Security researchers are up in arms this morning over Google’s decision to stop patching a core Android component on older devices. According to Tod Beardlsey, an engineer at security firm Rapid7,… Read more »
Six months after Android Jelly Bean launched, 14 percent of devices are running it, says Chitika Insights. A new report from the company says only 10 percent now use KitKat nearly… Read more »
Google’s Android developers blog shows that the three-year-old Gingerbead software is still running on 20 percent of devices, while the new KitKat update has only reached 1.8. Read more »
Samsung hasn’t released Android 4.3 for its flagship phone yet but that hasn’t stopped some from getting a look at an early build. The software looks nearly ready for prime-time based… Read more »
Android’s march towards Jelly Bean software on a majority of devices continues forward: More than 40 percent of smartphones and tablets use it, helping bring feature parity across more devices. Read more »
What happens when hardware advances enough across various price points to run the latest version of Android? You get a faster transition to that version of software, along with its new… Read more »
The HTC First is the debut device powered by Facebook Home, an app-meets-skin that focuses the phone experience to all things Facebook. There is a lot to like and a lot… Read more »
In October, I suggested that more than half of all Android devices would run Android 4.0 or better within four to six months. My time was just about up, but it… Read more »
Uptake for Android 4.0 or better continues to rise and there are finally more devices fitting this category than those that use the old Android 2.3 Gingerbread software. That’s good for… Read more »