Older Android phones and, now, Android tablets now have access to a more glorified Google type and voice search interface.
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Nougat nears 10 percent adoption, Marshmallow finally beats Lollipop in June Android distribution figures
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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Android Lollipop in 2017: Galaxy J3 Pro now on Flipkart
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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Panasonic Toughpad phones hit India in Android, Windows flavors
If you're down and dirty doing business in Chennai or Mumbai, you'll probably need to ask your local channel representative about these phones.
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ZTE Cymbal-T is the first major Android flip phone for the West
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The ZTE Cymbal-T might or might not sound like a better name than the Samsung Galaxy Folder or the LG Wine and Ice Cream, but it’s what we’ve got to go on in the US.
You might be wondering why an Android Lollipop phone — we’re serious — has any business coming here in 2016. It’s because that it’s on prepaid carrier TracFone and is meant to transition candybar toters onto something with a little more modern operating system, but in a familiar flip phone form factor.
Do not make fun of candybar toters.
There’s a 3.5-inch touchscreen, 8GB of storage (expandable by microSD card up to 32GB), 1GB of RAM with a 5-megapixel camera at back and a 2-megapixel front-facer. A Snapdragon 210 runs the show here and provides for LTE, CDMA and Wi-Fi b/g/n.
The phone is being sold through Home Shopping Network and is being bundled with a car charger, a case, a voucher for complimentary software services and a TracFone plan with 1,200 minutes, 1,200 texts and 1.2GB of data for a whole year for $99.99.
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Android distribution: Marshmallow yet to break 20 percent share
It’s the second week of the month, which means that Google is either a little late publishing its Android platform version distribution numbers or we all haven’t been paying attention.But September’s pie, taken from seven days of tracking Google Play Store access ending September 5, shows no sign of Nougat. Who’d think that a two-week-old ...
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Android Marshmallow share up 3.1 percent in July distribution
Time for another check on how Android is being kept up these days and for Marshmallow, it’s a better month of gains. Its share of the version distribution pie has jumped up by three percentage points, the most it has increased in its lifespan.The following numbers were collected from Google Play Store logins in the seven days up through July 11.VersionCodenameAPIJuly (%)Change from June (%)2.2Froyo80.102.3.3-2.3.7Gingerbread101.9-0.14.0.3-4.0.4Ice Cream Sandwich151.7-0.24.1.xJelly ...
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Crowdfunded GOLE1 PC dual-boots Windows 10 and Android
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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Android Marshmallow is growing slower than how Lollipop did
Android distribution numbers are out for the previous month and it seems like platform stratification has started to unwind just a bit. Out of the 11 APIs recognized, seven lost share while Marshmallow was the only version of the OS to grow in share.Lollipop is still the largest contingent in the space with 35.6 percent of the pie while KitKat, experiencing the largest loss for the month, is holding onto second place with 32.5 percent share. Marshmallow is still behind ...
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Android Lollipop overtakes KitKat as largest distributed version
It’s Android distribution time again and it looks like Lollipop is finally picking up speed. Yep, Lollipop.Android 5.0 accounts for 16.9 percent of all devices that registered with Google Play Store servers during the first week of the month. Android 5.1 makes up 19.2 percent. Adding 5 and 5.1 equals a 36.1 percent share of the Android pie. For the first time, it’s larger than 4.4 KitKat’s share, registered at 34.3 ...
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No Android Lollipop update for Motorola DROID Ultra, Mini, Maxx after 30 months
Too little and too late.Motorola’s David Schuster announced on his Google+ page that announced software upgrades for Verizon’s DROID Ultra, DROID Mini and DROID Maxx have been cancelled. So, instead of Android Lollipop, they will stay on Android 4.4.4 KitKat. The Droid Mini started on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean while ...
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Samsung starts showing Android security patch level for some Lollipop phones
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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HTC Desire 820 starts seeing Android 5.0 Lollipop updates across Asia
Among the full dozen HTC devices already confirmed to get Marshmallow goodies down the line, a fairly popular mid-end phone was oddly still stuck on Android’s ancient 4.4 KitKat iteration, making us wonder if maybe it would skip both the 5.0 and 5.1 rollouts on its way to 6.0.But that doesn’t seem to be the case after all, and at long last, the Desire 820 gets with the Lollipop program. Only in India and Taiwan for now, apparently, though the ...
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Android Lollipop remains less prevalent than both KitKat and Jelly Bean as Marshmallow debuts
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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Android-powered Elephone “Vowney” will come in Windows 10 Mobile flavor
Elephone has been a Chinese OEM we’ve been tracking for a bit with some boundary-pushing devices. Included in its roster is the “Vowney,” which came out in May of this year with a spectacular set of specs behind Android. We’re talking about it once again, this time with even beefier specs and a change in operating system.Version A of the Vowney, the Android 5.0 phone, featured a 5.5-inch QHD ...
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