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Yesterday Gartner released a press release predicting that Android will overtake Research in Motion and iOS (what iPhones run on) by the end of this year. A year ago no one would have thought this, but then again no one would have predicted the huge growth percentages that Android has been enjoying. It is predicted that ...

Not to be outdone by NVIDIA, Samsung sent out a press release announcing their next-generation dual-core CPU for smartphones. It is named the Orion, and is based on a pair of 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 cores and a more powerful GPU that they claim offers 5x the 3D graphics power over the previous generation Hummingbird. This performance ...

Today LG announced that they will ship the world's first dual-core Android smartphone in Q4 of this year. The phone will be the first phone based on the NVIDIA Tegra 2 mobile processor. There have been hints earlier, but this is the first official announcement that there will be a Tegra 2 smartphone this year. The new ...

Gauntlet: The Third Encounter was a game for the Atari Lynx, a short-lived handheld console, that was released in 1990. In the game there is a character named Android, who looks suspiciously similar to the character in the Android OS logo. There share the same dotted eyes, antenna, general proportions, and shape. They are so similar in fact, that ...

Yesterday Apple held a press conference which was mainly to reveal new iPods and the new Apple TV. Also, Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, took some shots at Google and Android. He announced that Apple was activating 230,000 devices a day. Last month Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, announced that Google was activating over 200,000 ...

Three pictures of the T-Mobile G2 have been found on the T-Mobile cache server. CellPhoneSignal said they got their hands on the photos and then Engadget found out that the photos actually reside on a T-Mobile server. As for looks, it seems that the G2 will only be available in silver, as there have been ...