The system is based on Android technology, which allows it to be regularly upgraded.
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Companies also exhibited myriad non-phone devices based on Android, such as tablet computers.
Meizu MX and M9: Meizu released its public beta ROMs that are based on Android 4.0.3 for both the MX and M9 handsets.
And this is exactly what Alibaba just did by launching Aliyun, a mobile operating system based on Android and tailored for the Chinese market.
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The product people behind the application say they re-tooled the design to match the Fire's 7-inch, 1, 024 x 600 screen (and also, the tablet's heavily skinned UI, based on Android).
Samsung Galaxy Nexus: The folks at Droid Life have put together a nice guide of some of the better ROMs available for the Galaxy Nexus that are based on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean).
The Chinese search engine just launched the Changhong H5018, a customized smartphone also based on the Android system.
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The new model appears to be an attempt to compete with Microsoft Surface and new tablets based on Google Android.
Supposedly it is also building a tablet based on the Android OS, since its renewed healthy growth is a direct result of Droid smartphones.
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The phones will be based on an Android variant called OPhone.
Phones based on Google Android accounted for a third of the U.S. smart phone market at the end of February, up 26% from three months earlier, according to Comscore.
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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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Galaxy Grand is based on Google Android.
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Based on the Android operating system, Cisco Cius is an open platform for communication and collaboration whose form factor and applications are designed to more securely connect employees on-the-go with the right people in real-time, and to provide those workers with the ability to access and share the content they need from any place on the network.
The digital products can be accessed through its Kindle range of e-readers and tablets as well as other devices based on iOS and Android platforms.
But based on early reviews, Android users might not want to bother with it.
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The live-tile design is strikingly different from the icon-based environment we find on Android devices and the iPhone.
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Because Samsung customizes its flagship smartphone based on Google's Android operating system, some of Samsung's features overlap with those made by Google.
And for a taste of games currently on Android based in Unreal Engine 3, check out the incredible trailer for Horn just beyond the break.
The Cliq, which is based on Google's Android operating system, cleverly mimics some of BlackBerry's most popular features, such as its automatic "push" updates of messages and social networking updates.
And because Windows 8 tablets are full PCs with expensive components, people are moving to cheaper tablets like the iPad Mini or ones based on Google's Android operating system.
It leans much too heavily on the assumption that people want a device specifically to play Android-based games on.
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The subsidies on Google Android based phones and Microsoft Windows phones are lower.
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Non-Google app stores that currently run on China-based Android devices filter out apps that violate Chinese regulations.
It will also become available on a wide range of Sony's portable devices, as well as on Android-based mobile devices.
The product is almost certain to appear on Android-based tablets at the Feb. 14 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The ZiiLABS ZMS-40 is sampling to select customers based on the JAGUAR tablets running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).
Most of the 50, 000 apps that have been written for cellphones that use the operating system should run in some fashion on Android-based tablets.
One inference is that the first phone Samsung introduces using Youm will be a Windows Phone and not a phone based on Google (GOOG) Android.
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