Here’s our weekly summary of the Android news we didn’t write about this week, along with a collection of the more interesting mainstream mentions picked up by Google’s Android OS over the last seven days.
The hardest part about this update is coming up with new ways to phrase that opening paragraph every week. Here’s the list.
Nexus One gets new life for Android developers
Started writing this, then realised it was crushingly boring. You’ve got to know when to fold.Motorola To Launch Android Based TV Tablet
We should’ve mentioned this. That report goes into quite a lot of detail. Sounds great, to be fair, as long as Motorola gets the design right. Motorola’s design history is a little… patchy.All UK Samsung Galaxy S Owners To Receive Android 2.2 By End Of September
No offense, anyone who wrote about this during the week, but we wrote about it the first time Samsung said it back on July 29. We win at spending the most time staring at Twitter
PayPal introduces Bump technology to Android app
Most Boring News of the Week(TM). Marginally worse than our Facebook Battery Drain piece. You can tell it’s the summer.Acer prepping netbook running Android and Windows XP
Android on a laptop to once again be proved as a rubbish idea by Acer.Viewsonic Android 2.2 tablet imminent?
We need to start up a daily Android Tablet News Feed. They’re going to be everywhere this Christmas.
Google Android phone shipments increase by 886%
It hit the BBC. It really happened.5 Things Google Still Needs to Fix in Android
You need more than five entries to make it a proper list feature.Ten essential Google Android games
That’s more like it.
Microsoft hopes WP 7 speech features surpass Android, iPhone
And hopefully for Microsoft it’ll manage to sell more units than Kin.HP Zeen: Android tablet with web connected printer incoming?
Yes, what the Android spec is really missing is… printing abilities.Android-powered Archos 32 teased at J&R
Archos is about to go tablet mad. We’re still not convinced there’s any actual human demand for tablets, outside of the weird Apple universe.
That’ll do. The only other news we can see now is stuff about rubbish apps no one will actually use and e-books. The weather’s too nice to be sat here pretending to be interesting in e-books.
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
A relatively high-spec smartphone, with a 4.5″ display running at 480 x 854 resolution and powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus the Ascend G510 arrives running Android 4.1.1 — albeit potentially hindered by Huawei only sticking 512MB of RAM inside it..
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
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