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Sony Ericsson reveals Android 4.0 ‘ICS’ upgrade schedule for Xperia phones

Advertisements Sony Ericsson has announced that it will start updating the Xperia series smartphones to Ice Cream Sandwich from end March/early April 2012. The first smartphones in line will be Xperia arc S, neo V and Ray, rest will follow them.

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Android Tablets United States

Archos launches $199 Honeycomb tablet

Advertisements French manufacturer Archos has launched ’70b‘ Honeycomb tablet. Priced at $199, it will be available next month.  Archos 70b features Android 3.2, 1.2GHz processor, 512MB RAM and 8GB of internal storage.

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Android Figures Applications

Android Market in 2011 – Distimo Report

Advertisements Distimo has released its yearly report about major app stores and it gives us an overview of how the Android app landscape changed in the last one year. This report also gives us the comparison with other app stores during this period.

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ITC judge finds Motorola infringing one Microsoft patent

Advertisements An International Trade Commission judge has found for Microsoft that Motorola is infringing one of its patents that enable consumers to schedule meetings using mobile devices. Same judge also decided that Motorola was not in the violation of six other patents part of the dispute.

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Android Updates Phones United States

DROID Bionic getting software update; change-log, manual install instructions available

Advertisements Verizon is rolling out a major software update for DROID Bionic users, this brings several bug-fixes, performance improvements and app updates. As it is rolling-out OTA, you will soon get a notification on your smartphone to update the device.  If you cannot wait for the OTA roll-out, use the instruction given below to install […]

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Android Tablets India

Mumbai students will be able to buy Aakash tablet soon

Advertisements It seems finally some students will be able to get their hands on Aakash tablet.  According to report in TOI today, Mumbai college students will soon be able to buy Aakash for INR 1138 from their respective colleges. The exact time-frame is still un-clear but as all of the government works are done, the […]

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Android Updates Phones

Nexus S Android 4.0.3 update roll-out paused to gather feedback

Advertisements Google has apparently stopped rolling-out Nexus S ICS update in some regions for the time being.  This step is said to be normal procedure and company does it every time it rolls out an OTA to monitor the reaction from users with already updated smartphones.

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Android Figures

Over 700,000 Android devices being activated daily

Advertisements Google SVP of Mobile Andy Rubin has announced via his Twitter as well as Google+ accounts that over 700,000 Android devices are now being activated daily. This is quite a jump from the last announced 550,000 devices daily on Jul 15. Here is a quick history showing the number of device activations.

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