Waiting to get your hands on the Nexus 6 in the UK? The wait appeared to be nearing an end after we saw an online retailer put the handset up for contract pre-orders earlier this week. Now Google has released the UK pricing for the Nexus 6 on Google Play and it’s certainly much dearer than past Nexus handsets. Continue reading “Nexus 6 Google Play UK pricing revealed”
Google is adding Material Design features to all of its core app over the past few weeks and today it is updating Maps. Android and iPhone apps for Maps are getting a major overhaul along with few integrations and features.
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Android 5.0 Lollipop will leverage the SD Card functionality on Android devices. Google has introduced new APIs which were specially designed to enable one to access SD memory cards in an easy and secure manner.
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Google has released Android 5.0 Lollipop factory images for the Nexus 9 tablet and the Nexus Player Android streaming device. The Android 5.0 binaries are available for the Nexus Player, but it is yet to release binaries for the Nexus 9 tablet included in the factory images itself. Google recently pushed Android 5.0 Lollipop source code to AOSP. Continue reading “Google releases Android 5.0 Lollipop factory images for Nexus 9 and Nexus Player”
Disney and Google has entered into a new partnership to allow access to all its movies including Pixar and Marvel on Android device. All the movies can be watched via Disney’s “Movies Anywhere” app that is available on Google Play Store.
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LG and Google have signed a 10 year global patent cross-licensing agreement covering a broad range of products and technologies. The deal also includes existing patents and the ones that will be filed over the period of next ten years.
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For fans awaiting the launch of the Google Nexus 6 in the UK, the wait is almost over as UK-based online retailer Mobiles.co.uk has announced the handset will launch in the UK on 1 December. As reported by Pocket-Lint, the Nexus 6 will be available to pre-order from 18 November and the retailer says that the handset “should be” from £28 per month. Unfortunately it doesn’t reveal the SIM free price of the handset, rather focusing on the details of the plan which uses the O2 network and offers unlimited minutes, texts and 1GB data each month. Continue reading “Nexus 6 UK launch on December 1, pre-orders from 18 November”
Android KitKat 4.4 is now running on 30% of all Android device, as per latest numbers from Android developer dashboard. The numbers for KitKat is up from 24.5% in September.
Developers can now publish apps for Android TV on the Google Play Store. Google has published some guidelines for developing apps for Android TV, which can be found on the Android Developer Blog.
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Android 5.0 Lollipop source code is being uploaded to Android Open Source Project (AOSP). The release comes at the same time when Nexus 9 tablet is available online from Google Play Store.
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Gmail for Android has been updated with Material Design and a bunch of new features. The version 5.0 gets a modern design along with more cleaner and colorful UI.
Last month Google announced the Nexus 6, the company’s flagship Nexus smartphone made by Motorola. Soon after the announcement Motorola India revealed that the smartphone would roll in 28 countries, including India starting later this year. The 32GB variant of the smartphone has been listed on Flipkart as Coming Soon, but the pricing is not mentioned. Continue reading “Google Nexus 6 coming soon to Flipkart”
Google today launched Indian Language Internet Alliance (ILIA), a group formed to promote growth of Indic-language content online, at an event in India. Google hopes to enable 300 million Indian language speakers to become highly engaged Internet users by 2017. Google rolled out Hindi language Voice Search in India few months back, today it launched it in the country officially, and also demoed it at the event. Google Search lets users enable voice search in five languages, out of more than 50 supported languages and dialect. Continue reading “Google launches Indian Language Internet Alliance, introduces Hindi Voice Search”
Google is working on a new feature that will allow Android and iOS devices to share content and communicate when nearby. The cross platform feature is codenamed as Copresence.
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Details about Gmail 5.0 for Android with support for IMAP, POP3 email accounts like Yahoo and Outlook surfaced couple of weeks back. Even a promo video of the new Gmail app showed up. Now Android Police has got hold of the APK of the Gmail 5.0 app that brings all these new features, including support for Exchange accounts. Continue reading “Gmail 5.0 for Android with support for Exchange and other email accounts now available”
