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.
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Google Nexus 6 coming soon to Flipkart
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 launches Indian Language Internet Alliance, introduces Hindi Voice Search
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 working on “Copresence” tool for cross platform communication
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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Gmail 5.0 for Android with support for Exchange and other email accounts now available
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”
Google Camera updated with Material Design, Android 5.0 Lollipop compatibility
Google Camera app version 2.4.008 that was present in the Android Lollipop Developer Preview has Material design elements. Today Google has updated the Google Camera app to version 2.4.023 on the Play Store that brings the same material design elements to the app. This update also brings compatibility with Android 5.0 (Lollipop) that would roll out for Nexus devices in coming weeks and includes some improvements and bug fixes. Continue reading “Google Camera updated with Material Design, Android 5.0 Lollipop compatibility”
Google Wallet adds recurring bank transfers, low balance alerts and more
Google is updating a bunch of new features to Wallet. One of the key features is the ability to add money to your Wallet through recurring bank transfers.
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Android co-creator Andy Rubin leaving Google to start hardware incubator
Android co-creator Andy Rubin has decided to leave Google, as per latest report from the Wall Street Journal. The report said that he will be moving on to launch a hardware startup incubator.
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Xiaomi appoints Spotify’s Donovan Sung to lead international product development
Xiaomi has hired Spotify’s Donovan Sung to lead international product development, according to a latest report from TechCrunch. The report comes weeks after the Chinese telecom maker hired Jai Mani as lead product manager in India.
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Google Play Books for Android gets Material Design, skimming and browsing features
Google Play Books is the latest app that is being given a Material Design tweak. The Android app for Play Book is being updated with redesigned reading experience that’s optimized for nonfiction books.
Google Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides for Android gets Material Design and new features
Google is slowly updating all of its homegrown app with the latest Material Design look from Android 5.0. Today, the company is bringing the Material Design to Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides on Android. We have already seen the Material Design update for Play Store, Play Music and Play Movies and TV.
Google Nexus 9 Hands On and Photo Gallery
Google introduced the Nexus 9 tablet made by HTC earlier this month. The first Nexus 7, its successor and the nexus 10 had screens with 16:9 aspect ratio, but this has a 4:3 aspect ratio, similar to the iPad Mini and the Xiaomi Mi Pad. We got to check out the latest flagship Nexus tablet. Here is the hands-on and the photo gallery.
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Google Play Movies and TV app for Android updated with Material Design and second screen
Google is rolling out an update to Play Movies and TV app for Android with Material Design UI. This means, the app will get larger images and bright colors that makes the UI colorful and attractive.
Google Nexus 6 goes up for pre-order and runs out of stock
Google’s latest flagship smartphone Nexus 6 went up for pre-order on Google Play Store. However, the phone was sold out within 30 minutes.That includes both the Midnight Blue and Cloud White colors in both the 32 GB and 64 GB options.
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Google Fit App lands on Google Play Store and Web
Google’s fitness and health platform Google Fit app has arrived on Google Play Store. Announced at Google’s I/O conference in June, the platform will aggregate and collect your fitness data at one place.
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