A little over two years after it launched, Google’s Android operating system has overtaken Symbian as the world’s dominant smartphone operating system by volume of sales. That’s according to analyst firmCanalys, at least. As reported byReuters today, the company says that in the last quarter of 2010, 32.9 million Android phones were sold in the last quarter, compared to 31 million Symbian handsets. Last summer, Symbian was still a healthy wayaheadof its little green robot rival, although a report from Chinese trade publication DigitimespredictedAndroid’s rise to the top back in November, the same month that Google’s OSsurpassedSymbian in Asia....

Update (January 6, 2022): Google has issued the January security patch for Android, which has a fix for this bug I’m not gonna sit here and decry current technology, quite the opposite. To this very day, there’s something magical about smartphones. I can use them to watch movies, make music, work… anything, really. Despite this, I — a caveman — still expect my pocket rectangle to do one basic thing: be a phone....

Digital market analyst comScore has released itslatest reportdocumenting the key trends in the U.S mobile phone industry, highlighting that in the three months ending in November 2010, Android subscribers grew to outnumber iPhone users. The report, which takes into account smartphone subscribers over the age of 13, puts RIM at the top of the smartphone platforms with a 33.5% market share over the three month period – it did however find its market share drop 4....

Earlier this month, we saw Android issuean important update. The update enables Android users to use their mobile to lock, unlock, and even start a compatible car. The most interesting factor is the use of Ultra Wideband technology. In reality, we’ve been able to start our cars remotely using products like Viper’sSmart Startsince 2009. Apple tech couldlock, unlock and start your car with an iPhone or Apple WatchusingNFCsince 2020. Teslas have had these capabilities (withvarious degrees of success) since 2017....

Today, duringGoogle’s Q2 Earnings call, Google CEO Larry Page talked about the various successes of its products. One of the most interesting of these that he shared was the fact that there are now 550,000 Android phones being activated every day. If these numbers stay constant throughout the rest of the year, Google stands to add 99 million Android users to its stable. There’s a good chance that these numbers won’t stay constant however, as Google just announced 400,000 activations per day at Google I/O in May....