Latest Android Articles

• 22 February 2012

• News: New Assassin's Creed title to hit mobiles

  Ubisoft has teamed up with Gree for a new Assassin’s Creed titled geared towards mobile social gaming.

• 21 February 2012

• Opinion: Bejeweled 2: The Game You Know and Love Comes to Android

  I could start off by saying that Bejeweled 2 is a match-three game--but really, Bejeweled 2 is the match-three game.

• News: Ubuntu Android add-on designed to replace PCs

  Canonical has unveiled software that will give Android smartphones the ability to run full desktop computer sessions on computer monitors and television sets.

• News: ForeScout platform simplifies BYOD push for enterprises

  ForeScout Technologies has launched ForeScout Mobile, which comes in the shape of plug-in modules for Android and iOS and allows enterprises to keep control as a plethora of devices access corporate resources, the company said on Tuesday.

• News: Panasonic reveals thin, waterproof mobile phone for re-entry into European market

  Panasonic on Tuesday revealed its first mobile handset for the international market since 2005, a sleek Android-powered smartphone that is dust and waterproof.

• News: Meet the ZTE Mimosa X: The First NVIDIA Tegra 2 Phone with an Icera Modem

  We’re a week away from the official first day of Mobile World Congress, and the new phones are already starting to roll in. NVIDIA and ZTE introduced the Mimosa X today, the first phone with both a Tegra 2 dual-core processor and an Icera Modem.

• News: BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0: Too Little, Too Late?

  Almost a year after the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet was introduced, Research In Motion has delivered a new OS that brings a native e-mail client to the device. PlayBook OS 2.0 is probably what the first iteration of the tablet should have been, but a year later, the improvements might not be enough for the device to succeed.

• News: Low-end Android phones gain dual cores and high-resolution displays

  Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics have announced new mid- and low-end Android-based smartphones. Samsung hopes to attract users with a dual-core processor, while LG is putting Android 4.0 on some of its new phones from day one.

• News: Unique malware samples broke the 75 million mark in 2011

  The number of unique malware samples broke the 75 million mark in 2011, McAfee notes in its fourth-quarter threats report for 2011, which also looks back at annual global trends in malicious code activity.

• 20 February 2012

• Opinion: Get Better Caller ID on Your Android Phone

  Your mobile phone number isn't supposed to be used by telemarketers, but as we all know, it happens. What's more, if you have a number that used to belong to someone else, you might end up getting a bunch of calls you don't want. Heck, maybe you're getting harrassed by an ex-employee.

• 18 February 2012

• News: Android Tablet Productivity Pack

  Just last summer, the dearth of Android tablet apps comparable to the offerings available for the iPad posed a serious problem for Android tablets makers trying to compete with Apple's market juggernaut. But more recently, lots of outstanding tablet-optimized apps for Android have emerged--enough to make the task of selecting the best ones difficult because of the abundance of choices rather than the scarcity.

• 17 February 2012

• News: Smartphone vendors have a lot to prove in Barcelona

  The pressure is on HTC and LG Electronics to show they can compete with Apple and Samsung Electronics in the smartphone market by showing off impressive products at Mobile World Congress, which starts in Barcelona later this month.

• News: Apple iPhone is world's most-popular smartphone

  Apple's iPhone is the world's most popular smartphone accounting for 23.8 percent of all smartphones sold during Q4 of 2011, says Gartner.

• 16 February 2012

• News: Motorola's Android OS Upgrade Timeline Is Mostly Bad News

  Motorola has promised to upgrade many of its smartphones and tablets to Android Ice Cream Sandwich, but not any time soon.

• News: Android 5.0 Jelly Bean Mobile Operating System May Arrive in Spring

  Are you digging Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich? Well, don't get too comfortable. Citing Taiwan-based supply chain makers, the rumor-mongers at DigiTimes report that Google is pushing out the tablet-friendlier Android 5.0 "Jelly Bean" version of its Android operating system in the second quarter of this year.

• Opinion: Android Dodges Apple iOS Address Book Debacle: But not by Much

  Apple is eating dirt over how iOS apps share your data with publishers, primarily personal address books harvested by a certain company named Path. But is Google any better with the way Android apps behave? We asked the app experts.

• News: Apple scores win against Motorola in German patent battle

  Apple scored a victory in its patent battle with Motorola Mobility, as the district court in Munich on Thursday granted an injunction against some of Motorola's smartphones.

• News: Report of Google already moving onto Android 5.0 ('Jellybean') draws doubts

  If Google's Ice Cream Sandwich was supposed to unify Android devices, it may not stay unified for long.

• News: How to Locate Your Unprotected Android Device

  So you lost your Android phone or tablet, and you don’t have a remote antitheft or GPS location app installed? Don’t beat yourself up too badly, because a few tricks may still help you remotely locate or secure it.

• How-Tos: How to tag a photo using Facebook for Android

  Facebook's app for Android has come on leaps and bounds since it was first introduced.

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