It's almost an article of faith among the in-the-know crowd that the iPhone OS 4.0 will bring third party multitasking to the iPhone and iPad. Steve-o claims it's just too much of a drain on the battery, while other handset makers let their customers be big kids and make up their own minds about power management. Well, perhaps the competition from Google phones might be enough to force t...

The New York Times has written a mammoth article about the fight between Google and Apple. Its nothing particularly surprising—Apple thinks the Google phones and Android take off their work; the two battle over buying up companies; fighting over multitouch; etc. While Jobs and Schmidt are publicly cordial to one another, according to this report

When you have the kind of bankroll that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) carries around in their back pocket, its not hard to seed the entire free world with gratis smartphones like the Google Nexus One or Motorola Droid. Granted, Google isnt about to hand out free high-end Google phones to the entire world, but theyre going

PowerTutor is an application for Google phones that displays the power consumed by major system components such as CPU, network interface, display, and GPS receiver. The application allows software developers to see the impact of design changes on power efficiency. Application users can also use it to determine how their actions are impacting battery life. PowerTutor uses a power consumption... [

Traditional smartphones such as BlackBerrys or bypass phones such as Googles Nexus One and Apples iPhone, leverage the intelligence on the device, which is owned/controlled by the respective vendor...

AT&T said it plans to sell five smartphones running Google's Android software from Dell, HTC and Motorola in the first half of this year, bringing what could be Apple's greatest rival to the market dominated by the iPhone.

Google will host an Android press gathering at its global HQ on Jan. 5, reports the WSJ. Presumably, the event will have something to do with the company’s Nexus One, the Android phone that Google plans to sell on its own Web site and perhaps through T-Mobile as well. Its scheduling the event just before the

When Googlers went into an all-hands meeting last Friday and were handed bright, shiny new Google Phones in the form of the HTC Nexus One, most Googlers got excited, instantly hitting their Twitter accounts with photos and details of their lovely new smartphones. And why not be excited, right? Its a pretty sweet little Christmas

Less than 24 hours after Google employees were gifted Nexus One Google phones, and started twitpic-ing them, the handset has turned up on FCC's site with a few of the specs detailed. With the model number PB99100, the HTC-built "NEXUSONE" (as it's listed) is apparently quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, as we heard yesterday, with UMTS/HSUPA on the 850/1700/1900 frequencies, according to the FCC-d...

Just as we found out that Googles employees are getting Google Phones for Christmas, the search engine giant officially confirmed the existence of a prototype mobile lab smartphone. This device should combine innovative hardware with Android software, according to Googles officials. A mobile lab is a device that experiments with new Android software and new hardware,