May 3, 2014

One month ago, we saw that Android 4.4.x KitKat had finally started to gain some traction. Back then, 4.4.x accounted for a grand total of 5.3% of devices with access to Google Play Services. At the same time, we saw Android 2.x finally fall below 20%, in favor or more recent Android versions. It’s nice to see 4.4.x reaching more and more older devices. That said, even 8.5% is

Jan 19, 2014

Google announced a new version of Chrome for Android and ios smartphones saying "Chrome’s data compression and bandwidth management can reduce data usage by up to 50% while browsing the web on Chrome for Android and iOS." When enabled, Chrome’s data compression and bandwidth management can reduce data usage by up to 50% while browsing the web on Chrome for Android and iOS. This feature also

Jan 13, 2014

Google Android distribution announced for the month of December indicates that Jelly Bean has topped with more than 60% of total android distributions. According to Google, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean devices are the most common on the Play Store with 35.9%, while the Android 4.2 has a 15.4% market share. Latest Jelly Bean distribution, Android 4.3 has only 7.8%, but it might rise next month when

Jun 28, 2012

During its annual developer-focused conference, Internet giant company Google has launched its first Android tablet. The new device has a 7” diagonal size and sports a 1280 by 800 pixel resolution. This is the first 7” tablet that’s being endorsed and marketed by one of the world’s biggest IT companies. Steve Jobs’ Apple has always mocked the 7” diagonal size and said many times that 7”

Jun 28, 2012

Google has unveiled to the world the next flavor of its mobile operating system, Android. Dubbed Jelly Bean, the new of version, Android 4.1, comes with a new user interface, as well as with a set of new features meant to improve the overall user experience with the platform. Among these, we can count Project Butter, destined to improve the overall performance of the platform, as well as

May 19, 2012

Google latest project is Google Drive and as all other Google start-ups is currently being thought of by many as a Drop Box or Sky Drive killer. We will probably have to wait for some time to find out if Google Drive succeeds or fails terribly like Schemer or Google Wave or some might even say Google Plus. But we cannot really take Google Drive as just a copy of the existing services. It does

Mar 5, 2012

More than 850,000 Android devices are activated every day according to Andy Rubin, Google Senior VP of Mobile and the man in charge of Android development. Rubin was speaking at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) event in Barcelona, where he said that that number of activations has brought the total number of Android devices around the world to more than 300 million, of which 12

Feb 19, 2012

Viewing that the adoption of Android 4.0 has fallen short of original expectations and Microsoft will launch Windows 8 in the third quarter of 2012, Google is likely to launch Android 5.0 (Jelly Bean) in the second quarter and appeal for adopting Android 5.0 and Windows 8 in the same tablet PC, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers. Android 5.0 will be further optimized

Feb 9, 2012

But only for ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) devices On Tuesday Google officially announced the launch of Chrome for Android beta, but only for Android 4.0 devices, rendering the entire launch rather pointless. Most Android users are still stuck on Gingerbread, Froyo or Honeycomb, but Google’s shiny new browser is targeted at the one percent of users who already have brand new phones. So it is a