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Photos: Qualcomm's Snapdragon-powered Android smartbook on show
Photo Among the devices on show was this Lenovo smartbook (pictured above and below) which runs the Google Android OS. The Lenovo smartbook runs a vanilla version of the Android OS Other smartphones packing... [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 devices taking us to places we have... [16 Nov 2009]
Photos: Dell unveils its very first smartphone
Photo The Mini 3 is powered by Google's mobile OS, Android. Dell CEO Michael Dell is pictured above, right, showing off the Android-powered smartphone with Joćo Cox, president of Claro. Dell has not yet... [16 Nov 2009]
Google's Eric Schmidt on search, Android and all things Wave
News Last week saw silicon.com sister site CNET News.com sit down with Google CEO Eric Schmidt to talk Google Wave, Android and all things search. We're certainly not done [with search] We're using a lot more about you;... [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. Sony Ericsson's first Android phone is a bit of a looker. [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]
Photos: Google's Android 2.0 unifies email
Photo Google this week released screenshots of Eclair, its 2.0 Android update. On previous Android phones, users have complained about the disparate experience between the various email apps. Eclair update... [28 Oct 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 real-world... [27 Oct 2009]
Weekend Gadget Watch: HTC Tattoo
Photo Budget touchscreen smartphone running Android Powerful Android smartphone for a low price; good social-networking features; ultra-customisable user interface; switchable covers that you can design... [23 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Windows 7
Cheat Sheet Hardware makers have already been showing off their Windows 7 machines ahead of the launch - for example, last week Acer unveiled a dual-boot netbook with Android and Windows 7. I remember that - didn't it come after... [20 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 announced. [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. Flash is ubiquitous on the desktop - now Adobe is hoping it can repeat... [05 Oct 2009]