Aug

2011

Qik Video $5 Monthly Premium Subscription Adds New Features

by Justin Routhier
tagged Android Market, premium, Qik Desktop, Qik Video, qr, share, Skype, subscription, video chat, video mail

The Qik Video app that presents Skype software to help you stay connected through video chat, mail and share options is offering users a $4.99 monthly premium subscription with a new assortment of extra features including: Unlimited video storage for as many videos as you want to save, playback, or share later. Send/Receive videos in [...]

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Aug

2011

Android Now at 40% of Smartphone Share

by Dustin Karnes
tagged 7, Android, apple, blackberry, Google, iOS, market, microsoft, Nokia, Phone, rim, share, symbian, windows, wp7

We all know Android is growing; there’s no denying the numbers. Just like there’s no denying that Apple has a large share, RIM is dying, and Windows Phone is off somewhere by the fence huffing spraypaint. In the latest mobile subscriber number results from comScore, Android has now gobbled up a whopping 40 percent of [...]

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Jul

2011

Android top of Mobile OS usage for 7th straight month

by Dustin Karnes
tagged Android, apple, blackberry, iOS, market, mobile, Nokia, OS, Phone, rim, share, symbian, windows

According to the latest mobile mix report from Millenial, Android is *still* on top of mobile OS usage – for the 7th straight month in a row. That’s right, folks… 2011 has been the year for Android, and it’s showing no signs of letting up. With a whopping 54% of the mobile OS share, that’s [...]

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Jul

2011

App: Finally, an easy way to share apps with friends, thanks to MyAppSharer

by Dustin Karnes
tagged Android, apk, app, bluetooth, email, mail, myappsharer, share

Do you have friends that are constantly bothering you to “send them that app you used last week”? Tired of trying to hold hands while sending them to the Market? Well, thankfully, that painful part of your Android know how may be coming to an end, thanks to an awesome new app: MyAppSharer. The app [...]

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Jul

2011

Gingerbread doubles current Android devices while Froyo loses grip

by Dustin Karnes
tagged 1.5, 1.6, 2, 2.1, 2.3, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 3.0, 3.1, Android, Cupcake, developers, devices, donut, eclair, froyo, Gingerbread, Google, honeycomg, manufacturers, market, mp3, OS, phones, share, tablet

Pie charts: admit it, you love them. Especially when they pertain to Android statistics. What’s that? You don’t? Well then… why don’t you have a seat right over there… But, enough shenanigans. According to the latest poll of Android devices from the Android Developers Site, Froyo is holding strong as king of the Android hill, showing [...]

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Apr

2011

Layar 5.0 for Android available now – adds facebook and twitter sharing functionality

by Jesse Bauer
tagged Android, AR, Augmented Reality, Facebook, iOS, iphone, Layar, Layar 5.0, Layar Browser, local search, screen shot, screenshot, share, sharing, social network, symbian, Twitter

Layar is a popular app that makes looking for information around you fun and intuitive by providing an augmented reality browsing experience. There are over 2,000 layars to choose from now within the app, and they’ve recently added some animation to the 3D objects, as well as Twitter and facebook functionality for sharing those gems [...]

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Mar

2011

Android 2.2 leads serving Froyo to 61 percent of active devices

by Jesse Bauer
tagged ahead, Android, android 2.2, android 2.x, Android2.2, Android2.x, data, fragmentation, Google, leads, mobile OS, MobileOs, operating system, OperatingSystem, OS, share, stats, version

It may have seemed like some of us would never see this coming by the amount of time many have waited to get Froyo on their devices, both last year and still this year to come. So, here we are, looking at 61.3% of active Android devices on the market currently running Android 2.2. The [...]

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Jan

2011

Android sold more handsets in Q4 2010 than Nokia’s Symbian

by Jesse Bauer
tagged 2010, Android, Canalys, data, figures, Google, leader, market share, marketshare, mobile OS, MobileOs, numbers, OS, q4, sales, share, smartphone, smartphones, statistics, stats, symbian

For the first time in 10 years, Nokia’s symbian platform was NOT the leader in handsets sales, as Google’s Android took the top spot for Q4 of 2010! Research firm Canalys said on Monday that 32.0 million Android phones were sold, while Symbian devices sold totaled 31 million. A large amount of those sales for [...]

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