Google launched their new $35 dongle at the July 24th event where they also unveiled their new Nexus 7 along with Android 4.3. Among the major announcements, the tiny little dongle that goes by the name of “Chromecast” was the talk of the tech industry for a while. Google’s Chromecast lets you stream content from your smartphone/computer to your TV. Lets check out what this tiny device is capable of. Continue reading “Google Chromecast Review”
Hugo Barra, VP of Android Product Management at Google would join Xiaomi Corporation. He would be responsible for Xiaomi’s international business development and Android strategic partnerships, said the company on Twitter. He served at Google 5 and half years and almost 3 years in the Android team. Before joining the Android team, he was director of product management for Google mobile apps based in London. Hugo Barra would join the Xiaomi team in China to help them expand their incredible product portfolio and business globally — as Vice President, Xiaomi Global. Continue reading “Android VP Hugo Barra leaves Google to join Xiaomi”
You might have seen us review the new Google Nexus 7 2013 a while back in which we concluded it is indeed an excellent small tablet, but as with any large screened device, especially ones that are imported from other countries, the risk of broken/shattered glass is high. So, we naturally went ahead and bought the Travel Cover for the new Nexus 7 2013 from ASUS and made a short hands on video for you –
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQKvndJaRQU
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Google has just announced that it has dropped the price of the Nexus 4 by 25%. The 8GB version is now available at a price of 199 US$ while the 16GB will cost you 249 US$.
Google released the new Nexus 7 manufactured by Asus last month. We brought you the review of the device recently, and here we managed to compare new and old Nexus 7 tablets in terms of benchmarks . The new Nexus 7 is powered by a 1.5 GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro (APQ8064) CPU and Adreno 320 GPU and has 2GB of RAM. The first Nexus is powered by a 1.3 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 GPU with 12 Core NVIDIA ULP GeForce GPU and had 1GB of RAM. The new Nexus 7 has a 7-inch 1920×1200 HD display and runs on the latest Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) OS, we had also updated the old Nexus 7 to Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean). Let’s see how these two tablets perform in several benchmark tests.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X17A3DbjxQ Continue reading “Google Nexus 7 (2013) vs Nexus 7 Benchmarks”
Google has updated the Chrome Beta for Android to version 30 that brings a lot of new features including option to right-click an image to do an image search, new gestures to switch tabs, lot of new API support for users and developers. With the new gestures you can now swipe horizontally across the top toolbar to quickly switch tabs instead of edge-swipe. Continue reading “Chrome Beta v30 for Android brings new gesture navigation, better image search and more”
Google has started rolling out a new update for Google Search for devices running on Android 4.1 and later. This brings lot of new cards including Car rentals card, Concert ticket card, Commute sharing card and lots more. This also has improved public transit cards that now informs about last train or bus. It also lets you set reminders while you search. Continue reading “Google Search for Android gets new Google Now Cards, remind me feature in search and more”
Google has announced that they have stared rolling out a major update (v2.0.35) for the Google Keep app that brings lot of new features including reminders that lets you remind you of important tasks. You can use click the Remind me button from the bottom of any note and choose the type of reminder you want to add. This includes time-based reminders for a specific date and time and location reminder with automatic nearby place suggestions. Google Search for Android got Reminders back in May. This update also brings new navigation drawer, option to import images from your gallery to notes and lots more Continue reading “Google Keep for Android v2.0 update brings Reminders, new navigation drawer and more”
Google has released an update for iOS and Android YouTube apps that lets the users size down a video so that they can continue to search YouTube for more content. We reported about the YouTube app update for Android recently rolling out widely.
Continue reading “YouTube for iPhone and iPad v2.0 update brings watch while you search and play all button in playlist”
Google has a introduced a new feature in Google Search for Android, where users will be able to write on their screen in India’s most common language – Hindi. Handwrite has been an option that has been there for quite sometime now, but Hindi was not an option until now. Handwrite enables users to Google search by handwriting on the screen instead of using the on-screen keyboard. From today, users will be able to write Hindi words on the screen and get search results based on that. Continue reading “Google Mobile Search for Android gets support for Hindi Handwrite input”
Google acquired Waze, popular crowd-sourced navigation app back in June. Now Google has announced that they have started rolling out real time incident reports from Waze users. So when Wazer users report accidents, construction, road closures and more on Waze, these updates will also appear on the Google Maps app for Android, iPhone and iPad in select countries. Continue reading “Google Maps for Android, iPhone and iPad gets real time incident reports from Waze”
Google has begun a staged roll out of the long awaited update to its YouTube app for Android. The update brings along a major redesign to the application and brings a lot of feature additions as well.
Some of the major improvements include the updated card based interface. There’s in app multitasking that lets you turn any video that you might be watching into a small window while you navigate the rest of the app. Continue reading “YouTube for Android gets updated to version 5.0 with In-App Multitasking, new UI”
Google+ for Android to get a major update to version 4.1 that would bring lot of new features including option to switch between Google+ accounts, Google apps admin support, Google Drive support to store photos and video, better location sharing and more. From this version Messenger support would be removed since Google Hangouts takes care of messaging and video calls. It also brings the most requested pull-to-refresh. Continue reading “Google+ v4.1 for Android to bring Drive support, improved location sharing and more”
Google’s Nexus program is aimed at providing an Android experience the way the California based company meant it to be. Now in its second iteration, the Nexus 7 manufactured by Asus is sharper, faster and just a bit more expensive. Does it still pack the same value and punch that made the original perhaps the best Android tablet on the market ? Read on to find out. Continue reading “Google Nexus 7 (2013) Review”
Rumors are floating high about who will be producing the next Nexus device. Earlier this year, we had rumors that LG would be the one to produce it, but recent rumors indicate that Motorola would be doing it. But new reports from South Korean website, MyDrivers point to LG as the producer of next Nexus.
Continue reading “LG rumored to produce Nexus 5 at Nexus 4’s price point”
