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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]
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 The Android 2.0 'Eclair' update will add a unified email inbox. On previous Android phones, users have complained about the disparate experience between the various email apps. Photo credit: Google With... [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]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo The Cliq, the first Google Android handset produced by Motorola, was unveiled in September. Bonhams previewed some vintage tech last month as the London auctioneer prepared to put a selection of classic hardware under... [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]
Michael Dell
AS Profile Generating the most excitement among Dell's forthcoming hardware line-up is the Latitude Z notebook, rumoured to have advanced wireless capabilities that possibly includes wireless charging; and Dell's Android-based... [30 Sep 2009]
Daniel Ek
AS Profile Spotify is now also available via the Apple App Store as well as the Android mobile phone platform, further extending its potential to compete with iTunes. Daniel Ek co-founded the Spotify on-demand music streaming... [29 Sep 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. Google CEO Eric Schmidt makes the Agenda Setters top 10 for the sixth consecutive year in 2009 and rises... [29 Sep 2009]
Weekend Gadget Watch: Samsung Galaxy i7500
Photo Android smartphone with Amoled touchscreen Vibrant screen; plenty of on-board memory; good camera, with LED photo light; 3.5mm headphone jack; support for Android apps; responsive user interface Dull... [25 Sep 2009]
