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By Richard Mitchell To put things in perspective, Rochefort said that Gameloft has sold 400 times as many games on the iPhone as on the Android platform. Of course, it's worth noting that Apple's iPhone has a significantly larger market share than Android. According to a recent Gartner report released in Augu...

By John Herrman App developers have it hard enough on the iPhone; on Android, they've got to keep prices just as low, and sell to a much smaller audience. So how are some of them coping? By packing up and leaving, like Gameloft. Finance director for the company, Alexandre de Rochefort, says that even a compan...

By kdawson eldavojohn writes "If you think the iPhone app store is the only mobile game store suffering an exodus, some game publishers claim Android's app store isn't much better, for a different reason — it doesn't generate much revenue. In fact, French game developer Gameloft (which owes 13% of i...

By Barb Dybwad We’ll be testing out the BlackBerry version as well (pictured, below, along with a demo video of both clients), and Loic says sit tight for an iPhone version coming soon. We’d love to hear your impressions on both clients if you have a chance to check them out. Are you a Seesmic user excited abo...

By Reuters BARCELONA (Reuters) — French mobile phone games company Gameloft said it and other software developers were cutting back investment in developing games and other applications for Google’s Android platform. Games for iPhone generated 13 percent of Gameloft’s revenue in the last quar...

By Brian White Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy (BBY) is selling the Samsung Moment and the HTC Hero for $99 through December -- matching Apple's iPhone pricing for a two-year contract. That's with no rebates, either. So, the question is this: will Google's Android-powered phones start gaining...

By Brian White Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy (BBY) is selling the Samsung Moment and the HTC Hero for $99 through December -- matching Apple's iPhone pricing for a two-year contract. That's with no rebates, either. So, the question is this: will Google's Android-powered phones start gaining...

Gameloft is famous for their range of mobile games, but they have just revealed that they will be slowing down on Android game development due to a lack of potential revenue and slow adoption of the platform. According to Gameloft finance director Alexandre de Rochefort, “We have signifi...

By news@ilounge.com (Charles Starrett) Google has launched a new mobile-formatted version of its Google News homepage. The new offering is optimized for display on the iPhone and iPod touch, as well as Android devices and the Palm Pre. It offers the same personalization available on the desktop, along with more stories, source...

By joeleboss@macbidouille.com (joeleboss) Although it might look like a feature set dedicated to support the iPhone, don't get your hopes up. Some Android phones already incorporate all these hardware features (accelerometer, multitouch, portrait / landscape, ...) -- and flash is supported...

By Paul Bonanos Fully half of the company’s first-time users are now signing up via mobile devices, he told me, and since Pandora arrived on the iPhone in July 2008, 9 million people have created new accounts on smartphones, including iPhones, BlackBerrys, Palm and Android phones. That’s 24 percent of P...

By prathapml Techmeme has announced the newly updated edition of Techmeme Mobile. Techmeme Mobile has been optimized for new generation smartphones like Google Android, Apple iPhone and...

By Edward Kirk Google announced earlier today that they have launched a mobile-formatted version of Google News for viewing on smartphones, geared directly toward iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre users.The new version offers similar features to the desktop homepage, displaying more stories than the...

By Kevin Purdy iPhone/Windows Mobile/Android/Symbian: Fring, the app that means to let anyone make free Skype, Google Talk, MSN, or SIP calls from any phone, has hit Android. It works just as expected, over EDGE, 3G, or Wi-Fi. Fring is a free download, now for Android along with iPhone, Windows Mobile, a...

By Dan Nosowitz Google Talk Knows When You're on Android, and Likes It The thing about Android is that we all depend on Google for all kinds of things, whether or not we ever plan on using an Android phone. So if Google wants, they can exert some pressure, through sweet exclusive features (like the Droid's tu...

By Stuart Miles Android 1.6 supports multi-touch, however Sony Ericsson have deemed in their wisdom not to offer it on the handset. With a touchscreen so large with no keyboard we think it's a catastrophic move, but then hey, what do we know? The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is expected to be available in Februa...

By Chris Ziegler We've been hearing talk of thoroughly Google-branded phones since before Android was announced -- and if you want to get really technical about it, you could argue that it's already happened twice in the form of the Dev Phone 1 and the Ion. Thing is, those are strictly developer-oriented o...

By Dan Nosowitz Samsung has a long-standing relationship with Apple, supplying tons of parts for the iPhone, so maybe LG would step up to the plate and develop this phantom device. LG's no stranger to Android, but has been a minor player up to this point—maybe they've been working on this mysterious Googl...

By Rene Ritchie Is the Android Marketplace a more open alternative for developers compared to the iPhone App Store, or does the growing diversity of hardware, software, and overlays make it just as frustrating in its own way? Okay, so Fake Steve is likely to be more pro-Apple than a Fake Eric would be, fai...

By donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) ARM on Tuesday announced the launch of an alliance of 35 tech companies to support development of Android-based products using its widely used chips. ARM-based chips power the world's most popular smartphones, including - in the US - the Apple iPhone, Blackberry Storm, Palm Pre, and Mot...

By Chris Davies Adobe’s New Flash Lite to Support More PhonesFlash on the iPhone – What Adobe should have said, was nothingFlash Coming to iPhone one way or another, says AdobeDell Mini 9 to have Adobe Flash on Android platform?Microsoft Updates XNA Studio to Beta 2

By Chris Davies Relevant Entries on SlashGear Spotify Mobile for S60 gets video preview3 UK plan HTC Hero with Spotify Premium preloadedSpotify iPhone and Android apps releasedSpotify Mobile video demo: Internet radio with offline playbackSpotify iPhone app gets Apple’s blessing

By News The next handset in line for deployment is the Samsung Behold II, whichbills itself as a "multimedia powerhouse." The phone features a full3.2" touch-screen OLED panel, integrated Wi-Fi, support for T-Mobile's3G network, a 5MP camera (with autofocus, zoom, flash, five shootingmodes...

By Sarah Perez What they didn't note, however, is that the iPhone 3GS was just the latest model of the iPhone to arrive on the market, it is not the original device. Prior to the 3GS, the iPhone had two previous versions, the second which finally allowed for 3G cellular access and GPS capabilities. This upda...

By Om Malik Flurry monitors about 10,000 apps across iPhone and Android and claims that it tracks apps on approximately two out of three unique iPhone and Android handsets. To estimate first week sales totals for the myTouch 3G, Droid and iPhone 3GS, Flurry detected new handsets within its system, a...

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By Chris Davies No hardware specifications are known, though the display looks to be around 5- to 7- inches and we’re spotting a front-facing webcam on the upper right-hand corner.  It’s reasonably thin, too, and we’re hoping that’s a scratch-resistant glass fascia making the Boeye ideal for dropping...

By Greg Kumparak Description: While it’s getting better over time, the Android platform isn’t exactly known for its killer battery efficiency. Android allows users to run apps in the background – and a running application gobbles up battery, whether it’s visible or not. Power manager helps to improve yo...

By Marshall Kirkpatrick Planting a Flag on the iPhone, Protecting the Android Inventory Now the iPhone rules. AdMob's own numbers claimed that mobile traffic from the iPhone and iPod touch grew 19X over the last year. AdMob is making a strong play on the iPhone. TechCrunch reported this Spring that the company clai...

By Brian X. Chen Demonstrated in the video above is an Android-powered iPhone knockoff produced by counterfeiters in China. It’s appropriately (and hilariously) named the “Aphone.” Running Android 1.5, the Aphone features a 2-megapixel camera, a scroll wheel replacing the iPhone’s Home button, and a...

By Mark When you think about the specifications of the Droid it seems to be a little better on paper, we mentioned not so long ago about the camera side of things and how it compares to the iPhone, and what about the fact of the Droid having Google’s Android 2.0 operating system which is a big deal becau...

If you're on a Mac, it's easy to keep your Contacts synced—just tell Address Book to sync with Google. On Windows, you'll need a third-party app, like GO contact. That way, you can manage your contacts on your desktop, and have a local copy that's always synced up with what Google's got.

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By matt buchanan Hello, Moto These things are true about Droid: The camera's not great; the keyboard isn't mindblowing; Android 2.0 lacks the polish and multimedia prowess to completely match the iPhone. What's also true is that a killer design, Google's services, Android's exploding app ecosytem, pow...

By Sebastian Rupley Sony Ericsson today announced its Xperia X10 smartphone, based on Android, which features a customized software layer called UX built on top of the open-source operating system. It’s the first of a family of smartphones that the company plans to deliver in the first half of next year, and...

By matt buchanan Well, It Would Be a Better Camera More controls! Yay! White balance, focusing mode, color and more. It's just too bad that on the Droid, the camera's completely unresponsive garbage. I don't know if it's software or hardware, so I'm mentioning in it both here and in our Droid review. Fix pleas...

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By Shane McGlaun Google officially launched Android 2.0 Tuesday with a video and the whole works. We can’t wait for some handsets running the new OS to tip up. Intel pulled its X25-M SSD firmware update after users reported that the software messed up Windows 7 installations. The goal of the new software was to...

By Wilson Rothman Amazing voice recognition engine Live traffic and alternate route planner Text-to-speech Good routing and fast re-routing Satellite view and other views not always useful Text search features are overlapping, confusing Interface overall needs better flow

By John Herrman • Hardware partners: Who isn't developing an Android phone nowadays? Motorola, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson, and HTC dwarf Palm's hardware partner list, which consists of "Palm." Android is the new Windows Mobile, but in a good way.

• Hardware partners: Who isn't developing an Android phone nowadays? Motorola, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson, and HTC dwarf Palm's hardware partner list, which consists of "Palm." Android is the new Windows Mobile, but in a good way.

By Jack Schofield It runs the latest Android 2.0 and promises: "High-speed Web browsing, voice-activated search, customizable large screen, access to thousands of Android applications and hundreds of widgets and the best 3G mobile network in the country." Engadget has hands-on videos.

The DROID by Motorola, which will be available on the Verizon Wireless network Nov. 6, will be the first smartphone to use the Android 2.0 operating system. The device, according to one analyst, is a threat to Apple's iPhone and Motorola's last best chance to thrive in the increasingly compe...

By Gagan Biyani Tapjoy, the small development shop that brought us the incredible TapDefense for the iPhone [iTunes link], has quietly built out an extremely strong toolset to provide monetization options for app developers. Through two strong offerings, they claim to increase ad revenue for free ap...

By Frederic Lardinois Search functionality for all saved SMS and MMS messages. Auto delete the oldest messages in a conversation when a defined limit is reached. Camera Built-in flash support Digital zoom Scene mode White balance Color effect Macro focus Android virtual keyboard

By Mel Martin What phone did you drop to get the iPhone? Do you think Apple will stay ahead? Leave a comment below.New York Times: Windows Mobile sinking, Android and Apple benefit originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of fe...

By Steven Sande Perhaps the Android or some other smartphone platform will eventually evolve to the point that there is a critical mass of compelling apps that provides the same magical combination of power, ease-of-use, and fun, but until that time the iPhone will reign supreme. That's even despite Mi...

By Justin Yu All this talk about iPhones brings us to the first big topic of the day: DROID. The TV commercials for the new Verizon phone running the Google Android OS mock the iPhone and its fans, making claims that Androi's open architecture and physical keyboard will draw unsatisfied Apple fanboys t...

The Motorola CLIQ was a pretty big disappointment for me personally, but oh man does the Droid make up for it. Sure, there’s a little hype sprinkled in because this is the first Android 2.0 device I’ve had the pleasure of using, but once you move past the initial “wow” factor, the Droid really d...

By Dana Oshiro As iPhone and Android users, it's easy to forget that Facebook hasn't been fully optimized for all touchscreen phones. Many of us sit here from the comfort of our sleek mobile applications, never knowing the drudgery that Palm owners have to face as they type in URLs to open their favorite s...

By ryanstewart Battery Life I found the battery life between the iPhone and the HTC Hero to be pretty equal, they both last me less than a day with heavy use. But one thing that I found extremely annoying is that the HTC Hero takes forever to charge via USB while the charging the iPhone over USB works really wel...

Android 2.0 will bring a number of improvements that includes the native support of Microsoft Exchange (contacts are often not synchronized today), the Maps application will display more data, but still does not have pinch and zoom. The web browser is said to be almost as fast as the iPhone...

By Jason Chen The Motorola Cliq is the Android OS on Motorola hardware. Like Palm before it, Motorola decided that Windows Mobile 6.5/7 would be too little, too late to combat the iPhone menace. But instead of going in house and creating something from scratch, Motorola decided to take an already stable O...

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By matt buchanan Motorola is excited to be one of the first handset manufacturers to ship Android based devices with Flash Player support early next year," said Christy Wyatt, vice president of software applications and ecosystem at Motorola. "As the No.1 platform for video on the Web, uncompromised bro...

By Sarah Perez Mobile Application and Future Plans In addition to the web interface which works on Windows, Mac, and Linux, OrganIP is also launching an Android application which delivers the same functionality to smartphones running Google's mobile OS. The company is working on versions for iPhone...

By Dan Sung The Emperor's new iPod? Related links: Feature - Spotify App: iPhone versus Android Tags: Audio MP3 players Apple iPod iPod Touch                         Apple iPod touch (3rd Gen) originally appeared on Pocket-lint on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:55:03 +0100

By Ben Parr These applications combine virtual data into the physical real world by utilizing the iPhone 3GS or an Android phone’s compass, camera, and GPS system. The result is that you can see things like the location of Twitter users and local restaurants in the physical world, even if they are mil...

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T-Mobile to do an Android Netbook/tablet. a scheme is afoot. Microsoft wants Windows 7 on Netbooks. They claim people are returning Linux Netbooks are all returned. You can now downgrade Win 7. Ha! Rumors about Google and Twitter boiling over again. U2 bails out on Apple and goes to RIM. Skype on t...

By Rene Ritchie As much as Google hearts Apple, is Apple hating a little on Google? We get into the whole missing Android G1 multi-touch (and 3.5mm headset jack) melodrama. I Called You — iPhone Remix by Pete Leidy via Sneakmove iPhone Ringtone Challenge This is a story by the iPhone Blog. This feed is sponsor...

By Simon Sage iPhone Dev Team proclaims iPhone 3G unlock breakthrough, urges caution MMS coming to iPhone 3G! Adobe brings Flash to T-Mobile G1 - Android and Adobe Flash, together at last T-Mobile G1 touchscreen can do multi-touch, but doesn’t T-Mobile Samsung Behold Launched, Rounded-up Rumours

By Peter Arts Adobe is working to deliver full Flash Player 10 technology to smart phones, including Windows Mobile devices, Symbian OS-powered devices and Google Android phones. And the company remains hopeful regarding the iPhone and BlackBerry. Kevin Lynch, Adobe's CTO, demonstrated Flash Pla...

By JG Mason Section: Communications, Cellphones, Email / IM, Smartphones, Mobile Just like the iPhone, you just tap the voicemail you want to hear and it plays.  While not as integrated as the iPhone system, PhoneFusion looks nice and should be a help to users who seek this feature. Not for me?

By Gina Trapani Turn any MP3 on your phone to a ringtone without touching your desktop with Ringdroid. Using the app you select the start and end of your tone on a song timeline, and preview it before you save. (That sound you hear is iPhone owners eating their hearts out while they manually sync ringtones fro...

By John Herrman Just after the dust finished settling on Apple's controversial admission that the iPhone has a remotely activated kill switch for applications, Google has plainly stated in their Android Market terms of service that they've got one too. Like Apple's solution, Google's remote kill swi...

By Joshua Topolsky It's hard to believe, but rumors of a "Googlephone" have been floating around since 2006. To put it in perspective, the first Gphone post on Engadget was written by Peter Rojas. Needless to say, it's been a long, slow ride to get to Android, the Open Handset Alliance, and ultimately the T-Mob...