Vodafone India has launched a new 3G phone - Vodafone Smart, which runs Android 2.2.1 operating system. Weighing 104g, the phone has a 2.8-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen and a 2 mega pixel camera. Powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon S1 processor, the phone has 130 MB of storage space. Its memory can be expoandable up to 32 GB. Reportedly, users will get a 2GB memory card free when buying the handset. The phon ...

I chuckle whenever someone in comments calls me anti-Apple. Much of what I write here derives from experience. Sometimes that works for Apple, or whatever other vendor, sometimes against it. Today, I've got a wet, smoochy kiss for iOS 5 and iPhone 4S and kick aside the head for Android and Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket. Yesterday, my daughter met up with a friend for the Toyland Parade in the North Park com ...

  Better graphics, better cameras, and maybe even a voice-command feature (like Siri in the latest Apple iOS iteration)--all could be on the horizon for Internet search leader Google.   Google only scratched the surface with the latest improvements to its Android mobile operating system. Users have been left wanting more, and they are likely to get it in 2012. Better graphics, better cameras, and ...

(Credit: McAfee) Malware targeted toward Android devices continues to surge, says a new report from McAfee, pushing 2011 to become the busiest year in history for both mobile and general malware. The amount of malware infecting Android devices during the third quarter grew almost 37 percent from the second quarter, according to McAfee's Third-Quarter Threats Report (PDF). Android's growing demand among cons ...

Juniper Networks has observed a 472 percent jump in instances of Android malware since last summer, with spyware and SMS trojans representing some of the more prominent types of mobile malicios software. Android's open applications store model is to blame for the prevalence of malware directed at the platform, Juniper concluded. Android malware has increased 472 percent since July, a new report from Juniper ...

Samsung became the biggest smartphone vendor in the world during the third quarter, and Android's market share has surpassed 50 percent for the first time, market research company Gartner said on Tuesday as it reported on phone sales to end-users. Worldwide smartphone sales totalled 115 million units in the third quarter of 2011, up 42 percent from the third quarter of 2010. However, smartphone sales slowed ...

Huawei Sonic Huawei has also announced two Android phones for the Indian market along with its Honeycomb tablet MediaPad. These smartphones are Huawei Sonic and Ideos X3 and these will be available soon the market, exact availability date was not announced. Priced at INR 9,210, Huawei Sonic is targeted to youngsters and it comes with integrated social phonebook and Huawei Streams feature. Sonic features a 3 ...

Telecom operator Idea Cellular will soon launch self-branded Android smartphones in India.. On Idea Cellular's earning conference, Idea MD Himanshu Kapania disclosed that the company is prepping Idea-branded Android smartphones in a bid to accelerate the 3G adoption. The Idea smartphones are likely to be affordable and come with all the basic smartphone features. According to AndroidOS.in, Idea's first smar ...

There aren't many options in the Rs 20,000 bracket this time. Within the limited choices that we have, here are some of the best. There was a time when there were many choices at just below Rs 20,000, but now the best devices are either more expensive or way cheaper. However, here are the five devices in this range that make for a good buy: LG Optimus Black (Rs 19,500) LG Optimus Black has a thin, elegant a ...

Apple's iOS-based iPad still rules the tablet market but not for want of trying by competitors like Google, Research in Motion, Motorola, Samsung, and, once-upon-a-time, Hewlett-Packard. But figuring out just how broad Apple's lead in the market is can be difficult. Apple itself is up front about its iPad and iPad 2 sales figures—for example, the company says it sold 9.25 million iPads in its fiscal third q ...