While Windows Phone is a relatively small OS out here in western markets, Microsoft have clearly been very busy making it a hit among Chinese smartphone owners. It’s only two months ago that Windows Phone 7 handsets touched down in China, but already they cover 7% of the world’s most populous country – and the [...]
Aside from officially being the most popular smartphone OS in the world, Android is also regarded as being absurdly fragmented. Countless manufacturers take advantage of its open source nature to add their own interfaces and touches to it. But the exact figures have remained a mystery until today, when it’s been revealed by OpenSignalMaps that there [...]
The Android OS has spiralled hugely in popularity over the last year, leading it to having overtaken Apple‘s iOS as the most widely-used smartphone OS in the world. Now, Kantar Worldpanel ComTech have compiled research that shows just which manufacturers are keeping the Android juggernaut running. Samsung and HTC collectively make up a whopping 86% [...]
Sony’s latest batch of flagship devices have had a bit of a shaky landing. After the recent news that Samsung and HTC together make up 90% of UK Android phone sales, it seems that they’ve been left in the lurch. Sony’s case wasn’t helped by the fact that Xperia S didn’t come pre-loaded with Ice [...]
Not content to provide what’s now officially the most popular smartphone OS in the world, Google are now looking to unleash five of their flagship Nexus phones for Android 5.0 Jelly Bean. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google are working with up to five manufacturers to help them produce both smartphones and tablets for [...]
In hindsight, it probably wasn’t too wise of Mozilla to try and implement their Firefox internet browser onto Android using their home-made XUL engine. Rather than using Android’s native features, Mozilla used their own engine as it made it easier to port between different mobile platforms. The result was a resoundingly poor browsing experience. Now, [...]
The lawsuit that Oracle have slammed Google with over their use of the Java software platform has had a further twist. It looked like Google gained the advantage last week when the jury couldn’t decide whether they made ‘fair use’ of the Java platform. However, Judge William Alsup took matters into his own hands on [...]
In a fitting indicator of the rising popularity of Google’s Android OS, the Google Play Store has now notched up 15 billion downloads. This is still some way off the 25-billion download figure presented by Apple‘s App Store last month, but Google can take heart from the fact that the pace at which their OS [...]