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Instead of a more flamboyant name for the latest version of the Android OS smartphone and tablet operating system, its name is "Pie", and it's meant to be easy as.

Back in February, Motorola's PR agency issued a media release advising that the Android Oreo 8.0.0 update for the various Motorola models, but this wasn't entirely accurate, with the true update for four models only now actually available.

Android O’s tipped to be Oreo as K was for KitKat, but if O is for orange, we can finally compare iOS Apples and Android Oranges for real!

Earlier today, I wondered whether Telstra would make its Pixel Android OS updates available at the same time as Google, and they will.

Remix, the Android OS that works on desktop computers in a similar way to Windows, yet gives full Android app compatibility (including MS Office), is now based on Marshmallow.

The world’s first Android 6.0 OS Marshmallow phone is the LG Nexus 5X, with USB-C port, fingerprint sensor, 4K video and more, shipping late October.

LG’s flagship Android smartphone, the G3, is going LGollipop in Australia at last with the faster, smoother new Lollipop Android 5.0 update rolling out from 23 January 2015.

The first reviews of the HTC Velocity have arrived, and unsurprisingly, we learn that while it's fast, it's not the absolute "best", but as it's the first'¦ this is no surprise!

With Telstra saying that its Motorola Xoom tablets have been 'flying off the shelves around Australia since they went on sale last month', there's finally an answer to when the 3.1 Honeycomb update would arrive: set to fly in July!

20 games are coming to Sony Ericsson's Android-powered Xperia Play smartphone, with 10 Xperia Play exclusives to whet the appetite of Xperia Play owners and all to be showcased at the upcoming E3 games conference - alongside Playstation 1 games soon to also be made available.

Google's Honeycomb hive has a new contender for Queen status: the Toshiba Thrive, with competitive US pricing, multiple colours, easily removable battery, fast charge times, full ports and more - although there's apparently no 3G option.

As always, the show must go on, with embattled telco Vodafone Australia opening up pre-orders for Samsung's newest hit smartphone: the Galaxy S II.

Symantec's 'Beyond the PC' initiative, something that helps keep a PC security company relevant in what Apple has called the 'post PC era', has just celebrated its one-year anniversary, with new partnerships and new betas.

If you weren't already well aware, it's definitely smartphone season, and while the world waits to see what Apple does with its next iPhone, LG's dressing up its newest single-core premium Android smartphone and is going black to the future!

If you think this is yet another article about Android yet again being under attack, this is true - but instead of nasty malware, we're talking about a range of accessories for the most popular Android smartphones in the US and Australian markets.

LG's long-awaited dual-core Android-powered smartphone is coming to Australia as an unlocked device, seemingly without telco distribution, and has even won a 'Guinness World Record' award, but LG's 3D model is still not here.

With reports coming out suggesting that Google's Android OS is more desired that Apple's iOS, you have to remember that you always get what you pay for.

Australia's 'which bank' is bringing its mobile NetBank service to Android OS smartphones from Monday the 28th of Feb, two years after the iPhone NetBank service first launched.

Android OS 2.4, code named Ice Cream, is the successor to relatively recently released Android OS 'Gingerbread' 2.3, and it's due to land at Barcelona's annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) next week on ViewSonic's new Android smartphone, the Viewpad 4.

Vodafone has done a global deal to launch Google's Nexus S in 24 countries, including Australia, but price and actual availability details are still top secret!