China drives smartphone growth - and low prices - as Android dominates

The number of smartphone owners keeps increasing - and many are in China, buying low-end "Android" phones which don't run Google services, according to new data published by the research companies Gartner and IDC.

Gartner has for the first time lifted the lid on the gigantic growth in sales of Android phones which don't run Google services in China - so-called "AOSP" (Android Open Source Platform) handsets, which use local app stores and do not count towards "activations" measured by Google, nor hook into Google services.

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Moto G dual-SIM smartphone to land in India with Android 4.4 KitKat: Report

While it has already been confirmed that Motorola will be launching the dual-SIM version of the Moto G in India in early-January 2014, and that the smartphone would be receiving a 'guaranteed' Android 4.4 KitKat the same month, a new report says the model that will ship in India will come pre-loaded with Google's latest iteration of Android.

Omio News Blog in a report has revealed Motorola's plans for the rollout of Moto G with the latest Android iteration in various countries.

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Android 4.4 KitKat: Which Phones Will Get Updates?

Last month, on Halloween no less, Google announced the Android 4.4 KitKat update, an update that has replaced the Android 4.3 Jelly Bean update as the company’s most current piece of software. Android 4.4 KitKat is currently trickling out to Nexus users and will be heading to many other devices down the road. Here, we take a look at which devices will, and won’t, be getting the KitKat update in the future.

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Singtech phone X41, can read and write Khmer

We have some second hand phone Singtech X41. It run Android ICS smoothly, have Khmer font, so we can read and write Khmer too.

We sell with cheap price: 150$ only. The phone still look like new, about 99%.

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The New Android Phone to Beat

There is a not-so-silent war going on between Samsung and Apple. Part of the war is happening in the courtroom, where Apple is suing Samsung for patent infringement and in copying its iPhone software design. Another part of it is happening right in front of your eyes.

Just look at some of the ads Samsung has run knocking Apple iPhone users for being unoriginal and part of the flock. Or the ones in which they make fun of the people waiting in line to buy the iPhone 4S.

What does the Samsung Galaxy S III have to do with that war? It's the next battle. The Galaxy S III is Samsung's new flagship Android phone, and like its Galaxy S II predecessor, it's going to be the Android phone -- the one among what feels like hundreds -- to take on the iPhone (and the next iPhone). The phone hits all four major U.S. carriers -- Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile -- in the coming weeks for $199 with a two-year contract.

Google Confirms no Flash for Ice Cream Sandwich, for the time being

If you lucky owners of the Galaxy Nexus in these first days of its release complete with the first iteration of Ice Cream Sandwich, you’ll notice that you do not have Adobe Flash Player installed, nor do you have access to a download on the Android Market – Google has just confirmed with us that this is normal and that Flash support will only come once Adobe makes the call to update the mobile version for Android 4.0. You currently will not have the ability to load either a new version or one of the older versions of Flash Player for Ice Cream Sandwich until Adobe makes the call to update their app to be compatible with this newest version of Android. Don’t get too frazzled quite yet though, that’s not the whole story.

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Amazon takes only slight loss on Kindle Fire

BY NATHAN OLIVAREZ-GILES
Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Amazon.com Inc. is taking a loss on each $199 Kindle Fire it sells, according to a report from the research firm IHS iSuppli that pegs the total cost to make each tablet at $201.70.

The Seattle-based retailer, which is making its tablet debut with the Fire, has been projected to sell between 3 million and 5 million before the year is done.

The Fire’s 7-inch screen is the priciest part of the device, coming in at a cost of about $87 per unit, IHS said. Supplying the displays for the Fire are LG, which also makes the Barnes & Noble Nook Color and Nook Tablet’s 7-inch screens, and E Ink, which produces the Kindle e-reader displays.

Texas Instruments is a major hardware partner of Amazon’s as well, making the Fire’s 1-gigahertz processor, IHS said.

“The TI OMAP4430 processor costs $14.65, accounting for 7.9 percent of the Kindle Fire’s total,” IHS said. “However, TI also supplies other devices, including the power management device and the audio codec. This gives TI a total of $24 per each Kindle, or 12.9 percent” of the Fire’s build costs.

IHS also said it has spotted the OMAP4430 processor in its tear-downs of the Research In Motion’s PlayBook tablet and the Motorola Droid Bionic and LG Optimus 3D P920 smartphones.

Amazon also saved money by not including items such as a camera, microphone, microSD card slot, HDMI port, 3G or 4G wireless radios and other features found in many rival tablets.

At $201.70, the Fire is cheaper to produce than the bestselling tablet on the market, Apple’s iPad 2, which has a production cost of about $326, according to an earlier IHS tear-down. Apple sells its base iPad 2 at a profit-making price of $499.

The research firm came up with its cost-to-build estimate based on taking the Fire apart and pricing out each of the components inside. In Amazon’s favor to help it recoup some costs, if the IHS estimate is correct, is the fact that the company is likely to sell books, music, movies, TV shows and apps to Fire owners.

And of course, as more devices are made, they often become cheaper to make, and Amazon already has said it will be building more Fire tablets than it had first planned.