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Android’s Surging Popularity: 10 Factors Driving Its Growth

Google's Android platform cannot be called anything other than a downright success, as the operating system is running on some of the most popular...

Android Smartphone Users More Data Hungry than iPhone Users

Google Android smartphone users consume more data than users of Apple's iPhone 3G and iPhone 4, according to network management specialist Arieso.Using the iPhone...

Motorola Android Tablet Will Run Honeycomb in 2011: Rubin

Motorola is launching an Android tablet based on Google's next-generation Android operating system, code-named Honeycomb, which will be optimized for tablets.Google Android creator Andy...

Apple Verizon iPhone Could Blunt Google Android Growth: Analyst

Apple's iPhone on Verizon would curb Google Android's explosive growth, according to a new analyst report."Android phones outsell iPhones in the U.S., but we...

Android 2.3 Sports NFC, Gyroscope for Better Gaming

Google introduced its Android 2.3 platform SDK Dec. 6, with plans to release the Gingerbread platform to open source in a few weeks.Gingerbread, as...

Samsung Nexus S with Android 2.3 Launching from T-Mobile

Google Dec. 6 formally introduced the Samsung Nexus S, the first smartphone fitted with the long-awaited Android 2.3 operating system.Google said the smartphone, which...

Android Creeps Up on Apple as RIM Slide Continues

Google's Android operating system U.S. market share hit 23.5 percent in October, putting it one percentage point behind Apple's iOS at 24.6 percent, according...

Apple iOS, Android Are Most Desired Platforms in 2011

Apple's iPhone and smartphones based on RIM's BlackBerry operating system are tied with 27 percent of U.S. smartphone market share, according to October data...

RIM PlayBook Aims to Ease Apple, Android Squeeze

With Research In Motion's share of the U.S. smartphone market eroding and Apple poaching key sales employees, analysts look to the PlayBook tablet to...

Android Is Easily Besting Windows Phone 7: 10 Reasons Why

When Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7 in North America on Nov. 8, the company had high hopes for its platform. It truly believed that...