Monthly Archives: December 2011

Android needs to live up to its ambitions There’s a moment at the end of the movie 1900 (one of Robert De Niro’s great early roles) where the peasants think they’ve finally won the revolution as Italy’s fascists are overthrown. We’re free, our harsh rulers are dead or gone! Then, however, the “revolutionary committee”...
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Despite continued discussion about the platform’s fragmentation, Google’s Android mobile OS had quite the year. Recent stats from comScore found that, in November, about 46.9 percent of smartphones in the U.S. were Android-based, up about 3.1 percent from three months before. Apple had a bit more than half that with 28.7 percent, a 1.4...
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The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is one of the best smartphones on the market and in my opinion, it’s the best all-around Android phone out there. Just about everything you could want from a smartphone, the Galaxy Nexus has — and that’s a really good thing considering that the phone is selling in the U.S....
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The best smartphones to carry with you into 2012: Looking to upgrade your phone with some unexpected holiday cash? Here are our picks for the best high-end and budget handsets of 2011. There’s no such thing as Android, only Android-compatible: Even to call Android “fragmented” assumes that it was or ought to be unified...
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Millions switched their attention from the television set to pocket-sized screens over Christmas as Google and Apple saw a record-breaking 6.8m phone activations in a single day, followed by an app downloading frenzy. In what some commentators are calling “Sofa Sunday”, those who were not glued to the Downton Abbey special turned to the...
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