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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … Read More
The latest Android security fright circles Qualcomm, which is one of the largest chipset providers of Android smartphones and tablets. The flaw is dubbed as “QuadRooter”; it is named so because of its 4-pronged admission into Android and Qualcomm-powered devices. A hacker misusing this flaw could employ one of the … Read More
According to the latest Google Play Distribution data for seven-day period ended on August 1, Android Marshmallow is now running on 15.2% of active devices. This depicts a rise of 1.9% in a month when compared to July, which was 13.3%. In June, the data was 10.1%. Android Lollipop 5.1 … Read More
The devices running Android 6.0 Marshmallow has increased to 13.3%, reveals the latest Google Play distribution data. Last month, this count was only 10.1%, meaning there has been an increase of 3.2%. However, with Android Nougat coming soon, experts wonder if this rate of penetration is fast enough for Marshmallow … Read More
Well, it is no more mystery. Google finally unleashed the name of its next version of Android, codenamed Android N. The ‘N’ stands for ‘Nougat’, and that’s not as exciting as Nutella. At the I/O conference in March, Google released the developer preview for the Android N. The version of … Read More
Getting phone makers and carriers to update to the latest version of Android has been a challenge for the Google. In the sense, many times, Google releases updated versions of Android, but many of the Android devices will not see changes of the new revision of Android for at least … Read More
Google has released a report stating the percentage of the usage of its Android OS on various devices across the world. According to the report for April 2016, Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS is now on 4.6% of all the devices, compared to 2.3% last month. The data shows that the … Read More
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