Amazon is to launch a free Kindle app for Android to join the free versions for the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Mac, PC, BlackBerry. Kindle for Android, the free application that lets readers around the world enjoy Kindle books on their Android phones, is coming “this summer” according to the press release although there’s no…
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Android selling 65,000 devices a day
More than 65,000 devices running the Google’s Android operating system are shipped every day, according to Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and Google has plans for the platform to be number ‘one or two’ player in the market. Schmidt, speaking at Google’s annual shareholder meeting at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, said the…
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Android overtakes iPhone
The figures are out for smartphone sales and Android based smartphones are doing incredibly well in the US, while Nokia continues to dominate worldwide. According to analysts NPD Group Android is now number two position in the US on consumer smartphone sales with 28%, behind RIM (36%) and ahead of the iPhone (21%). “As in…
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Google boggles with Google goggles
The newest version of mobile application Google Goggles (image recognition technology) enables automatic text translation using the phone’s camera. From translating street signs to navigating foreign menus, people can now use their Android mobile devices for easy on-the-spot translation using the technology of Google Goggles plus the engine behind Google Translate. Here’s how it works:…
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Nexus not a great seller and iPhone OS takes a dive?
New figures from AdMob’s monthly ad round up http://metrics.admob.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/AdMob-Mobile-Metrics-Mar-10.pdf show that the Google Nexus has been a bit of a damp squib when compared to any of it’s sister Android devices, accounting for just 2% of all adverts to Android devices. However at the operating system level Android is making real inroads into Apple’s lucrative…
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Give your users a choice
According to research from CrowdScience when it comes to smartphones, choice is the best way to create loyal consumers. Unfortunately as CrowdScience points out this also applies to businesses, and the default business phone “the crackberry” may actually be harming the Blackberry brand. Researcher found that 60% of consumers who had some choice in their…
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Android to sell >22 million devices by end 2010
Google Android devices to ship more than 22 million by end of 2010