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• All-Black BlackBerry KEYone Rumoured for August 8 Launch

  A rumour said an all-black BlackBerry KEYone would launch on August 8 in China. It was never confirmed in the original report, and it was unclear whether Canada would...

• Amazon Appstore Free App Bundle and $0.99 Game Sale in Canada

  For about a week, Amazon's Appstore ran a promotion with a bundle of paid Android apps at no cost until October 4, plus select games at $0.99 and discounts on in-app...

• Amazon Appstore Arrives Outside the US, but Canadians Hit a Snag

  Amazon announced that its Android app store was available beyond the US. A Canadian user installed it and signed in, but later reported that it did not work: nothing...

• Android 101: A Beginner's Guide to the Android Platform

  Android is a mobile operating system created by Google. It is an open platform, so almost every phone maker except Apple, BlackBerry and Nokia sold Android devices....

• Android 2.2 Froyo Update for Telus Fascinate and Vibrant

  Samsung released Android 2.2 Froyo for the Telus Galaxy S Fascinate and for the Galaxy S Vibrant on Virgin and SaskTel, just before Christmas. Highlights were Adobe...

• Android 2.3 Gingerbread Official: Features and SDK Release

  Alongside the Nexus S announcement, Google made Android 2.3 Gingerbread official and released the SDK to developers. Google called it the fastest version of Android...

• Android 3.0 Honeycomb Tablet Interface Shown in Google Video

  At CES, Google released a short video of Android 3.0 Honeycomb, the version of Android made for tablets. It showed user interface elements not seen before. The...

• Android 4.4.3 in Testing: Nexus 5 Wakelock Fix

  Android 4.4.3 was reportedly in testing on the Nexus 5 under build KTU72B. It was expected to fix the "mm-qcamera-daemon" wakelock, a bug that drained battery. Google...

• Android 4.4.3 Preview: Expected Fixes for the Nexus 5

  Android 4.4.3 was expected as a bug-fix release for the Nexus 5, arriving more than two months after 4.4.2. A leaked screenshot suggested a long list of fixes,...

• Android 5.0 Lollipop Preview: Everything New in the Announcement

  Android 5.0 Lollipop was announced as Google's biggest release at the time. Its headline changes were the Material Design look and the ART runtime, which Google said...

• Android 5.0 Memory Leak Persists in 5.1, Fix Said to Be Coming

  The memory leak that appeared in Android 5.0 Lollipop on the Nexus 5 was still there in Android 5.1. A member of the AOSP project said on the issue tracker that the...

• Android Market Share Growth: Tablets and Phone Impressions

  A pair of industry reports at the time showed Android growing fast. Android tablets went from about 2% of the market to more than a quarter within one year. In mobile...

• Android Market Reaches 100,000 Apps

  Android Market, the app store that later became Google Play, passed 100,000 apps. The milestone was announced through the official Android developer account and was...

• Android Market vs Apple App Store: Does App Count Matter?

  This opinion piece argued that the number of apps in a store is not what makes a phone good. The writer had used only the Android Market, saw iOS with the largest...

• Android Patent Disputes Roundup: Apple, Samsung and Motorola in Court

  This weekly roundup covered several legal fights around Android, mostly involving Apple and mostly in Germany. A German appeals court kept an injunction on the Galaxy...

• Android Patent Lawsuits Roundup: Apple, HTC, Motorola and Samsung

  This weekly #Patentfun roundup covered several Android lawsuits: Apple's reported legal spending against HTC, a Dutch court siding with Samsung on the Galaxy Tab 10.1,...

• Android Patent News: Apple Targets the Galaxy Nexus, Weekly Recap

  In this weekly patent round-up, Apple asked a US court for an injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, citing four patents. Other news covered Motorola's licensing...

• Android Patent Roundup: Galaxy Nexus Code, Apple v. Motorola and HTC

  This weekly roundup covered Android patent news: Google telling a court the Galaxy Nexus code is closed, a scheduled Apple and Samsung meeting, six new Apple patents...

• Patent Fun Roundup: Android Legal Cases in One Week

  This weekly roundup covered several patent fights touching Android: Apple asking to hide a Samsung logo from jurors, Nokia suing three phone makers, Apple losing a...

• Android Patent Roundup: Motorola Cleared, Nokia Patent Sale, Microsoft and LG Deal

  In this week's #Patentfun roundup, an ITC review found that Motorola did not infringe three Apple patent claims, Nokia sold patents to Sisvel, Microsoft signed a...

• Weekly Android Patent Roundup: Multi-Touch, Royalties and More

  This roundup covered one busy week in the Android patent wars. The term "multi-touch" was judged too generic for Apple to claim, a court agreed to hear a...

• Android Patent Roundup: Oracle, Microsoft, Kodak and Apple Suits

  This roundup covered one week of Android patent news: Oracle's assumption that Google earned 10 million dollars a day from Android activations, Pantech paying...

• Android Patent Wars Weekly Recap: Oct 3 to 7

  This late recap covered Apple rejecting a Samsung settlement approach in Australia, a patent claim against wifi providers, proposed Canadian copyright changes,...

• Android Patent Wars Weekly Recap: Oct 23 to 28

  The patent fights continued at full speed. Compal licensed patents from Microsoft, Apple was granted a slide to unlock patent, Google agreed to be monitored by the...