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Motorola’s Moto X Confirmed

Motorola back in the game with all-new Android X Appeal...

Posted by Stuart Pritchard on the 30th May 2013

Harking back now to a nostalgic techie yesteryear, a time of TiVo, of the Sega Dreamcast, of DVD, SACD, minidisk and when people routinely said “Hello, Moto!”… read more

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The Week in Android

A week's worth of OS-obsessive words...

Posted by Stuart Pritchard on the 13th April 2013

Another week has passed and, despite the best efforts of some chubby North Korean nutcase, we’re all still here! Well, all here except for former British first female Prime Minister, the Iron Thatch… read more

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Android Blamed for Anti-Innovation

Microsoft files anti-competition complaint with European Commission...

Posted by Stuart Pritchard on the 9th April 2013

Normally your daily dose of Android news is a welcome tablet of open source OS positivity, but into every life, even the Life of Android, a little rain must fall; for Google anyway… read more

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Android trounces Apple and Nokia with 50 per cent smartphone sales

Booming third quarter handset sales for Google's smartphone OS

Posted by Robert Leedham on the 15th November 2011

Android trounces Apple and Nokia with 50 per cent smartphone sales

Android software was running on over half of all smartphones sold in the third quarter, according to research firm Gartner Inc. In total, Google’s smartphone OS accounted for 52.5 percent of global smartphone sales, that’s more than double last year’s figure.

Smartphone sales were up as a whole by 42 per cent too, a dramatic rise considering some consumers had delayed purchasing a new handset in anticipation of Apple’s iPhone 4S. read more

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Microsoft CEO: ‘You need to be a computer scientist to use an Android’

Steve Ballmer takes aim at Google's smartphone OS

Posted by Robert Leedham on the 20th October 2011

Microsoft CEO: 'You need to be a computer scientist to use an Android'

Windows Phone has a lot of catching up with Android to do, in the months leading up to August its US market share dropped off from 5.8 per cent to 5.7 per cent. That hasn’t stopped Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer tacking a few pot shots at Google’s smartphone OS though.

Speaking at the Web 2.0 conference in San Fransisco, Ballmer commented, “You don’t need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone, but I think you do to use an Android phone… It is very hard to be excited, for me, about the Android phones.” read more

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