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Android is an open source, Linux based operating system for smartphones. Original creators of the operating system, Android Inc. were acquired by Google in 2005. In 2008, the HTC Dream (Also known as the T-Mobile G1) was released as the first phone running Android OS. Android features a home screen with multiple pages which can have widgets or application shortcuts added. With many manufacturers building Android powered handsets and being supported by carriers all over the world, Android is one of the most popular and widely used smartphone operating systems. Read on for the latest Android news, reviews and videos:

  • by | June 12, 2013 2:51 PM

    We only got finished telling you about the latest rumors concerning the HTC One Mini's launch schedule, when a whole bunch of new One Mini info has crossed our desk, delivering a new photo of the handset and touching back on a number of the phone's supposed specs. After Bloomberg was hesitant to refer to the One Mini as such, we began to have reservations about the phone's name. Well, Engadget's source seems far more confident, and clearly identifies this as the once-M4, now-One-Mini. As for its specs, this source wasn't able to confirm some key aspects like the 4.3-inch display's ...

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  • by | June 12, 2013 1:10 PM

    No one can claim that HTC isn't doing its part to keep the 4.3-inch smartphone screen size alive, offering a 720p 4.3-inch display on models like its First and the rumored One Mini. We've managed to check out the latter in quite a few leaked pics, and have heard rumors that claimed the Android could launch this summer, possibly in August. While nothing's yet to go official, some new sources are talking about the Mini, and reiterating that idea of an August launch. This time, it was Bloomberg speaking to a pair of sources, and both relayed that HTC is preparing to start selling the phone in ...

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  • by | June 12, 2013 11:53 AM

    It was an inevitability: with Samsung's Galaxy S 4 firmly arrived, rumors are already beginning to show up for next year's flagship, the Galaxy S 5. Now, it may seem premature to start talking about things like SoC choice quite this far out, when we don't really even have a strong sense of what the options will be, but today's rumor has very different focus, looking at the GS5's design, instead. If we're to believe this source, Samsung could be taking a page from HTC and the One, and deliver a fully-aluminum Galaxy S 5. This tidbit comes from an anonymous "trusted source close to the South ...

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  • by | June 12, 2013 10:33 AM

    Who's the person responsible when a smartphone company really nails a handset launch? Who do we blame when a product bombs? While there are any number of engineers, designers, marketing folk, and executives involved with the release of a new device or service, when it comes to giving one of these corporate entities a face, more often than not we look to the company's CEO. Sure, up on this same level we can find all matter of presidents, board members, and chairpeople (persons?) overseeing a company's business, but in the end it's the Chief Executive Officer making the managerial decisions ...

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  • by | June 12, 2013 6:00 AM

    We can finally put all the rumors to rest as the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom is now official. It joins a slew of other recently announced devices, which we'll meet in person in London, at the June 20 event. Meet the Frankenstein device, where a phone meets a camera. The Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom packs a 4.3-inch sAMOLED screen with qHD resolution (960 x 540), 1.5GHz Dual-Core Processor (different, depending on the market), a 16-megapixel main camera on the back with x10 Optical Zoom (24-240mm, F3.1-F6.3), 1.9-Megapixel webcam camera, 1.5GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage (expandable via ...

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  • by | June 12, 2013 1:21 AM

    Cheap Android tablets are expected at a price point as low as $99. A recent report speculates that such budget slates might land towards the third quarter of the year. The claim is based on the fact that manufacturers are now apparently competing in the price department. ASUS recently announced its MeMo Pad HD 7 slate which goes for as low as $129 (for the 8GB storage version). The report claims that such move might force other OEMs to lower the price of future Android tablets. $99 is expected to be the target threshold. With first-tier brand vendors fighting to lower the price, ...

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  • by | June 11, 2013 4:14 PM

    What a long, strange trip the Nexus 7 dock has had on its way through the Google Play Store. We got our first look at the dock back in December, already five months since the tablet itself became available, and then it took the dock all the way until early March before Google started hawking them itself. The dock's been in the Google Play Store for only three months, and now it already looks like Google could be giving it the boot. If you check the Play Store today, you'll see the Nexus 7 dock marked as "not available in your country." Furthermore, it doesn't show up in the list of ...

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  • by | June 11, 2013 3:10 PM

    Yesterday, we brought you some images of a device purporting to be the in-development Galaxy Note III, with what looked like a big six-inch screen. Today, that's joined by a new picture, apparently showing the Note III next to a couple other phones. No soon has it hit the scene, though, that we're hearing claims that it's a fake (or at least being misrepresented) and what we're really looking at is the Galaxy Mega 6.3. Does that theory hold up to scrutiny? GSM Arena prepared the lovely analysis of the new image above, using known measurements of that Nokia handset to identify the screen ...

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  • by | June 11, 2013 2:29 PM

    There have been a couple of occasions over the past few weeks where we've had the opportunity to check out leaked renders of the Huawei Ascend P6. Though the manufacturer may not have the clout of a Samsung or even an HTC, the P6 nonetheless looked like a pretty attractive handset, and wowed us with its exceptional thinness. While we had heard a few rumors about the handset's capabilities before, hard numbers had been lacking. Today we flesh out our understanding of the P6 a bit upon the apparent leak of a number of its hardware specs. Early chatter mentioned the possibility of a 1080p ...

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  • by | June 11, 2013 12:45 PM

    A couple weeks back, we took some time to talk to you about Waze, the crowd-sourced navigation app that compiles user-submitted data to let you find the fastest, least congested, and overall best routes around. At the time, rumors were flying all over concerning Waze's interest in being acquired by a heavyweight like Facebook. As it turns out, Google manage to slide in with the winning bid, and today announced its acquisition of Waze. So, what does this mean for the app? You may remember from our earlier look that we had some serious reservations about how a move like this might affect our ...

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  • by | June 11, 2013 12:01 PM

    One week ago Monday, we learned that Vine would no longer be an iOS exclusive, and the Twitter acquisition was finally releasing an Android port of its app. While Apple users had access going back to January, the floodgates were now open for their Android brethren, and given how much more popular Vine's grown since its launch, we were curious to see just how strong this Android interest might be. So far, the app is off to a very respectable start, and Vine has just managed to squeeze past Instagram on the Android top app list. That's a big deal, as when it comes to apps built for sharing ...

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  • by | June 11, 2013 11:00 AM

    Apple's iOS 7 announcement yesterday seems almost reserved; we didn't have the news dominated by any one big feature like Siri, and instead saw deep-rooted change (to varying extents) wash over the platform as a whole. All those little tweaks sure add up, though, and the sum of their parts made for a pretty darn attractive update to the aging OS. Apple's changes caught the eye of some of its competition, and late last night the new Android head honcho Sundar Pinchai took to Twitter to voice his interest. Pichai claims to be "excited to try out iOS7 beta," though that's of course contingent ...

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  • by | June 10, 2013 11:15 PM

    We got an early peak at iOS 7 earlier today. Love it or hate it, it's finally a change from the same old boring grid of icons. For some this will be considered too extreme a change. For others it won't have been significant enough. Oh well, I supposed you can't please everyone all of the time. Once you look past all the glitz and glamour, what does iOS 7 mean for the future of Android? Multitasking is in! One of the more technological differences between Android and iOS has been the way each platform handles multitasking. Android handles running apps much like your desktop computer, ...

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  • by | June 10, 2013 8:44 PM

    Now that it's all said and done, we know iOS 7 is pretty light on new features. Siri has a few new parlor tricks; Control Center now allows users to quickly toggle settings without navigating to the Settings app; Notification Center sports a less cluttered, more useful interface; multitasking is smart and learns which apps you use most; and Safari handles tabs better than ever. And, yes, we have a few complaints about the update – like how it's still closed down and, despite the giant app ecosystem, doesn't allow third-party sharing or user-defined default apps. Feature-light or not, ...

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  • by | June 10, 2013 8:08 PM

    While Facebook continues to try and make things work with new updates, it's hardly controversial to suggest that its Facebook Home is something between a slow-burner that hasn't quite found its success yet, and an abject failure. The one ray of sunshine that really managed to shine through the whole thing has been the idea of Chat Heads, which Facebook was smart enough to separately build into Messenger. We even saw the idea capture the imagination of the custom ROM community, and Paranoid Android introduced its own Halo feature inspired by Chat Heads. We've shown you just how Halo works, ...

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