Nexus 7 shipments for 2012 expected to top 5 million

We heard straight from ASUS itself that shipments of the Nexus 7 were approaching 1 million for the month of October, and now we're hearing more information about shipments for the whole of 2012. According...

Can the Google Nexus 7 survive a 65 foot drop?

What is the point of dropping a Google Nexus 7 65 feet off the top of a building? Obviously no device is going to survive a fall of that magnitude, even one of those rugged PTT phones would probably bite...

Samsung Galaxy Note II used to announce winners at American

The American Music Awards appear to have kicked the traditional envelopes and note cards to the curb in favor of technology to bring the event into the modern era of going paperless. Instead, the announcer...

Vodafone UK launches 7-inch Smart Tab 2 tablet looks quite f

Google’s Nexus 7, Amazon’s Kindle Fire(s) and Apple’s iPad mini have taken the dull and monotonous 7-inch tablet fight from the past few years and have transformed it into a high-stakes take no priso...

How would you change the Samsung Galaxy S III?

When we reviewed Samsung's Galaxy S III in the simple, gentle days of May, our reviewer wasn't sure it would win out against HTC's One X. In the intervening six months, however, the Korean behemoth has...

Google steals Christmas leaves December out of Android 4.2 O

There's probably quite a few Android users who wouldn't mind skipping December completely. It's cold, it's expensive and requires folks to deal with less desirable elements of their families.

Samsung tops phone sales in third quarter

According to technology research firm Gartner, Samsung outsold Apple and Nokia to claim the highest mobile phone sales numbers for the third quarter of 2012.

HTC Deluxe render leaks showing off global version of the HT

Thanks to a tweet from evleaks, we have a render of the HTC Deluxe. If the name sounds familiar, it is because at one time, this was the name that was applied to the HTC DROID DNA before the 5 inch phablet...

HTC EVO 4G LTE may be getting update to Jelly Bean today

While for now it is just a rumor, leaked documents would seem to point to the HTC EVO 4G LTE getting an over the air update to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean sometime today.

Android dominates in China with 90.1% market share

Android is on the rise in China. While the smartphone market in the country is currently under 20% of total mobile devices as of earlier this year, smartphones are certainly a fast-growing segment. In...

Huawei Ascend D quad XL full review

Smartphones are fast becoming more powerful companions as more quad-core phones are introduced to the market. Huawei doesn’t want to be left out in that space and created the Huawei Ascend D quad XL...

Twitter brings content preview cards to Android and iPhonele

Twitter has been on a mission to bring more of its expanded tweet content to the mobile world, and most recently lavished attention on the iPad. It's carrying that campaign to a much wider mix of screens:...

Sprint Black Friday sale offers Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy Vict

If you don’t find yourself suffering from a food coma the day after Thanksgiving, you may wanna have someone help peel you off the couch so you can get on over to Sprint. Looks like #3 largest carrier...

Chrome OS and Google Now themes give Android a fresh new loo

It was a few months back Google began rolling out their all new redesigned Chrome user interface for Chromebooks. While the functionality or convenience of a Chrome-only laptop was still up for debate...

Humble Bundle For Android 4 Updated With Five More Games, 83

Android gamers, count your blessings: the fourth Humble Bundle has just added a handful of cheap, charity-beneficent games. The standard five games (Splice, Eufloria, Waking Mars, Crayola Physics Deluxe...

Pandora For Android Gets An Overhaul To V4.0

I've been using Pandora for a while now. I honestly don't remember when I started - maybe around early 2008. The web client has been a standby for me, even as the ads have grown more frequent, intrusive...

Share button for iOS Android and Facebook mobile site goes l

Facebook moves fast: one day after the news broke the social networking site said it was introducing a share button on its mobile site, the company revealed the feature is now available on its iOS and...

Nexus 7 on Android 4.2 having problems updating Google Play

n case you own a Nexus 7 tablet then you probably know that Android 4.2 Jelly Bean is already available for the device and can be installed immediately, which you probably already did as soon as the update...

Sony Xperia J full review

When people think of entry-level phones, a sleek design isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind. The Xperia J, however, is here to change the way we perceive entry-level phones.

Who wears the pants in the Android family, Google or Samsung

We all tend to forget that Android is nothing more than just another mobile operating system. Is there something special about the OS that has propelled it to the pole position that it now enjoys? IDC...