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A quiet revolution has been going on in the medical profession and the field of personal health in the last two years, spearheaded by smartphones and tablets, that will change forever the way we obtain and process medical information. Called mHealth (Mobile Health), this industry phenomenon encompasses a wide range of applications - from self-treatment apps on sub-$100 Android phones in Kenya, through texting reminders for the immunization schedule of newborn babies in India, up to testing yourself for STDs with a smartphone kit, or your doctor panning and zooming radiology scans on the go.

iOS and Android are the only smartphone platforms that are growing. Android smartphones saw their marketshare increase to 38.1% (5.1% increase) and Apple increased to 26.6% (1.4%).  

Sales of smartphones were up 74 percent year-on-year and accounted for 25 percent of overall sales in the second quarter of 2011, up from 17 percent in the second quarter of 2010. Android grew to 43.4% marketshare from just 17.2% the previous year. 

Recombu intends to use this post to keep track of which Android Smartphones will be upgraded to ICS. 

I think the second vision could actually come to pass. 

Samsung want to introduce smartphones, wrist watch with these flexible displays in 2012. To reach that goal Samsung Mobile Display sets up a joint venture with Ube Kosan.

 an ITC judge ruled that smartphone maker HTC has infringed two Apple patents, and it seems likely that every single Android device out there infringes the same patents.

New tools from Google help integrate Android 2.2+ smartphones into corporate intranets. 

This article summarizes some of the issues around the recent study that possibly finds a link between cell phone use and cancer.  The neat thing about the article is that it provides a tool to look up cell phone models to see how they perform on this rating. 

Doctors can now make a stroke diagnosis using an iPhone/Android app with close to the same accuracy as a diagnosis at a medical computer workstation, researchers from the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine have shown in a new study. The Resolution MD Mobile app lets physicians view and manipulate remote medical images in high-resolution 3-D on the iPhone or Android phone, allowing for a quick diagnosis for the treatment of stroke, cardiac arrest, or other emergencies. 

The apps are Color, Shopkick and IntoNow, all of which activate the microphones in users' iPhone or Android devices in order to gather contextual information that provides some benefit to the user.

Samsung and Korea's "KT" announces first NFC payment system that will be available to users. 

"I went back and found every Android phone shipped in the United States1 up through the middle of last year. I then tracked down every update that was released for each device - be it a major OS upgrade or a minor support patch - as well as prices and release & discontinuation dates. I compared these dates & versions to the currently shipping version of Android at the time. The resulting picture isn't pretty - well, not for Android users:"