After it was announced that Samsung will take over the production of the successor to the Nexus smartphones, further details are now being made public.  The shape and material of the Nexus 2 have similarities to the current flagship Samsung Samsung S Galaxy.  For example, Nexus 2 on a 4 “AMOLED screen feature.

Recently the number of available Android Apps has officailly reached the 100,000 mark. Of course this is still only less than half of the iPhone-Apps currently available, with there being approximatly 250,000 different Apps in the Apple Store. However the growth rates speak clearly for the Android operating system, over the last 6 months the Android Market has increased in size by about 100%. If this trend continues, Android the current leader of the App-branch will be reaching similar figures to the total Number of Apps available.

For the first time in three long years, Motorola was able to announce a profitable quarter.  Around 2.5 million euros in operating profit alone was reported by the mobile arm. The company announced, during the third quarter of this year, they delivered nine million mobile phones, smartphones contributing about one-third of this number.

Recently it has become known that the  developers at Google have already begun work  on Android 4.0, codenamed Ice Cream. However it will still be some time before 4.0 is released, thankfully beforehand Gingerbread(Android 3.0) and Honeycomb (Android 3.5) will be released to keep our appetites quenched.