OG modular Fairphone 2 is still alive, still supported, getting Marshmallow update ‘soon’

Too late for an Android Marshmallow upgrade? Not as far as the long-forgotten modular Fairphone 2 is concerned.

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Galaxy Note 6 Rumors! Best BoomSound? iPad review round up! | Pocketnow Weekly 199

Galaxy Note 6 rumors are heating up. What might be in store for Samsung’s next phablet? We ask our viewers, which HTC has the best BoomSound? HTC 10 or the One M9? And we’re wrapping up our time with the iPad Pro 9.7. Can this tablet really be used for work?We’ve been hard at work covering news stories and producing the next generation of phone reviews. We recently started a new series of videos delving deeper into camera performance and

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LG G4 gaining Android 6.0 Marshmallow in its homeland

LG has gained a lot of fame for the speed at which its been able to push Android software updates to its flagship hardware. Even with the company not landing a Nexus deal last year, we still saw the company beat everyone to the punch with the LG G3 and Lollipop. This year we sort of saw the same with the G4, even though with a little drama at the end, though that’s just about to change.LG has ...

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Xposed framework might reach Android 6.0 Marshmallow soon

Hacking your Android device to get more out of your investment is the common deal for many. Surely Android has become more and more capable, up to the point where putting up with buggy ROMs has lost a tad of popularity, but that’s if you don’t take Xposed framework into consideration. So far this is the considered one of the top, if not the top of mods for your Android phone, and word has just arrive don its availability for Marshmallow.Xposed developer rovo89 has just confirmed that there is progress with porting the framework to Android 6.0, but he was clear that this ...

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LG G4 Android Marshmallow update in Poland stumbles back into gate

Back to the wave of Marshmallow that will be tiding towards many Android OEM releases in the future (including the HTC One A9): we told you about Polish LG G4s preparing for their updates to version 6.0. Those phones were to be the first existing non-Nexus phones to get an OTA update.Not exactly anymore. LG ...

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Huawei readies phones for Android 6.0 Marshmallow

As one of the emerging OEMs in the global smartphone market, Huawei has been making friends and Ascend-ing in market share. But as much as we appreciate the company’s hardware prowess, we have to say that the EMUI software can get kinda ...

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Hey Android: you fixed the lag issue, did Marshmallow fix your battery?

Ask anyone what they would improve about their smartphone and you’ll probably come up with two answers very near the top: faster performance, and better battery life. Some argue that their phone or tablet is “faster” than another because of the operating system it runs. Other’s swear that the batteries in devices from one manufacturer  outlast those of its competition. A lot of this comes down to comparing apples to oranges. For example, you can’t easily compare a quad-core CPU clocked at 2.0 GHz with a hex-core CPU clocked at 1.8 GHz – there are ...

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Android 6.0 OTA news: Android One phones, HTC One M8, Nexus 4

My goodness gracious, it’s been a hectic couple of weeks in the Android world. We had the Google event in San Francisco prior to the public release of Android 6.0 Marshmallow. CyanogenMod modders pounced on the sugar and started working on the 13th iteration of their firmware. And all of this time, we’ve been getting word of

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CyanogenMod 13 coding begins with devs’ eyes toward release date

The people who work on CyanogenMod are very eager beavers who hop on top of updates to Android. It’s only been just a few months since we got the latest version of CM on Android 5.0. Now, it looks like developers are looking to reduce lead time between the public debut of Android 6.0 Marshmallow and ...

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CyanogenMod 13 coding begins with devs’ eyes toward release date

The people who work on CyanogenMod are very eager beavers who hop on top of updates to Android. It’s only been just a few months since we got the latest version of CM on Android 5.0. Now, it looks like developers are looking to reduce lead time between the public debut of Android 6.0 Marshmallow and ...

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Android 6.0 Marshmallow might reach existing Nexus devices soon according to carrier

Even though we’re still betting for a possible announcement of Google’s new Nexus smartphones on September 29, there’s always a minor level of certainty. The Nexus 6 was announced on October 15 last year, so it does make sense for it to happen somewhere around these days. Obviously another big question on the table is when do existing Nexus devices get the new version of Android 6.0 Marshmallow, and the answer is not far off.Canadian carrier Telus has just released its software update release schedule ...

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