Smartphone Experts–Smartphone Fan

According to one of our insider sources over at Sprint, there is already an issue emerging out of Samsung’s just-launched Epic 4G. In speaking with our insider, we are being told that the Epic 4G is having a problem with the capacitive back button on the bottom of the device. The button can become unresponsive, up to the point of being completely unusable. Sprint has, apparently, already had returns on the device due to this issue. There are also various reports that the issue may also affect any or all of the capacitive touch buttons.

That’s right folks! The hottest app on the iTunes Store is finally making it’s way to our favourite OS. Readers who have played the iPhone version will understand when I say that Angry Birds has to be one of the most addictive mobile games ever made.

I came across this post on Droid Life today and I got all excited.

The best part about this update is it’s available for 1.6 and up phones. I know there are a few of you still stuck on 1.5 but this does reach more users then some of the newer apps that are only compatible with 2.0 and up devices. With that being said, it’s good to see that Google is making a concerned effort to make their Android apps as good as possible. They are even keeping their mobile sites updated for Android devices. Goggles have been one of the most popular and fun apps available for Android since it were released. It’s now gotten a whole lot better

TagWhat has just announced the release of their new augmented reality app. This app is social conscious, it allows you to tag certain locations and leave notes about it for your friends

This is a great accomplishment for Android. The market is growing faster than most of us anticipated. This was revealed during this afternoon’s Q1 earnings press conference, Jeff Huber who is  Google’s senior VP of engineering. Also, Google views the Nexus One as a “profitable business” even though most analyst feel it didn’t sell enough units overall. Android use is up 70 percent from last quarter, and there are reportedly 60,000 Android phones sold every day in the world. The popularity of Android coupled with the ease of app development is attracting more and more developers to the platform. Developers have more freedom over Android than they do over other platforms(iPhone’s in particular)

This is good news and bad news. The Galaxy S is one of the most powerful Android handsets to be released in the near future

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has revealed that Google are indeed working on their own Android powered tablet computer to rival the iPad. According to a report by the New York Times, Schmidt broke the news to a group of friends at a recent party in LA

A semi-common criticism of Android devices in many reviews is that the Android Market isn’t as well established as, say, Apple’s App Store.  While that’s still the case, it looks like Android is certainly beginning to accelerate the catch-up process. AndroLib have been tracking the number of new applications added to the Android Market, and churning the figures to work out how many apps per month have been submitted.  Turns out, March 2010 saw a significant jump in developer activity: over nine thousand new titles, versus 5.5k in February. April 2010, meanwhile, has over two thousand new apps already, and we’re only a third of the way through.  There’s no theorising from AndroLib as to what happened to provoke the jump, but we wouldn’t be surprised if the launch of the HTC Desire (and the HTC Legend ) at MWC 2010 the previous month had something to do with it.