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British Telecom Sues Google Over Patents

We are getting somehow accustomed to legal battles, which are taking place between major smartphone manufacturers. These legal cases primarily concern patent issues. Google with its most successful Android OS is particularly in the center of attention these days as it acquired a rather serious opponent – British Telecom (BT). The latter sued Google in the US state of Delaware for infringement of what BT says its key patents. BT states its patents were illegally used by Google in such favorite applications as Google Maps, Google Music, Android Market apps and location oriented advertising system.

Now BT says it suffered billions of dollars in damages for this infringement and if it wins over Google in the court, then Google can be made to pay a huge compensation. This really complicates Google’s affairs, for it had other rather hard cases against it going on the European continent from such companies as Oracle, Microsoft, eBay, plus Apple in the US.

But Google is not the company to surrender that soon, it says BT’s accusations are without merit, and they will vigorously defend against it. With its Android OS based handsets making more than 40 percent of smartphone sales in the world and more than 500,000 worldwide daily activations of an Android device, the company feels it is strong enough to battle such a “giant” as BT.

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December 20, 2011 | 0 Comments More

Android 2.3 Taking 24% of Android Devices

According to the latest data released by Google, 24.3 percent of Android phone owners use the version of  Android OS code-named as Gingerbread. Most (55.9 percent) are still using the older version of the platform — Android Froyo.

So, though Android 2.3, 2.3.2, 2.3.3 and 2.3.4 were quickly mastered by smartphone manufacturers, most smartphones are still running the old Android 2.2. And a significant number of users remains with Android 2.1 — around 15.2 percent.

It is worth noting that the increase in the number of devices with Android Gingerbread didn’t begin by the time of the release of the OS itself, but only from May 2011. Moreover, the number of Android 2.2 users has not changed in comparison with February 2011. This makes us think that the increase is mainly due to the purchase of new devices and the transition from older versions to the newer one. At the same time the proportion of the users with Android tablets is low — Android Honeycomb version is found on only 1.3 percent of all Android-based tablets, despite the fact that it is almost six months in the market.

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August 5, 2011 | 0 Comments More

Google+ Update for Android Smartphones

Google+ is now available not only for PCs but for most of the handsets featuring Android OS, too. And if you already have the application installed on your device, you’ll be glad to know that Google has updated its Google+ to version 1.05.

The update brings in a list of new features and improvements. The list of changes includes the following:

  • Improved notifications reliability
  • “_add to circle” notifications shown in bulk
  • Share stream posts to individual people
  • Clicking a +mention takes you to the person’s profile
  • +mentions now autofill from your Circles
  • Stream no longer resets to top when screen is rotated
  • Nearby accuracy
  • Start a 1:1 huddle from a person’s profile or a group huddle from a circle profile
  • Hide 1:1 huddles
  • Clickable links in huddles
  • Improved autocomplete when adding a person to a huddle

    If you haven’t received the update notification yet, there’s no need to get worried as it takes some time to push out the update on all of the devices. Still if you’re too impatient, you can always head to the Android Market and get it!

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    August 4, 2011 | 0 Comments More

    Innocomm to launch Android-powered Skate soon : a few videos featured on youtube

    Every Android-powered device starts making news even before it goes into the manufacturing stage. But videos of Skate, an Android-powered smartphone by Innocomm Inc. is already making rounds on youtube.com and we had no hint about this device till date. Innocomm claims that Skate is “the World’s smallest 2.8″ smartphone based on the Android OS.”

    This is how the device looks :

    skate

    Check out the videos below and find out more about the device yourself :




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    August 5, 2009 | 0 Comments More

    Chinese phones running Android OS about to make their foray into European market. Also includes few pictures

    Three Chinese companies are working on porting Android OS to some of their devices, and claim that these devices will be available in the European market, later this year.

    Beyond Radio Technologies, a Chinese cell designer is one of them. Liu, an engineer with Beyond Radio Technologies reported that these devices will hit the European market later this year. Then, these devices will be available in China and Taiwan too. The device will sport a 2.8 inch screen and WiFi, but no 3G or EDGE. Here’s a sneak peak at the device :

    beyond_radio_technologies

    Another company that is working on such a device is Haier Technologies. According to a marketing employee of the company, the device will go on sale in France, in September. The device was showcased at a trade show in Singapore :

    haeir

    Huawei Technologies is the other company that is planning to hit the European market with its Android powered device. There is not much details available about the device, but it will probably release in Q3 2009. Also, we have a picture of the device :

    huawei_android_mwc09_02_sg

    Liu said, “We think Android is the future direction for mobile phones”. He also contributed the growing interest of cell-phone companies towards the OS to its low cost.

    [via androidfanatic]

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    July 24, 2009 | 1 Comment More
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