The Tech Sketch

This week, a study has come out from AppStore HQ, claiming that there are about 55,000 app developers between Android and iOS, about 1,500 of which develop for both platforms. AppStore HQ also points out that many high quality applications are from cross platform developers. I wouldn’t quite be surprised, considering they must exert the [...]

Google has revamped their News service, and will be rolling out the new design to everyone in the next couple days. This new design allows improved ability to customize the News page to the readers’ desire. The changes were announced on Wednesday, and have been in testing recently. A more intuitive UI and News consuming [...]

Android 3.0 Gingerbread is getting closer by the day, with an expected launch of the fourth quarter of 2010. More details were released today on a Russian podcast by Eldar Murtazinhas. Most of these details are quite notable, the first, and most general, being a revamped UI. Android 3.0 is said to have somewhat a [...]

The year of 2010 is beginning its Summer season with a blast. Countless smartphones are coming out, all whose appeal is to phase out the messaging devices category, and eat into land-line usage. From the new (expected) iPhone 4, to the many Android handsets, smartphones are coming, and get comfy, because they are here to [...]

The people at XDAndroid have been working on this project to get Google’s Android on Windows Mobile devices and it seem as though their latest build has done it. This demonstration is on the HTC Touch Pro 2, recently getting Ubuntu hacked onto there. You almost get the full Android experience. You get to make [...]

Google Apps has been around for some time, and now Google is giving a hand to developers who want to develop business apps for the Google Marketplace. With cloud-based services, Google Apps Marketplace will sell third party web apps which integrate with Google’s app suite. Apps are sold through Google and can be sold as [...]

Google has added biking directions to Google Maps. Working alongside the options for walking, by car, or by public transportation, Google Maps integrates bicycling in the same way. Travel times are included, calculated by taking hills and getting tired into consideration. Google also partnered up with Rails-To-Trails, providing bicycle trail information in more than 150 [...]

Google has unveiled their Google Apps Marketplace. This will allow Google Apps users to purchase third-party applications to run on top of the Google Apps suite. Like Apple, developers will pay a $100 to develop apps for the Google Apps Marketplace. What’s different from Apple is that you will have to pay a $100 one [...]

Google Chrome has been slowly picking up market share, although the interesting fact here is that it’s the only browser to do so. For about a year now, Google Chrome has been gaining popularity and fighting this browser war and in every month, it slowly grows market share, even if by a little. For the [...]

AT&T has released their first Android device. Now available, the Motorola Backflip is now on sale with the tamed Google Android and Blur operating systems with a painted silver on it. The Backflip is $99.99 on a 2 year contract after a mail-in rebate from AT&T. If this interests you, I say go ahead. If [...]

The Nexus One’s gorgeous 3.7 inch capacitive multitouch display isn’t as accurate as the Droid’s. Well, that’s what Android And Me presumes. Don’t get me wrong, the Nexus One’s display and multitouch seem to work fine in practice, although they prove somewhat otherwise. They have demonstrated on a multitouch application that the Nexus One’s screen [...]

Next week will be the launch of the Motorola Backflip, AT&T’s first Android phone. AT&T is taking a rather odd approach at this, shielding themselves (and presumably the iPhone) from Google’s forces. It appears as though AT&T has cut short all of Google’s utilities within the Motorola Backflip running on Google’s Android operating system. Earlier rumors have [...]

Telegraph has reported that the Nexus One will launch on Vodafone in April in the UK. They state the price is “to-be-determined”, although it’s “likely to be priced very similarly to comparable smartphones such as the iPhone.” Telegraph has not cited any sources on the matter, although if all goes according to plan, the Nexus [...]