Archive for November, 2010
Dear Verizon: Where is this Elusive HTC Merge? First Accessory Spotted
We’ve seen the thing in retail store inventories, cellebrite systems, we’ve just gotten a look at the first snap-on cover, hell, Verizon’s even shown it on their own site and Android Central had a device of their own to look at. So where is this HTC Merge, Verizon? Why must you play this cruel game with our hearts? We hope you [...]
[Update: Faked]Honeycomb Makes Appearance in Performance Testing Results
![[Update: Faked]Honeycomb Makes Appearance in Performance Testing Results](http://www.theandroider.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/bdb20_Honeycomb-630x196-150x150.png "[Update: Faked]Honeycomb Makes Appearance in Performance Testing Results")
If you didn’t believe the mounds of evidence before suggesting Honeycomb was already making its rounds on a number of testing devices, then I don’t know what to say. The amount of evidence is staggering and there’s no reason to believe it isn’t currently being baked up (especially since we’ve heard there are different [...]
Rep Your Android Alignment in Call of Duty: Black Ops
If you play Black Ops, you know about the custom playercards which allow you to express who you are through layers of different colors and shapes. Whodathunk that the Android mascot would be the perfect candidate for a playercard to show off your allegiance to the mobile OS you use every day? BigBossMcCann – whoever this fine individual may [...]
Acer CEO Speaks on Their Wait for Honeycomb, Google Chrome OS
Just before Thanksgiving there was a blast of announcements about tablets Acer would be releasing, all of them set to be released not upon announcement, like some companies I’m sure you can think of, but in the future when Android’s Honeycomb OS is available. Speaking with the fine folks over at Mobilized (by Ina Friend), he let the [...]
Android Users Are Not Loyal to their OS, iPhone Users Are
We all love our Android devices. Yes, we would like to see faster updates on some phones, but other than that we really enjoy the Android platform. However, in an interesting study conducted of over 2,600 mobile phone users in Brazil, Germany, Spain, Britain, the United States and China the results show that Android only has 28 percent loyalty [...]
AT&T states Motorola Olympus will launch in December/January via Facebook
According to the AT&T Share Facebook page, the Motorola Olympus will be launching in December or January. A reader of BGR took to the Facebook page to ask when we will be seeing a device, and to our surprise whomever was operating the page at the time answered with a timeframe. “The Motorola Olympus should be available in December or [...]
Android Honeycomb Spotted Conducting Performance Tests [Update: Fake]
![Android Honeycomb Spotted Conducting Performance Tests [Update: Fake]](http://www.theandroider.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/b7cba_Honeycomb-630x196.png "Android Honeycomb Spotted Conducting Performance Tests [Update: Fake]")
Android 3.0 Honeycomb has been spotted in recent Adobe Air logs. Presumably a Google engineer was testing Adobe Air’s performance on the operating system and that’s how it appeared in the log. Adobe’s tool AirBenchmark allows users to test how well AIR will run on their devices, and it then sends this information to Adobe so [...]
HTC Merge Accessories Appear in Stores, Still No Phone
In what seems to be a common occurrence in smartphone launches, in which accessories appear in stores before some devices are even announced. Following the trend, the HTC Merge has just had a case appear in stores, but we are still in the dark of any launch plans for the device. We keep expecting the Merge to be launched but then each of our [...]
AT&T Facebook Page Accidentally Outs Motorola Olympus with Possible December Release
AT&T's Share Facebook page has accidentally spilled the beans on when to expect their forthcoming Motorola Olympus. The Tegra 2-powered handset had not been pegged with a release date but many had predicted an early 2011 launch. Thanks to a quick screen grab by one of BGR's readers, AT&T had unofficially listed the phone as being [...]
Smartphone Data Q3 – The Unbelievable Number Roundup
Every couple of weeks one of the big analytics companies, be they for activations, browser demographic, or any of a hundred hundred other variables, releases metrics regarding the smartphone world. This year in particular has been an unbelievable year of growth, not just for Android, but the smartphone market itself. The super-smart people at BSN [...]
