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Google unveiled two Android Wear smart watches, LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live. The first of the two has already been announced so we assume this is just Google’s way of reminding us where to spend our hard-earned money. As for the latter, we’ll take a better look at it later in the text.…
Google is making its Chrome OS work a little better with Android devices. One of the features demonstrated at the I/O conference shows how an Android device could be used to unlock a Chrome OS laptop. Moreover, notifications that pop up on either device will now show up on the other, so you don’t have…
It was quite a day at Google I/O yesterday and we’re still picking up some of the things that were announced at the show. One of those, not really mobile related, is Android Auto, which — as you would imagine — is looking to bring Google’s mobile platform to a vehicle near you. The Open…
After Indonesia, BlackBerry is bringing its Z3 smartphone to India, another fast growing market where BlackBerry smartphones used to sell well. The Canadian company developed the Z3 in partnership with Foxconn to cut down the cost. This, entry-level BlackBerry device, comes with a 5-inch qHD screen (540×960 pixels), Qualcomm’s Snapdragon MSM8230 chip with 1.2GHz dual-core…
AT&T will be one of the first carriers in the U.S. to offer the Android Wear powered LG G Watch. The Lg G Watch will be available in the coming weeks. The LG G Watch features a Snapdragon 400 processor, a 1.65 inch display and rocks IP67 dust and water resistance. A host of customizable…
Google I/O was disrupted by a many protesters today at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco. The first disruption came early on in the event, with a woman protesting Jack Halprin, a part of Google’s legal team. The Woman yelled, “Google is evicting me from my house… Jack Halprin is a millionaire… He…
HTC is committed to bringing the next version of Android to its flagship smartphones as soon as possible. HTC announced that the as yet unnamed L-release of Android will be available for the HTC One family of devices just 90 days after Google releases the final code. The developer version of Android L will be…
Google’s L-release of Android is bringing a whole new look to Android devices. As part of an Android design overhaul, Google has unveiled a new universal design language dubbed ‘Material Design.’ Similar to Google’s aesthetic guidelines which the company currently employs, Material Design lays out a template for the creation of visual effects which will…
Google has officially announced Android TV, bringing Android squarely into the living room. Android TV is a faucet of Android L, and will run on set-top boxes akin to the Amazon Fire TV, Roku and Apple TV as well as smart TV’s from certain manufacturers. Android TV devices will appear this fall. At the core…
Google has pulled the covers off of the next version of Android, known as the Android L-release. As the rumors have suggested, the next version of Android brings a visual overhaul that hasn’t been seen since the days of Ice Cream Sandwich. L-release flattens icons, softens corners and even adds the ability to add elevation…