After using the Windows 8 Consumer Preview for over a week we talk about the pros and cons of the upcoming version of Windows which Microsoft announced last week. We talk about the event Apple's CEO Tim Cook held in San Francisco where the new iPad or iPad 3 was announced with a Retina Display, … [Read more...]
Why Android Needs To Be More Unified When It Comes To The Experience And Branding
March 9, 2012 By
Android is a very successful platform since right now there are over 300 million devices based off of the Android operating system. Google's success is mainly due to the fact that pretty much any company can go ahead and put Android onto any smartphone or tablet that they make. Motorola, Samsung, … [Read more...]
Google Moves Books, Music, And Movies From The Android Market To Google Play
March 8, 2012 By
You've probably heard of the Android Market, it's on pretty much all Android smartphones. It's where Android devices get apps, games, movies, music, and even books. Today Google is rebranding the Android Market under the new Google Play name so that people understand that the media in the Android … [Read more...]
Android Market Now Supports Applications That Are Up To 4GB In Size
March 5, 2012 By
There are many applications in the Android Market right now but most of them are just applications and not games. One issue with the Android Market that is preventing many games from being developed is the maximum of 50MB of storage that applications can use. Now that 50MB limit does help prevent … [Read more...]
Samsung Has Sold About 700,000 Galaxy Nexus Smartphones So Far
January 4, 2012 By
Right now there are only a couple of devices with a version of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus S but both smartphones have different versions of Ice Cream Sandwich. The Galaxy Nexus runs Android 4.0.2 while the Nexus S runs Android 4.0.3. Using that fact you can do … [Read more...]
The Android Market Is Now Home To Over 400,000 Apps
January 4, 2012 By
If you look back at the smartphone market you'll know that in today's market you really need to have a good selection of apps to succeed. Meaning because platforms like webOS and BlackBerry OS don't have a whole lot of apps they aren't doing extremely well. While platforms like iOS and Android are … [Read more...]
Google Defines What Exactly An Android Device Is
December 30, 2011 By
Originally the Android operating system was only available on a few smartphones but now Android is much more. Android is on tablets, smartphones, portable media players, computers, and really anything that can get Android hacked onto it. We've even seen an Android wristwatch from Motorola. But what … [Read more...]
Motorola’s MotoACTV Wristwatch Gets Rooted To Run Android Market
December 25, 2011 By
There are many Android devices on the market today from tablets to smartphones. And most of them all have been hacked, rooted, and modified in some way to get the hardware to do something even greater than before. And one very interesting example of that is the Motorola MotoACTV wristwatch which … [Read more...]
ZL Podcast #52 – Droid Xyboards Arrive, Eee Pad Transformer Prime Available, Ivy Bridge Release Date…
December 10, 2011 By
This week the Samsung Galaxy Nexus arrived in Canada. It's available on Bell and Virgin Mobile for $160 on a three year contract. This means that the Galaxy Nexus is now finally available in North America although it still isn't available in the United States. Verizon says that the Galaxy Nexus is … [Read more...]
Android Market Reaches 10 Billion Downloads, Many Apps On Sale
December 6, 2011 By
Apple for a while has had the advantage of having a lot more apps. But recently at least as far as smartphones go that has started to change. Google has really started to get a large collection of apps in their Android Market, so many apps that Google has reached the pretty significant milestone of … [Read more...]
