Android phones have a bad history of not getting the latest OS upgrades, often leaving them several versions behind, says a new study. Tracking 18 different Android phones shipped in the U.S. through the middle of 2010, the Understatement’s Michael Deg…

Adding to a fusillade of good news for Google as it pushes its Android operating system, a mobile-advertising company said Android devices accounted for more than half its traffic in the third quarter.

A new report indicates a big jump in Android Market applications, just one day after another report found that Android tablets had taken more than one-quarter of world market share from Apple’s iPad. According to mobile-research firm Research2Guidance,…

According to Microsoft, half of all Android devices are now under its patent protection. Yesterday, the Redmond software maker revealed it has signed a deal with Compal Electronics giving the company “broad coverage under Microsoft’s patent portfol…

The newest Android OS release, Ice Cream Sandwich, finally fulfills something that Android users everywhere were craving, according to Android User Experience Director Matias Duarte. That something is an Android OS that users could “love using” instead…