Google’s Android L release so far has differed from the norm in as many ways as possible — for one, an early developer preview version has been made available for non-public consumption until the general release comes around this fall. Now, an AOSP push has begun for the Android ...
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In the road leading up to Google I/O we were a little uncertain about whether or not we’d be seeing the premiere of a new version of Android. After all, 4.4.3 and 4.4.4 are both still very new, and Google hasn’t seemed to be in any particular hurry to move things up to 4.5, or even the 5.0 we’ve been wondering about for far too long. But then yesterday we heard Sundar Pichai apparently confirm his intent ...
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Android 4.4.3 is still brand new, with only certain Nexus, Google Play Edition, and Motorola devices having ...
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Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Samsung’s Galaxy Tab4 line-up. Then we talk about Google’s future update to the Nexus 5 camera view finder. We then talk about about the probability of a Google Nexus 10 announcement coming soon. Nokia takes the spotlight next as we talk about the Lumia 930, and the possibility that it won’t make tomorrow’s event. We end today’s show by talking about the Apple vs. Samsung trail, which has just begun. All this and more after the break. Stories: -
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One of the biggest mysteries hanging over hanging over Google’s Nexus series of Androids has concerned the fate of the 10-inch option. By now, Google’s made it clear that we get a new Nexus smartphone every year, and the way the first two generations of the Nexus 7 look, that’s a pattern we could see Google mirror with these smaller tablets. But what about bigger ones? The Nexus 10 launched all the way back in 2012, and after it passed that one-year mark, we really started looking in earnest for a replacement. While we still ...
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The Nexus program is a somewhat shrouded in mystery. We suspect that Google it running it to a platform upon which it can demonstrate the “pure” version of Android, and to serve as a reference platform from which the other OEMs can look to. It also proves that fairly high-end and high-quality hardware can be made and sold for a very reasonable price — in the States at least. Thus far, Google has selected one OEM to partner with at a time to make a Google-branded smartphone or a Google-branded tablet — tablets being the late ...
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Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the launch of the Asus VivoTab Note 8 on the Microsoft Store for a very attractive price. Then we talk about the Nokia Normandy and the reports that the Wall Street Journal is pushing. Samsung follows the news as we talk about a possible “value edition” galaxy S 4, aside from a Galaxy Tab 4. HTC then hits rumor mill with the possible launch of mid-range phones along with the M8, and a possible Nexus 10 tablet. We end today’s show talking about a recent study that shows the iPad mini as very easy to break. All this and ...
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It was a bit confusing to read about reports talking about a certain eight-inch Google Nexus 8, to be allegedly manufactured by ASUS, and then to read the reports that claimed HTC to be an upcoming OEM for a Google Nexus slate. However, today’s reports are shedding just a tad more light on the events: the Nexus 8 is still, according to hear-say, going to be produced by ASUS. HTC, however, will be the one behind the ...
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Pocketnow Daily gets an average of 300 to 500 comments a day, and sometimes even a thousand. We’d like to thank you all for participating in our question of the day, and we love your feedback so much, that we decided that since we can’t respond to ever single one of your comments, we should at least feature a couple in a weekly video. This is the Pocketnow Daily Recap. Since we only have 3 minutes on every Daily video to go through the hottest news, the weekly recap will serve as a more extensive discussion where we also include your thoughts on the subject. Sadly, for the sake of ...
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[vamp] [vamp] [vamp] [vamp] That’s the text that leads us in to each episode of the Pocketnow Weekly: a column of virtual prompts on the rough rundown reminding us that, after our loosely scripted intro block, there’s a gulf of pure off-topic nonsense between the opening music and the rundown’s news section. It’s a handful of minutes devoted to office banter, good-natured ribbing, and, in today’s case, an EQ experiment by our own Taylor Martin that results in him literally reading the “vamp” cues out loud like the delightful troll he is. ...
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Update: While we were giving this leak the benefit of the doubt at first, no sooner had we published this post when @evleaks decided to step back from even his “we just don’t know” stance to a “this is probably a fake” one, citing the discovery that the same leak had been sent to other recipients with differing details. Dagnabit! - Android’s been dominating the headlines for most of the day so far, and the platform’s not taking any breaks now. A few hours back we were talking ...
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Is a new Nexus 10 ever coming out? A couple weeks back we were talking about the (admittedly unlikely) possibility of Samsung and Google unveiling a new model at the CES, but that clearly hasn’t happened (despite an otherwise awesome-sauce tablet showing from Samsung). Rumors about a new Nexus 10 go back months and months; all the way back in October we ...
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We’ve been cautiously optimistic about Canonical’s chances for really seeing Ubuntu Touch take off this year, especially with the promise of relationships with OEMs bringing us the first commercial hardware intentionally designed for use with Ubuntu. But thus far, if you’ve wanted to experiment with the platform, that’s meant flashing a Ubuntu ROM to one of several Nexus devices. Unfortunately, your options going forward are going to be a lot more limited, as Canonical announces that support for the ...
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There’s no denying that the tablet industry has evolved at a tremendous pace in less than three years. For those of us non-believers of the original Microsoft Tablet PC, or even the first iPad and its potential, it was hard to even predict that the services and devices that we see ubiquitous today, would’ve been possible so quickly. That being said, there is no such thing as a perfect tablet, and not every device fits every user. Make sure you watch today’s Top 5 as we talk about the things we all wish to see happening in 2014. We discuss the things that are still not fixed, and the ...
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Technology trade shows are often a breeding ground for plague and disease, so here at Pocketnow we opted to inoculate ourselves early … by picking up some crazy wintertime head colds just days before flying to Vegas for the 2014 International CES. That’s right: on the first podcast of the year, all three of your humble hosts are suffering from respiratory distress and an overabundance of mucus, all of it glazed over with enough combined medication to drop a Snapdragon dead in its tracks. Or something. On the ...
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