Lockheimer recently spoke with Bloomberg at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California about the new hardware focus and how he’s going to keep Android partners happy as the company increasingly competes with them. Edited excerpts follow. Bloomberg: These Pixel phones are expensive. Are you trying to crack the high-end smartphone market — where Apple has done so well and Android ... Read More »
HIGHLIGHTS This method requires users to switch to the Canary canal Toshiba Chromebook 2015 can find it in the developer channel as well This method is very unstable Google announced the arrival of Android apps on Chromebooks at I/O this year. However months later, only a handful of Chromebooks have received Google Play support, and Google is taking rather slow ... Read More »
Google Pixel Event: Android Maker Readies New Phones, Gadgets Featuring Its Software HIGHLIGHTS Google will unveil its new smartphones on Tuesday A bunch of other hardware products are also expected The October 4 event will start at 9:30pm IST Google may be getting serious about selling its own hardware gadgets. On Tuesday, the search giant will ramp up its consumer ... Read More »
WhatsApp Beta for Android Update Brings New iOS 10-Like Emojis HIGHLIGHTS New emojis have female counterparts of male emojis Update brings famous water gun emoji to the app New emojis have been introduced to the beta for Android It has been a long time since emojis came into mainstream usage and now, people actually look forward to the various changes ... Read More »
South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc said on Monday it plans to start selling a new premium smartphone from September, hoping the device will help its struggling mobile business recover from disappointing sales. LG said its V20 device, successor to the V10 that went on sale in October last year, will be the first product to run on Google’s latest version ... Read More »
Pokemon Go Bug Reportedly Affecting GPS Performance on Android Phones HIGHLIGHTS Game supposedly disrupts GPS even when running in background Issue was spotted on the dated Nexus 5 smartphone Reddit user says couldn’t find similar issue on newer devices Pokemon Go created tremendous amount of interest and excitement at its launch and the game is one of the most talked ... Read More »
HIGHLIGHTS Dropbox Paper moves into public beta phase Dropbox Paper apps launched on both Android and iOS One million docs created during service’s private beta phase Dropbox Paper, the online tool to collaboratively create and edit documents, has moved from its private beta phase to a public beta and the company has also announced that it is launching the app ... Read More »
HIGHLIGHTS An update was released for iOS alongside Android users can now send 1-minute-long video messages Users can now kick other users out of group conversations Both Android and iOS platforms are receiving the Hangouts v11.0 update, and the biggest highlight of the iteration is that Google’s mobile operating system has finally got video messaging, more than two years after ... Read More »
The sixth season of Game of Thrones came to a close earlier this week with a majestic finale episode, leaving us excited about the upcoming final two seasons of the show. Pop culture nerds Akhil and Gagan join your host Pranay to talk about everything that happened over the course of season 6 and what to expect in Game of ... Read More »
HIGHLIGHTS Google had invited users to help name Android N Android N will bring improvements like multi-window support No word yet on Android N release date beyond “this summer” Google has finally announced the full name of Android N. The next version of Android will be called Android Nougat. The Android Nougat name continues the tradition of naming major Android ... Read More »
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