In its Honeycomb presentation, Google announced a new web-based version of the Android Market. This new website lets users easily browse and find Android applications. The layout is perfect for app discovery and includes both a carousel of featured applications and the familiar categories that are found on your Android device.
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[Video]Hands-on Android 3.0 Honeycomb
February 4th, 2011 
Droid Hopefully, you were watching the live coverage of the Android 3.0 Honeycomb event at Google HQ earlier today but we know you wanted some more, so we’ve got a chance to get some hands-on time of the little, green robot that was built for tablets like the Motorola Xoom.
Posted in Android Applications, Android Tablets, News 
Tags: Android 3.0, Gmail for Android 3.0, Honeycomb 
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Google Unveils Android 3.0 Music Player
February 4th, 2011 Droid Google have shown off the new Android 3.0 Honeycomb music player that will come with all Honeycomb tablets. I think that its a vast improvement over the old music player and they have made it more of a sleek 3D effect.
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SwiftKey for Android 3.0
February 4th, 2011 Droid SwiftKey is one of the most popular virtual keyboards on Android and during the Android 3.0 announcements, they decided to announce their own virtual keyboard for Honeycomb tablets. The virtual keyboard will be available on all Honeycomb Android tablets when they get released. They have made it bigger and fit to the correct size of [...]
Google: Over 300,000 Android device activations every day
December 10th, 2010 Droid Andy Rubin, the head of the Andoid development team at Google, just tweeted that there are over 300,000 activations of Android phones per day. This is 100,000 more activations per day since August 2010. Simply incredible… If you think about the numbers, that is 2,100,000 weekly activations or 9,000,000 monthly or 109,500,000 yearly. That’s a lot [...]
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Motorola Defy coming to Telstra
November 30th, 2010 Droid Motorola Defy has been recently released throughout America and Europe, but it looks like the Defy will be heading to Australia soon. The Defy will be available from Telstra on November 30th.
Android 2.3 Gingerbread Announcement Coming December 6th?
November 30th, 2010 Droid We know it’s coming, we know it’s coming soon, but as far as how soon – we just don’t know. However, that may all change soon. Word is that we may be seeing an official Google announcement of Android 2.3 Gingerbread on December 6th.
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600k Samsung Galaxy Tabs sold worldwide in the first month
November 24th, 2010 Droid Korea Herald reports that Samsung has released its sales figures for the recently released Galaxy Tab tablet. And they are impressive. 600 000 units have been sold worldwide, with delivery in most areas not keeping up with demand. This is a great start for Samsung, who are aiming for the sales of over a million [...]
Google CEO Eric Schmidt Presented Android 2.3 Gingerbread at Web 2.0 Conference
November 17th, 2010 Droid Earlier today at the Web 2.0 conference 2010, Eric Schmidt not only presented the new legendary super secret phone, but Android 2.3 Gingerbread as well. Amongst the new features included in the Gingerbread update are support for NFC enhanced device interaction and RFID tags. Schmidt noted that this technology (using NFC and RFID to pay [...]
Update to the Facebook Application for Android
November 16th, 2010 Droid Facebook client for Android has just received a small update that fixes many bugs. It also adds the ability to upload higher resolution photos using your smartphone.
