General News
Flurry Analytics show Amazon App Store generates more dough than Google Play
As per new data released today by mobile analytics firm Flurry, it looks as though Google Play, Android’s centralized location for serving up applications, games and other digital media, is a less lucrative venue for app developers in comparison to the Amazon App Store.
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CyanogenMOD 9 input settings detailed in video released by CM Team
As the time draws near for stable builds to start appearing of the most widely-respected and installed custom ROM series known to the Android community, the CyanogenMOD team has once again risen above the standard and has released a “user manual” video of sorts, detailing what all of those mysterious input settings mean and what they do. Read the rest of this entry »
Google “aware” of missing Play Store purchased app debacle; diligently investigating the cause
It seems like the Google Play Store issues just keep on piling up, don’t they? Over the past few days, many Android users (myself included) have encountered a troublesome bug, which prevents applications that have already been purchased from showing up in the “My Apps” tab on the Android Market Play Store application on their device(s).
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Are you experiencing issues downloading from the Google Play Store?
We’re not quite sure what to make of this just yet, as the issue just began happening, but it seems as though the Google Play Store is currently having technical difficulties. A little bit ago, I went to do my daily updating and kept getting a “connection timed out” error on certain apps and an “update could not be downloaded due to an error (927).
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Google ready to pay Oracle for Java patents
According to a Reuters report, Google has stated that it is ready to pay Oracle for its patents, but latter has dubbed its proposed sum as too low.
This report is coming from the court filings of the on-going legal battle between the two firms over the use Java patents in Android.
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HTC to temporarily close cloud storage service; Sense users will lose all data April 30th
In a move that leaves me scratching my head, HTC has announced that it will temporarily shut down its cloud storage service, HTC Sense, in what appears to be a renovation phase. Now, it’s not so much that they’re calling it quits for a brief spell that has me confused, it’s what the Taiwanese smartphone manufacture intends to do with its entire database that surprises me.
Samsung Galaxy Note ICS update will bring “Premium Suite” with S-Pen specific apps in Q2
Owners of the Samsung Galaxy Note who were hoping for a Q1 Ice Cream Sandwich release will have to wait just a bit longer. Samsung has announced plans today for the official Android 4.0 update for the device, which is said to be coming in the second quarter of this year. While, it may not be the news everyone wanted to hear, there’s still a bit of a bright side to this story, as Sammy has decided to include a a “Premium Suite” of applications designed specifically for use with the Note’s S-Pen.
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Motorola Atrix 2 launches in Thailand with 10 pre-installed EA Games titles on Board
Motorola has officially announced the launching of the Atrix 2 in Thailand. If you live in the locale and decide to pick one up, you’ll also be treated to ten pre-installed games from EA Games, all of which are some pretty solid titles.
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Flowchart: Will your device receive CyanogenMOD 9?
Have you been on eggshells the past few months, wondering if your Android investment would survive the next wave of CyanogenMOD goodness? If the answer to that question is yes, you might want to take a gander at the flowchart posted on Google+, which details the requirements that determine if your device will “possibly” be CM9 compatible.
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Android leads the pack in comScore’s latest report
ComScore, the digital research firm, has just published its latest report on the US smartphone market share and Android has the largest pie with 48.6% market share, up 2.3%. This data has been obtained for the three month period- ending January. This comes as no surprise and shows that Android is still on the growth curve.
