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• Domino's serves up Android app

  Domino's Pizza (ASX:DMP) has added to its application menu with the launch of an Android app for customers who don’t have an iPhone.

• HTC Sensation review

  The HTC Sensation is a high-end Android smartphone equipped with a 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen.

• HTC launches Sensation on Telstra

  HTC has launched its dual-core Android-based Sensation smartphone on Telstra's Next G network.

• Huawei launches new budget Android phone

  Huawei today launched a new cut-price Android-based handset on Optus' network. The Huawei IDEOS X1, which will retail for $99, runs version 2.2 of Google's Android platform.

• Optus scores LG's 3D Android phone

  LG's high-end Optimus 3D smartphone will launch early next month on the Optus network. The LG Optimus 3D's key selling point is its 4.3-inch 3D screen.

• LG releases super-slim Optimus Black smartphone

  LG has launched its Optimus Black Android smartphone through Optus and Vodafone, with the handset coming to Telstra next month. LG describes the Optimus Black as one of the world's thinnest phones — it's 9.2mm thick and weighs 109g.

• Samsung Galaxy S II review

  Samsung's Galaxy S II is the best handset to run Google's Android operating system so far. It may even be the best smartphone on the market. In Australia, it will be sold by both Telstra and Optus.

• Asus launches Eee Pad Transformer tablet

  Asus' has brought its Eee Pad Transformer, a touchscreen Android tablet with a keyboard-equipped docking station, to Australia. The Asus Eee Pad Transformer will be available from tomorrow with a recommended retail price of $599.
  

• Global Android users more than triple in Q1 2011

  Users of Google's Android operating system have more than tripled in the past year, according to analyst firm Gartner.
  

• Samsung's Galaxy S II hits Australia next month

  Samsung's new flagship smartphone, the Android-powered Galaxy S II, will be launched in Australia on 1 June, according to Optus' pre-order Web page.

• App roundup: Remote access apps for tablets

  Tablets -- Apple's iPad in particular -- have found many fans among IT managers, developers and CIOs.

• Telstra to launch new HTC Android handsets next week

  Telstra's Next G network will become a home for HTC's Desire S and Wildfire S smartphones, with the telco holding a 25 May media launch for the handsets. Both the HTC Desire S and the HTC Wildfire S run Google's Android mobile operating system.

• Google I/O so far: Android, 'Chromebooks' and smarter cars

  Google's I/O developer conference, held 10-11 May in San Francisco, has already been the site of a swathe of announcements by the search giant and its partners.

• Malware writers gunning for Google Android

  Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile platforms have been the proving ground for mobile malware over the past five years, but a new Juniper Networks report states that Google Android now takes "the crown" as the platform getting the most attention from malware developers.

• Optus stakes a claim on Motorola Xoom tablet

  Tablet fans who don't want to sign up with Telstra when the Motorola Xoom tablet comes to Australia in May have another choice of provider if they are prepared to wait another month.