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South Korean technology giant Samsung has announced that it had sold five million units of its Galaxy Note smartphone or phablet (phone+tablet) in five months.

The cool Ice Cream Sandwich OS is now the hottest option for all the smartphones. Phones that have already received the ICS update are Samsung Galaxy S2, Galaxy Nexus, HTC Vivid and other waiting in the line are Motorola Razr, Samsung Galaxy Note, Sony Experia phones and some LG smartphones

With rumors about the upcoming flagship smartphones of both Apple and Samsung spreading like wildfire, it would be interesting to see how the two super phones stack up against each other. Here's a comparison between Apple iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S3, based on the highly anticipated features of the both the devices.

Nokia's flagship Lumia 900 is coming next month. The phone will run on the latest Windows Mango 7 OS. Another Android phone is also getting ready to give the toughest competition to the Nokia phone, Samsung Galaxy S2. It has just got the Ice Cream Sandwich update before possibly being phased out before Galaxy S3 launch.

Google’s current version of Android – Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich – has already brought in a huge amount of fresh functionality and features that have been obtained by combining the features of Android Honeycomb and Gingerbread. However, a lot is expected from the next version of Android, Jelly Bean, and very little is known about it.

Google announced Wednesday that it had released Android 4.0.4 and would begin issuing the update on HSPA+ versions of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The search engine giant also said that it is resuming the rollout of Ice Cream Sandwich for the unlocked versions of the Samsung Nexus S. Here're two ways of installing Android 4.0.4 onto the Nexus S.

Oracle has rejected an offer made by Google to pay it a percentage of the revenue from its Android mobile operating system, if the verdict in the patent infringement suit goes against the search giant.

A new Ice Cream Sandwich update is ready for the Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi version and the Nexus S GSM variant. It's the newest version 4.0.4, and it fixes a few bugs and adds a few minor features. Owners of the Verizon Xoom 3G and Sprint Nexus S 4G might be wondering what this means for them. We don't know, but the difference is the carriers. Because the Wi-Fi Xoom and international Nexus S versions aren't carrier based, they get updates faster. That's also why the Asus Transformer Prime ...

Google proposed to pay Oracle a percentage of Android revenue if Oracle could prove patent infringement of the mobile operating technology at an upcoming trial, but Oracle rebuffed the offer as too low, according to a court filing late on Tuesday.

A U.K advertisement displaying a Samsung phone with 30.03.12 printed underneath set Galaxy S3 release date rumors abuzz, but Android Community in the UK has said the ad was about a new Samsung store opening in the area and not the new smartphone.

Google's annual Input/Output (I/O) developers conference sold out in as little as 20 minutes, but complaints regarding the way tickets were allotted are starting to pile up.

If you are HTC smartphone user, then there is a good and bad news for you. The good news is that HTC is updating its cloud backup service and revamping HTCSense.com. And the bad news is that the site will shut down completely on April 30 and it is anybody's guess when it will come online again.

Question: is that an Android phone in your pocket, or a condom? We're not joking around here. This is a serious down-to-earth question. Have you ever realized that many Android smartphones borrow the names from actual condoms? You probably wouldn't, but it is true. Sometimes we see the names of certain Android smartphones and we have to wonder what drove the manufacturer to name its device the Indulge, or the Sensation, all of which are names of condoms.

Very few people have received Android's Ice Cream Sandwich software update for the Galaxy S2 since Samsung announced it would be rolling out on March.19.

Now that Apple is allowing Australian customers to refund their iPads, other countries want to know if their customers should deserve refunds too. The UK, Sweden and Denmark are now all investigating the compatibility of the new iPad 3 with local 4G LTE networks.

The latest rumors surrounding the Samsung Galaxy Nexus release date on Sprint, suggests that the phone will be launched on April 15.

Temple Run, the easy to play, hard to put down iPhone game finally debuted for the Android system March 27, and it's available now as a free download. The popular game has gained worldwide attention for its simple controls and addictive style. Run. That's the game. Swipe left and right to change direction and swipe forward to jump. Oh, and there are evil monkeys chasing you.

While the new iPad remains the market leader in the media tablet segment, there is one tablet that definitely steals the spotlight -- Amazon's Kindle Fire. Rumor has it that Amazon wants a larger piece of the tablet market, and it may launch three new tablets in 2012 in an attempt to accomplish its aim.

After the big success of the new iPad, Apple is gearing up for another big hit in 2012 - the iPhone 5. Apple's next iPhone is expected to be announced and released sometime later this year, but how will it stack up against the Android superphones and what are the features we should be looking out for? In this regard, the new iPad is the perfect device to turn to, as it gives us some hints of what to expect from the iPhone 5.

It's clear that many phones and tablets are still waiting for the ICS update, even if it's been around five months since the official launch. A blog post published Tuesday on Computerworld presents which manufacturers have actually kept their promises and provided the ICS update in time and which were not.

Good news for those who are fans of the Amazon Kindle Fire, the most successful Android tablet that is not really an Android tablet since it is not recognized by Google. Rumors are popping up regarding a brand spanking new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet device, that is expect to launch in 2012. Let's just say the tablet wars just got a little more interesting.