Head of Windows Mobile Terry Myerson did an interview at D: Dive Into Mobile and was asked to comment on the current state of Android and his thoughts on Facebook Home. The first thing he says about Android? “It’s a mess.” Of course, in a sense, he’s right. OEMs just aren’t making much money aside from Samsung, but that’s looking to change soon. Then he… Read more
Today the highly popular custom ROM development team CyanogenMod released stable M-series snapshot builds for CM10.1 for what I’ve counted as 30 devices so far. I’ve seen reports for fewer devices so my guess is that this list has been growing and may continue to grow. I have a list below with the 30 devices that have the new M3 build released… Read more
Ask almost any mobile tech savvy person about NFC and they can give you a pretty good answer. It’s short for Near Field Communication and allows devices to interact with each other by being in very close proximity. It can be used to transfer files or simply trigger things. The possibilities are incredibly vast with NFC and it makes me wonder, why isn’t… Read more
After a long wait, with both the international and Sprint models already updated, the AT&T LG Optimus G is finally being updated to Jelly Bean. The update will add the standard Jelly Bean features, like the beloved Google Now and expandable notifications, and on top of that, LG improved their UI in small ways. Unfortunately, the Q apps that are included… Read more
The HTC First was just announced by HTC’s own Peter Chou, with AT&T’s Ralph de la Vega coming up to talk about it. While specs weren’t really brought up, we know that it will have Facebook Home pre-installed and it will be optimized for the social experience. It’ll also come in four different colors, so your phone can look as pretty as… Read more
About a year and a half ago (or somewhere near that), Google made the executive decision to give Android a design revamp. The launch of the Galaxy Nexus came about and with it came something much more important: Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and a sleek new design theme known as Holo. A far cry from previous versions of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich… Read more
We may soon see a new browser from Samsung. As you know, Google discontinued the stock Android browser in favor of a more closed browser, Chrome for Android. Samsung, who builds their own browser off the stock Android browser, could be a little stuck. So of course, they go and work with Mozilla to create not just a new browser, but an entirely new… Read more
These images were leaked of Facebook’s newest endeavor with Android, Facebook Home. This upcoming software, which should be officially announced tomorrow, is set to be running on the HTC First, previously known as the HTC Myst. The home replacement is meant to be a simple way to navigate through your apps with full Facebook integration. It seems… Read more
Flurry, an analytics company, has released a ton of information recently collected from smartphones of both the Android and iOS persuasion. This data revealed how people were spending their time using their smartphones, and for how long. And shockingly, people used their phones 2 hours and 38 minutes a day on average. The biggest use of time has been… Read more
When you look at this chart, you’ll see a huge difference from last month. While Jelly Bean 4.1 had 14.9% and 4.2 had 1.6% distribution last month, they now have 23% and 2% respectively. That’s an 8.5% difference. Has Jelly Bean really grown that much? Not exactly, and we’ll let Google do the explaining: Note: Beginning in April, 2013, these charts… Read more
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