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Jobs’ assertion that Google used the theft to create Android, which grew to surpass Apple’s iOS in market share, motivated him to vow to “destroy” Android because, as he said, “it’s a stolen product.”The news adds heft to the argument that Apple’s legal focus on Android makers is little more than a proxy war against the Android software.

Apple’s main battles so far have been against HTCand Samsung. Apple appears to be continuing its co-founders’ tough stance against Android. Apple’s most heated battles are against Samsung at this point, but the two companies are working on a deal that will keep Samsung’s processors in Apple’s devices. Apple will likely also continue its battles with HTC, saying the Taiwanese company’s phones illegally use Apple’s patents. “Our lawsuit is saying [Google]… ripped off the iPhone, wholesale ripped us off,” Jobs told the biographer about the HTC lawsuit. 

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Asus has announced its Eee Pad line of tablets will get an upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) Asus said in a statement, "Are you waiting for Ice Cream Sandwich? Good news for ASUS customers. Please stay tuned for more news on our Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade plans." The Eee Pad tablet range consists of the Transformer and the Slider. 

Asus has confirmed that it is working on the Android Ice Cream Sandwich update for its Eee Pad Transformer. Asus also confirmed that its entire fleet of Android-powered tablets would be getting the Android Ice Cream Sandwich treatment.

‘Are you waiting for Ice Cream Sandwich? Google recently announced the latest update for Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, which brings some exciting new features and capabilities.’

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One of the companies I mentioned, Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei, had just released the Ideos X3, which had a consumer-friendly unsubsidized price of $199, falling in line with the company's tradition of releasing cheaper mass market handsets and modems.

Impulse 4G, as the name suggests, uses AT&T's current "4G" HSPA+ network. The features of this device are modest, but the features aren't necessarily the main point of this device anyway. The Impulse 4G is launching at a price far below the launch price of all of those devices.

And with a two-year cycle of obsolescence, phones like the Impulse 4G will be free much sooner, and as more companies release more mass market Android phones, AT&T's portfolio of free smartphones will increase rapidly.

"Smartphone owners under the age of 30, non-white smartphone users, and smartphone owners with relatively low income and education levels are particularly likely to say that they mostly go online using their phones," the study says. has a new handset targeted at first-time smartphone buyers. AT&T introduced Huawei’s Impulse 4G on Wednesday, with a Sept. 18 launch date. The Impulse 4G offers all the basics — and then some — of an Android-powered smartphone and will cost just $29.99 with contract.

The phone has a reasonably sized 3.8-inch touchscreen with 800×480 resolution, 5 megapixel auto-focus camera with flash and 720p video recording, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. An 800 MHz Qualcomm chip powers the Impulse 4G; no that won’t set any speed records, but it should keep Android 2.2 humming along nicely.

The Impulse 4G ships with Android 2.2, aka Froyo, a 3.8-inch WVGA touch screen, 5-megapixel rear camera with autofocus and flash, HD video recording, and GPS navigation. AT&T's press release suggests pairing the device with its Data Plus plan, which comes with 200MB of data, for $15 a month. "The Impulse 4G gives consumers another option to enjoy the benefits of a smartphone at an exceptional value." 

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The Guardian's app has landed on Android phones, delivering left-leaning news, opinion, photos and video right to your blower. We doubt he'll be downloading the app, but you can get it now from the Android Market. 

I am very excited to announce that the Guardianapp for Android is now available. The app - which is free to download and is available from the Android Market worldwide - includes the latest news, sport, comment, reviews, videos, podcasts and picture galleries from guardian.co.uk.

If you want in depth coverage of a particular story, you can add that topic to your homescreen - UK riots or phone hacking, for instance. The app was designed and developed by an in-house team - headed by lead Android developer Rupert Bates - using the Guardian's Content API. The iPhone app also goes from strength to strength with a total of 480,914 downloads since its launch in January 2011.

Verizon Wireless Thursday began pushing the Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) OS upgrade to users of the popular Droid 2 smartphone. Verizon has posted on its Web site a list of benefits users get by installing Gingerbread as well as update instructions. Verizon recently began offering upgrades for other Motorola Droid models, including the Droid X on May 27, the Droid Pro on May 31 and the Droid X2 on July 29, according to Computerworld blogger JR Raphael. 

As of Thursday, a Gingerbread upgrade to the Droid 2 Global phone is still pending. The newer Droid 3 has a 4-in. touchscreen, larger than the 3.7-in. touchscreen of the Droid 2. Droid 3 runsGingerbread version 2.3.4. A Verizon spokesman confirmed that slightly different operating system versions of Droid 2 and Droid 3, but didn't describe how the differences affect users. 

Verizon and Motorola finally began pushing out the Gingerbread update for the Motorola Droid 2. Unfortunately, it’s Android 2.3.3 and not the latest version of Gingerbread, Android 2.3.4. Hopefully, fingers crossed, the update works out better than the Droid X Gingerbread update did. Droid X owners endured a nightmare with Gingerbread until Verizon and Motorola rolled out a fix. 

The update brings Android 2.3.3, and includes the usual Gingerbread upgrades along with a newer version of Motorola's don't-call-it-BLUR interface. Users should be able to download the update from the software update section of About Phone in the Settings app.

Word of the Madden NFL 12 app for Android becoming available comes our way courtesy of the guys over at Phandroid, and with the Madden NFL 12 Android app the user can choose from the 32 NFL teams and play matches in true-to-life stadiums, track statistics, launch winning strategies from in-depth playbooks, and make trades.

User can also pause the action, and using Total Defensive Control place your players in a position to deliver game changing hits, while Action Control Time enables the user to dominate defences with sprints, spins, dives and jukes. Madden NFL 12 for Android also offers multiple modes where the user can relive the 2010/2011 playoffs, or use Season Mode to play through the entire 16 game NFL season, or simply jump right into Exhibition Mode.

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Dell's Streak 5 tablet is a five-inch Android-based tablet that was discontinued in the United States last month. The Dell-Baidu partnership is one of several announced recently. Global search leader Google announced last month it would pay $12.5 billion to acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings in a move that will put Google into a lower-margin manufacturing business and pit it against as many as 38 other handset companies that use Google's Android software.

Research in Motion, Nokia and the cable television business are emerging as potential winners after Google announced its deal. If other handset manufacturers shy away from Google's Android system, Nokia and RIM could stand to benefit. Microsoft Corp, which has been touting its Windows software as an alternative to the operating systems of Android and Apple, views are mixed as to the deal's effects.

The yet-to-be-publicly-revealed mobile OS will be called Baidu Yi, and will enable its users to browse, purchase and download applications in similar style to Apple’s App Store or Google’s Android Marketplace. It clearly hopes a new mobile OS and supporting handsets will help it tap into a growing market for online services.

When Google left the Chinese market last year, Baidu managed to pick up the pieces and has emerged with an 80 percent share of the search market. With the largest portion of the Chinese mobile market owning feature phones, a plethora of Chinese internet providers are launching new devices. 

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