- Samsung Galaxy S III details confirmed on Amazon pre-order listing Details concerning Samsung's successor to its flagship Galaxy S II device have been confirmed on an Amazon Germany pre-order page. The Galaxy S III will be officially unveiled at an event in London on May 3.
- Chrome for Android doesn't support Adobe Flash Yesterday's introduction of Chrome for Android can only be described as very significant, with this significance extending to the fact that the new mobile browser, still in beta, does not support Adobe Flash.
- Google Chrome browser arrives on Android Google Chrome, the massively popular web browser has arrived on Android, bringing with it seamless sign-in and syncing across devices.
- iPad users have downloaded some 582% more apps than their Android counterparts Apple iPad users have downloaded some three billion apps cumulatively since the revolutionary device was first introduced in January 2010. Compare this to Android tablets users who are estimated to have downloaded just 440 million so far, some 582% less.
- Galaxy Nexus outperforms iPhone 4S in some areas, let down by graphics The Galaxy Nexus, the first Android powered smartphone to run Ice Cream Sandwich and which launched in the UK late last week, outperforms the iPhone 4S in a number of areas, a report finds.
- Google and Samsung unveil first Android 4.0 smartphone – the Galaxy Nexus Google and Samsung teamed-up early this morning in Hong Kong to unveil the first smartphone designed for Android 4.0 - the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich is the ninth release of Android and marks the third anniversary of the HTC Dream, the first ever Android phone.
- Less than 2% of Android devices are tablets In the latest platform versions report from Android Developers, Honeycomb, the tablet-only version of Android has scored disappointingly, accounting for only 1.8% of all Android devices. Compare this to Apple's 250 million iOS devices, substantially more than 1.8% of those are iPads.