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Google corrects Steve Jobs; Android activation numbers don’t include upgrades

September 1, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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You probably didn’t care to watch Apple’s music event today. If you missed it, long story short: new iPods, new iTunes, new Apple TV, and a new shot at Android. Jobs bragged at today’s press e…

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Facebook developer Joe Hewitt says Android is “horrendous” for development

August 26, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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So that’s why it took so long to get a half-decent Android app out of Facebook. Joe Hewitt, the man who created the popular Facebook app for iPhone, and then quit over frustration with Apple’s review proce…

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Applications

PingChat! is like BBM for Android, BlackBerry, and iPhone

August 19, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Over the past week, several family members have marveled at my phone and then asked me what’s my BBM. Then I explain to them that BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) only works on BlackBerry phones, not Android. P…

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Fring brings cross-platform 3G video-calls on iPhone 4

July 9, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Even though we at Androinica.com often make little digs at the iPhone, we’re actually very pleased to see that Fring has shed some light on the Dark Side. Fring has updated its iPhone app to open up many of t…

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Nexus One blazes past iPhone 4 in browser benchmark test

July 7, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Some iPhone users called foul when Vic Gundotra claimed that Android 2.2 was much faster than the iPhone during his demo at Google I/O. “You can’t compare a new phone to an old one!” they scre…

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Applications

There’s an [Android] app for that #4

July 4, 2010 | by Ed Clark

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iPhone Ad: “Family Travel” Today’s iPhone ad is titled “Family Travel.” If ever there was a great example of Apple’s marketing abilities, this is the one. The commerc…

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Opinion: Why 1.7 million iPhone sales = No big deal
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Opinion: Why 1.7 million iPhone sales = No big deal

June 29, 2010 | by Ed Clark

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Many Android fans were awed and perhaps even aghast at the stunning sales figures for the iPhone 4. In just the past few days, Apple sold over 1.7 million phones. When you compare this with the “record-bre…

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There’s an [Android] app for that #3 (iOS 4 version!)

June 26, 2010 | by Ed Clark

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As you probably already know, the iPhone 4 has lots of new features. So many, in fact, that I decided to skip a commercial and create a special iOS 4 version of “There’s an [Android] App for that.R…

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There’s an [Android] app for that #2

June 9, 2010 | by Ed Clark

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As promised, here is the second installment in Androinica’s “There’s an [Android] app for that” series, in which I present one of the many iPhone commercials that you have seen on TV…

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iPhone vs. Android isn’t about numbers; it’s about time [Opinion]

June 8, 2010 | by Chris Smith

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Some interesting statistics were released the other day about smart phone market share that left some Android fanboys in a bit of denial. According to Nielson research, the iPhone has taken a healthy 28% of the…

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Applications

There’s an [Android] app for that #1

June 3, 2010 | by Ed Clark

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OK, we’ve all seen those iPhone commercials that seemingly pop up during every commercial break on every TV show. And if an iPhone user is around, watch out! You will be called on to demonstrate that the a…

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Android allegedly outsells iPhone in recent months (but may not have)
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Android allegedly outsells iPhone in recent months (but may not have)

May 10, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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According to estimates of the NPD Group’s Mobile Phone Track, Android was the second-best-selling mobile phone in the first quarter of 2010. Android snagged 26 percent of new phone sales from January-…

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What Android outpacing iPhone traffic teaches us
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What Android outpacing iPhone traffic teaches us

April 27, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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The latest AdMob statistics reveal that Android has finally passed iPhone in web traffic served through AdMob’s network. It’s not an actual indicator that Android has outgrown iPhone (Apple’s sales data sho…

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Why I ditched the iPhone for Android and the Nexus One
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Why I ditched the iPhone for Android and the Nexus One

April 26, 2010 | by Guest

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Android is growing faster than many of us anticipated, but it’s not without fault. In light of recent criticism of the Nexus One, I decided to gauge the appeal of the device – and Android as a whole – f…

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Rubin: Google believes developers should have choice of what tools they use, happy to support AIR
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Rubin: Google believes developers should have choice of what tools they use, happy to support AIR

April 21, 2010 | by Chris Smith

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Well this isn’t surprising. Andy Rubin, Google’s number one Android fanboy (even more so than Andrew) said on Adobe’s Featured Blog that Google is happy to partner with Adobe to create a st…

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Is Google trying to poach iPhone developers for Android? If not, they should.
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Is Google trying to poach iPhone developers for Android? If not, they should.

April 19, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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The New York Times has an interesting post in which an iPhone developer claims that he received an email from an “Android advocacy” program supposedly affiliated with Google. According to the de…

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