It is the Open Source nature of the Android Market, that makes it stand out as unique. It is like an amazing gift that anyone and everyone with a coding brain may contribute to the Android marketplace with their brilliant applications for Android phones (and non-phone Androids too). This is one fact that gives Android market the competitive edge and helps it take a step ahead than the giant Apple store,... 

A large number of cell phone models have been launched recently. It is easy to get confused about the pros and cons in different models just because there are so many of them. If you fall in that category of  people, here is a list of top 5 most discussed latest mobile phone releases. Actually it’s really difficult to select just 5 cell phone models from the list of  literally hundreds. So while... 

Steve Jobs may hate Android (and Google) but this doesn’t stop Steve’s iPhone from running on Android OS. As unbelievable as it may sound but, iPhone hacker and Linux fan PlanetBeing has finally managed to run Google’s Android operating system on the iPhone. You can now dual boot and run Android on your iPhone. He says flash MAY also be supported. PlanetBeing claims to have ported a... 

Google Android isn’t just the name on everyone’s lips when it comes to mobile phones. The open-source OS has also made it on to mobile internet entertainment devices, netbooks and other gadgets. An android device is not necessarily a Phone; not always. It can be anything from the categories given below. Here is a list of 7 non-phone gadgets that run on Google’s Android OS but aren’t... 

There was a lot of hype behind the Nexus One when it first launched. People nerded out like crazy over the first Google phone. Between its hard-core specs and tight connection to one of the most popular companies in technology, analysts predicted the Nexus One would be a big seller. But ten weeks after the launch of Google’s Nexus One smartphone, sales continue to remain slow. Mobile analytics... 

Google Support goes Live with their Phone Support for the Nexus One Not that the original iPhone, the iPhone 3G or the iPhone 3GS launches were perfect, but people expected a perfect launch from Google Nexus One. I’ve heard this one before and lots of Nexus One users are waiting for an update to fix the 3G stability issues with the phone. According to Google, if the hardware is bad then the warranty... 

After Google released a smartphone with Android open source mobile operating system (Nexus One), What next? Rumor mills suggest that a Google Nexus 2 is lurking in a research lab already. No sooner had the Nexus One stunned us all with Nexus One’s launch on January 5 than the inevitable  Google “Nexus 2” started appearing in online rumor pieces. Thanks to Google itself that this rumor has... 

ComScore has released a list of the top smartphone operating systems by market share in the United States in October. Who’s on top? Research in Motion (but for how much longer?), followed by Apple, then Microsoft, Palm, Symbian, and finally Google. The guys at FierceDeveloper have put together this nifty chart showing the top smartphone operating systems by number of active users in the United... 

Update! It was not a rumor after all and Google Nexus One was indeed launched on 5th Jan. It’s a separate thing that due to quite a number of user-reported issues that began surfacing in the phone, Google had to setup Nexus One Phone Support Hotline in Feb 2010. Rumors have been circulating for a while now that Google is developing its own Android-based handset. The Wall Street Journal reports... 

This has been an interesting week for smartphone enthusiasts who don’t mind the hype of iPhone. This week we saw two giant smartphone OS developers, Google and Palm, rolling out their respective upgraded versions back to back, Google Android 1.6 (code named Donut) and Palm WebOS 1.2. This is worth watching for because Microsoft is also planning to release Windows Mobile 6.5 in a matter of hours,...