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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 03, 2012
The fellows at @evleaks have shown off yet another leaked image render of the HTC Droid DNA, the 5-inch beast from HTC we're pretty sure is headed to Verizon. We certainly don't kn...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 06, 2012
We know the EVO 4G LTE is running Android 4-dot ... something. But this was a first, at least for me. At least they didn't come at us with something like "That's for us to know and you ...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Feb 13, 2012
BIG Launcher, the homescreen replacement app designed with the visually impaired and elderly in mind, has been updated to version 1.7, and is available now in the Android Market. The big change her...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 04, 2012
Google's just released the latest numbers showing the distribution of the various versions of Android. Ice Cream Sandwich has made the list for the first time, with Android 4.0 totalling 0.6 per...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 21, 2011
Amazon has just posted release notes for the Amazon Kindle Fire Version 6.2.1 software update (Version 6.2 dropped just a few weeks ago), which has promised to address a number of nagging issues. In...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 04, 2011
Google has released the latest version numbers for Android, and they're about what you'd expect. For the past two weeks ending Nov. 3, Gingerbread has crept up to 44.4 percent (up from 38.7 ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 04, 2011
Google has released the latest breakdown of the platform version numbers, and they show Gingerbread growing in a big way. These numbers are a snapshot of the phones and tablets that have visit...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 13, 2011
Word on the streets -- and in our Droid 2 forums -- is that the R2-D2 version of the Droid 2 is getting its Android 2.3 Gingerbread update today, just shy of the anniversary of its launch. Dunno how m...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 07, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewing (fwd to 30:25) The best part about Eric Schmidt's brief -- and we do mean brief ... almost in passing -- mention of Ice Cream Sandwich at the Salesforce Dreamforce 2011...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 02, 2011
Google has just released the latest set of Android version numbers, and the overall trend of legacy version numbers dropping continues. There's no drastic changes, but a quick look at the chart ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 07, 2011
Welcome to another exciting edition of "Who's using which Android version!" -- the game show that takes a look at the various versions of Android floating around out in the world...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 03, 2011
Google just released the latest batch of numbers showing us how many devices are on on which version of Android.The big picture didn't change much in April -- Froyo still dominates, growing to 65.9 pe...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 02, 2011
While it's still unofficial -- former Google CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to not name it during his keynote address at Mobile World Congress -- it's hardly a secret that the next named ve...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 02, 2011
The latest Android versions numbers are in, and it remains relatively unchanged from last month. Android 2.2 continues to dominate at 63.9 percent, up from 61.3 percent from the previous two weeks or...
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by Kyle Gibb
Mar 16, 2011
Google has updated the statistics for the state of the Android ecosystem and they show that over 90 percent of all Android devices connecting to the Market are running at least Android 2.1 Ecla...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 03, 2011
Google just released the latest figures on the number of Android variants in the wild. For the two weeks ending Feb. 2, 89.8 percent of devices are on Android 2.1 and up. Realistically, that means An...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 02, 2010
It's been another month, and that means it's time to take another look at the breakdown of Android versions in the wild. (Click here to see October's numbers.) Android 2.1 (Eclair) and 2.2 (Froyo...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 21, 2010
Remember that really blurry picture that reportedly shows Gingerbread? It hasn't gotten any clearer, but now it's moving. Phandroid has the video it apparently was ripped from, and it shows a pretty c...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 21, 2010
Better late than never, the latest Android version numbers (ending July 15) show the number of phones with Eclair (Android 2.1) and Froyo (Android 2.2) now at 58.8 percent, up from 54.9 perc...
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by afazel
Jul 02, 2010
Android 2.1 usage is up from our last count 16 days ago to 53.1 percent of all Android devices. The numbers are based on the devices that access the Android Market, which should be just about eve...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 16, 2010
It's been a couple of weeks, and that means it's time for an update as to who's running which version of Android. (See the previous breakdown here.) Fifty percent of Android devices are now running An...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
First question out of the gate today for the Android leadership at Google IO was about everybody's favorite subject: fragmentation. And VP of engineering Andy Rubin put things in ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 03, 2010
It's been a little less than a month since the Android developer site released its last version numbers, and we already have another update. As of the two weeks ending May 3, some 32.4 percent of Andr...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 10, 2010
This Flash-or-no-Flash-on-Android is getting rather hard to keep track of. Somedays it looks like Android is getting Flash right around the corner, while other days it looks so far off in the future f...
