Behold the future! Take a pile of smartphone parts and stuff them into a pair of somewhat bulky glasses. That’s the idea behind a project Google is reportedly working on right now.
Following in the footsteps of its predecessors, Samsung’s Galaxy S III is rumored to be one of the world’s thinnest smartphones when it launches in May.
I can’t say I’ve seen a single app crash on my iPhone 4 since I upgraded to iOS 5 last October, but a new study from app-monitoring outfit Crittercism found that apps running on Apple’s newest mobile platform for iPhones, iPads and its iPod Touch media players is presently more prone to app crashes than Google’s Android.
Fingers crossed Steam operator Valve might have found a way to plonk stuff like Skyrim, Rage or Sins of a Solar Empire on your mobile phone? Alas, the new freebie Steam client for smartphones won’t do anything like that. What it will do, however, is let you buy Steam games from your phone and chat with pals on the go.
My Samsung Galaxy S II had been great to me. It’s a thin, light phone with a gorgeous display and a dual-core processor that handles Android with ease. When people asked me if I’d ever return to an iPhone, my answer was a cheery “nope!” That was until last week, when AT&T delivered an Android 2.3.6 update to the Galaxy S II that destroyed its battery life.
CES 2012 was a quiet show for smartphones, with phone makers cooling their jets after the holiday shopping season. Now that the show’s over, rumors of new smartphones are starting to trickle in, many of which will debut at Mobile World Congress next month.
Despite the Android Market being more “open” than the iPhone App Store – there’s no approval process to get in — Google still bans Android apps on occasion, including emulators, legally-questionable music services, tethering apps and one-click root apps. Soon, these banned apps may have an app store to call their own.
With all the concern and conversation surrounding the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) these days, you’re forgiven if you forgot about Carrier IQ and the possibility that your cellphone contains hidden keystroke-tracking software monitoring every click. Washington lawmakers have forgotten nothing — in fact they’re pushing for an official investigation into the matter.
Google’s Android Market just passed the 400,000 application mark last weekend, ringing in the New Year by closing the gap on Apple’s App Store, reports Netherlands-based app store stats tracker Distimo.
It’s been an exceptionally profitable holiday for Apple and Google, according to research firm Flurry Analytics, which claims that it can detect device sales based on “apps monitoring” and use that to come up with a “roughly 100%” accurate picture of total device activations.
Apple just won a patent case against HTC in the United States, and as a result, HTC’s Android phones—and possibly all Android phones—could get a tiny bit harder to use.
