Yelp for Android now uploading photos
Yelp’s first foray on Google’s Android phones wasn’t much to look at. The initial feature set of Yelp’s business review app for Android, which debuted December 7, was minimalist. It contained enough features–read-only access to Yelp.com, click-to-call, and a hyperlink to get directions from the browser or Google Maps–to avoid a user riot, but one [...]
Will the ‘smartbook’ be a better Netbook?
The “smartbook” aspires to put the smartphone into the laptop. Will it be able to elevate an Apple iPhone or Motorola Droid-like experience to a larger device, or is it just more marketing mumbo-jumbo? Two companies are hoping that the smartbook will turn out to be more than just another quickly-forgotten device sales pitch. Qualcomm [...]
Ustream viewing meets Android-based devices
Online video-streaming site Ustream announced on Wednesday that a mobile app that allows users to view Ustream content is available now in the Android Market. According to Ustream, the app, dubbbed Android Viewer, allows users to watch any show on the site over Wi-Fi or 3G. The app works with Android software versions 1.5 and [...]
Brin: Google’s OSes likely to converge
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–Google’s dual-pronged operating-system strategy will likely produce a single OS down the road, according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Many Google observers were puzzled when the company announced plans for Chrome OS in July, coming amid growing acceptance of the company’s Android operating-system project as a smartphone and Netbook OS. After all, why [...]
Motorola Dext
Motorola’s handset business has been down in the dumps of late, like Luke Skywalker stuck in the Death Star trash compactor, with the walls slowly closing in ready to crush. In Star Wars, Luke had R2-D2 to save him from oblivion, and in a similar vein, Motorola has turned to an Android to save the [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia X3 Android set for 3 Nov announcement?
If news of the imminent Motorola Droid announcement wasn’t exciting enough for Android fans, it looks like Sony Ericsson is set to make a similar claim. Could it be? Though the message on the Sony Ericsson website isn’t Android specific, if there’s any upcoming SE handsets capable of “crossing the line” between the extraordinary and [...]
Windows Mobile loses nearly a third of market share
Windows Mobile lost 28 percent of its smartphone market share between last year’s third quarter and this year’s third quarter, according to market researcher Gartner. Figures released Thursday by Gartner show that Microsoft’s mobile OS had 11 percent of the global smartphone market in Q3 2008. A year later, it had 7.9 percent. Meanwhile, the [...]