Pocket-lint got extracted a bit of Android information from Viewsonic. According to their source, Android 2.4 will also be called Gingerbread. Android 2.4 will be a maintenance-release, to make dual-core Android 3.0 Honeycomb applications work on a single-core phone. Apparently this isn’t currently possible with Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Their source also suggested...
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Google’s Android Developers blog just released the newest usage stats of Android. It appears that 89.8% uses Android 2.1 and newer. Android 2.2 is currently the single most popular version, with a share of 57.6%. Android 2.1 comes in second with a share of 31.4%. The third spot is taken by Android 1.6, with a share of 6.3%. The newest version, Android 2.3, is currently...
LG is known to often launch a product first in their home country, South Korea. They’ve now released the world’s first dual-core smartphone, the LG Optimus 2X, in South Korea. Apparently they will also release a white Optimus 2X in February, ahead of Apple’s white iPhone 4. There’s no info on whether LG will make the white version an exclusive...
Here’s the first real video teaser of the Samsung Galaxy Tab2. It’s roughly the same size as the current generation Galaxy Tab, but packs a whole lot of power inside it. The Samsung Galaxy Tab2 is rumored to come with the following specs:Android OS 2.3 Gingerbread (upgrade 3.0 Honeycomb) 3D Display (after upgrade to 3.0 Honeycomb) NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor 7-inch...
Samsung opened yesterday a teaser website for the successor of the Galaxy S. The phone is wildly expected to be called the Samsung Galaxy S2, but nothing has been confirmed on this front. Now a Korean website has managed to get more info out of this device, and they say that it goes under the codename Seine. They also posted the following updated specs for the Samsung...
Android 2.3 Gingerbread was released on December 17th, 2010, but Nexus One owners are still waiting for their devices to be updated to it. Currently only the Nexus S runs officially on Android 2.3. When Android 2.2 was released, it took only 6 days for Nexus One owners to receive the update to it. Nexus One is the first Google developer device, and that is why it is expected...
Android Froyo (2.2) now accounts for 51.8% of all Android users. Eclair is the second biggest with a share of 35.2% of all Android users. This is very good, since Android has previously been accused of fragmentation. Android Gingerbread (2.3) was released at the end of last month, but it is not wildly adopted yet. Nexus S is currently the only device that runs on it officially,...
Google will release the next iteration of Android at the next developer oriented Google I/O conference held in May 10-11, 2011. It has now also been confirmed that the next iteration will be of version 2.4, and called Ice Cream. Google has always named their Android versions alphabetically and after some desert. Gingerbread is the latest Android version (2.3) for smart...
