If you have a and live in Sweden, chances are you like to talk on your mobile device using Bluetooth while on-the-go -- that's according to a recent study that shows Swedes use Bluetooth and wireless headsets more than people from any other country (47%). And owners of Samsung Galaxy-S phones use the most minutes per month of all Android devices (431). full story ![]()

While Apple touted selling a cumulative 600 million devices, their numbers will inevitably draw comparisons to the figures that Google shared last month at developer conference I/O. At that point, Google said that it had seen 900 million devices activated. What’s clear - whichever way you cut it - is that Android is leading the market in terms of device share. Yet the...
techcrunch.com (8 days ago)

Last we saw the Basis B1 it hadn't launched with an app and users had been relegated to syncing the activity tracker with their desktop. Today that changes for some users with the launch of the Android app. If you have one the supported devices-the list can be found here but it's all Samsung devices-you'll be able to sync over Bluetooth and have your phone push...
gizmodo.com (7 days ago)
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 platform hasn’t exactly been a ringing success so far, partly because third-party vendors typically see it as an afterthought compared to Android. Digitimes‘ supply chain sources now say that smartphone makers’ enthusiasm for Windows Phone 8 has waned in recent months due to both low adoption among consumers and high licensing fees that give them...
yahoo.com (5 days ago)

Today Facebook announced "Home" a clever way to turn Android devices into what Facebook is calling "a great, living, social phone." I saw the announcement as "if you are on Facebook, you are not on Google, and we did not have to create a phone." According to comScore's January 2013 U.S. Smartphone market share report, 129.4 million people in the U.S. own smartphones, with...
huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 16 days ago)

Gone are the days when rugged phones had to be simple devices. After all, just because someone wants a phone that can be dropped in water or on concrete, doesn't mean they don't want one that can actually perform useful tasks. The new X3 smartphone from Runbo looks to be able to take a beating, but it comes with Android 4.0 installed, so it might actually be useful for...
gizmag.com (3 months and 7 days ago)
Back in 2011, Nielsen reported that Android smartphone users have somewhat higher data consumption than iPhone users in America. Based on the latest data from Ratemizer application users, Finnish Android phone users were consuming twice as much data as iPhone users at the end of 2012. The monthly data consumption of Android owners was 2.07 GB in November 2012, while iPhone...
forbes.com (3 months and 21 days ago)

A new report suggests that Apple and Microsoft’s mobile platforms are growing faster than Google’s in the United States. According to data released by Kantar Worldpanel, iPhone and Windows Phone sales have increased 2.3 percentage points and 1.8 percentage points, respectively, in the past year. Sales of Android smartphones which grew 1.4 percentage points year-over-year...
yahoo.com (15 days ago)
When Google I/O is underway, there's usually some new Android version waiting to be unveiled. Despite all the murmurs about Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie, this I/O might bring just 4.3 Jelly Bean. The version number first showed up in logs of the Android Police website and now Android Authority is reporting its server logs show visits from Android 4.3 devices. They seem to run...
gsmarena.com (1 month and 17 days ago)

Today we got some spicy information concerning all Samsung Galaxy owners, regardless of the type of gadget they have - a smartphone or a slate. It's a list showing which devices will be getting the Android 5.0 and which will end with the upcoming Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean update. So, the smartphones to end their life cycle with at Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean are: GT-I9080 -...
gsmarena.com (3 months and 3 days ago)

Now that Sony, LG, HTC, and Samsung have all pulled back the curtains on their flagship Android smartphones, the rumor mill can churn with renewed focus on yet another nebulous device -- Motorola's secretive X Phone. Or rather, X Phones. According to Android And Me's Taylor Wimberly, X Phone isn't going to be a product name so much as it is a banner that multiple phones will...
techcrunch.com (3 months and 5 days ago)
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