Posts Tagged ‘Android’

1% Rejection rate at Android Market

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

Google opened up on the Android Market approval process. From the 6000 applications that have been submitted, the company has only removed 60 of them because they where not suited for the public.

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Acer Plans App Store

August 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Acer has only just joined the smartphone market and already it is announcing that it will be releasing an App Store for it's Windows Mobile and probably even upcoming Android devices.

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HTC Working on Cheaper Smartphones

August 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

HTC is rumoured to be signing up new component suppliers in order to bring down the costs of developing smartphones. By introducing cheaper hardware, HTC might boost the Android uptake.

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Motorola Starts Android Developer Programme

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

Motorola is betting on Android for it's newest smartphones. To make sure they have enough backing from the Android development community, they opened up a special developer programme.

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Cuttlefish, Another Engine Coming Along

July 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms | No Comments »

This morning we received a tip about something called 'The Cuttlefish Engine'. Cute as it sounds, it is actually a full engine that allows developers to instantly release their games on iPhone, BlackBerry and Android.

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LG’s App Store and Android Plans

June 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

In a story on Reuters, LG reveals that it will be launching an App Store next month and is working on Android based handsets to launch next to their Windows Mobile offerings.

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Android Coming to Ubunto

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

Though Ubunto is one of the most well known Linux distributions out there, Canonical (the commercial party behind Ubunto) has announced that the Linux distribution will be upgraded to support Google’s Android apps.

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Paid Android Apps Live in The Netherlands

May 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | 1 Comment »

Following several delays, we can finally enjoy paid apps in The Netherlands. T-Mobile deployed the G1 several months ago and did good sales according to several shop owners we spoke.

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Strategy Analytics: Android Grows 900% in 2009

May 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Strategy Analytics reported that they expect Android shipments to be increased by a massive 900% over the year. Not that hard since the OS is only available at a handful of handsets at the moment.

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Android Updates Country Coverage

May 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

The Android Market team has announced several updates to their service. Mobile game developer are now able to target their products toward more markets.