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Android is growing exponentially according the the latest Millennial Nedia report. Although Apple’s iPhone is the top mobile phone at 24.32% it’s follwed by the BackBerry Curve and Motorola Droid. Shopping app usage increased, most likely for Back-to-School shopping and smartphones usage increased.

The Android OS continued its huge growth on the Millennial network, and grew another 47% month-over-month. Since January, Android has grown 690%. Android also officially became the number two OS on the Millennial network (surpassing RIM.)

The Motorola Droid moved into the top three in July’s Top 20 Mobile Phones with 5% impression share. The Motorola Cliq Android device also entered into the Top 20 for the first time this month.

Apple ad requests increased 24% month-over-month, but are actually down 15% since January.
iPad ad requests grew 327% month-over-month.

BlackBerry apps represented 11% of the US Developer Platform Usage
Mix. This was a increase of 9%, and represents the increased importance
app developers are placing on the RIM platform.

Shopping and retail apps entered into the top 10 Mobile App Channels, perhaps reflecting a potential back-to-school trend.

Smartphones and connected devices increased their impression share
7%, and now represent 68% of the total impression share. This is an
example of the continued demand consumers have for a rich media
experience they cannot get on a feature phone.

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The Android spies have been out again. This time getting information on two HTC Android OS 2.2 smartphones the HTC Lexikon and HTC Vision

The HTC Lexikon Suspected Specs
The HTC Lexikon is suspected to be available from T-Mobile, have a 3.8-inch, 800 x 480 (WVGA) touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard. It supposedly will run Android OS 2.2 (FroYo) on an 800 MHz processor, with 512 MB of memory and HTC Sense 1.6 added-on. The camera should have be 5 megapixels and there should be 4 GB of storage. It is also suspected to be a version of the HTC Vision that runs Android 2.2.

The HTC Bee Suspected Specs
The HTC Bee, is
value-priced with with a 3.2-inch 320 x 240 (QVGA) touchscreen and look
like the HTC Aria but with a higher resolutions screen. The Bee will run
Android OS 2.2 on a 528 MHz processor with 384 MB of RAM. It will also
use the HTC Sense UI It should alslo include a 5 megapixel auto-focus
camera, 2 GB microSD card, and a 1300 mAh battery.

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Quick news from around the Web

@FierceWireless: Mobile device security in the enterprise: patching up and catching up. Article | Follow @FierceWireless

> Handset vendor INQ is planning an Android phone for the fourth quarter. Article

> BTIG analyst Walter Piecyk predicts Sprint Nextel could sell up to 1 million HTC Evo devices in the gadget’s first month of availability. Post (sub. req.)

> Japanese handset vendors Fujitsu and Toshiba are in talks to merge their phones businesses, according to the Wall Street Journal. Article (sub. req.)

> The Indian spectrum auction has drawn to a close, raising .2 billion, and Qualcomm announced it is the provisional winner of Broadband Wireless Access–unpaired spectrum in the 2.3 GHz band–in four telecom circles in the country. Release

> Hewlett-Packard announced it will purchase Linux-based quick-boot OS and client virtualization assets from Phoenix for million. Article

> The Droid Life blog posted pictures of the purported Droid 2 from Motorola. Post

> Tellabs has denied speculation that it lost AT&T’s wireless backhaul business. Article

Mobile Content News

> Major record labels in the U.S. are reportedly pressuring digital streaming music service Spotify to jettison its current free content approach in favor of a guaranteed revenue model. Article

> Apple announced it is now accepting App Store submissions based on its upgraded iOS 4 operating system. Article

> Twitter announced its acquisition of Smallthought Systems, developer of the Trendly analytics service. Article

Developer News

> Apple released its iTunes Connect Mobile, which allows registered developers to track their app sales and trends. Article

> And finally… Microsoft’s planned retail outlet in San Diego will be just a few doors down from Apple’s own store, and will open the same day–June 24–that the iPhone 4 goes on sale. Post

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In a post on the Logitech blog, Ashish Arora, Vice President and General Manager of the Digital Home Group at Logitech outlines the new Harmony Link functionality for Google TV, and it is some exciting stuff!

Of course we already know that Logitech is creating a companion box so that you can add Google TV to your existing HDTV.  Now we know some more of the functionality that they are going to include in the box – such as turning your Android phone into device to control any of your entertainment center components that use IR remotes.

This functionality is called Harmony Link, and it honestly looks like something that could be a big deal.  If you are a home theater enthusiast, you probably have many different components with many different remotes floating around.  The idea of a Logitech Harmony remote is that you can get rid of all your device remotes and converge them into one high quality device.  Usually this would cost you from 9 – 0 depending on the model Logitech remote you bought.  Now with Harmony Link you will be able to install an App to your Android handset that will have the same kind of functionality as a Harmony Remote!

This is a very cool development for HTPC enthusiasts who own Android handsets.  As you can see in the picture to the left, you have a Motorola droid and a Nexus One running the Harmony Link app.  Want to control your HTPC setup from your coach with one remote?  Yeah, there is an app for that, but it ISN’T on the iPhone.

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NOTE: Logitech Harmony Link for Android and Google TV originally appeared on AndroidGuys. If you are reading this elsewhere, it was done without the consent of the author.

• Boxee Looking to Develop Android App for Google TV
• Bloomberg: Sony to Announce Android-Based Dragonpoint TV at Google I/O
• Samsung Considering Google TV with Android

AndroidGuys

In an article over at Chinitech.com, it is being reported that the television set pictured to the left is the fist set in the world to have the Android platform built into it.  Chinese electronics manufacturer TCL has reportedly been working in their labs since 2008 to integrate Android with one of their displays, with this unit being the product of their efforts.

According to the article this set can connect to the internet, video chat, make purchases online and install Android apps from the Market.

To be clear, this is NOT a Google TV unit, but a independent effort to use Android to converge your television with the internet in much the same way that Google is working on now with Sony and Logitech.

The downside of this TV is that China will most likely cripple much of the functionality since they censor everything but air to breathe over there, but rest assured, TCL will work to find some sort of workaround to the laws and rules they have to abide by.

It is interesting to see a proof of concept like this, and makes me want Google TV to release NOW.

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NOTE: First Android Based TV Unveiled originally appeared on AndroidGuys. If you are reading this elsewhere, it was done without the consent of the author.

• Bloomberg: Sony to Announce Android-Based Dragonpoint TV at Google I/O
• Samsung Considering Google TV with Android
• People of Lava’s Android-Based TV

AndroidGuys

We can’t vouch for anything here, but the inventory shot you see above apparently shows the HTC Intruder on AT&T. Maybe it’s yet another name in the Liberty/Aria lovefest, giving us a proper threesome of rumor goodness. Or maybe it’s an entirely different phone. Or maybe it’s a last gasp of Windows Mobile. Or (gasp) maybe it’s some way early entry for Windows Phone 7. Or maybe it’s something like the HTC Smart, which has a Sense-type UI but is neither WinMo nor Android.

Point is, it’s early yet, and this is all we have to go on. Also no way to tell whether that 9 retail price/9 contract price is real, or just a placeholder. Any AT&T peeps out there wanna help shed some light on this? You know where to find us. [TjCrew via Unwired View]

Update: OK. We’re already hearing that this will be an Android 2.1 device, about the size of a Coke can (presumably in two dimensions only). Also, Omegaglory23 points out in the comments that this is a Radio Shack inventory screen.

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Many reviewers of the HTC EVO 4G and HTC Droid Incredible found that the music player, although it sounded fine didn’t easily sync with with iTunes or computers.  DoubleTwist just has an Android version, which is a very nice addition to your HTC EVO 4G, Droid Incredible or any other Android smartphone.

doubleTwist syncs your photos, iTunes playlsits, and videos to
your Android, smartphone. doubleTwist will download and convert any video to watch on your device.
You just drag and
drop; doubleTwist will convert to the correct format for your device.


You can also use doubleTwist to send your photos, videos and music
to
friends and family.  It reads all the photos your comptuer and camera.
It uses your address book, to get email addresses, friend then see the
stream from the doubleTwist website. Video follows at the end of the
article.

Users can get new music using the integrated Amazon MP3
store (*US only). Sync
iTunes playlists to Android,

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Waving your hand in the air to control your phone isn’t a new idea — we’ve seen talk of it before on Windows Mobile, and it’s been implemented on other platforms. But now that Android is getting front-facing cameras (with the Samsung Galaxy S and HTC Evo 4G, for starters), we may finally see gesture commands on our phones in the near future.

And that’s where developer eyeSight comes in. It just announced support for Android, which "enables users control their phones and navigate in documents, web pages or maps by using gesture recognition technology."

Check out the full presser and demo video (on a Nokia, sadly) after the break. This pique anyone’s interest?

Posted originally at Android Central

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Earlier this week saw the release of a doubleTwist media player for Android which plays both audio and video files. Naturally, it integrates easily with their free desktop client for importing and exporting playlists and podcasts. Available free for a limited time, it’s every bit as polished and clean as similar titles and far [...]
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Yes, Android handles multitasking and running applications in the background all on its own.  It even does a pretty damn nice job of it.  But sometimes, you want to have an app installed (Sprint Navigation anyone?) but hate the fact that it decides to start up and run for no good reason.  Enter Autostarts. 

Autostarts is an application watchdog.  It knows when apps will try to start, why they want to start, and jumps in and blocks them from starting up and running.  You do need to be rooted to use it, which makes sense as it’s integrated pretty deep in the system settings.  It’s lightweight, very easy to use, and at .94 is a bargain for those obsessed with keeping apps behaving and following your rules on your phone. 

Check out some more screenies and a quick walkthrough after the break

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