Posts Tagged ‘Android’

ARM Invests in Android Chipsets

November 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

ARM has setup a new ‘Android Solutions Center’ in order to ease and speed up development of Android powered hardware. The company hopes it will increase the number of Android powered gadgets on the market.

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Flurry: Droid Does Deliver

November 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Following our coverage on the release of the Motorola Droid, Flurry has committed to some deeper research and found out that Droid isn’t doing that bad when you look at the first week sales.

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Samsung Drops Symbian for Bada

November 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Bada | No Comments »

Samsung has announced a new Open Source OS called Bada. The first Bada device is expected to hit the shelves during the first six months of 2010. To warm up developers, it announced that Bada will replace Symbian OS.

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Device Anywhere Increases Android Support

November 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Device Anywhere has added a large number of Android handsets to its portfolio. The devices range from generally available devices to pre-commercial models.

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Google and Developers work on SD Solution for Android

November 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

With the solution, consumers will be able to install their apps and mobile games on external memory and so, be able to better manage the memory space they have in their devices.

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Android 2.0 SDK Released

October 28th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Google’s Android team has officially announced the arrival of the Android 2.0 SDK called Eclair. The new SDK will bring developers loads of new API’s to play around with.

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Google Expands Analytics on iPhone and Android

October 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Google is in the process of updating it's Google Analytics platform. One of the updates will allow app and mobile game developers to track user engagement inside the apps and games.

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Paid Android Apps for Japan

October 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

One of the bigger gaming markets has opened up for commercial Android developers as Google has started to process payments for the Japanese Android Market.

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Gartner’s Android Predictions for 2012

October 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Gartner has put some research in the future of Android and it seems the OS is here to stay. The company expects that Android will outsell iPhone OS in about two years but might not be able to beat Symbian.

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Quarter of Android Purchases get Refunded

October 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

It seems a very unlucky android developer experienced a refund rate of about 25% on its mobile game while providing a LITE version. This was reported by French site Pockett.net.