Top 20 Best Performance Android Phones/Tablets in the First

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Google Nexus 7 with 3G coming in six weeks?

With its quad-core processor and high resolution display, the popular Google Nexus 7 is one impressive piece of kit. Together with its low price, the specs of the Nexus 7 propelled it to tech stardom....

Does Google's openness devalue Android?

Last week, we asked the question if Apple's anti-Google policies with iOS could be hurting the experience of its users, and it's only fair to look at the other side of the coin: Is Google's openness devalu...

Google's latest patent lets you talk on your smartphone upsi

A new Google patent aims to help those of us struggling to tell a smartphone's top from its bottom. The patent outlines a smartphone with both a microphone and speaker at each end, allowing someone to...

Google officially announces Motorola downsizing, will take a

Google this evening confirmed in an SEC filing that it plans to cut some 4,000 employees from the recent acquisition of Motorola -- about a fifth of the company's workforce.

Is Google helping Samsung fight Apple?

An interesting article on CNET is suggesting that Google may be supporting Samsung in its trial with Apple. While Google and Apple have yet to fight directly, Google has been providing support to its Andro...

Motorola to cut its workforce by 20%, shutter 1/3 of its off

When Google acquired Motorola Mobility, Larry Page said the move would help "supercharge the Android ecosystem," but first, the firm needs to reorganize.

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich vs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean vid

Google’s latest two Android versions are yet to become available to the majority of Android users, who are anxiously waiting for their devices to be updated to ICS and / or Jelly Bean.

Is Apple's war against Google hurting iOS?

One of the first quotes from the biography of Steve Jobs to really catch fire was when he allegedly said that he would wage "thermonuclear war" on Google because of he perceived Android to be a copy of...

Samsung growing to top smartphone brand in Europe in Q2 2012

We’ve already seen the quarterly sales data of Android and iOS - major researchers like Strategy Analytics, IDC and Canalys all agreed that Google’s platform is winning globally, but now we have anothe...

Nexus 7 reportedly a boon for Nvidia

There's a lot of excitement for the Nexus 7, but no one is more excited about the new tablet as Nvidia, which is reportedly seeing significant profits from the device.

Consumers taking bigger bite of Ice Cream Sandwich

Adoption of Android 4.0: Ice Cream Sandwich has been bolstered across all Android devices according to the latest information from Google.

Picking up your Nexus 7 today? Here's some required reading

The Google Nexus 7 is starting to make it its way out to consumers around the world, and if you're among the lucky early adopters picking up the Jelly Bean tablet this week, we've got some required reading...

Google announces its Q2 2012 earnings, sees 21 percent growt

Google this afternoon announced its Q2 2012 earnings, reporting 21 percent growth year over year for revenue, at $10.96 billion. GAAP net income was listed at $2.79 billion, up from $2.51 billion for the...

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How to: Use your USB flash drives with the Nexus 7 [root]

One of the few negative points with the Nexus 7 for some, is the lack of any sizable on-board storage. Indeed, looking at a couple of the latest big name game titles such as Max Payne or the Amazing Spider...

Jelly Bean: is it really as smooth as butter? [Poll]

When Google announced Android 4.1 they introduced a very intriguing feature. That feature would be called Project Butter and it would attempt to bring the smoothest experience we’ve had for Android ...

Security expert shows that Android and Nokia NFC can be hack

A research consultant has revealed to Ars Technica that he can force NFC-equipped Android and Nokia phones to run malicious code in several ways -- but only with specific devices and constraints. The first...

Android to get support for multiple users

It looks like Google is slowly adding specific code to Android that will eventually be used to enable multi-user support in the operating system. That was found out by AndroidPolice, with a bit of help...

Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Review

Android 4.1 Jelly Bean has finally started arriving on Samsung Galaxy Nexus devices in the last couple of days, and after we’ve spent just enough time to get used to the update, we can now say that we...