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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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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Fitbit not a fit with Android 6.0 Marshmallow

Also in bug news that we’ve warned you of besides the T-Mobile cell reception issue is a compatibility problem with Fitbit.One of the top posts for the fitness tracker’s support forums concerns the disability to sync data off of a Fitbit to your Android 6.0 Marshmallow device. The Fitbit app doesn’t seem to recognize the tracker.

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Android 6.0 on T-Mobile Nexus 5 causing reception problems

We brought it up in our Android 6.0 primer video: expect bugs. Especially expect them in more front and center areas at first blush before the updates eventually come to patch them. It’s not a rule exclusive to Android, just ask iOS. Twice.But T-Mobile troubles have appeared (no, not those T-Mobile troubles) and it involves LTE ...

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Android 6.0 Marshmallow First Look (Video)

Earlier today, Android Marshmallow technically dropped on all of us. To be more specific, the public version of 6.0 got pushed and was intended for developers to work with some live software. Google promised that over-the-air updates to devices-at-large would start tumbling out in due fashion.We’ve been wishing hard, praising the ...

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List of HTC phones to be updated to Android Marshmallow leaked

Marshmallow is bouncing toward our Android phones left, right and center. It all begins with the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P that we are expecting to be introduced during the Google event in San Francisco tomorrow. HTC is also coming out with an early debutante to the fluff. But the

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List of HTC phones to be updated to Android Marshmallow leaked

Marshmallow is bouncing toward our Android phones left, right and center. It all begins with the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P that we are expecting to be introduced during the Google event in San Francisco tomorrow. HTC is also coming out with an early debutante to the fluff. But the

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Google rumor roundup: Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Android Marshmallow

On a Thursday in New York, we’ll be waiting on Microsoft to introduce some new Lumias and LG to introduce a one-sided cyclops. But this Tuesday on the left coast, we’re chomping at the bit for some new hardware and one big reveal on software from Google. If you haven’t brushed up on the details of what we’ve been talking about, don’t worry!

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Google Now on Tap preview, Android 6.0 launcher aesthetic in Google app update

We don’t know how many of you out there have the Android M preview installed, but if you do, this could be our first public taste of what Google Now On Tap will do for us once Android 6.0 Marshmallow comes around. This is all wrapped inside an update to the Google app, version 5.3 for Android 4.4 or above.You will need ...

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Android M is Marshmallow: Google statue confirms it (Android 6.0, too)

Late last week Google helped get the rumor mill buzzing again about potential Android M launch names. Obviously, we’d be looking at some M-name dessert, and while there were plenty of theories as to just which name Google might decide on, we really didn’t have much confidence in any one tasty treat. That left us thinking we’d still have several weeks to go before Google was ready to make things official and confirm ...

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Google teases possible Android M names in new video

Odds are, we’re just a couple months away from seeing the public release of Android M (alongside some new Nexus hardware). But when it does get here, what name will it take? While it may not ultimately have any impact on the software we get, half the fun of a new Android release is figuring out what dessert-themed name Google’s thought up for the build. For M we’ve already heard plenty of suggestions, from Mars bars, to ...

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LG Nexus phone could be key to Android Pay launch

Among the many announcements that we heard Google make back at I/O earlier this year, we learned of the coming launch of Android Pay, Google’s next-gen mobile payment system and spiritual successor to Google Wallet. And while we’ve known to expect Android Pay to go live following the arrival of Android M later this year, Google hasn’t been sharing a ton of details about just how we’ll see the ...

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