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24 May 2013
News: HTC has shipped around 5 million One smartphones

HTC has shipped 5 million of its flagship One smartphone globally, according to an unnamed executive quoted by The Wall Street Journal.
22 May 2013
News: Google Drive updates Android UI, adds document scanning

Google's Drive cloud storage service has been retooled for Android users and is now capable of capturing a document by converting a photo of it to text.<
Samsung Galaxy Mega UK launch date

The 6.3in Samsung Galaxy Mega is to launch in the UK in July. The Galaxy Mega will cost £459.99 inc VAT.
21 May 2013
News: These are the 4 best Twitter clients for each smartphone OS

In March, Twitter announced that it would be shutting down its TweetDeck iOS and Android apps. That's bad news for TweetDeck devotees, but good news for Twitter--I'm betting that the social network plans to funnel users to its own app, which offers basic functionality but allows the company to display paid tweets (better known as ads).
News: Opera's new Android browser hits Google Play, rebuilt from the ground up

After three months of public beta testing, Opera is finally ready to take on Google's Chrome with its rebuilt Android browser. On Tuesday, Opera released the final version of its first--and possibly only--WebKit-based browser.
News: Unity adds free mobile game development for Android and iOS

Unity Technologies has added the ability to develop for Android and iOS games for free using its platform.
20 May 2013
How-Tos: How to sync an Android phone to your Mac

Thanks to iCloud, syncing an iPhone with a Mac is a piece of cake. But Mac users who don't buy into the whole "one vendor to rule them all" thing will find that syncing an Android phone with OS X isn't quite as easy. That said, it isn't terribly difficult, either, thanks to Google's own cloud services.
News: What I'm Playing: A plethora of ports

Frozen Synapse (iOS, $6.99)
17 May 2013
News: Android retains lead over Apple

Android has remained at the top of the leader board when it comes to smartphones, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report.
News: Samsung expects to sell 10 million Galaxy S4 phones in one month

Less than a month after launch, Samsung's Galaxy S4 has already staked out its turf as the undisputed champion of Android phones--at least as far as sales are concerned.
How-Tos: Add bookmarks to home screen in Android

Here's how you can put a website bookmark on your Android’s home screen.
News: Samsung to address Galaxy S4 storage problems

After appearing on BBC's Watchdog, Samsung has said it will look to address the storage issues surrounding its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone.
Archos announces 80 Xenon tablet

Archos has announced a new tablet to its line-up, the 3G enabled 80 Xenon with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
Opinion: New tablet boots Ubuntu Linux, Android, and Windows 8

We've seen several Linux tablets emerge over the past year or so, but examples with triple-boot capabilities are much less common.
16 May 2013
How-Tos: How to play YouTube videos in the background on Android

Here’s where we show you how to play YouTube videos in the background on Android.
News: Booming mobile industry spawning global criminal marketplace

In an alarming 'post-PC' era alert, working group says criminal infrastructure created much faster than it was for PC fraud
News: Hands on with Hangouts, Google's swipe at Facebook

Let's cut to the chase: Google's new Hangouts app is an over-the-top mobile messaging service in the vein of Whatsapp, Kik, and Facebook Messenger. Google is not reinventing the wheel here. But unlike its competitors, Hangouts offers group video chats. Therein lies the appeal.
News: Internode extends mobile handset range

Internet service provider (ISP), Internode, has extended its range of mobile handsets offered with its NodeMobile call plans, by adding the new Samsung Galaxy S4 to its line-up.
News: Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Edition unveiled

At its Google I/O 2013 developer conference, Google announced it will sell a version of the Galaxy S4 running stock Android.
Test Centre: Google I/O keynote 2013 as it happened

Video, key announcements and a liveblog - the best coverage of the Google I/O 2013 keynote as it happened.