With 900 million Androids out there, Google now activates more than 3 million devices a day
Google I/O developer conference just started and we got our regular Android performance data update. And, if you look just at the rate the new Android devices are increasing – the numbers are mind-boggling. According to Google, as of today, they have activated 900 million Android devices. For some perspective – they only reached 750 [...]
Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Edition – stock Android phone very few will care about
Well, the last minute rumor about Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Edition with stock Android was true. Google just announced that this new phone will be available on June 26th. It will have the latest version of clean Android, will receive the OS updates together with other Nexus phones, will have all the Galaxy S4 specs [...]
Mobile device wrapped in electronic display. Erick Tseng’s crazy Android phone idea from 2009
Back in 2009, when Android was a scrappy, buggy mobile OS upstart, before Nexus One, before its growth surge of 2010-2011, and before Larry Page got so obsessed about own hardware, that he bought Motorola; Google’s mobile team was playing with a lot of interesting ideas. Like building, or at least designing, some crazy looking [...]
LG making the next Nexus smartphone?
Each year, Google comes out with a new Nexus smartphone. That’s happened four times already, and there’s really no reason for us not to expect it to happen again in 2013. The big question, though, is this: who will make the Nexus 5 (or whatever else it will end up being called)? So far, HTC, [...]
7 inch Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 announced. Octa-core Nexus 11 and Dual SIM Tab Duos also in the making?
Samsung has officially unveiled one of its new Galaxy Tab 3 tablets. It’s not the 10 inch version, and neither the 8 inch one. It’s a 7 inch device that comes as the successor to the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0. Thanks to a narrower bezel, the new Tab 3 7.0 is smaller than the older [...]
Next generation Google Glass may look like your normal sunglasses, come with 2 see-through displays
Google Glass is a nice piece of hardware. And Google put a lot of effort to design it to look as well as it looks. Still, they have been limited by the technologies available today. And there was nothing else available except for pico projector and some smartly made lenses to project the computer generated [...]
8 million new Google Nexus 7 tablets could be shipped this year
Although previous estimations had it that Google would sell 10 million second-generation Nexus 7 tablets this year, a new report throws a less-optimistic light on the matter. DigiTimes quotes “sources from the upstream supply chain”, saying that only 8 million new 7 inch Google tablets could be shipped before the end of the year, with [...]
Motorola X phone delayed?
The X is supposed to be the one phone (or series of phones according to some past rumors) to reinvent Motorola. It should encompass Google’s influence over its smartphone making division, and bring us unicorns and everything else that’s nice and sweet. Or something like that. And we’ve been hearing about the Motorola X for [...]
Google Play Store gets redesigned
After many months, Google has decided that a redesign was in order for the Play Store – the gateway to content on Android-powered devices. The Google Play Store now features an interface that’s more colorful than ever before, and is based on ‘cards’ – the UI paradigm introduced in the Android world by Google Now, [...]
New Asus-made Google Nexus 7 coming in July with Qualcomm CPU
This definitely isn’t the first time we’ve heard about the next Nexus 7 tablet switching from an Nvidia chipset to one made by Qualcomm. In fact, it’s not even the second time. It’s the third. Today, though, the info comes from Reuters and its sources (two in this case), and that makes the news just [...]
With Google Glass Sergey Brin Betrays Us All
A buff Sergey Brin strode onto the TED stage. He branded smartphones “emasculating.” “Is this the future of connection, just people walking around hunched up, looking down, rubbing a featureless piece of glass?” “Is this the way you’re meant to interact with other people? It’s kind of emasculating. Is this what you’re meant to do [...]
New Google Nexus 5 might have a 4.5 inch screen, Snapdragon 600 CPU, 9MP CCD camera
Google will certainly launch a new own-branded smartphone this year, although we don’t know exactly when it’s going to happen. In any case, the latest rumors about this suggest that the new handset, most probably called Nexus 5, will have a 4.5 inch display. Phone Arena has received some tips from an anonymous source, claiming [...]
Water,shock proof Motorola X Phone comes in November with sapphire glass display, 2GHz Snapdragon 800 CPU
Another day another round of rumors about the upcoming Google’s Motorola X phone. This time it comes PhoneArena, who were tipped-off that Google’s MotoX handset will be dust and water proof, have 4.8” sapphire glass display, 2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU, 4000mAh battery, rubber bumper corners to absorb the shock when dropped, and a carbon [...]
New rumors suggest that Google’s next Nexus 7 will use a Qualcomm processor
More than a month since we first heard about the fact that Google’s next-generation Nexus 7 would feature a Qualcomm processor, now new rumors – this time coming from Taiwan – are claiming the same thing. Taiwanese website DigiTimes has it that “sources from the upstream supply chain” are confirming the adoption of Qualcomm chipsets [...]
Rumor: Motorola X won’t be one device, but many. First one out in June with guaranteed OS upgrade
Now that the Samsung Galaxy S4 is official, the only high-end Android device still doing the rounds in rumorland is the famed Motorola X. So get ready for yet another rumor concerning this device, purported to be the first ever to get full Google influence since the Mountain View search giant bought the ailing phone [...]
Motorola X Phone gets new round of supposed leaked specs, some still sound fishy
Another day, another Motorola X rumor. Yesterday’s “leaked image” proved to be a fake (and we’re thankful that it did), and the specs that ‘got out’ then sounded quite fishy. Today we have a new bunch of rumored specs, and these sound rather implausible as well. Or let’s just say that some things don’t necessarily [...]
[UPDATE: Image is fake, specs could be too] Motorola X Phone details, specs, and blurry image leaked?
Apparently today is a big day for leaks. After the supposed first images of the Samsung Galaxy S IV (or one of its variants) were outed earlier, now we get some alleged details about Motorola’s famous X Phone, along with a pretty blurry shot of a slide depicting its design. Or something along those lines, [...]
Samsung Galaxy S III, Nokia Asha 305 and Google Nexus 7 all win GSMA awards
Like every year, the GSM Association announces Global Mobile Awards during MWC. This year, the big winner is Samsung, which won no less than five awards. First of all, Samsung was declared the Device Manufacturer of the Year Award, being hailed as “the stand-out winner. A terrific year for Samsung as it continues to build [...]
Next Google Nexus smartphones to have “insanely great cameras”
Google’s first Nexus handset, the HTC-made Nexus One, was released in early 2010 featuring a mediocre 5MP rear camera. Next came the Samsung Nexus S, which had a better 5MP sensor. After that, the Galaxy Nexus (also manufactured by Samsung, and released in November 2011) improved things even more. Finally, the LG-made Nexus 4 from [...]
Motorola X to be a ‘game changer’, one senior telco exec thinks
Finally, this summer we get to see the first smartphone developed by Motorola after Google took it over. In other words, this will be the first ever ’100% Google’ phone. They call it the Motorola X. It’s unclear if that’s just a codename or if it will be used as the commercial name as well, [...]
