Face on Android, Offering PhoneFace Speed “Photo-Dialing” for Android-based Smartphones Wye Valley, UK (MobilityNewswire) April 23, 2009 — Electric Pocket is today...
View ArticleFuture Smart Phone Buyers Considering Android Over Palm, Windows Mobile, and...
A new survey from ChangeWave research indicates that future smart phone buyers are considering Android than that of Palm, Windows, and Blackberry. Only three months ago, Android was last place in...
View ArticleAdobe AIR on the Android Platform
By Andy Rubin, Google VP of Engineering, Android Partnerships have been at the very heart of Android, the first truly open and comprehensive mobile platform, since we first introduced it with the Open...
View ArticleNew Platform Versions Report Shows 83% of Android Phones Running 2.x
As we near the impending Gingerbread announcement and its subsequent rollout to handsets, the legacy builds of Android will continue to dwindle. Newer, more popular phones with later versions of the...
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