Over at CNET, Casey Newton and Roger Cheng have a good story on Google’s Motorola division and its decision to renege on its pledge to update some 2011 phones from Android 2.3 Gingerbread to 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
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Needed for Google’s Next Nexus 7 Tablet: More Storage
Now that Amazon and Barnes & Noble have announced their latest cheap tablets, it’s become clear that Google’s own offering, the Nexus 7, has a storage problem.
The $200 Nexus 7, which launched in July, comes with just 8 GB of …
Google Discounting Popular Apps to 25 Cents over the Next Five Days
Google Play – formerly known as the Android Market — has passed 25 billion app downloads. A large majority of those were from me, I admit. I get so frustrated playing Angry Birds that I uninstall it and swear I’ll never play …
How Amazon Plans to Tackle a Lack of Tablet-Optimized Android Apps
Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets have a lot to offer that vanilla Android tablets don’t–lower prices and a larger media selection, for example–but a huge selection of tablet-optimized apps isn’t one of them.
Still, Amazon has a …
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Amazon’s Big Day: Kindles, Kindles and More Kindles?
FOLLOW-UP: Amazon Unveils New, Larger Kindle Fire Models
I’m in Santa Monica, California for Amazon.com’s press event, which kicks off at 1:30pm ET on Thursday. The company has officially said that–well, actually it hasn’t …
Innovation in a Sea of Sameness
Ben Bajarin is a principal at Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm in Silicon Valley. He contributes to the “Big Picture” opinion column that appears every week on …
Is the Handheld Video Games Market Shrinking? Or Just Changing?
You’ve probably heard someone, somewhere, claim smartphones are encroaching on handheld gaming’s turf. It’s what you’re seeing anywhere you go, after all: in planes, trains and automobiles, or maybe at family get-togethers, …
Bad News for Google: Nexus Phones Still Don’t Sell
Phone makers typically don’t talk sales figures unless there’s a reason to brag, or in the case of Samsung, unless they’re forced to reveal their secrets in court.
Thanks to the case of Apple vs. Samsung, we now know the sad …
The 10 Best Android Games for Kids
At Tecca, we love finding the best games and apps for your gadgets. You’ve probably seen our picks for iPad and iPhone, as well as the best games to play on consoles like Xbox and Wii. To complete the lineup, here are our picks …
Are Tablets like the iPad Poised to Dethrone Game Consoles?
Thank you, Cevat Yerli, CEO of Crytek, the guys behind the bleeding-edge PC shooter Crysis, for confirming in so many words what I’ve been saying for years: Tablet-gaming is here, and it’s a clear and present threat to console …
Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies Shambles Over to Android, but You’ll Need a Sony Phone to Play
You can now play Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies on an Android phone. Hooray! But not just any Android device: only Sony’s Android-based Xperia S, Xperia Ion and Xperia Play smartphones. Boo.
If you have an iPad or iPhone, …
10 Best (and Worst) Batman Apps for iPhone, iPad and Android
With “The Dark Knight Rises” in theaters this Friday, here’s a check of the 10 hippest (and not-so-hip) Batman-themed apps for iPhones, iPads and Android devices.
