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• 26 September 2011

• News: Android adoption accelerates, says Nielsen

  Google's Android mobile operating system is still steadily expanding its share of the U.S. smartphone market, as Nielsen reports that 43% of American smartphone subscribers use Android-based devices.

• News: iPhone 5 MIA as 10 Million Samsung Galaxy S IIs Ship

  Samsung has managed to ship more than 10 million Galaxy S II Android smartphones even before hitting the U.S. market, while Apple’s iPhone 5 remains just a rumor. Samsung released the phone in global markets five months ago, but its arrival in the U.S. is expected to clash with the launch of the iPhone 5.

• News: Oracle, Google will hold third settlement conference

  Oracle and Google will engage in another attempt to settle their lawsuit over alleged Java patent and copyright violations in the Android mobile OS.

• News: Amazon Kindle Tablet: Android Tablet or eReader on Steroids?

  Amazon is expected to unveil its Kindle Tablet at a press event in New York on Wednesday. From what we know so far about the device, it seems like it might be the first tablet rival capable of really competing with the Apple iPad. Based on the size and use of the Kindle brand, though, it is reasonable to wonder whether the Kindle Tablet is a true tablet PC, or just a Kindle with some tablet features.

• News: Huawei unveils new Honor smartphone with long battery life

  Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Huawei announced a new Android smartphone that the company says has a battery life of up to three days on a single charge.

• News: Apple claims Samsung knew it was infringing its patents

  Samsung must have known it was infringing Apple patents with its tablet PC, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, the tech giant has claimed.

• 25 September 2011

• Opinion: Android Users: Advice To Protect Your Phones

  Android smartphone users can take some commonsense precautions to protect their personal data from being stolen -- important advice considering an app developer purports to know how to take the information in under 60 seconds.

• 23 September 2011

• Opinion: Why I'm Not One of the 89 Percent Getting Another iPhone

  Whenever I tell someone that my next phone probably won't be an iPhone, the reaction is always the same: the eyes widen and the tone of voice shifts to complete surprise. "Why not?"

• News: Motorola Atrix 2 Leak Shows Larger, Improved Screen

  Motorola is boosting the size and quality of the display for its' next-generation Atrix 4G Android smartphone, headed to AT&T soon. The Verge got its hands on a prototype of the Atrix 2, dubbed Edison, which now features a curvier design, but still lacks the 4G LTE punch.

• News: ZTE launches first smartphone in the US through Cricket

  Mobile carrier Cricket announced on Thursday it will start selling the ZTE Score, the first smartphone from Chinese telecommunications equipment supplier ZTE to launch in the U.S.

• 22 September 2011

• News: Sony Tablet S gets Android 3.2 update

  Sony Tablet S owners who bought the 9.4in screen Android slate over the last few days will find an update is ready for download. The Sony Tablet S went onsale in the UK on 16 September. The update will ready the Android tablet for use with the soon-to-launch Sony Network Entertainment Services

• News: Apple will keep ruling the tablet market, says Gartner

  Anyone hoping for a scrappy underdog to knock the iPad off its perch as the world's top tablet will have to wait a long time, says analyst firm Gartner.

• News: Oracle, Google fail to reach settlement in Android case

  Two days of face-to-face mediation talks between Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Google CEO Larry Page over the companies' Android mobile OS lawsuit have yet to result in a settlement, but the door is open for negotiations to continue, according to a document filed late Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

• How-Tos: How to activate call waiting on a Google Android smartphone

  The call waiting feature on mobile phones means that users who are already using their handset for a conversation will be alerted, usually by a series of beeps, if there's another person trying to call them at the same time.

• 21 September 2011

• News: Strangeloop enables faster downloads for Apple, Android, Microsoft smartphones

  Strangeloop is coming out with a Web-site optimizer that speeds up page builds on mobile devices based on Apple, Android and Microsoft operating systems.

• News: Samsung Galaxy S II Lands on AT&T October 4

  AT&T customers are getting some galactic love with the arrival of the Samsung Galaxy S II on the carrier’s “4G” HSPA+ network. The Samsung Galaxy S II has been out in Europe for a few months now and the Sprint version, the Epic Touch 4G, has been out since September 16.

• Opinion: Google+ Social Networking Now Open to Everyone

  Google opened the gates to its social network, Google+, to everyone today and rolled out more than a dozen new features to the service, many of them aimed at mobile phone users.

• Charm-laden HTC Rhyme launches on O2 in the UK

  HTC's latest Google Android smartphone, the HTC Rhyme, will be offered on the O2 network in the UK and will be available in a distinctive plum colour that seems to be pitched at ladies. It has a 3.7in capacitive touchscreen, a 1GHz processor, 4GB of RAM and a Charm accessory to discreetly alert you to incoming calls

• News: Trend Micro launches Titanium Tablet Security for Android

  Trend Micro has unveiled Titanium Tablet Security for Android, security software designed for both smartphones and tablet PCs that run Google's Android OS.

• 20 September 2011

• News: Patent madness! A timeline of the Android patent wars

  How Android has gotten the entire mobile industry to sue itself.

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