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LG is preparing to Mobile World Congress that will be in few weeks from now. It confirmed that we will see there Optimus 3D.  Here is their teaser video that claims “something bigger is waiting for us”. It is…See More

During last few days or maybe even weeks mobile world are talking mostly about up-coming tablets – Motorola Xoom and Ipad 2. It looks like we will have one more race. So let’s compare these tablets and see which specifications each has.As we can see from the chart every tablet has its advantages and is…See More

The beginning of the current year is going to be very intensive for HTC as they intend to launch three new tablets in the first two quarters. Company will start with the tablet called “Flyer”, which will be available in the USA in March. This tablet will run Android 2.3 and according to the sources it will be able to be updated to Android 3.0 right after Google releases new version of OS.…See More

It seems like Android manufacturers will have one more competitor in their race. World well- known company – Disney  - decided to produce their own smartphone  - Disney Android. Actually this phone is re-branded from their phone Sharp Galapagos 003SH.It will be available in Japan from the next month.Main features of new phone:§         Display – 3.8-inch (with support for displaying 3D)§         Android 2.2 Froyo§         9.6 megapixel camera§         HD video recording§         CPU:…See More

According to StatCounter in 2010 mobile browsing accounted for 3% of all browsing. That’s not so much, but if to compare with 2009 when only 1% of website traffic came from mobile devices, that number tripled in 2010.Take a lookat following stats for December, 2010 compared to November 2010, Q4 2010 to Q3 and all of 2010 compared to 2009.Statistics for December 2010 compared to November 2010:…See More

It finally happened – SkyFire 2.0 is now available on Android market in Beta version.SkyFire is a web-browser that gives opportunity to watch Flash videos on web-pages. It also allows to watch video in full screen resolution according to your own connection speed to prevent buffering issues.SkyFire uses cloud computing to run the complicated programs and scripts on its own server to make your phone free from any heaving downloads or uploads.For now SkyFire is available on Android, Nokia and…See More

New year have just started and we have already some big news about Android. One of them is that there will be one more participant in Android race now – and it’s Bargain Electronics company Vizio. The company that is one of the leaders on the American  TV market now is ready to enter the smartphone and tablet market. Their aim is to bring smart mobile devices to the masses. Both devices – Via Phone and Via tablet  - will be available for customers for attractive prices through various retail…See More

We are witnesses now of how popular Android becomes and how it is implemented in the whole variety of different gadgets – smartphones, tablets, etc. But Vidtonic came up with the idea of completely different use for the Android - HomeBrew IPTV Developer Kit that is going to be introduced at CES 2011.This platform runs Android OS and is very interesting for developers as gives them an open field to work and create new interesting applications and bring them to the TV screen. So you can create…See More

If you are android developer and program both client and server, benchmarks of different serializers (https://github.com/eishay/jvm-serializers/wiki/)  will be useful for you.Of course you can use the same serializer for every task. But knowing their features will help you to achieve better results in particular situations.See More