911 and 999 calls made through a OnePlus 5 will not return a dispatcher from a call center but, instead, reboot the device.
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Why is “Double tap to wake” not on the Sony Xperia XZ Premium?
It's been on the Xperia Z2 and on most every device since then. Why drop it now, Sony? Maybe it's unfinished software. But at this stage?
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Go fish, Google: Pixel sequels being called “walleye,” “muskie,” “taimen”
All three fish-based codenames have been in circulation around the rumor circuits for a while, but at least the first two have been publicly spotted.
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Sony’s “Soft Charging” feature is a great idea
Sony hits AOSP milestone: all 2014 Qualcomm-based models covered
Of all the major Android manufacturers out there, Sony’s been one of the most vocal when it comes to supporting the dev community, and a big part of those efforts has been Sony’s work at making AOSP builds available for many of its models, phones and tablets alike. We’ve been watching it work at this for years now, and today the company announces that it’s just hit a pretty noteworthy accomplishment along ...
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Sony teases stock Lollipop on Xperia Z family
Listeners to today’s Pocketnow Weekly podcast already know how stricken we are with some of the new features in Android 5.0 Lollipop. While only having had the opportunity to try out the public release on a Nexus 9, our interactions have been so promising that we’re itching for our Nexus 6 to arrive and give us a chance to see what the finished Lollipop has to bring to smartphones. Owners of existing Nexus models are eagerly awaiting for their own Android 5.0 updates to ...
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HTC confirms One M8 Lollipop update timeframe as official Google code drops
If you can remember it from the torrent of news that was Google I/O 2014, HTC announced that its 2013 and 2014 flagships would be seeing prompt updates to the latest version of Android after the availability of final code in the fall. Well, fall’s here (and with it, the day we’ve all been waiting for), and HTC has finally confirmed to the masses that final Lollipop code is in its hands, and the 90-day timer ...
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Android codebase makes the shift from Dalvik to ART
With last fall’s release of Android 4.4 KitKat, Google introduced an experimental new runtime, ART. As opposed to the Dalvik virtual machine, ART promised speed improvements at the cost of storage space – or at least, that was the idea. In reality, the speed boosts could be hard to see, and compatibility issues that broke certain apps prevented ART from being a slam dunk. Nevertheless, the option has been there for users interested in trying it out. Lately, though, we’ve been seeing evidence ...
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Hands-on with Android 4.4 KitKat on the Nexus 4 (video)
Android 4.4 KitKat is the long-awaited upgrade to Google’s Android operating systems for smartphones and tablets. Although it doesn’t bring huge changes like many of us had hoped, the modifications are elegant and profound. Finally, the waiting is over, and Kitkat has been officially released, but unless you already have a Nexus 5 in hand, you probably don’t have it. Luckily there are some builds out there that you can put on your own device, like we did with our Nexus 4, to get the KitKat experience there. Hit the play button, and let’s go hands-on with Android 4.4 ...
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AOSP work points to coming 3.10 Linux kernel: what to expect
If you’re an Android fan, and even the slightest big technically-minded, you probably understand that the platform is based around Linux. Underneath the Android runtime and all the code that makes Android “Android,” you’ll find a Linux kernel. Right now, if you’re running any recent build, that means your phone is on the 3.4 kernel – which itself dates back to May of last year; we are long overdue for an update. Recent signs point to work at doing something about that, bringing the Linux 3.10 kernel to ...
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Sony Keeps AOSP Ball Rolling With Xperia Tablet Z
Fans of stock Android have been enjoying a fair amount of good news lately. We just learned of that special Google Edition of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 the other day, and today we get to see Sony continue with its own support for Android development, releasing an AOSP project for its Xperia Tablet Z. You might remember that Sony did the same thing last month for the Xperia Z, following in the footsteps of
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Sony Continues Push for Strong Dev Support With AOSP Xperia Z Source
Last summer, we learned that Google was taking the unusual step of adding a non-Nexus smartphone to the source repositories as part of the Android Open Source Project, with the introduction of a project for the Sony Xperia S. While that experiment wrapped-up several months later and saw the codebase move to a separate Sony-controlled repository, it was largely heralded as a success. With the Xperia S now showing its age, Sony is getting a more modern handset involved with the same sort of project, starting a new one to share ...