Posts Tagged ‘Android’

With Android’s market share having risen to almost 15% over the past year, there are now thousands of apps available for the platform – many of which can be extremely useful over the course of a typical working day. Having recently written about the respective value-for-money offered by the different mobile OS platforms’ app markets, I thought it would be logical to follow this up with a sort of app showcase feature, ‘zooming in’ on exactly what some of the better apps out there can do.

So, this is basically the first of a series of such compilation lists, each of which will have a different OS platform and theme. This inaugural post will focus on Android and work-related apps for…

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Details are slowly emerging about Google’s pending Web Store for its Chrome browser, for which October is the currently scheduled release date. Beyond expecting a fairly standard app store type of system, there is little else that commentators have been able to flesh out  so far – since Google has yet to divulge the more specific details. For that I suppose we’ll have to wait another few weeks, though in the meantime, Techrunch have provided a little bit of very interesting speculation about the likelihood of the Web Store containing a strong social element. (For more on that, see their excellent post on the topic earlier today). Also fascinating is the Web Store’s planned delivery of computer games, which promises…

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Following on from our recent focus on Google’s position in the smartphone market, specifically relating to the fact that Android currently boasts a far higher proportion of free apps than any of its rivals (Apple still has easily the most overall apps though), it is interesting to see that the company has launched its own DIY code-free App Inventor tool. Something tells me Android’s previous figure of 57% free apps will soon be jumping towards the 65-70% mark over the next few weeks and months.

But let’s discuss events in the present first before we go reeling off wild speculations about the future. Here’s the low-down on the App-Inventor for now:

- It’s still in beta mode, but is free to download from…

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Distimo, a European mobile app market analyst, has produced some excellent research this week, showing the state of play regarding app market dynamics right up to June 2010. What’s most interesting about the results is that, while we tend to hear a lot about Apple’s success in delivering apps to iPhone and iPad users, it’s actually Google’s Android that arguably offers users the best value for money, with 57% of apps being free, compared with an average of around 25% for rivals such as Palm, Blackberry, iPhone and Windows phones.

While this might not necessarily be the most exciting news for developers, it is certainly a key piece of info for consumers choosing their next smartphone, and indeed with the latest…

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With Apple announcing that its iPad tablet computer will be delayed on its international release until May due to high demand, it seems that keen would-be purchasers of this new gadget will have a little spare time on their hands for now…

Well, worry not ladies and gentlemen! To satiate your desires, at least for a few minutes, I now present a general round-up of what’s going on in relation to this headline-hogging mega high-profile device, which somehow continues to entertain (even before anyone has one) simply by its endless ability to generate news items (some of which are rather bizarre).

Take for example the recent advert for Blendtec (which can be found on Youtube) in which an Apple iPad is rather cleverly employed…

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