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A report from analytics group Flurry Inc. predicts that Google sold roughly 80,000 units of its Nexus One smartphone in the phone’s first month.  That doesn’t compare all that well with the DROID’s roughly 525,000 units in its first month, or the original Apple iPhone’s estimated 600,000 back in 2007.
Of course there are a lot [...]

According to mobile analytics firm Flurry, the Google Nexus One has not taken the world by storm. The latest Android offering has just passed the one week mark and estimates based upon web traffic data suggest that Google has sold a paltry 20,000 Nexus One handsets. When compared to other major handset launches, the Nexus [...]

Korea may become the next battleground in the war between Android and the iPhone for smartphone dominance. On the one side, we have KT Telecommunications which is the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in Korea and on the other, we have rival SK Telecom which is gearing up to release ten Android handsets in 2010. [...]

It is nice to see Android gaining ground on its competition in both the big markets and the small. We covered last week some of the big trends, today we have a little one to share. O’Reilly Media, well-known technical book supplier, sells e-book copies of their hardcover books as individual applications in both the [...]

Android fans will love it and iPhone fans will hate it, but the latest Verizon Wireless Motorola DROID commercial is genius. Emphasizing its unabashed manliness, the commercial calls the iPhone a “tiara-wearing, digitally clueless beauty queen” and the DROID as fast as a “racehorse duct taped to a scud missile”. Yeah, they went there. We won’t spoil [...]

Google has announced that Android, iPhone, and Pre users can now experience a new streamlined version of Google News on their phones’ browsers. New features include integrated personalization with your desktop preferences, easier video viewing, optimized format for pictures, and the ability to jump to a category much quicker.
After playing around with it for [...]

Flying somewhat under the radar is the news that O2 UK will now be getting the Samsung i7500 device in August this year. Ewan, from Mobile Industry Review, wandered into his local O2 store on Friday this week to pick up a brochure of the up and coming devices. The first Friday of the month [...]

Ah yes, you’ve all been waiting for this, I’m sure.  Google has launched a beta test of its new Adsense advertising system for Android and iPhone.  This will allow app developers to place Adsense advertisiements into their applications that will earn them money when users click on them.
I can hardly wait to see ads popping [...]

Chinese site IT168.com has posted a series of live photos of the new HTC Sapphire based smartphone that is heading to China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile network.
The interesting part of the device is how the user interface has been tweaked.  It has a very different look to it, and you can even see a [...]

A web metrics company going by the name of Net Applications has recently announced that Google’s Android holds 6.15 percent of the Internet mobile browsing market share, putting it in 4th position behind No. 2 Java ME’s 9.06 percent and No. 3 Windows Mobile’s 6.91 percent. Obviously the big gun is still Apple with its [...]