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Android’s live wallpapers and their applications
Live wallpapers have now become a defining feature of Android. They were added to the operating system in the 2.1 version of Android, which is also known as Éclair. Live wallpapers are home screens that can be customized and instead of being a simple background image, they can be customized to become interactive. Bringing a [...]
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Why the PlayStation Suite is a great thing for Android gaming
Sony recently announced a software framework called the PlayStation Suite which will be a way to deliver games onto devices of multiple platforms including Android. This platform would be an application store for games and would lead to higher quality games being released on Android. With the current video game lineup of Android lacking in [...]
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Why Windows Phone 7 is facing an identity crisis
Microsoft created the Windows Mobile 7 platform as a way to unify all of its individual users on its other platforms in one common place. Thus it has added Xbox Live functionality as well as Microsoft Office integration into the platform. However Microsoft is facing a problem with either targeting the platform at power users [...]
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How Rovio’s success with Angry Birds has paved the way for future smartphone games
Rovio released the Angry Birds mobile game on iOS in December 2009. The game has seen an incredible rise in popularity since its release and has sold over 12 million copies on Apple’s App Store alone to date. This success has enabled Rovio to create games for other platforms as well such as Android, Maemo, [...]
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Whats Inside The Android Gingerbread ?
Android OS has made its way over the past few years. From the very beginning they have fixed their goal and always knew what they wanted to do in this business. Android OS have always released regular updates and upgraded their software versions and the Android 2.3 o, popularly known as the Gingerbread, has introduced [...]
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Why Windows Phone 7 did not meet its launch expectations
Windows Phone 7 was hyped a lot by Microsoft before launch as being the ultimate mobile phone platform and how it would take a commanding lead in the smartphone sector within a short period of time. Although the platform was met with a positive reaction, the initial sales of the devices running it were not [...]
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Android OS! The Future Of The Smartphone OS !
Android OS is undoubtedly going be the leading OS for the future Smartphones! I know it’s too early to say, but I have some strong reasons behind this. Believe me, if you read this article carefully and logically you will also find the reasons pretty strong to deny. Android first came to the market with the HTC [...]
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Why GPS has become such a popular option in smartphones
As of recently, GPS receivers have started become ever so popular on mobile phones. There are several reasons for this trend. The Nokia N95 was released in 2007, and it was the first mainstream device with the feature onboard. After it, the feature started gaining popularity at an almost constant rate and today the feature [...]
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The popularity of smartphone games
Previously, games on mobile phones were limited to graphics with low quality textures and were mostly puzzle games. They were mostly of 2D graphics and the few games that had 3D also had barely notable graphics. All of this changed when newer smartphone platforms came out and along with them some very powerful hardware was [...]
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Why companies prefer to customize their Android UI
Android has the virtue of having a user interface that was already worked on heavily by Google’s engineers. Even though this makes the android user interface one of the best currently in existence, several mobile phone companies like to add their own custom skin into the mix. An unaltered version of an Android UI is [...]
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