Android phones have the most hold over international smartphone markets. About 51% of the population of smartphone users has an Android. The Android App Market is the richest market there is when it comes to giving out the best array and variety of apps. But unfortunately, there is a dark side which accompanies this amazing app planet: Android spy apps. The Android platform entertains third party ... »
Watch your favourite movies, TV shows and listen to your favorites songs on a big screen (relatively speaking) whilst on the go with the new Samsung Galaxy Player 5.8 with Android ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich). Yes, you guessed it, 5.8 stands for the screen size – not quite as good as your 52″ HD TV at home, but nevertheless, it will allow you to watch your HD content whilst being out and a... »
The Xperia SL by Sony has been announced and it looks to be an improvement on the previous Xperia S model – in power certainly, but in looks we’re not so sure. The release date of Sony’s new smartphone is yet to be announced – but it is confirmed as ‘coming soon’. The new device is powered by the Qualcomm MSM8260 dual core processor running at 1.7GHz, this mean... »
I had intended to use part 4 to spend a lot of time discussing the merits and demerits of Firefox for mobile android, but by Thursday morning, my enthusiasm for Mozilla's web browser had evaporated. I pulled up Chrome, logged back in and relegated Firefox to viewing work email and documents (via Google apps). See, while Firefox is a fine second fiddle on the desktop, it's not terribly useful... »
After several rumours and leaks revealed last week, Google has officially announced that Play Store gift cards are going to be available at select US-only store locations very soon, with no word on international availability unfortunately. The cards are available in $10, $25 and $50 denominations so if you’ve purchased the card in the future and want to redeem it, visit http://play.google... »
After teasing users on Facebook a few days ago, ASUS updated their Facebook page in less than 12 hours to announce that the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OTA update has been released for the Transformer Pad 300 (TF300) series. It’s great news to hear this because this is the first Non-AOSP tablet to receive the latest OTA Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update (Motorla Xoom was the first AOSP tablet to get... »
Mozilla’s new smartphone OS, Firefox OS isn’t due to be released until 2013 but it is already running on the Raspberry Pi. In a post on their blog, the team behind the project show us a video in which Firefox OS is running on the Raspberry Pi. In the video it showcases the running of some HD animations at 60fps. There is also an early iteration of the new home screen and some of the ... »
Adobe Flash was really, believe it or not, a major selling point to pick an Android device over a device running iOS or WP7, when it had announced back in 2010 that all devices running Android 2.2 and up would be able to support Flash. Today this is not the case, as Adobe previously announced it would no longer be supporting the platform after Android 4.0, and Google silently emphasizing it... »