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Jelly Bean installs surpass Ice Cream Sandwich for the first time
- Google has revealed that for the first time, the number of active Android 4.1 and 4.2 Jelly Bean installations have surpassed those of Ice Cream Sandwich. It’s good news for Google as the platform has faced fragmentation issues for quite…
Android 4.x installations overtake 2.3 Gingerbread after 17 months
- It may have taken nearly a year and a half but Android 4.x (all versions of Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean) has finally overtaken Gingerbread as the most widely used version of Google's mobile operating system according to the…
Diamond Multimedia launches AMP1000 Android set-top box
- Diamond Multimedia has been involved in several hardware ventures over the years including multiple audio and video cards in the late ‘90s although more recently they have been focusing on HD video capture boxes and TV tuner cards. Building on…
Ice Cream Sandwich installed on 16 percent of all Android devices
- Google has updated the Android distribution chart which shows that version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is starting to make some headway among devices in the wild. Adoption of the operating system increased by 5 percent since last month with total…
Google: Android 4.0 on 11% of devices, Gingerbread still on top
- Google has updated its Android Developer site with data about the percentage of active devices running a given version of its mobile operating system. The good news is that Ice Cream Sandwich is finally picking up some speed, with its…
ZTE admits Score M smartphone has backdoor, promises fix
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ZTE has confirmed that one of its Android-based smartphones contains a backdoor that could allow an intruder to gain full control of the device. Revealed through Pastebin on May 10, the Score M has a built-in hole to supply root access with a hardcoded password, which is readily available online...
ViewSonic announces sub $200 Android tablet, available in October
- ViewSonic has announced that they will be releasing their ViewPad 7e tablet in North America by the end of October and Latin America in November. The 7-inch portable will ship with an estimated suggested price of just $199.99, the same…
Android 3.0 'Gingerbread' details trickle out
- The next version of Google’s smartphone operating system, Android 3.0, is just around the corner and the folks over at Phandroid have managed to obtain some new details on the forthcoming update. As you might already know, the “Froyo” successor…
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