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by Alex Dobie
Feb 09, 2012
The Nokia N9 is a great piece of hardware, some users have been pining for Android on the device instead of the built-in MeeGo OS. As it's a relatively developer-friendly phone, it wasn't lo...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 10, 2012
Take the best Android smartphone and put it next to the best Windows Phone. Know what you get? A couple of big-ass phones. Hit the break for a quick look at the Samsung Galaxy Nexus against the Noki...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2011
Another day, another chart showing Android's spectacular growth. What you see above is Gartner's numbers for the first quarter of 2011. And in those three months, some 36.2 million Android device...
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by Andrew Melnizek
Jan 31, 2011
Another analyst group is reporting new record numbers for Android today. Canalys has released showing Android in the fourth quarter of 2010 shipped 33.3 million devices worldwide. That's a HUGE differ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 06, 2010
If skyrocketing marketshare, multimillion-dollar ad revenue, and mind-boggling hardware specs aren't enough to keep Android on the tip of everyone's tongue, Photoshopping failures by advertising compa...
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by Sean Brunett
Aug 02, 2010
We all know that Android has done a remarkable job growing and expanding in the past year. However, I do not think any of us could have predicted just how much the maturing operating system has ...
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by Ali Fazel
Jun 26, 2010
Enterprising hackers have managed to load Android 2.2 Froyo onto the geek-beloved Nokia N900, the Nokia phone you're supposed to hack. It now joins the iPhone in platforms that aren't &quo...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 01, 2010
It's not much of a secret, judging by all the talk in our Evo 4G forums, that a lot of you folks out there are getting ready to jump one ship or another to join the ranks of Android with the Sprint ...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 26, 2010
We've spent some time with the Nokia N900, and we can tell you that it's simply a beast of a device. Big, powerful, and made strictly for landscape usage--the N900 oozes power. Maemo (the OS beh...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 20, 2010
Nokia. The invisible giant. The king of kings. It's the elephant, if you will. And yes, it's the world's most popular smartphone platform. It's true, even with little to no footprint in the US, Nokia ...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 12, 2010
And we're back! The Smartphone Round Robin is officially back in motion and we're now in week 4. We have perhaps the most mysterious device in the Smartphone Round Robin this year--Nokia--and i...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 23, 2009
As you know, the second week of the Smartphone Round Robin is going strong and if you're wondering where Android is this week, well it's in the hands of NokiaExpert's Matthew Miller! Matt is put...
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by Casey Chan
Oct 08, 2009
We're not the only ones who think that Android is about to take off. Analysts at Gartner forecast that our favorite OS, Android, will rank second in worldwide smartphone market share by 2012 (be...
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by Casey Chan
Jul 06, 2009
The interwebs were ablaze when The Guardian cited 'industry insiders' saying that Nokia, the world's largest phone manufacturer, was making an Android device to be introduced in September. The l...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 30, 2009
The 1 million sales mark is a pretty good barometer in determining early success, popularity, and consumer interest in a particular smartphone model. Obviously it has its pitfalls in that gaugin...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 14, 2009
The Dell smartphone rumor has been around a long time and its coming back stronger than ever. According to Engadget, Dell might unveil a Dell smartphone (dPhone?) as early as next month at 3GSM or ...
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by Casey Chan
Nov 11, 2008
We had already told you guys that Firefox Mobile aka Fennec wasn't coming to Android but more details are coming out as to who's to blame. Fennec won't play nice with Android Market because apps in An...
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by Casey Chan
Nov 06, 2008
In a bit of disappointing news, it looks like Mozilla has no plans to bring Firefox Mobile to the Android platform. Instead, they'll be focusing on a Linux version for Nokia Internet Tablets and to...
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by Casey Chan
Oct 29, 2008
We at Android Central only knew of Lenovo as the maker of laptops and tablets. Admittedly, we're a fan of their PC work but we had no idea that they were big time makers of cell phones and smartphones...
