Google CEO Eric Schmidt, speaking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where all the big mucky-mucks of cellular (sans Apple) are, has given his keynote. One of the key tidbits of information he gave out: Google and OEMs are shipping 60,000 Android devices a day. It's unclear if "shipping" equates to "selling," but if you extrapolate that number over 365 days, it means there would be 21.9 million Andr ...

Apple continues to show vindictiveness and a draconian, perhaps even Godlike attitude in their App Store approval process. Since the App Store and the iPhone are the big guns among app phones, Apple pretty much feels it can do whatever it wants to, and gets away with it. It's this type of behavior, however, that is starting to drive end users to the brink of change, particularly when other app phones are no ...

Acer introduces its new Android Smartphone - Liquid in Indian market. Acer introduces this new phone to comepete with Apple iPhone and Google Nexus One. Acer Liquid smartphone comes with 3.5-inch VGA touchscreen display supporting a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels. Acer Liquid android smartphone is powered by 768MHz Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor and runs on the Android v1.6. Other Acer Liquid Smartphone Sp ...

doubleTwist, which Amazon MP3 pegged as their iTunes substitute late last year, has forged a relationship with T-Mobile, as well. T-Mobile, in fact, is now putting the software on all its Android app phones. doubleTwist was co-founded by DVD Jon, he of iTunes hacking fame. The software understands the various devices it syncs with, which ones takes which format, and converts as necessary. And yes, their web ...

Keeping alive the hopes of an Android offering from their garage, LG drives forth their first venture with a bit of veil still hanging over it. Besides the pseudo name, ‘Etna’, and the bunch of tempting specs we don’t have too much to lean back on for more on this one. It’s a QWERTY slider with a 5 megapixel camera, GPS, Wi-Fi and 3G. The other suspects make it into the spec sheet comfortably. The keypad lo ...