At the CES 2018 event, Google announced wide-range of assistant enhancements and new features. In association with Qualcomm, Google will be bringing Assistant to ‘smart displays’ powered by the Android Things. We have already seen Lenovo Smart Display powered by the Qualcomm SDA624 SoC launch. Continue reading “Google to bring Assistant to Smart Displays, more headphones and Android Auto”
The never-ending series of problems for the Pixel 2 returns and this time it is a voice recording bug that is affecting messaging apps. According to many users on the Pixel community, the Pixel 2 XL is limiting the volume levels when recording voice messages on WhatsApp, Telegram, Google Allo. Continue reading “Google investigating Pixel 2 XL voice recording bug affecting WhatsApp, Telegram messaging apps”
Google app is the first to receive an update after the holidays season, and the V7.18 beta doesn’t bring many changes to the table. However, a quick teardown by Android Police have revealed hints at image donations to Google Lens, Quartz Google Home device with a screen gets its resolutions leaked and more. Continue reading “Google app v7.18 beta hints at image donations to Google Lens, Quartz screen resolutions and more”
Android Oreo (Go Edition) is Google’s trim down version of Android for low-cost phones with 512MB to 1GB RAM. The company announced the project back in May and said that it would be available from early 2018. The company is all set to launch the first phone in India in partnership with Micromax later this month, according to a new report. Continue reading “Micromax said to launch Android Oreo (Go Edition) smartphone this January for Rs. 2000”
With Chrome OS 64 beta, Google is about to bring in a new desktop-friendly feature that will let you run Android apps in parallel. The feature is found in Chrome OS 64 in the developer menu in Android preferences which on enabling lets Android apps behave like full-fledged desktop apps. Continue reading “Chrome OS 64 beta lets you run Android apps in parallel”
After selling the tablet for more than two-years, Google has silently dropped the Pixel C tablet from its Google Store to focus on Pixelbook entirely. The Pixel C went on for sale in December 2015 for a price of $499 for the base model. Even though the pricing was a little high, the tablet itself was a good offering. Continue reading “Google stops selling Pixel C tablet, to focus on Pixelbook”
Google is said to be planning on opening brick-and-mortar stores in India to scale up sales of Pixel phones where the company is lagging behind in the competition according to a report from the Economic Times. Continue reading “Google said to open stores in India to boost sales of Pixel phones”
The future version of Android might give carriers an option to disable the “Signal strength” metric from appearing in Settings according to the findings of XDA developers in a recent commit to the Android Open Source Project. Though the intention and motivation for this move is a mystery for now. Continue reading “Carriers might hide signal strength in future versions of Android”
As a part of its aim to create custom processors for its upcoming flagships; Google is said to have hired John Bruno, a designer who founded and ran Apple’s silicon competitive analysis group and the chips that were used in iPhones and iPads. However, what he will be doing at Google is unknown at the moment. Continue reading “Google hires key Apple chip designer John Bruno, likely to build custom chipset”
Coalition for Better Ads, a group that focuses on improving online ads yesterday has announced Better Ads Experience Program; a voluntary initiative for improving online ads and certify web publishers that agree not to use the most disruptive ads identified in the Standards. Continue reading “Google Chrome to block annoying ads from February 15”
Google today announced three major changes to the Play Store that will require new apps and app updates targeting a recent Android API level, native apps 64-bit support and security metadata to APKs for verification purposes. Continue reading “Google Play Store to require apps to target recent Android API level, 64-bit support must from August 2019”
Few users have started reporting that the Pixel 2 XL after the Android 8.1 Oreo update is facing slower Fingerprint sensor unlocking. Reports regarding the issue have been growing larger in the past couple of days. Continue reading “Google looking into reports of Pixel 2 XL slower fingerprint unlock after Android 8.1 update”
‘OK Google’ is a very popular hotword that we use to communicate with Google Search app and Assistant as well recently. While it’s a hotword that we have become familiar with, it has quite aged now. With the launch of Home speaker, Google introduced ‘Hey Google’ hotword along with the old phrase and this new hotword is now finding its way to phones as well. Continue reading “Google rolls out ‘Hey Google’ hotword to more phones”
Andhra Pradesh Information and Technology Minister Nara Lokesh on Friday during a visit to X’s Headquarters in Mountain View has said that the state government in collaboration with the Google’s Alphabet Inc’s X to deploy Free Space Optical Communication (FSOC) links in Andhra Pradesh. Continue reading “Alphabet’s X to deploy FSOC technology in Andhra Pradesh for high-speed internet connectivity”
Google today has announced that it is shutting down the support for project Tango officially on March 1st, 2018. Project Tango was Google’s first ever attempt on augmented reality and it required special hardware in the form of cameras and sensors to accurately map 3D areas which in turn made the phones expensive.
Continue reading “Google to officially shutdown Tango support in March 2018 to focus on ARCore”
