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Androids Are Multiplying More Quickly Than People

Friday, January 20th, 2012

In spite of gloomy forecasts of fantasts, our planet is not likely to be conquered by computers. However, the mobile platform Android is already making confident steps towards the world domination. In his speech at the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 Robert Kyncl, the head of YouTube portal, said that the number of daily activations of Android devices already exceeds the number of daily newborns. Kyncl stated that if the situation will develop like that, the producers will have to start searching new clients on other planets.many-androids

Mobile devices had no problems in becoming a leader. According to the statistics, the birth rate has been going down for the last three decades while the volumes of portable device production are constantly growing. The only restraining factor for the manufacturers is the level of demand for Android smartphones.

The Apple Corporation doesn’t share the similar statistics but one can presuppose that the circulations of Android devices released in great numbers from Samsung to Motorola exceeded the official figure of 250 mln iOS activations (including iPod, iPhone and iPads).

At the same time, mobile development specialists try to keep up with these tendencies and create more and more mobile devices for all platforms.

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Motorola announced iPad’s competitor

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

While software development companies work hard to create new applications and software, hardware development companies introduce new devices. At the exhibition in Las Vegas Motorola Mobility has announced its new tablet computer Xoom, reported Bloomberg.

The device is based on a Duo Core processor and is equipped with the 10.1-inch screen. Xoom will use the Android 3.0 Honeycomb operation system developed by Google Inc. Let’s remind that in September 2010 Samsung released the tablet Galaxy Tab that also works on the Android operation system. However, the given device will perform on the updated version of the software.

Xoom is supposed to enter thexoom-tablet-550x367 market in the first quarter of 2011. The developers haven’t specified how much the device will cost. According to the specialists, the price of Xoom shouldn’t exceed 500 dollars in order to be competitive with other similar devices – for example, with iPad from Apple.

It should be noted that on January 2, 2011 the company Motorola was divided into 2 companies – Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions. The first one is specialized on mobile devices, the second one – on the telecommunication equipment. The company had been preparing for this division for the last 3 years.

No matter how many mobile devices will see the market in future, mobile application developers will design applications for all of them.

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Will Android be the first?

Sunday, December 19th, 2010

The operation system Google Android, which was born only a few years ago, has caught up with the world’s leader – Symbian OS, supported by the Finnish corporation Nokia.android eat
According to the quarterly data as of the end of summer, the volume of sales of Android based smartphones was far behind the volume of Symbian sales but was already ahead of Apple iPhone and RIM for BlackBerry.
Since the middle till the end of summer, the volume of Android based smartphones sales from NTC, Motorola and Samsung Electronics on the average was 218,000 devices a day. Nokia could boast of 325,000 smartphones sold daily.
According to some experts, Symbian can keep its dominating position thanks to the new portfolio and the statement on a completely new approach to the mobile interface.
However, Android is a free platform that is available for any manufacturer of mobile phones. Its population is growing from day to day. Mobile application developers feel this tendency and work hard to produce more and more Android apps to the Android Market.

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Analytics: Android will overcome iPhone by popularity in 2012

Monday, August 16th, 2010

In 2012 Android will become more popular than iPhone. The main reasons for this are its attractiveness among other manufacturers and the modeliphone vs android of distribution.

According to the analytics from iSuppli, the number of Android smartphones will exceed the number of Apple smartphones by 2012. iSuppi predicts that by the end of the year 2012 the market share of Android will be 19.4% on the world’s market of smartphones in comparison with 2.7% in 2009. The market share of iOS from Apple will increase from 13.8% to 15.9% for the same period. By 2014 the Android sjare market will increase to 22.8% and the iOS share will reduce to 15.3%.

The future domination of Android is due to the different model of the platform distribution. iOS is a proprietary solution unavailable for third party producers. Android is an open OS available for everybody. By now it has been supported by NTS, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Acer, Samsung, LG and other companies while iPhones are produced only by Apple.

By 2014 the high quality content and mobile application will bring more than $100 bln. It’s a very promising and profitable market not only for smartphone producers but also for mobile apps developers who create apps for Android.

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Google Nexus One: it includes Multi-Touch now!

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Hurray! The American version of Nexus One supports multitouch, notwithstanding the fact that it’s a patented Apple technology. Google representatives do not comment it.

Google Inc. released its first update pack for the Nexus One smartphone, which was shown to the general public just a month ago. Besides some fixes this fresh mobile software contained a very useful innovation – support of multitouch technology.

It means that now interface and screen-oriented capabilities of Googlephone do not yield to its main rival, Apple iPhone. So users of the first Google smartphone can test multitouch in action. It works in Google Maps Navigation, picture viewer, as well as in web browser.

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As can be seen, a mutual agreement between Apple and Google (so called “promise not to add multitouch support in Nexus One”) now is worth nothing. Search Corporation decided to change its word in the light of recent events.

Studying different modern devices from the main manufacturers, starting with Apple and Palm, and ending with HTC and Motorola, Google’s experts has realized that multi-touch support has become a standard, so many users are accustomed to this option. Undoubtedly it opens new possibilities for innovative mobile applications development, now they can create new software for Android taking into account this new potential.

So now we have a smartphone that based on Android 2.1, and we also can use a new way of control and navigation. By the way, the European version of Nexus One has this function by default. However, the sales in Europe start not earlier than in spring this year.

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