According to AndroLib, who keeps track of the statistics from Android Market, there are now over 20,000 apps available in Android market, and 62.2% of them are free apps. Considering  just sightly over one year since its opening, this number is not bad at all if you don’t consider the quality of the apps in the Android Market.  Apple App Store was about 50,000 during its first year (and it has over 100,000 apps at [...]

According to a report from Computer world, the world’s second largest PC maker, Acer, is planning to release around 6 Android phones by early next year. Acer is having a large development team for Android products at the moment, and it will give another boost to Android in year 2010. “Acer plans to unveil Android mobile phones for three price levels, top-end, mid and low-end, as well as models aimed at business users and consumers, [...]

Sony Ericsson is still not officially giving a confirmed delivery date of the long waited Xperia X10.  However, play.com from UK is showing a date of 18th January 2010 to be the date Xepria X10 is due for release. Sony Ericsson, you better release the phone as soon as possible as there are a series of super strong  Android phones lining up for year 2010, such as HTC Bravo, Nexus One, if the rumours turn [...]

Motorola is showing their Android commitment, again.  This time, it is Zeppelin (XT800), for the China market.  The release date is said to be 25th of December. The specs for the phone gathered from the web look pretty impressive: 5MP Camera Auto-focus LED flash 720P HD video capture HDMI Out Text scanning Bluetooth v2.1 3.5mm headset jack GPS MicroSD expansion Wi-Fi ARM Cortex-A8 processor With the HDMI output and 720 HD video capture, this will [...]

Engadget just has an exclusive coverage of the updates of Google Phone, the Nexus one. There are quite a number of phots posted. The updated OS features new 3D elements to the app tray, as well as an extended amount of homescreens.  There is now a new grid icon at the bottom of the homescreen, which when pressed brings up a webOS card-style preview of all homescreen page.  It also includes the new Google Goggles.  [...]

For the past 48 hours there have been a large amount of information flooding the Internet regarding the Google Phone. There have been rumours that Google is going to sell a Google branded phone as early as January 2010 for the pass few months.  And it became more real when Google started to distribute phones to employees internally for testing.  And the name of Google Phone started to appear in Twitter when Google employees started [...]

Opera browser is one of the best (if it is not the best) brwoser for mobile devices.  It brings a consistent and featureful browsing experience to mobile users.  And now it is available for Android users.  However, it is not available for general download.  Instead, it will be licensed through manufacturers and operators. According to opera: “Opera’s cross-platform UI framework is built on top of the browser engine. This allows it to work seamlessly on [...]

Tencube, the Singapore firm who produces the winning software of Android Developer Challenge 2, Wavesecure, has announced that they are giving the Android users lifetime account for Wavesecure if you sign up for an account before 31st of January 2010. They have mentioned this in the blog: “As a giveback to Android users support that made our ADC win possible, we are offering an unlimited free lifetime account for Android users. Just head over to [...]

Motorola is going to sell an OMS (Open Mobile Platform, China based Android variance) based phone in China from 28th December. The phone carries a new design that does not look like any of Motorola’s existing Android phones.  It doesn’t have a keyboard and the user interface looks interesting. The MOTO MT710 has a 3.7″ FWVGA screen supporting 480 x 854 resolution, a 5-megapixel camera, access to the Internet using China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA network or [...]

Here is another nicer looking picture of the rumoured HTC Bravo / Passion / Dragon (what ever people call it).  And according to various sources, the phone will hit US first in January 2010 (Wow, that’s fast) and the rest of the world few months after that. This phone is rumoured to be the super Android phone from HTC that comes with everything you have ever wanted: Size: 112 x 56 x 11.7 mm (thinner [...]