Claiming to be all nice and open is one thing, and letting anyone write an app for your platform and then make it available through said platform's official marketplace is another. One thing they both potentially have in common though is the potential for security issues, and Android is beginning to see such issues crop up with alarming regularity.
Torrenting is one of the primary ways internet users snatch their digital content. Whilst most of the media available on the top public sites falls on the wrong side of the law in terms of copyright infringement, the actual act of downloading and seeding torrents is perfectly legal and accounts for a high portion of bandwidth use.
Siri, whilst utilizing technology already available, has certainly caused a stir amongst the smartphone industry, with Google's Eric Schmidt reportedly a touch scared of the new entry to Android's main mobile OS rival.
Google has a lot riding on Android 4.0, A.K.A. Ice Cream Sandwich. The first release of Android to combine the chaos of all previous releases of the mobile operating system with the flair of Honeycomb, 4.0 will be the first version of Android to be used on both smartphones and tablets.
A recent report from reputable number-counting outfit Flurry has highlighted to us what we essentially already know - smartphones and tablets now make up the majority of the U.S. handheld gaming market in a near 60/40 split; which by our reckoning, will only continue to divide as specs are increased and bulkier dedicated portable consoles become less and less relevant.
According to a report published earlier today, Adobe will be pulling support for Flash on browsers for mobile devices.
Google's latest iteration of Android will be reaching out to several handsets on the HTC roster in the early stages of next year, if a note on the company's official Facebook page is anything to go by.
As people who find themselves taking screenshots of apps almost every day, and then uploading them to various online hosting sites and social networks, not to mention Redmond Pie, we're often left scrambling around trying to add a watermark to our work. It's a necessary evil of the online world, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
Motorola sure is quick with announcing new smartphones. We saw the Droid 3 and Droid BIONIC released recently and we are just a week away from the release of the Droid RAZR which is a high-end superphone exclusive to Verizon Wireless in the USA. Droid RAZR is just another Motorola phone which has been rooted before it has been released because it, apparently, is subject to the same exploit that was used to root Droid 3 and Droid BIONIC. We’ve got the step-by-step guide for your perusal after the break!
So, the one thing that has annoyed me the most on my HTC Sensation with the internet browser and Android Market 3.x is the fact that both take way too long to load up anything! I thought it was partly due to the amount of junk that loads on the screen the moment I open it, but apparently it is due to other issues; namely DNS resolution over WiFi.
