Although Android is the most commonly used mobile ecosystem on the market, it's not without its fair share of caveats. Aside from the scores of malware outbreaks plaguing Google's mobile OS, there's also the long-standing issue of audio latency.
HTC's One X is widely accepted to be one of the best Android phone around at the moment. With Samsung's Galaxy S III currently getting all the plaudits, the One X is still a handset that should not be forgotten. If you're the owner of HTC's latest flagship phone, then you may have noticed a problem - the handset keeps turning all its data connections off overnight.
We can all empathize with the sinking feeling felt when something important is erroneously deleted from our smartphones, but instead of becoming lost for good, the DiskDigger team has created an Android app to help you recover those precious files you thought had disappeared into the Recycle Bin of no return.
Many people point to Android's ability to be ripped apart and generally messed with as its biggest feature. Whether phone carriers and indeed phone makers like it or not, Android handsets are often flashed with new ROMs that not only remove all the carrier bloat that none of us want, but also add features and simply make the handset feel smoother and quicker to use.
Gameloft has officially announced a Batman: Dark Knight Rises mobile game in conjunction with the upcoming movie, which will support devices running both Google's Android and Apple's iOS mobile operating systems.
The My Xbox LIVE app only dropped for Android a couple of days ago (released contemporaneously with a significant update to the iOS iteration), but already, Microsoft has released Kinectimals for Android - rendering it the very first Microsoft game for Google's market-leading mobile operating system.
The latest version of Google's Android operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich, has been on the receiving end of an award for its user experience, something that we would not have put any money on happening just a year or so ago.
Well, it appears that it is once again time to pen a comparison post, this time following up with the one published in October of last year - about 8 months ago - that compares a few of the important factors between the three important mobile platforms of our time. With iOS 6 freshly unveiled, along with a few developments that have transpired over the past 8 months, there are a few changes to make.
Today's big WWDC kick-off saw much publicity even before the curtain was raised. Anticipation was sky-high, and all the press in the land converged upon what was possibly the most exciting non-iOS hardware announcements for some time. We knew something big was coming, and we were right.
Whenever we think about tablet-type PCs, the iPad is invariably the product that gets mentioned as it seems to be regarded as the best tablet product available, and rightly so in my opinion. A number of products have been pushed to the market running the Android operating system that have attempted to compete in the slate industry, but nothing has really seemed to match up to Apple’s offering.
