On today's Pocketnow Daily, we talk about some interesting fan-made renders of the Google Pixel 4 and 4 XL, Huawei's new problem with the US and more.
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Join us in this retro unboxing experience where we show many of the phones that have been in Pocketnow's history
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Industry sources say Google will most likely release a mid-range Pixel phone for "price-sensitive markets such as India" in July or August.
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It was easy to predict but that doesn't make it any less sad. Discontinued way back in 2016, Google's Nexus Player is officially reaching the end of the road in terms of software support as well.
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If you're the unlucky owner of a faulty Project Fi Nexus 5X... with device protection, you're suddenly in luck, as Google will give you a Moto X4 to replace your old phone.
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As Nexus 5X devices are getting returned for refunds (or, as we learn, refurbished LG G4 or G5 phones) because of a bootlooping issue and at least one Pixel owner was obliged to give up his for money back, it seems that owners of the Nexus 6P could be on their way to cashing out of the Nexus experiment.
Some units of the Huawei-made device have been bootlooping as well and cannot pull past the phone’s startup sequence. More units have come under the falling brick since the bug first appeared with Android 7.0 Developer Preview 2. As it stands, though, the majority of units affect are on stable versions of Android 7.0 or 7.1.1 and most cannot land into recovery mode, none on Marshmallow.
The only explanation from Google is posted on a Reddit thread, dated three months ago:
Hey all,
We understand that a very small number of users are experiencing a bootloop issue on you device. We are continuing to investigate the situation, but can confirm that this is strictly a hardware related issue. For those of you that are currently experiencing this, please contact your place of purchase for warranty or repair options.
We’re sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate your continued patience.
Huawei has yet to make a statement on the matter.
Many users are convinced that the software, not the hardware, is at fault. Perhaps the package required to update 2015 Nexus devices on Marshmallow to Nougat may have caused this, but we are not at all clear if this is the case.
A thread has appeared in the AOSP Issue Tracker and we have a link to that in our Source section.
Owners of some Nexus 6P units are also experiencing random shutdowns due to some sort of battery calibration bug.
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Today is the official launch day of the “Made by Google” Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones, although that doesn’t mean much for folks looking to get either model (particularly the jumbo-sized one) from the search giant’s own e-store.If a locked bootloader and
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Android’s next incremental upgrade has officially been outed. It will still be called Nougat, but it will move up a point to 7.1.So, what’s going on in this API of APIs (#25)?Well, for one, developers have a new app shortcuts API that lets users go to up ...
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Still not convinced version fragmentation is a very real, very serious problem in the open but increasingly convoluted Android ecosystem? Well, things have gotten so bad that the first Nougat “maintenance release”, build number 7.1, is only slated to arrive on select Nexus devices this year as a developer preview, i.e. ...
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October 4, 2016 was supposed to be a day to remember for Google fans and fanatics as the birth of an exciting albeit pricey new line of stock Android-powered smartphones. But purists and, well, geeks may actually commemorate it eight years from yesterday as the untimely death of the beloved Nexus brand.No, there’s almost definitely no Huawei Nexus 7P with Andromeda ...
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Well, isn’t this a nice surprise. A late but extremely welcome little treat for inhumanly patient owners of the “classic” Nexus 6. The Motorola-made predecessor of last year’s Huawei Nexus 6P should have really
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Well, it was bound to come, right? Tomorrow’s the day that we come and get our love from Google and that event should entail all the rumors we have cluttered around our desks at Pocketnow.And while plenty of these devices, like the long-awaited Google Home and Google WiFi, will definitely take us to the future, there are a couple of things we’d like to focus on for our purposes here.The PixelsWatching these two phones evolve from being multiple codenames to ...
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Surprises and revelations are probably overrated, with beforehand knowledge of the Google Pixel and Pixel XL designs and specifications, for instance, possibly helping (too) early Galaxy Note 7 adopters make the right call when faced ...
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Even though the HTC-made Nexus phones for 2016 have moved monikers, it seems that there’s a Nexus straggler coming out of Huawei. Casual droppings about the company “doing the Nexus again this year” have been pretty shallow so far, but this “Huawei 7P” hasn’t had a blockbuster leak yet for it to ...
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The task of rooting an Android device has grown tall recently and with Android Nougat, there are now several roadblocks in the way that would prevent developers from getting in to root the upcoming Pixel phones — built on Nougat from the ground up — with ease.The first block is a kernel feature in Nougat called “device-mapper-verity” that checks the /system directory of the device while it is booting to see if ...
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