Siine Writer: Icon-based free keyboard for Android

As you know, many people have problems with adjusting to the touchscreen keyboards on their smartphones, and we’ve seen all sorts of different keyboard solutions for smartphones, but none of those solutions used icons instead of text characters.

Spain/UK-based company Siine has been working on a new keyboard called Siine Writer for you Android device. Unlike other apps, Siine Writer doesn’t use characters, but instead, it uses icons, and each icon represents a different phrase, so you’ll be able to type your text messages a lot faster with Siine

New Android K-Touch phone just for China

A new Android device will be launched in the coming month, its known as the K-Touch W700 and is powered by NVIDIA’s dual-core Tegra 2 processor. The K-Touch W700 runs on Android 2.2, and features a 3.8 inch touchscreen with a relatively low resolution of 480×800 and two cameras, the back camera is a five megapixel camera with 720p video recording and at the front it has a 0.3 megapixel camera for video chat.

The phone’s design is modern and features a metal casing, besides all the features listed above the phone has got 8 GB of internal memory, support for GPS/A-GPS, bluetooth and WiFi connectivity, FM tuner,  microSD card slot,

Google gives birth to Androids x30 faster than man to babies

Here’s an interesting find of the day, apparently Google activates way more Androids compared to humans with a current pace of 350.000 activations per day. Check out the video below for a clever infographic-like take on how Android is quickly becoming the preferred mobile OS around the world.

 

The funny part is, if everybody in California (the mother land of Apple) was buying an Android device exclusively the whole state would be saturated in about 4 months from now. Did you know that only a mere 1% uses the latest greatest Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) OS – that is surely a statement which Google should do something about.

Google uses kill switch to remove 260,000 installed apps worldwide

It appears that Google is experiencing some problems with the Android Market, and due to these problems, it seems that Google has to use its infamous kill switch as a last resort.

According to latest news, 58 apps on Android Market were found sending personal information from Android devices and were installing security holes, so Google had to remove them from the Android Market.
However damage has already been done, and according to reports, these apps got about 260,000 downloads which means that there were 260,000 victims out there.

Ufone has formally stepped into Smartphone handset business. Earlier, Ufone has already tried selling low-end phone and we know the experience has been remarkable, except that the phones used to get unlocked.
Today, in a single go, Ufone has launched 3 android based handsets, which come with 30 MB of free Free GPRS Usage for 18, 15 and 6 Months based on phone model.
All three handsets are manufactured by Huawei and comes with network locked setting. Ufone claims that its Image Phone (U8800) is unlock-able.

NVIDIA TegraZone app now available for Android gamers with Tegra powered devices

Great news for serious gamers who have got their hands on the latest NVIDIA Tegra powered tablets and smartphones, because NVIDIA today have announced the release of the Tegra Zone app for Android, an application designed to help users find Tegra optimised games.

Available from the Android Market, TegraZone “delivers a curated selection of Tegra processor-optimized games, as well as professional game reviews, high-res screenshots, HD video trailers, gameplay videos and behind-the-scenes featurettes.”

Best of the upcoming dual-core Android smartphones

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Remember those times when PC processors have reached the limit in terms of speed per core? When it seemed that processors can’t go higher than those limits, companies did the next best thing — utilized the concept of parallel processing and thus created processors with multiple cores. That was then… would you have expected that our mobile phones would have adapted the same concept? It’s not that far fetched given all the applications that we wanted to have in those small electronics. And just like with our PCs, having multiple cores is the way to go with our portables. Currently, Android devices are the ones taking advantage of multiple cores and we’ll try to help you which one to choose. So stick in and decide which one’s for you.

1. LG Optimus 2X
2. LG Optimus 3D
3. Motorola Atrix 4G
4. Motorola Droid Bionic
5. Samsung Galaxy S II

LG Optimus 2X

Here’s the one that started all the dual-core phone revolution. Launched in December of 2010,

Google Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” reviewed

The arrival of the Motorola Xoom also meant the arrival of the tablet-specific Android named Honeycomb. Having said that previous versions of Android weren’t really meant for tablets, what should we expect from this version that aims to bring the tablet experience further? Significant changes will definitely include UI updates that will utilize the larger touchscreens that tablets have (and smartphones don’t). So what’s more to come? Stick in and find out.