May 19, 2013

Android-based - News


You Could Soon Buy Google Android Apps with Paypal

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If you want to pick up a new app on an Android-based smartphone, you have one option with which to pay for your new purchase: Credit cards and Google Checkout. At least, for now, sources indicate that Google is chatting with eBay’s PayPal business to bring the latter as a secondary option for smartphone-based payments. [...]

Android Based Smartphones are Making so Much Troubles to Apple and Blackberry Markets

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Earlier this month a report from research firm NPD found that Google Android -based smartphones are outselling the Apple iPhone and the RIM Blackberry. This puts RIM in second and Apple in third. While this isn’t a big surprise for many industry insiders it’s a huge step for Google’s mobile operating system. Now, the biggest [...]

LG Releases two Android Froyo Smartphones – Optimus One and Optimus Chic

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South Korea-based LG has expanded its Android-based smartphone portfolio, with the unveiling of two new smartphones. While one of the Android phones is called `Optimus One with Google’, the second handset is called Optimus Chic. Both smartphones, Optimus One and Optimus Chic, will be launched with Android 2.2 also known as ‘Froyo’. This will be [...]

Sprint HTC Evo 4G Breaks Sales Records For Sprint

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Sprint announced on Monday it sold a record number of the Android-based HTC Evo 4G smartphones on the phone’s first day of availability Friday, June 4. The carrier did not give any specific figures, but said it saw temporary shortages of the device at some of its U.S. stores. Sprint says of the EVO 4G’s [...]

Apple iPad Rival Dell Streak Tablet Coming This Summer to U.K.

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Dell on Tuesday announced launch plans for its Android-based Dell Streak handheld tablet , while also confirming that the device will get an upgrade to the Flash-capable Android 2.2    later this year. The Streak will launch in the U.K. in early June and the U.S. later this summer, but the company did not provide specific [...]

CherryPal Asia – A $99 Android-Based Netbook

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CherryPal a company almost strictly manufacturers only ultra affordable computers, is releasing another laptop. The new “Asia” netbook will cost $100, you’ll get what you pay for. It costs the same as the Cherrypal Africa, which launched in December and runs Windows CE. CherryPal’s new model has a 7 inch, 800 x 480 pixel display, [...]

Sony Xperia X10 Mini, Samsung Galaxy S and Samsung Wave Coming to Vodafone UK

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Vodafone UK appears to be set to launch several Android-based handsets, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini and Samsung Galaxy S i900, along with Samsung’s Wave. The X10 Mini features a small form-factor, while providing standard smartphone features such as GPS and a five-megapixel camera. The Galaxy S packs a 4-inch touchscreen and allows users [...]

Dell Streak Tablet Coming to Europe Next Month and then to US

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Dell on Thursday offered the public its first look at its long-rumored “Streak,” a mobile Internet device similar in size to an iPhone that’s powered by Google Android OS. Dell will release its Streak handheld computer in Europe next month and in the U.S. during the summer, CEO Michael Dell said on Thursday. The Streak [...]