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Google Android One expands to Turkey, General Mobile 4G with 5-inch HD display, Snapdragon 410, 2GB RAM launched

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Google has expanded its Android One program to Turkey, which becomes the seventh country to get Android One smartphones officially after India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and the Philippines. It has partnered with General Mobile for its latest Android One smartphone that has better specifications compared to its earlier Android One phones. It also has leather-like back cover. Continue reading “Google Android One expands to Turkey, General Mobile 4G with 5-inch HD display, Snapdragon 410, 2GB RAM launched”

Google Transit in Maps for Android, iOS and web gets Indian Railways schedules

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Google has updated public transport information in Google Maps that now offers Indian Railways schedules for 12,000 trains on Google Transit in eight Indian cities. This helps you plan your public transport trips quickly and easily, says the company. Google Transit has also been updated for bus and metro routes from Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi and Pune. Continue reading “Google Transit in Maps for Android, iOS and web gets Indian Railways schedules”

Nexus 9 finally starts receiving Android 5.1.1 OTA and factory image

Last week, Google Nexus 9 received Android 5.0.2 and 5.1 Lollipop update. Now, the company has gone a step forward and launched factory image for the Nexus 9.

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Google now allows you to order food directly from Search

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Google has been hard at work providing easier ways to search on the desktop and then transfer the information to your smartphone. First they allowed you to send directions to your phone directly from desktop search and then they added the ability to send notes and set alarms on your device in the same way. Now Google has introduced a faster and easier way to order food directly from Google search.

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Google Drive OCR technology now works for over 200 different languages

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Google’s Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology in Google Drive that turns pictures of text into computer text is now expanded to over 200 different languages. Until now, company had offered this OCR feature for English language only. Continue reading “Google Drive OCR technology now works for over 200 different languages”

Google planning to provide Android users more control over privacy

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Sources say that Google is planning to give users more control over privacy on their Android phones. They will be able to determine what sort of information a particular application can access.

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Google Nexus 9 update to Android Lollipop 5.1 begins rollout

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Google has announced over twitter that the Nexus 9 will soon be receiving an update to version 5.1, starting today. Until today, the latest software version that was available for the Nexus 9 was Andoird Lollipop 5.0.2 while most of it’s counterparts received 5.1 quite a while back.

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Google announces Games in Motion – A fun way to exercise

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Google has just announced Games in Motion for Android. It’s an open source game sample to show how games can be made to make use of Google Fit and Android Wear.

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Google set to unveil Voice Access at I/O which allows controlling apps using just your voice

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Software companies and smartphone manufacturers are always trying to find new and better ways of interacting with your smartphone. While most of these involve you interacting with your touchscreen in some way or another, Google is set to launch a new feature called Voice Access that will allow you to do without it totally.

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Google might unveil Android M at I/O

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The official schedule for Google’s I/O is now live and under one of the events scheduled for Android for Work, there was a mention of Android M. This could mean that Google might be announcing Android M at I/O between 28th and 29th of May.

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Android 5.1.1 Lollipop OTA update rolling out to Nexus 7 (Wi-Fi)

After shipping Android 5.1.1 Lollipop OTA update to Nexus 10 last week, Google has now rolled out the OTA update to Nexus 7 2012 (Wi-Fi). We have received the update in India on Wednesday and it weighs 9.6MB in size.

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Google may be planning to introduce A/B testing for Play Store

Google is said to soon give developers more power over the listings for their apps on Google Play in the form of A/B testing, as per a latest report from The Information.

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Lollipop now present on almost 10% of Android devices

Lollipop adoption continues to surge every month with more and more smartphone makers rolling out the latest OS to their devices. Today fresh numbers from Android distribution chart are saying that Lollipop is present on 9% of Android devices as per 7-day period ending on May 4th, 2015.

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