Monthly Archives: October 2011

Samsung is the king of smartphones dethroning Apple

By PinoyDROID | Published: 10/29/2011

Samsung is now the king of smartphone dethroning the rival Apple Inc., as the number one phone maker by revenue. Samsung surpasses Apple Inc. in terms of sales in third quarter of 2011 while Nokia is still the number one in terms of volume. According to technology analyst Jae Lee of Daiwa Securities, it is estimated that [...]

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Samsung Galaxy SII, Galaxy Note and Galaxy Tabs will get Android 4.0 update

By PinoyDROID | Published: 10/28/2011
Samsung-Galaxy-SII-Ice-Cream-Sandwich

Android enthusiasts are eager to have an experience with the feature rich Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” and question that everyone is asking, “when it will be available to other devices?”. We all know that the first Android 4.0 device is the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and will due out this November 17.  Also HTC and [...]

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SE Xperia Android phones 2011 Gingerbread 2.3.4 update is rolling out

By PinoyDROID | Published: 10/28/2011
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Good news Sony Ericsson Android phone users. All Xperia 2011 Android phones will get Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread update. The update first active in Nordic region and slowly propagating the Android world. The line up of the 2011 Xperia Android phones  are: Xperia™ arc, Xperia™ PLAY, Xperia™ neo, Xperia™ mini, Xperia™ mini pro, Xperia™  pro, Xperia™ [...]

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[Video]Samsung Galaxy Note new commercial video

By PinoyDROID | Published: 10/26/2011
galaxy note commercial

The Samsung Galaxy Note is too big to be a smartphone and quite small to be a tablet but this Android device is amazing. It is fast, has great dispaly and comes with stylus for note taking and for drawing. Yes you can draw in this Phablet, you can also cut pictures and paste to [...]

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HTC and Dropbox partnership brings 5GB of free cloud storage to HTC Android owners

By PinoyDROID | Published: 10/26/2011
htc dropbox partnership

Announced in their HTC Facebook fan page, Dropbox and HTC entered into a partnership bringing cloud storage to HTC Android phones.  HTC Android owners will also have free 5GB of storage space instead of normal 2GB. Dropbox app will be pre-installed in all Android phones from HTC. There is no official word if only the Sense [...]

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Microsoft – Android patent deal now covers more than half of all Android devices

By PinoyDROID | Published: 10/25/2011

Taiwan-based Compal is an Android original design manufacturer (companies who build Android devices for other companies) entered into patent licensing agreement with Microsoft. Like HTC, Samsung, Acer and other OEMs who entered to the same patent agreement few months ago. Compal is the latest addition to the deal. There’s no doubt that the might of the [...]

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Casio VX-100 Android powered POS System

By PinoyDROID | Published: 10/22/2011

Android operating system is no longer for smartphone and tablets. Casio just announced the VX-100 EPOS – the first Point-of-Sales (POS) System powered by Android.  POS is a cash register that is being used in groceries, restaurants and nearly every other retail environment. Casio’s Android powered POS is capable of handling customer database  management “analyze [...]

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Infographic History of Android

By PinoyDROID | Published: 10/22/2011
android infograph history of android

The Android operating system history started in the oven of Palo Alto, California with main man Andy Rubin now the VP of Google Mobile along with Rich Miner, Nick Sears and Chris White. In 2005 Google acquired Android Inc., and in the year 2008 the first bake of Android came out, the Android 1.0 powering [...]

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Angry Birds Seasons: Ham’o'ween! – introduce a new Angry bird

By PinoyDROID | Published: 10/22/2011

Early for the Halloween but not for Rovio. The game developer behind Angry birds just released Angry Birds Season Ham’O’Ween with 30 level game. There’s a new Angry bird introduced in this release. No name given to this bird yet. It just that it can blow up several times his size. Angry Birds Seasons: Ham’o’ween!It was a dark and [...]

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Galaxy Nexus vs. Galaxy S II vs. iPhone 4S – comparison chart

By PinoyDROID | Published: 10/22/2011
Galaxy Nexus vs. Galaxy S II vs iPhone 4S

The recently unveiled Google  GALAXY Nexus – the first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich powered smartphone and recently launched Apple iPhone 4S with Siri, and of course there’s the king of Smartphone for 2011 – Samsung Galaxy S II with more than 10 millions sold are considered to be the best smartphone of this year. [...]

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