The December 2017 Android distribution numbers are in, and version 8.0 Oreo still can't rival the prevalence of Marshmallow, Lollipop, KitKat or Jelly Bean.
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This month in Android distribution news: Nougat continues its slow rise to Jelly Bean-beating numbers, while Lollipop is still number one.
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2.8 percent is still a small piece of the pie for 7.0 and 7.1 Nougat, but at least it's much bigger than 1.2 percent in previous Android distribution data.
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It’s certainly not surprising to still see the latest and, many say, greatest Android flavor savagely beaten by its predecessor in official Google share numbers for the week ending on August 1. Painful, sure, but not at all unexpected, despite 6.0 Marshmallow turning one soon, and 5.0 and 5.1 Lollipop (especially 5.0) sounding as reviled as the Great Plague for the vast majority of mobile users nowadays.We can even understand 4.4 KitKat towering above build M, although the gap between the two is for ...
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It’s that time of the month again. The time Android devotees are reminded of the ecosystem’s greatest weakness, pining for iOS 9’s “sluggish” rise to 70 percent adoption rate in less than three months.Granted, Marshmallow debuted roughly three weeks after Apple’s newest mobile platform iteration, but in the week leading to December 7, just one in 200 Google Play visits came from devices running Android 6.0.0.5 percent market share is certainly a ...
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HTC continues to be its future on the mid-to-high tier of the smartphone market, and its latest quarter results show us that the strategy is working. The recent launch of the Desire 816 and Desire 610 show us ...
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After far too much speculation, Android 4.4 KitKat has finally arrived. Those who have a Nexus 5 got the latest version of the operating system right out of the gate. Other Nexus owners (Nexus 4, and both iterations of the Nexus 7) had to wait a little longer. Moto Xers and those with Google Play editions have been getting their ...
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There was no way I was ever gonna buy a Nexus 4. Sure, the price tag was appealing. Yes, the construction was sleek and I found the disco paint job fun. And the prospect of succeeding my old’n'busted Galaxy Nexus LTE with a more modern, non-hobbled replacement was definitely tempting. But the lack of proper 4G, the godawful camera, and the fragile industrial design all conspired to place the Nexus 4 firmly on my “wait for something better to come along” list. Well, something better just ...
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Last week, both Android and iOS underwent changes. Android turned five-years-old, which we paid tribute to here, and iOS 7 officially received a major face-lift. (We also paid tribute to that with an extensive walkthrough, which you can find here.) In their most recent forms, both platforms look totally different from their original versions. What better time to compare them than now? We put both platforms under the microscope ...
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When I first got my original Nexus 7, I loved it. Over time, however, it got slower and slower. As it turns out, I wasn’t alone. These tablets that started out snappy got gradually slower over time, until they were almost painful to use. Then Android 4.3 came along, and much of that slowness went away. Why? Google sneaked in a feature that’s slowly helping restore my sanity: Android TRIM support. Let’s get some terminology and technology out of the way. When you think about how computers store files, you probably picture a hard drive (HDD), a rotating set of platters that ...
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Android 4.3 is still very new and some Nexus owners are probably still waiting to get their update OTA (you don’t have to wait, by the way). Owners of other devices may have to wait a while before the latest flavor of Jelly Bean arrives on their handsets. In the meantime, some security methods have changed, and there may be some valid reasons why you don’t want to root Android 4.3 — not yet anyway. Android 4.3 ...
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Android 4.3 wasn’t announced all that long ago, and it’s still making its way across the internet to update phones and tablets over the air. Some of us hoped we’d see some mention of Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie when Android 4.3 was announced, but we didn’t — or did we? On the surface, Android 4.3, “a sweeter flavor of Jelly Bean“, could easily be mistaken for any other version of Jelly Bean. However, a lot has changed under the hood. What’s new? What has ...
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Yesterday, I recounted my experience re-adopting stock Android after an extended period using skinned builds of the platform. Since the vehicle for my reintroduction to the stock lifestyle was the Google-Edition HTC One, I spent the majority of my time in that editorial comparing the device with its skinned sibling, running the third-party UI called HTC Sense. But Sense isn’t the only Android ...
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Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Sprint’s official dates and price tag for the HTC 8XT, which promises to bring a good Windows Phone offering to the carrier. The Galaxy Note III is next as rumors have Samsung working on as many as 8 variants of the phone to satisfy carriers. Google is next as the company has fixed the security exploit found on Android, but still, the patch was only sent to partners and not end-users. New images of the iPhone 5S and budget iPhone surface and show us all the color options that will be available. We end today’s show talking ...
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The skin/no-skin debate is the Coke vs. Pepsi divide of the smartphone space – if the cola war were an 80-20 split in favor of Pepsi, that is. Studies outlining user attitudes toward UI overlays are hard to come by, but there’s no real question about the prevalent feeling in the tech press: when it comes to Android skins, you can smell the disdain a mile away. If you ask me, the almost-automatic hatred of skins is a tired, destructive artifact of a jaded tech media. It’s a holdover from the days when
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