Hugo Barra on stage announcing Android 4.1 Jellybean at Google I/O Only a month ago, Google had updated the Android Distribution chart to list ICS installs at 10.9%. Now three weeks after the official release of Android 4.1 Jellybean, Google has once again updated the chart, revealing that Android 4.0 (up 5 percent) now powers 15.9% of Android devices and Jellybean at 0.8%. Unfortunately, ... »
Google just announced on Twitter that they have closed down the old Mobile Blog and launched a new Official Android Blog, just for Android and straight from Google. Starting off with the news of Google Wallet working with any Credit/Debit Card, previous content has been transferred over and I sure am looking forward for more content in the future. Via: Google Mobile Twitter »
Earlier today, Google sent out an email to Play Store developers regarding several updates to its developer program policy. The email consisted of four bullet points that mostly talk about the need to keep misleading, spammy and malicious apps out of the Play Store; including apps that are considered to be fake copies of other popular games (ex. Temple Run, GTAIII) that have unnecessary permission... »
The Apple vs. Samsung patent trial has been constantly revealing information regarding prototypes and the like. Now, the court documents from the trial reveal that Samsung is looking forward to release a massive 11.8 inch tablet with its codename being “P10” and it’s expected release date in “2012”. It is expected to be coming with LTE connectivity and an absolutely insane WQXGA (2560 x 1600) scre... »
[hr] The Samsung Galaxy S III is well-known to be among one of the best feature-packed smartphones of today, with features like “Smart stay”, “S Beam” and “Pop up play”, users experience things included in Samsung’s Nature UX that Stock Android and other Android skins currently just don’t offer natively. Fortunately, you can now get “Pop up play”-like functionality on your own Android ... »
Recently, around 6,500 corporate and government security technology experts and researchers from all over the world joined together to participate at the Black Hat 2012 conference in Las Vegas. In one of the many sessions that took place at the conference, Google’s own Android security software; named “Bouncer” (used to remove and keep malicious applications out of the Play Store) was exposed, rev... »
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