In what was no surprise at all, Sony Ericsson officially announced the storied “PlayStation Phone,” the Xperia Play, at MWC on Sunday. We also could have guessed that we’d get official word about the Xperia Neo, based on the leaked photos of it last week. But SE also announced a third phone, the Xperia Pro, that [...]

Sony Ericsson Announces Three Xperias: Play, Neo and Pro originally appeared on AndroidGuys.

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Samsung put all the rumors and leaks to rest today at MWC, officially showing off the Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab 10.1. The Galaxy S II is being billed as “the world’s thinnest smartphone” at 8.49 mm, and boasts specs that make me covet my neighbor’s oxen: Samsung dual-core Orion CPU 4.27-inch Super AMOLED [...]

Samsung Shows Off Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab 10.1 originally appeared on AndroidGuys.

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We all know that Google doesn’t make Android out of the goodness of its heart; it’s trying to make some money on the deal. And since it’s not selling the OS, that money comes from mobile advertising. Now, an analyst has made a calculation of just how much ad revenue Google is getting from the [...]

Each of us is $6 in Google’s Pocket; $10 in 2012 originally appeared on AndroidGuys.

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We all know that Google doesn’t make Android out of the goodness of its heart; it’s trying to make some money on the deal. And since it’s not selling the OS, that money comes from mobile advertising. Now, an analyst has made a calculation of just how much ad revenue Google is getting from the [...]

Each of us is $6 in Google’s Pocket; $10 in 2012 originally appeared on AndroidGuys.

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Photo sharing service picplz has updated their Android app to 2.0, giving it a complete user interface overhaul and several new features. The most obvious update is to the look and feel of the app, bringing it in line with the somewhat “standard” UI of apps like the official Twitter and Facebook apps. Other new [...]

Picplz 2.0 Overhauls UI, Adds Features originally appeared on AndroidGuys.

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Photo sharing service picplz has updated their Android app to 2.0, giving it a complete user interface overhaul and several new features. The most obvious update is to the look and feel of the app, bringing it in line with the somewhat “standard” UI of apps like the official Twitter and Facebook apps. Other new [...]

Picplz 2.0 Overhauls UI, Adds Features originally appeared on AndroidGuys.

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We all know the Android Market’s bad rap: developers make money on paid apps. Rovio said so. Larva Labs said so. Even Google said so recently, saying that the number of paid app purchases are not increasing as they should with the increases in use of Android in general. So it must be true, right? Developers trying to make a buck on Android should just monetize with ads?

Well, maybe not. Certainly, it’s worth pointing out that there are counter-examples to the conventional wisdom, examples of developers whose paid apps have generated a decent chunk of revenue. This series of posts will look at a few examples, including one developer who brought in more than $150,000 in revenue in less than a month from a single app.

Paid Apps that Pay Off: $150,000 in a Month originally appeared on AndroidGuys.

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GeeksPhone, the little Spanish manufacturer that makes fully open, rooted-out-of-the-box Android phones, has posted a posted a short preview of their latest offering, the GeeksPhone Zero, which will be shown off at Mobile World Congress next week. The video is mostly comprised of benchmarking tests and demos, but there is a bit of a surprise [...]

A Peak at GeeksPhone Zero [VIDEO] originally appeared on AndroidGuys.

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Rumors of a PlayStation phone have swirling for months, and more recently we learned it will be called the Xperia Play and saw a fairly thorough hands-on with the device. Yet it has not been officially announced. But now, Sony Ericsson has taken to their Facebook page to say that the official announcement will be on Sunday, [...]

Xperia Play to be Officially Announced Feb. 13 originally appeared on AndroidGuys.

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We’d heard that Sony Ericsson would be announcing several phones in addition to the Xperia Play at the Mobile World Congress this month, and today opened our inbox and found a bunch of pictures of one of those handsets, the Xperia Neo.

New Pics of Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo originally appeared on AndroidGuys.

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On a recent conference call discussing their Q4 2010 performance, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said that “there are multiple ecosystem patterns that need to be considered” as they move forward, one of several remarks in the call that analysts are interpreting as a sign that Nokia may abandon Symbian and the as-yet-unseen MeeGo and instead begin producing Android-powered smartphones.

Will Nokia Go Android? originally appeared on AndroidGuys.

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At the Inside Social Apps conference this week, Eric Chu, Android Platform Manager, said that the number of paid app purchases are not increasing as they should with the increases in use of Android in general, and that’s something Google wants to fix for developers. Improvements planned for this year include:

Google Working on In-App Payments, Other Market Enhancements originally appeared on AndroidGuys.

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Remember the weird zombie painting that was hidden away in Gingerbread? Turns out the Android team has hidden a similar Easter Egg in Honeycomb, and it’s already been found by folks digging around in the SDK preview released today. If you have the means to get 3.0 running in the emulator, you can find the [...]

Honeycomb Easter Egg: a Bee From Tron? originally appeared on AndroidGuys.

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SwipePad is similar to other apps on the Market such as Power Strip and QuickDesk in that it gives you quick access to a set of custom shortcuts from wherever you are– in an app, in settings, etc.–but in using SwipePad over the past week, I’ve found it superior despite somewhat limited features. I never [...]

Download This: SwipePad originally appeared on AndroidGuys.

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Apparently contradicting what Google’s Matias Duarte said at CES, an unnamed Google spokesman told TechRadar that “right now, [Honeycomb] is a tablet operating system.” TechRadar takes this to mean that Honeycomb may never come to phones, but their source’s words about the future only seem to muddy the waters: “I think that coming together [of [...]

Google: Honeycomb “is a Tablet Operating System” originally appeared on AndroidGuys.

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On the heels of T-Mobile’s announcement that Vibrant owners will start seeing Froyo this week, Sprint has issued a statement on the status of a Froyo update for its Galaxy S variant, the Epic 4G. Unfortunately, the new statement does not include much in the way of detailed information. “Epic 4G users: We want to [...]

Froyo for Epic 4G “Still in the Works” originally appeared on AndroidGuys.

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