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Samsung Galaxy II Ad Takes Swipe At Apple iPhone 4S and Apple Fanboys

Samsung Galaxy II Ad Takes Swipe At Apple iPhone 4S and Apple Fanboys

Samsung and Apple have been at one another's throats ever since the market for their respective smartphones began to heat up and now Samsung is throwing out all the stops in a new Samsung Galaxy S II ... continue
RedPad Number One Hopes To Be iPad Competitor For China’s Communist Leaders

RedPad Number One Hopes To Be iPad Competitor For China’s Communist Leaders

In China an iPad competitor is on the way that one company hopes will be the antihesis of the iPad. Known as RedPad Number One the tablet based device features the same 9.7-inch display as an iPad ... continue
Polaroid SC1630 Digital Camera Brings Android Power To Photo Taking [Video]

Polaroid SC1630 Digital Camera Brings Android Power To Photo Taking [Video]

Polaroid on Tuesday rolled out the Polaroid SC1630, a digital "smart camera" powered by the Google Android system. The SC1630 features a 16-megapixel camera with 3x optical camera and touchscreen display with built-in Wi-Fi however where it really ... continue
One Million Potential iPad Buyers Decided To Purchase Amazon Kindle Fire Instead [Study]

One Million Potential iPad Buyers Decided To Purchase Amazon Kindle Fire Instead [Study]

During the holiday shopping season (October - December) the Amazon Kindle Fire sold 4 million units, a number that has one investment bank believing that nearly one million potential Apple iPad 2 buyers turned away from Apple ... continue
2012 And What It Means For Android

2012 And What It Means For Android

2011 was quite an impressive year for Android. With activations topping 700,000 per day and a record 3.7 Million activations from Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, the mobile operating system from Google continues to dominate. JR Raphael over ... continue
Sony Tablet S Models Receive $100 Price Drops

Sony Tablet S Models Receive $100 Price Drops

Sony on Sunday dropped the price of  their Sony Table S models by $100 each, signalling the companies attempt to clear out old inventory. Under the price reduction buyers can now grab the 16GB version for $400 while ... continue
Samsung Galaxy Note Ships One Million Units To Retailers

Samsung Galaxy Note Ships One Million Units To Retailers

Samsung on Friday announced they have shipped one million units of their Smartphone/Tablet crossover known as the Samsung Galaxy Note. The device is currently available in Europe and Asia where sales have been brisk, especially in France, Germany, ... continue
Acer Iconia A700 Tab Gets Outed Before CES

Acer Iconia A700 Tab Gets Outed Before CES

Several days ago Acer put their long awaited Iconia Tab A700 tablet up for pre-sale in the United Kingdom and now the A700 model has surfaced in Russia. According to Russian tech site Nomobile.ru the Iconia Tab A700 is ... continue
Android Smartphones Now Being Activated 700,000 Times Per Day

Android Smartphones Now Being Activated 700,000 Times Per Day

Google mobile VP Andy Rubin posted about the company's Android successes on Tuesday where he revealed that the software giant is now moving 700,000 Android based Smartphones every single day. If that number is correct it's a ... continue
Google announces Android 4.0.3, brings bug fixes and more

Google announces Android 4.0.3, brings bug fixes and more

The Galaxy Nexus was just launched two days ago on Verizon Wireless, and right around the moment it was released, Android was updated to version 4.0.2. Despite the fact that Google just released an update, the company ... continue
Samsung Galaxy Nexus Sells Out At Verizon, Low Supply Claimed

Samsung Galaxy Nexus Sells Out At Verizon, Low Supply Claimed

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is one of the first Google Android powered smartphones to cause lines to form outside of Verizon Wireless stores and that fact mixed with rumored supply issues have caused the phone to sell ... continue
Google Acquires Alfred, May Be Revving Up For Siri Competition

Google Acquires Alfred, May Be Revving Up For Siri Competition

When Apple's Siri technology rolled out for the iPhone 4 the team at Google said they had no interest in competing with the company in the personal assistant space, a position that may have changed on Wednesday ... continue
Amazon Rewarding Customers For Walking Out Of Stores On Dec. 10

Amazon Rewarding Customers For Walking Out Of Stores On Dec. 10

Amazon is prepared to steal customers from brick and mortar stores this holiday shopping season and to reach that goal they have launched a special Dec. 10 promotion in which they will literally pay customers up to ... continue
Google Android Grabs 46% Smartphone Market Share, iOS Follows With 28%

Google Android Grabs 46% Smartphone Market Share, iOS Follows With 28%

Google's Android mobile operating system continues to dominate the Smartphone space with a 46.3% market share according to research firm comScore. Following behind Google is Apple's iOS platform with a 28.1 percent share in October, up from 27.4 ... continue
Carrier IQ controversy heats up

Carrier IQ controversy heats up

California-based Carrier IQ has found itself in the news just about every day for the past several days, but the news has been far from what the company could consider good publicity. Reports have been coming in that ... continue
HTC Rezound Customers Complain Of Loud Static, HTC Says It’s An Isolated Issue

HTC Rezound Customers Complain Of Loud Static, HTC Says It’s An Isolated Issue

  Several HTC Rezound customers have been complaining about loud static from their audio source, the main feature of the phone. According t0 several Droid-Life readers their devices have been suffering from noticeable static when listening to music and the ... continue
Amazon Kindle Fire Users Already Reporting Wi-Fi Issues

Amazon Kindle Fire Users Already Reporting Wi-Fi Issues

The Amazon Kindle Fire began shipping this week and now news is surfacing from various users that the devices Wi-Fi functionality is less than stellar. Users have taken to the retailer's Kindle forums to list a variety of complaints. In some ... continue
Meet The World’s First 65-Inch Android “Tablet”

Meet The World’s First 65-Inch Android “Tablet”

Istanbul-based Ardic has created what might very well be the world's largest Google Android based "tablet" device with full touchscreen based capabilities. Featuring Google's Android Honeycomb system the Android based gadget offerings full 1080p video support on a ... continue
Google Android Developers Flock To Amazon Kindle Fire

Google Android Developers Flock To Amazon Kindle Fire

Amazon has just begun to ship their Google Android powered Kindle Fire Tablet and it's already the second most sought after device for Google Android developers. According to a study conducted by Appcelerator 49 percent of Android developers in the ... continue
Amazon Kindle Fire To Ship 5 Million Units In 2011 [Leak]

Amazon Kindle Fire To Ship 5 Million Units In 2011 [Leak]

Amazon recently claimed they were in the process of ordering more Kindle Fire units and now a leaked reported on Wednesday says the company could require up to a total of 5 million units before the end ... continue
Google Android Mobile Technology Rules Ad Impression Market In Q3 2011

Google Android Mobile Technology Rules Ad Impression Market In Q3 2011

The Google Android OS was a big winner in the ad impression space during the third quarter of 2011 securing 56 percent of the market compared to Apple's 28 percent reach. Falling further behind is one time ... continue
Google Translate For Android Gets Multilingual Support Via “Conversation Mode”

Google Translate For Android Gets Multilingual Support Via “Conversation Mode”

Google on Saturday announced that their popular Google Translate for Android application now offers support for 14 languages via their "Conversation Mode", allowing callers to receive on the fly translations as they talk to people in various ... continue