This protected area inside the smartphone is isolated from the Android platform, using a virtual machine.
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Because the Android platform itself has not been modified, standard Android application software can be used normally.
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The iOS platform reached 37.9 million people, 59% more than the Android platform which reached 23.8 million people.
Astrid is a social to-do list mobile app that already has 1.7 million downloads on the Android platform.
The GALAXY Camera is an innovative product that speaks to the openness and flexibility of the Android platform.
Today, Opera Software launched the Opera Mini 7 web browser in a final version for the Android platform.
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Google likely will use the conference as a platform to woo developers who have criticized the Android platform.
The Android platform from Google is also becoming a force in emerging markets.
Launches on Android platform 2.3 (Gingerbread), upgrade to Android platform 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) during the second quarter of 2012.
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Thus, the Android platform is ironclad within enterprises and this is the reason why Rim is trying to be Android compatible.
Amazon's tablet will have a roughly nine-inch screen and will run on Google's Android platform, said people familiar with the device.
With the iPhone as a benchmark, Google developed the Android platform and won the support of highly competitive handset manufacturers.
Analyst Shaw Wu noted that RIM's BlackBerry smartphone was facing increased competition from devices on Google's Android platform and Apple's iPhone.
Eric Schmidt from Google presented a demo of Ice Cream Sandwich, their newest Android platform, which will use facial recognition as security.
That Samsung looks determined to make the Android platform and Google vanish from users' view, hidden under its own branding and services.
Updates are on the way that will bring not only finalized Extender software, but also beta support for the Android platform and apps.
Concerns for Apple surfaced overnight, focused on Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller, who criticized Samsung and the Android platform in an interview with Reuters.
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MachineWorks NorthWest partnered with Tapjoy as part of the Tapjoy Android Fund, designed to bring top-quality mobile games and applications to the Android platform.
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These folks will download Android for free, then share their designs of what Google calls the coolest, most delightful stuff for the Android platform.
Google has its own digital newsstand under development and it wants to make similar inroads with its Android platform, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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But its Android platform lost market share in the fourth quarter.
With the Android platform, we're trying to enable thousands of Gphones.
Android smartphone owners can finally stop trading dirty looks with their iPhone-carrying friends: Twitter's increasingly popular Vine six-second video and creativity app is finally available on the Android platform.
Google has lagged in this area and given the rising importance of its Android platform and the mobile boom, it needs these patents to protect its growth.
By September 2009 and after a few bumps in switching from the Java platform to focus instead on the open Android platform, she says the startup was profitable.
The jump was targeted almost solely at the Android platform.
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According to Samsung, KNOX is a new Android-based platform designed from the ground up with security in mind to address the shortcomings of the current open source Android platform.
By moving to a larger screen, reckons Lyons, Apple is merely being a "copycat", since makers of rival devices based on the Android platform have already moved to larger screens.
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Chen: The Android platform may be outselling the Apple iPhone by two to one with all the Android-based smartphones out there, but Apple has the loyalty of mobile app developers.
On the mobile front, Google has bets both on its Android platform and the new Firefox OS, assuring an Apple-beating global share of users consuming its services on their devices.
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