The latest Android distribution numbers are in, and of course, Nougat still trails behind new pack leader Marshmallow and silver medalist Lollipop.
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Yes, Android 5.1 in an age where we're closer to Android 8 than 7. It's a budget offering from Samsung for the tough and rumble Indian market.
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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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The Android distribution chart for February 2017 includes month-to-month Marshmallow growth, Lollipop prevalence, and Nougat disappointment.
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Ever since it started working on Project Fi, Google made it clear it wasn’t looking to muscle wireless service provider veterans out of business. Instead, Big G is collaborating with the likes of Sprint, T-Mobile and US Cellular stateside, as well as Three internationally, in a bold attempt to unify the world’s wireless networks so you can enjoy higher speeds and better coverage ubiquitously at the lowest possible ...
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Talking about making Windows 10 mobile — with a lower-case “m”. Instead of NUCs or stick computers, why not have a fully operable interface open up right from your thoroughly stuffed pocket?That’s what the GOLE1 looks to provide. The Indiegogo project — put up by ARMdevices.net from Shenzhen — touts the device as the “smallest All-in-One Intel PC in the world”. With X and Y ...
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It may have taken a whopping six months, during which time the vast majority of Android users weren’t even allowed to dream of Marshmallow goodies, but at long last, it seems the newest OS iteration is making real headway.Stuck below the one-percent mark as recently as January, version 6.0 has managed to double its share in the past 30 days, according to official data collected ...
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Like Samsung, Sony is yet to update a single Lollipop-powered device to Marshmallow outside of “Concept” beta programs, although we were ready to wager at one point a number of 6.0 rollouts would begin by the end of January for Xperia flagships.Meanwhile, the Japanese hardware manufacturer reconsidered ...
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How many or rather how few Marshmallow-powered devices are there in use today, three whole months after the fresh OS iteration’s release? An exact number is impossible to calculate, but Android 6.0’s market share among only its forerunners remains worryingly low.Based on Google Play data harvested in the week leading up to January 4, a measly 0.7 percent of active Android phones and tablets run the newest flavor of the world’s most popular mobile platform. The figure is up
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After several software builds dedicated almost entirely to removing system lag and taking full advantage of the super-advanced smartphone components nowadays, Google wants Marshmallow to solve two other major historical issues for Android.On one hand, there’s the battery life inconvenience, with Doze mode by far the handiest add-on in ...
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After breaking its short-lived partnership with CyanogenMod, China-based hardware manufacturer Oppo shifted its software focus entirely on a proprietary platform dubbed ColorOS and obviously built on Android source code.But as the purist community grows stronger and more vocal by the day, everyone from LG to Sony seems to agree bloatware must go or at least get significantly ...
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Miami-based BLU has recently pushed out a couple of sequels to its Studio Energy and Vivo Air phones this season. Okay, a couple of cool niches in there: the endurance crowd that would look also to the OUKITEL K10000 and the Vivo Air which has seen competition from
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Google just posted its last Android distribution report before 6.0 Marshmallow pops up on the radar, and despite their best efforts, the search giant and hardware-manufacturing partners have been unable to curtail fragmentation in the eleventh hour.Devices that visited the Play Store in the 7-day period ending on October 5 ran a grand total of nine OS iterations, as even 2.2 Froyo clings onto to a microscopic 0.2 percent ...
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It takes a rare breed of wearable to feature a full-blown mobile platform. Take the Neptune Pine as a prime example. We’re coming up on two years since the Android 4.1 (not Android Wear 4.1) smartwatch took flight with a bold concept of what you could do without having to dig into your pockets. Well, if you visit Neptune’s site today, you won’t be able to buy a Pine from them. But the idea did spark a competitor’s coals to come up with a couple of standalone revivals.China-based ...
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Lollipop’s troubles have been made very visible by the tech media to the national media. In the second case, it was with Android 5.0’s Stagefright vulnerabilities that led to the pouring of vows to step up security updates. And while the move to
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