Archive for the ‘Platforms: AndroidOS’ Category

EA not Interested in Android?

November 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

This week, Gameloft announced to cut expenses on Android because of lacking performance. A day after, it confirmed support for Android 2.0. ME’s Stuart Dredge started to dig into EA, the biggest publisher in the market today.

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Android and Chrome OS Will Merge

November 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Google founder Sergey Brin has announced that Android and Chrome OS will be merged at some point. Then and which name the OS’ will receive is unknown for now.

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In-App Payments on Android

November 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

It’s not officially supported yet, but the developer of Ringz (Urbian) found a workaround that works good enough for them to offer new level packs to consumers.

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Gameloft Announces Android 2.0 Support

November 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Though the company announced that it’s cutting down development budgets for Android, it also took the time to announce support for Android 2.0 on some current and upcoming titles.

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SE’s WebSDK Bridges Symbian and Android Development

November 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

SonyEricsson has revealed their new WebSDK. With the SDK, developers can now create apps and games based on HTML, CSS and JS that will run on both the Satio and Xperia X10.

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ARM Invests in Android Chipsets

November 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

ARM has setup a new ‘Android Solutions Center’ in order to ease and speed up development of Android powered hardware. The company hopes it will increase the number of Android powered gadgets on the market.

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Flurry: Droid Does Deliver

November 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Following our coverage on the release of the Motorola Droid, Flurry has committed to some deeper research and found out that Droid isn’t doing that bad when you look at the first week sales.

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Motorola Sold 100K Droids so Far

November 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Motorola might be witnessing the same resurrection Palm did earlier this year. It’s new Android based ‘Droid’ handset has sold 100.000 units in the first weekend of sales.

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Device Anywhere Increases Android Support

November 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Device Anywhere has added a large number of Android handsets to its portfolio. The devices range from generally available devices to pre-commercial models.

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Google and Developers work on SD Solution for Android

November 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

With the solution, consumers will be able to install their apps and mobile games on external memory and so, be able to better manage the memory space they have in their devices.