Thorsten Heins just broke what has to be the biggest news out of BBLive this morning: BBM is breaking out of its walled garden. Starting this summer, users running iOS 6 and Android ICS or higher will be able to download the BBM app for free and join in the messaging experience so highly curated by BlackBerry . . . → Read More: BlackBerry to offer BBM as standalone app for iOS and Android this summer
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Google’s big shake-up of Android version metrics has already given us a better understanding of where the platform’s active users truly stand. Now that we’re a month into the new methodology, we have a good sense of where those users are going — and they’re moving to Jelly Bean in droves. . . . → Read More: Android metrics show Jelly Bean adoption overtaking Ice Cream Sandwich While Archos has long held dreams of expanding into smartphones, we’ve seen it run into its fair share of roadblocks along the way. Thanks in part to a sharpened corporate focus , that vision is at last becoming real with the company’s first, honest-to-goodness smartphone range. The 35 Carbon, 50 Platinum and 53 Platinum all cater to the budget, carrier-independent crowd with common foundations of unlocked 7.2Mbps HSPA 3G, dual SIM slots (only one being 3G) and stock Android . . . → Read More: Archos dips into smartphones with the 35 Carbon, 50 Platinum and 53 Platinum US Cellular has had precious few truly low-cost smartphones running an Android build that wasn’t baked in 2010 . . . . → Read More: ZTE Director arrives at US Cellular, takes charge of entry-level Android Got a relatively recent version of Android on your smartphone? Good, because today, Google’s giving Jelly Bean users another reason to be happy . . . → Read More: Gmail update lets Jelly Bean users archive and reply to emails from notifications For all the credit the Xolo X900 earned as the first Intel-based smartphone, it grew long in the tooth very quickly between that 4-inch screen and 1.6GHz Atom chip. The solution, naturally, is a straight-up modernization like the X1000. . . . → Read More: Xolo X1000 reaches India, mates a 2GHz Atom with a 4.7-inch screen for $369  What a difference a month makes. When we last checked in early February , Gingerbread was still the most commonly used major version of Google’s mobile OS despite having launched all the way back in 2010. As of the start of March, there’s a different story to tell: variants of Android 4 are at last more popular, collectively representing 45.1 percent of active use versus Gingerbread’s 44.2 percent. . . . → Read More: Android 4 use finally overtakes Gingerbread, Jelly Bean nears 17 percent  Remember those NFC-equipped business cards Moo promised? Yeah, well, they’re still not ready for mass consumption. But, that’s not stopping the company from making its own NFC tagging app available today on Google Play . . . → Read More: Moo’s NFC tagging app hits Google Play, NFC business card not required  Just weeks ago, Samsung slipped the entry-level Galaxy Discover into Canadian shops, with no word on whether or not it would ever cross the border. . . . → Read More: Samsung Galaxy Discover coming to the US through Net10 and Straight Talk  Stitcher’s Android app can do many things with radio and podcasts, but one thing it hasn’t done lately is blend in — its interface is out of sync with a platform that has had its own distinct style for more than two years. A major remake today helps make amends. . . . → Read More: Stitcher overhauls its Android app to dovetail with Google’s interface world |
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