The iPhone 4S launched Oct. 14, just a week and a half after it was unveiled. Now, on Wednesday, Samsung and Google are expected to unveil the Nexus Prime smartphone and Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of Android. (As Mashable’s Ben Parr put it,…

Google watchers at Android Police say that the next version of Android due out this week has a native photo editor, probably built on IP from Google’s Picnik acquisition.

Quanta Computer, the manufacturer that helped create the PlayBook and the Amazon Kindle Fire, signed an agreement with Microsoft stating it would pay license fees to use the Android operating system. While it seems incredulous that any company must pay…

Mozilla is planning a makeover for Firefox on Android. The company has announced it plans to abandon the usual Firefox look on Android mobile devices and will instead use Android’s native user interface widgets.

A native Android interface should make Firefox faster and use less memory–but Mozilla is sacrificing add-on compatibility for the performance boost. Originally posted at Deep Tech