According to a new report released by International Data Corporation (IDC), Android mobile phone will eat up around 85% share of the global market in 2018 as volumes are expected to grow at a five-year Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 2.4%, with shipments approaching 1.41 billion in 2022. The report added that Apple is expected to grow by 2.1% in 2018 and iPhones would grow at a five-year CAGR... Read More
Epic Games CEO, Tim Sweeney took to the stage during the Galaxy Unpacked event in New York yesterday to announce that the company has finally launched the Fortnite Android Beta. The executive revealed that Samsung Galaxy devices would be the first ones to get an invite for Fortnite Android Beta followed by other devices. However, the game will only be limited to high-end phones given the hefty resource requirements. Some... Read More
As UIDAI confirmed that it did not force telecom operators or mobile manufacturers to include the Aadhaar helpline number in smartphones, users have been wondering how the number entered their phonebooks. Amidst the public outrage over Aadhaar helpline number being pre-stored without user consent, Google apologised for "inadvertently" loading the old UIDAI helpline number and 112 helpline number into the 'setup wizard' of Android phones. "Our internal review has revealed... Read More
Google has been making a lot of revamps to its products lately. In the starting of 2018, the tech giant redesigned the Gmail interface. Now Google is making a redesign to the Account Settings section for Android. Through this design, Google is seeking to make the Privacy and Security settings easily navigable. The search functionality has also been unified, making it easier to search different settings. It is being speculated... Read More
It’s well known in the tech world that Google’s Nexus and Pixel devices are the very first ones to obtain interesting updates from Google. This time also, Google is all set to release the April Security update for the Pixel and Nexus devices. The compatible list of devices which will receive the said update will include Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, Nexus 5X, and Nexus 6P smartphones and among the tablets, the Pixel... Read More
Facebook might be in a sight of bother at the moment, but that doesn't stop the company from introducing new features to the platform. Today, the social networking giant has pushed a new update to the Messenger application, which added two new features to the Messenger Groups. The first one is admin privileges, which gives the group administrator a lot of controls that includes the approval of a new person... Read More
Nearly 18 months after its official launch, Android 7.0 Nougat has become the most popular Android version. Google published its monthly analysis of Android market share, and the latest distribution charts show that Android Nougat has taken the crown surpassing Marshmallow, the previous leader in the market. The Android Nougat now comprises 28.5% of the overall market share while Android Marshmallow dropped down to 28.1%. Both Android Marshmallow and Nougat... Read More
Google at the launch event of Pixel 2 device on October 4 said that they will provide software updates to Pixel 2 devices for three years. Everyone was wondering whether the promised three-year updates in security updates or next three iterations of Android. Well, Google has come up with an answer for that, and that is: Pixel 2 devices will receive next three Android iterations until 2020. Google has just... Read More
While the entire industry's eyes are on LG's announcement of their flagship phone, LG G6 at the MWC 2017 event, the South Korean company silently announced a new handset, the LG X power 2. The pricing for the phone are not official, but LG confirmed that the phone would go on sale from early March in some Latin America markets. Touted as the successor to the LG X power, which... Read More
On its Android Developers Blog, Google has announced that the company is discontinuing the support for Gingerbread and Honeycomb in Google Play services. Google will bid adieu to two of its oldest remaining Android versions in an upcoming update to Google Play Services. “The Gingerbread platform is almost six years old. Many Android developers have already discontinued support for Gingerbread in their apps. This helps them build better apps that... Read More
With Nexus devices getting a taste of Nougat, Sony too gears up for rolling it on its select devices. The list of devices does not include Xperia Z2 and Xperia Z3, which makes us wonder if the lineup will get the update at all. To recap, Sony is not the only one to unleash its device list for Nougat update; HTC was the first one to publish a list right... Read More
According to an analysis done by a data analysis company that goes by the name - Apteligent; Motorola is the fastest one to roll out the Marshmallow update to its phones in the US. The data says that Motorola started rolling out the OTA update in November, which was just after a month Google released the software version. The next in line is LG, who started the update roll out... Read More
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