The most recent IDC research report points to Android’s ever-widening market share, as 3 out of 4 smartphones dispatched in the third quarter of 2012 use Google’s operating system, totaling the shipped number of Android-based smartphones to 136 million units. These include smartphones produced by HTC, Samsung, and other manufacturer-partners of Google’s OS. IDC released [...]
Google just launched today an Official Blog for its Open Source Operating System Android on officialandroid.blogspot.com Just add this new URL to your bookmarks and in your RSS Reader. These are really good news for tech fans and android lovers. via google
Written on 02 Aug 2012 by Vincent AbryWhat a bright idea : charge your android smartphone with an android charger… Ok guys, this is just a gadget for droid fans, but what a cool gadget, no ?! -Adorable Android charger for Android phones & USB devices -Moveable arms and flexible antennae -Eyes light up blue (charging) and white (standby) -Green & white [...]
Written on 02 May 2012 by Vincent AbryKegdroid “Betsy” is a robot bartender created by googler Paul Carff. Recipe : take a geek (Paul Carff), have him build a real android bot, put an android tablet inside the robot and 2 big beers in its back. In order to have a beer you will need to authenticate yourself with NFC technology and [...]
Written on 30 April 2012 by Vincent AbryWith the growing number of people doing business using their smartphones, the issue on security has never been as pronounced today. Lookout Mobile Security is a simple-to-use app that is designed specifically for mobile device users, offering excellent malware, spyware and virus protection, data back up and restoration and helpful tools that help locate misplaced [...]
When you are a beginner with Android, it’s not easy to guess what all these icons and symbols mean on the top bar (notifications and status bar)! And they are very small. For example, how do you know you got a call on your voicemail? Ok you can scroll down the menu from the top [...]
Written on 19 March 2012 by Vincent AbryAndroid Patern Lock is ultra secure. Well better than you think because even FBI cannot crack it. “Pattern-screen locks on Android phones are secure, apparently so much so that they have stumped the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The bureau claims in federal court documents that forensics experts performed “multiple attempts” to access the contents of a Samsung [...]
Written on 15 March 2012 by Vincent AbryIt appears – to no surprise – that Apple has some serious competition in terms of phone and device activation. Google has announced that they are currently activating some 850,000 devices a day. This number is a significant increase over the last figures that they gave back in december when Google announced that they were [...]
Google just updated Google Docs App on Android Market. With some interesting features like real time collaboration. Among the new features : you have rich text formatting with bold, italics, underline, a choice of the font and background color, layout tools with bulleted lists and numbered lists, Real-time collaboration (you can see edits from others [...]
Written on 23 Feb 2012 by Vincent AbryIt’s official : Google Chrome is available in Beta for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (but not for lower versions of Android). If you already like Chrome for web browser on your computer, you will love Chrome for smartphone and tablets, because it still has speed and simplicity. Besides, you can synchronize your bookmarks. Download [...]
Written on 07 Feb 2012 by Vincent AbryAndroid will rule the World. Or not. May be this will be with smartphones or may be by starting with small things like Kombusto. Is this the New Skynet (Terminator) ? Small green robot had 350,000 activations per day back in April and 500,000 this summer. Now it has 700,000 per day according to Andrew [...]
Written on 21 Dec 2011 by Vincent AbryHere is your future new friend : a small humanoid dragon named Kombusto, created by MIT Media Lab. His brain, eyes and ears ? an android phone… “DragonBot is a new platform built to support long-term interactions between children and robots. The robot runs entirely on an Android cell phone, which displays an animated virtual [...]
Written on 14 Dec 2011 by Vincent Abry10 billion downloads from the Android Market is worth celebrating. Google Android Developers Blog comes up with an infographic and a chart that has no room for any doubt … Android is really hot! Just think about it … in March there were “only” 3 billion downloads and in July 2010 only 1 billion. People [...]
Written on 09 Dec 2011 by Vincent AbryChristmas Promo here : the 10 billion Promo is a promotion by Google on Android Market. They are offering 10 Apps to download at $0.10/each, only for 10 days. Here is the List : – SoundHound – Asphalt 6: Adrenaline HD – Swiftkey X – Minecraft – Pocket Edition – Paper Camera – Fieldrunners HD [...]
Written on 06 Dec 2011 by Vincent AbryIn Q3 last year, the top operating systems on smartphones were Symbian (Nokia, ..) with 36.3% market share, followed by Android (Samsung, ..) with 25.3%, iOS (Apple iPhone) with 16.6% and RIM (Blackberry) with 15.4%. Well for the same period this year (Q3 2011), Google open source OS Android begins to dominate the World with [...]
Written on 16 Nov 2011 by Vincent AbryThe source code for Android Ice Cream Sandwich has just been released. The news were announced by Jean Baptiste Queru on the Android Building Google Group. This is the Android version 4.0.1 that is available (same as the one in the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus). See thread on google groups. Download instructions available here: source.android.com/source/downloading.html
Written on 14 Nov 2011 by Vincent AbryNew Samsung Galaxy Nexus with Android Ice Cream Sandwich has a facial recognition identification at startup. But a geek was able to break Face Unlock with just … a photo of himself. If you want more security you’ll have to use a pin or a password.
Written on 13 Nov 2011 by Vincent AbryGoogle Samsung event took place in Hong Kong a few hours ago and they just unveiled the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. (Note that the original name Nexus Prime is abandoned) Specs : 4.65 inch screen 1280 x 720 pixel Super AMOLED, 1.2 GHz dual core processor, 1GB of RAM, [...]
Written on 19 Oct 2011 by Vincent AbryNew Android App Google Translate is a true revolution : Conversation Mode allows to translate speech back and forth between 14 languages. [via]
Written on 14 Oct 2011 by Vincent Abry
