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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. Sony Ericsson's first Android phone is a bit of a looker. [06 Nov 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet It also picked out Android and iPhone as the two platforms where AR, used for personal navigation applications, is seeing the strongest early takeup. The first mobile device running Google's Android OS -... [27 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]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile It also continued to push its Chrome web browser while the Android mobile phone OS has become much more mainstream. Further demonstrating his influence earlier this year Schmidt became a member of Barack Obama's... [29 Sep 2009]
Google: Apple rejected Google Voice for iPhone
News It also translates voice mails into text, and is a popular application on Google's own Android mobile operating system. The FCC had requested information from Apple, Google, and AT&T - the exclusive iPhone carrier in the... [21 Sep 2009]
Google's Android gets new functionality baked in with Donut SDK
News For example, Android can now run on CDMA phones used by the likes of US operators Verizon and Sprint, adding more potential partners to the Android world. Those smartphone developers... [16 Sep 2009]
Photos: Motorola's first Android device
Photo The Cliq is Motorola's first Google Android device. It will be the third Android phone for the carrier (joining the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G and the T-Mobile G1). Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha gave the keynote... [14 Sep 2009]
iPhone still king of apps: But don't ignore Android
News The long-awaited flood of Google Android devices is about to hit the market, which should help bring more applications to new Android phones. Motorola is the latest manufacturer to announce its... [11 Sep 2009]
Minority Report: Why Apple was smart to OK 'iTunes killer'
Comment It ensures the company doesn't fall behind its own competitors - Spotify is working on an Android app too. And furthermore, the US market for streamed music is still wide open - Spotify's partner for... [03 Sep 2009]
Nokia's new mobiles take aim at Facebooking music lovers
News And last week, it also announced its N900 smartphone, its first Linux-based phone, which is expected to compete more directly with the iPhone and a flood of Google Android phones due to hit the market later this year and... [03 Sep 2009]
Apple hunts for replacement for Google CEO Schmidt
News Both are players in the mobile phone market (Google's Android operating system competes with Apple's iPhone) and soon will compete in desktop operating systems, when Google releases its Chrome OS. Besides Jobs, the board... [14 Aug 2009]
Apple loses Google boss as Schmidt steps down from board
News Unfortunately, as Google enters more of Apple's core businesses, with Android and now Chrome OS, Eric's effectiveness as an Apple board member will be significantly diminished, since he will have to recuse himself from... [04 Aug 2009]
Minority Report: Will Apple open up to 'iTunes killer' Spotify?
Comment Well, the music service will certainly be coming to iPhone's competitors, including Android devices. A Spotify spokesman told the Evening Standard last week: "We really don't know if Apple will give us... [29 Jul 2009]
Steve Ballmer asks why Google just can't make up its mind
News To me the Chrome OS thing is highly interesting - it won't happen for a year and a half and [Google] already announced an operating system [Android]. What we do need to do is to continue to evolve Windows, Windows... [15 Jul 2009]
Is Apple's iPhone App Store too far ahead for others to catch up?
News Google's Android Market has also launched. LG hasn't yet set a date for opening its store in the US. Apple's popular App Store has proven that selling mobile applications for smartphones is a hot... [15 Jul 2009]
