Mobile android
Photos: The new gadgets and tech services up Orange's sleeve
Photo The software, available as a downloadable app for Android, iPhone, Symbian and Window Mobile, allows users to answer incoming calls to their home phone on their mobile using wi-fi, or... [26 Nov 2009]
Photos: Sony Ericsson debuts see-through Xperia phone
Photo Unlike other devices in the series, such as the X2 smartphone and the upcoming X10 Android device, the Xperia Pureness mobile phone (pictured above) has been designed to offer fewer features, not more. [25 Nov 2009]
Photos: The Android smartbook fired up by Qualcomm's Snapdragon
Photo The chipmaker said an Lenovo smartbook running Android will launch on US mobile operator AT&T's network at the start of next year. Other smartphones packing Snapdragon were on show too, pictured below,... [20 Nov 2009]
Exclusive: Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos talks open source
Comment Fast forward to the present and open source is indeed on the rise - most notably in the mobile industry, for example, where handset makers are falling over themselves to embrace new open source OSes such as Google's... [19 Nov 2009]
2009 Smartphone and Carrier Buying Guide
White Paper The real innovation in the mobile phone world is in the area of smartphones where we see the Apple iPhone, Palm WebOS, Google Android, RIM BlackBerry, and Microsoft Windows Mobile... [16 Nov 2009]
Photos: Dell unveils its very first smartphone
Photo The Mini 3 is powered by Google's mobile OS, Android. According to analyst house Gartner, Android took a 3.5 per cent share of the global smartphone market in the third quarter of this... [16 Nov 2009]
Future mobiles, Windows 7, iPhone apps and the latest gadgets
Photo The latest iteration of Android, known as Eclair, was released last month. Find out how else Google has tweaked Android here. Google Android is also featuring on netbooks, with Acer... [12 Nov 2009]
Photos: Android marches onto even more smartphones
Photo It's two years since Google announced it was building an open mobile OS platform - and the number of smartphones with Android inside is on the up. The Xperia X10 runs version 1.6 of the... [06 Nov 2009]
Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News New entrants to the market including Google's Android will continue to snap at Symbian's heels, according to market watchers In-Stat, with the company also seeing increasing competition from a new quarter - Maemo, a... [02 Nov 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet The first mobile device running Google's Android OS - the G1 - came with GPS and a built-in compass which gave app developers an exciting toolkit from an augmented reality point of view - allowing the... [27 Oct 2009]
Photos: Google Android dual boots with Windows 7 on Acer netbook
Photo The laptop will feature two OSes: Google's open source Android will sit alongside a choice of either Windows 7 or XP. Here's the netbook running the Android OS. Acer said the advantage of an... [16 Oct 2009]
Photos: 10 of the best open source mobiles
Photo However, Android wasn't the first mobile Linux effort by any means: work on open source mobiles by the LiMo Foundation, as well as the Openmoko project was already underway by the time the Google OS was... [12 Oct 2009]
Adobe's Flash coming to smartphones, netbooks
News Most major smartphone platforms will support the software - Google Android, Symbian, Palm WebOS and Windows Mobile - but Apple has yet to sign up. The company has just announced Flash Player 10.1 which... [05 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo The Cliq, the first Google Android handset produced by Motorola, was unveiled in September. The phone, which will be available through T-Mobile in the US later this year, features a 3.1 inch HVGA... [02 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Symbian
Cheat Sheet That year also saw the announcement of Android - Google's open source software platform for mobiles, while another Linux-based mobile OS effort, the LiMo Foundation, also came into being around that time. [01 Oct 2009]