Google Brings New Carrier Billing Options To Google Play Store

Android has offered carrier-based billing for some time now, letting you purchase apps without using a credit card tied to your Google account. Over the years, it's brought the feature to users on more and more carriers around the globe. That trend of extending...

Google Drive Vs. Dropbox - Pocketnow Face Off (Video)

With Google's launch of Drive yesterday, we know many of you were left with the dilemma of either jumping ship or sticking to the cloud storageservice you already use. What makes Google Drive interesting is that it's got everything that users have come to love about Dropbox, but...

Chrome OS coming to ARM?

Many moons ago, Google made it quite clear we wouldn't   be seeing its browser-based OS on any tablets or phones, but it never said Chrome OS wouldn't run on devices powered by similar silicon. In fact, the issues tracker at the Chromium OS project shows that work's being done to...

Google+ Circles heading to Google Voice, creepers heading straight to voicemail

If you've spent some quality time with Google+, we're sure you've encountered Circles. You know, the feature that enables you to control who sees your G+ posts and who doesn't. Now, the folks in Mountain View have added the social network management tool to Google Voice. You can organize...

Google Fixes Wallet Security Hole

Google officially announced that they "restored the ability to issue new prepaid cards to the Wallet". Additionally, the company "issued a fix that prevents an existing prepaid card from being re-provisioned to another user". These improvements in the update above come hot on the...

Google TV, take two, arrives next week with Honeycomb, Android Market

It has been a long year for Google TV. The first (and only, so far) round of hardware started shipping in October 2010 and at the time, promised the Android Marketplace with its wealth of third party apps early in the next year. That clearly didn't happen, and it quickly became...

Editorial: Why My Next Smartphone Will Be The Galaxy Nexus

  Some pocketnow readers have called me an Android "fanboy". I can't entirely disagree. I'm passionate about the things I'm interested in, but try to keep an open mind, and be objective in my reviews and articles. In addition to Android, I could also be called an "HTC fanboy"....

Google Voice Returns To App Store After Week-Long Hiatus

Last Saturday, Apple users were just settling-in to their first weekend with their new iPhone 4Shandsets, when they may have noticed an odd absence from the App Store: Google Voice was nowhere to be found. We're huge fans of the service, so it's easy for us to imagine plenty of users setting-up...

Google Confirms Barometer Intent: Faster GPS Locks

Yesterday we dove-in to the new sensor coming to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, its barometer. Though there's been one on the Motorola Xoom tablet since its release, the sensor will be new to Android smartphones. We speculated about all sorts of ways we might get some use out of it, but now we have...

Google Maps Updates With NFC Support; Did It Just Get Beam?

Google quietly released an update for Google Maps on Android today, and while the one noted change isn't the most exciting we've heard of, additional changes under the hood suggest this could be the beginning of seeing apps arrive with support for Google's Android Beam NFC tech. The official change...