TechCrunch
Google Opens New ‘Devices’ Section In The Google Play Store To Sell The Unlocked Galaxy Nexus
And just like that, Google is selling smartphones again. Andy Rubin, Google's SVP of Mobile and Digital Content, just officially pulled back the curtains on a new section in the Google Play Store where Google will be selling hardware directly to customers. The first device to go on sale is the unlocked version of Samsung's venerable Galaxy Nexus, which will sell for $399 but only in the U.S. (f...
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AllThingsDigital
If at First You Don't Succeed: Google to Hawk a Nexus Phone Again
Google stopped Web sales of the Nexus One due to slow demand in 2010, but the company believes that times have changed.
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Gizmodo
Why Google Shouldn't Make Its Own Phone [Google]
According to Business Insider, Google has bigger plans for Motorola than just hoarding Moto's patents. BI is saying Google now wants to use Motorola's team to create its own Google smartphones and tablets. Meaning Google doesn't just want to develop another Nexus One, it wants to make its own iPhone. And that would be a very, very bad idea. More »
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Huffington Post
Google Tablet Store To Open Online: WSJ Report
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc is planning to open an online store to sell tablet PCs directly to consumers, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal on Thursday. The online store would offer tablets made by Samsung Electronics Co and Asustek Computer Inc based on Google's Android software, according to the report, which cited anonymous sources and which Reuters was...
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Fortune
Android's original standard bearer -- HTC -- falls from grace
Squeezed by Apple and Samsung, it had a bad quarter and expects the next to be worse
There was a time when HTC and Android were practically synonymous.
The Taiwanese manufacturer built the first commercially available Android phone -- the HTC Dream -- in 2008, and two years later collaborated with Google (GOOG) to build the Nexus One, the flagship of the Android line. Last November, it edged pa...
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BoingBoing
CyanogenMod, the free/open port of Android, gains traction
Here's a good brief look at the state of CyanogenMod, a free/open fork of the Android operating system that lets you do a lot more with your tablet/phone. I really like the way that CyanogenMod exerts force on the Android ecosystem: back when Google was unwilling to ship a tethering app (even for "Google Experience" [...]
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ElPais
Apple logra una victoria parcial en su guerra de patentes con Google
El gigante estadounidense Apple ha obtenido una victoria parcial en la guerra de patentes que mantiene con la firma taiwanesa HTC, el fabricante de teléfonos inteligentes como el Nexus One de Google.
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Slashdot
Researchers Find Big Leaks In Pre-installed Android Apps
An anonymous reader sends this quote from an article at Ars Technica:
"Researchers at North Carolina State University have uncovered a variety of vulnerabilities in the standard configurations of popular Android smartphones from Motorola, HTC, and Samsung, finding that they don't properly protect privileged permissions from untrusted applications (PDF). In a paper just published by researchers ...
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Mashable
Carrier IQ Tracking Scandal Spirals Out of Control
Carrier IQ, a diagnostic tool installed in millions of smartphones all over the world, is gathering a lot of info about your activity – po…
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Wired
Samsung Galaxy Nexus: A First Look at Android's Next-Gen Handset
The Galaxy Nexus is the latest in a line of flagship device launches for Google, a program it began after collaborating with HTC to launch the first Android phone, the HTC Dream, in October 2008. Working closely with a single manufacturer, Google prepares each major iteration of Android for launch with a brand new device. The practice eventually became what we now know as the "Nexus" program, b...
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