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Most of Android 2.3 smartphones can get Android 4.0 update

ziggy October 19, 2011 Android, Featured, Smartphone, Tablet

Most of Android 2.3 smartphones can get Android 4.0 update

Yesterday Google announced new version of Android and the world’s first smartphone running on it –Samsung Galaxy Nexus. But not only coming devices will be powered by this OS. Google officially confirmed that most of smartphones running on Android 2.3 Gingerbread can get an update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Matias Duarte, a chief [...]

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About 40% of Android devices run on Gingerbread

ziggy October 5, 2011 Android, Smartphone, Tablet

About 40% of Android devices run on Gingerbread

Google has just published a report showing different Android versions usage statistics. According to it at present moment 38.7% of Android device run on Gingerbread 2.3 version. That is 7.4% more than in August. Android 2.2 Froyo still has a biggest market share – 45.3%. Android Éclair has 17.7% while the Donut has 1.4%. The [...]

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Google works on new service – WDYL.com

ziggy June 28, 2011 Featured, Internet

Google works on new service - WDYL.com

Google works on its new search service that hasn`t been officially announced yet – www.wdyl.com . Its name is an abbreviation of What Do You Love. The special appeal of this service is that it offers aggregated selection of results and services based on a single search term. The new site pulls in not only [...]

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Only 3% of apps downloaded from Android Market are paid

ziggy June 3, 2011 Android, Featured, Technology

Only 3% of apps downloaded from Android Market are paid

It is not a secret that most Android devices owners prefer free app. Chomp analytics group provided results of its research that showing only 3% of all apps downloaded from Android Market in April where paid. Other 97% of apps where completely free or demos. It is also notable that users usually buy apps that [...]

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Android developers are annoyed with platform’s fragmentation

ziggy April 5, 2011 Android

Android developers are annoyed with platform's fragmentation

According to the latest research conducted by Baird analytics agency more than 80% of developers creating apps for Google Android are annoyed with Android fragmentation. At present moment there are five wide-spread versions of this operating system – 1.6 Donut, 2.1 Éclair, 2.2 Froyo, 2.3 Gingerbread, 3.0 Honeycomb. Moreover Android has no strict hardware requirements [...]

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Google’s social network to be announced this week

ziggy March 14, 2011 Featured, Internet, Technology

Google's social network to be announced this week

The first rumors about Google’s social network appeared a year ago after some company’s official representatives hinted at that it is in development. According to All Things Digital source this new service is called Google Circles and will be launched in May. Google has not confirmed this information yet but it is expected that the [...]