Sunday, October 24th, 2010
Sub $200 Android phones hit the Indian market
Nokia has serious competition with Videocon, Mcromax, Acer and Motorola launching sub $200 (Rs. 10,000) phones in India. India already has the 2nd largest number of people accessing the internet from their cellphones. Android should fuel this market as: Its fast. Its excellent at multi tasking. Its easy to use. It has over 50,000 applications in the […]
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Friday, October 15th, 2010
The Android Invasion
From a Newsweek article: What began as a trickle now has turned into a tidal wave. In August Google announced it was activating 200,000 Android phones each day. On at least one day since then, that number surged to more than 250,000, Rubin says. Android now has leapt past Apple to become the biggest smart-phone […]
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Monday, September 27th, 2010
Android to have 500 Million Users by 2015
“In terms of sales, smartphones powered by Android are expected to surpass these of Symbian as early as 2012,” he said, reports the Telegraph. Its time Nokia considers offering Android based phone. “If Nokia joins the Android party, the support of this eco-system by all key players could help the mobile smartphone industry to potentially […]
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
HTC Desire HD coming
After the HTC Desire, HTC has announced the HTC Desire HD. Here are the specs: 4.3 inch LCD screen: Thats big! 8 Megapixel Camera 1 GHz Processor (same as HTC Desire) 720p High Definition Video Capture HD Video Playback DivX playback Surround sound. 4 GB Internal Memory: Nice but more the better. Android 2.2.: Will […]
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
HTC Android phones: Wildfire, Legend and Desire
What happens when a Taiwan ODM (Original Device Manufacturer) starts making their own phone? Result is you get good value for money, it start selling well and as a result they also get sued! For those who came in late, ODMs are the actual manufactures of the device sold by the likes of Apple. ODMs […]
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Android crosses iPhone OS Market share
Android has overtaken Apple OS (iPhone,itouch,iPad) to be number 2. Blackberry RIM is still Number one, however they are quickly loosing marketshare to Android. RIM’s BlackBerry OS at 36 percent; Android at 28 percent; Apple iPhone OS at 21 percent. Read more.
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Monday, July 5th, 2010
Best Buy is not best anymore
Best Buy is firing its employee who made this funny video comparing iPhone 4 with HTC Evo. Perhaps Apple didn’t find the video funny and is pressurising Best Buy to take action. Here is the scoop. The video has already had 2.3 Million views and growing rapidly. Its funny 🙂
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Thursday, April 15th, 2010
India is No. 2 in mobile Internet usage
As per a recently published article, India in Number two globally right after US for using Internet via mobile phone. Number 1 mobile device globally for accessing internet is the iPhone followed by the iTouch, Number 3 is the android based Motorola Droid, Number 4 is HTC Dream (also runs Android). In India people are […]
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Linus Torvalds ditches iPhone for Android based Google Nexus
Linus Torvalds has purchased a Google Android based Nexus One cellphone. But I have to admit, the Nexus One is a winner. I wasn’t enthusiastic about buying a phone on the internet sight unseen, but the day it was reported that it finally had the pinch-to-zoom thing enabled, I decided to take the plunge. I’ve […]
