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Article | 18/06/2010 Android beta of Swype input software goes live
Swype's software that lets users input text on a touchscreen phone by gliding their finger from one letter to another on a virtual keyboard is now ava...
Article | 18/06/2010 Cheap smartphones will help Android overtake the iPhone
Vendors are adding cheaper and simpler Android-based phones to their portfolios, in an effort to put smartphones in the hands of more users. The produ...
Article | 16/06/2010 Samsung launches two lower-priced Android-based smartphones
Samsung has added the Galaxy 3 and Galaxy 5 to its portfolio of Android-based smartphones, it said on Tuesday at CommunicAsia2010 in Singapore. Both p...
Article | 12/06/2010 Motorola's 2GHz Android Phone Means Business
Motorola's turning up the heat on the smartphone market -- and this time, it's not only casual consumers the company's eyeing.
Article | 10/06/2010 Google's Android may win backing from China and Taiwan
Google's Android was promoted as the mobile software of choice for China and Taiwan at a high level telecommunications industry conference in Beijing ...
Article | 10/06/2010 Missing apps on Android Market annoy developers
Google has fixed a problem that caused some mobile phone applications to disappear from the Android Market, the company said Tuesday. However, not eve...
Article | 7/06/2010 iPhone vs. Droid vs. BlackBerry
In terms of reputation and popularity, the Apple iPhone is still the king of the smartphone market in the United States. But the newest RIM BlackBerry...
Article | 7/06/2010 Windows Phone 7 vs Android
Google's Android operating system and Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 are the two main challengers to Apple's iPhone platform. These rivals offer two diff...
Article | 8/06/2010 Motorola announces flashy Android phone
Motorola has announced the first Android smartphone to include a xenon flash, the Milestone XT720.
Article | 4/06/2010 Dell Streak: the details...and the reviews
Dell is diving headfirst into the smartphone/tablet market with the Android-powered Dell Streak. The Streak was announced last month and will be avail...
Article | 2/06/2010 Google refutes criticism about Android fragmentation
An Android engineering team member earlier this week lashed out at critics who spread fears of fragmentation in the Android mobile phone market
Article | 2/06/2010 Euro operators push cheap Android-based smartphones
Mobile operator Orange is joining a growing list of European mobile operators offering cheap Android-based smartphones, in a bid to get more prepaid s...
Article | 2/06/2010 Compal readies Windows, Android and MeeGo tablets
The world's second-largest contract manufacturer of laptops is spreading its bets on tablet PC operating systems. It is building tablets running Micro...
Article | 28/05/2010 Of smartphone owners, iPhone users are the most satisfied
<a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137163/Apple_Update">Apple</a> 's <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9108338/Continuing_...
Article | 25/05/2010 Dell Streak tablet coming this summer
Dell on Tuesday announced launch plans for its Android-based Dell Streak handheld tablet, while also confirming that the device will get an upgrade to...