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Google’s next Android M preview release isn’t ready yet (but it should be worth the wait)

Posted on July 31, 2015July 31, 2015 by Stephen Schenck

Our first taste of Android M arrived back in the shadow of Google I/O, and shortly after using its keynote address to announce what we could expect from the next version of its operating system, Google made the first Android M preview release available to developers running Nexus hardware. Several weeks later, back around the start of July, Google was ready to follow that up with with the first big update to its Android ...

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The case against automatic updates on Android

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Joe Levi

None of us “like” out-of-date things. Updates to apps and operating systems bring us new features, improved functionality, better user interfaces, and (most importantly) bug fixes.We all hate bugs, but bugs vary in severity from mildly frustrating to zero-day security holes that can be exploited to do all kinds of nasty stuff. Depending on their type and scope, patches and updates aren’t things that arrive on our smartphones and tablets all that easily. Each bringing its own set of challenges and frustrations.AppsApplications get updated with whatever frequency their ...

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These are the devices committed to Android M so far (updated weekly)

Posted on July 21, 2015July 21, 2015 by Jules Wang

Android M is racing up the update chain and will be arriving before 2015 ends. Our slew of coverage about the software can be found here. But with the features being leaked and trickled every so often from Google, we’re looking forward to the devices that will be updated or introduced with Android M. If you want to keep up with us, you can bookmark this post and check back every Monday evening Eastern Time. We’ll keep it going up ...

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Android M preview hints that final version will be 5.2 (and not 6.0)

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Stephen Schenck

Right now, Google’s offering early access to Android M as a developer preview, and while those releases for Nexus hardware give us the opportunity to go hands-on with the software ahead of its broader launch later this year, they leave us with a few unanswered questions about how Android M will land. The one that gets speculated upon the most may be which dessert item ends up providing the final M-name, but just as big a mystery has been the version numbering Android M will finally take. While ...

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HTC One M8 will be updated to Android M

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Rithvik Rao

It may have been announced in March of 2014, but the HTC One M8 is still very much alive and kicking. It’s widely used today and acknowledged as one of the best phones on the market, still, so a natural question to ask is whether its age means that it’s not going to be seeing any more OS revision updates. With Android M on the horizon for a launch this fall, this question is especially pertinent – and according to HTC Product Manager Mo Versi, the HTC One M8 Android M update will indeed be coming.Android M isn’t as much a leap as Android Lollipop was (as compared to its ...

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The first details about Huawei’s upcoming Nexus smartphone have leaked

Posted on July 15, 2015July 15, 2015 by Rithvik Rao

Well, there’s your bombshell: that Huawei Nexus we keep hearing about – the one that everyone’s been skeptical about, given the fact that Huawei isn’t even very well known in Google’s own home country – looks to be real. Prolific leaker Evan Blass took to Twitter today to lend credence to the idea that we’ll be seeing this smartphone launch soon, as well as through more Huawei Nexus details into the mix.So here’s what we have to work with right now, if Blass’s leak is in fact accurate. For one, this Huawei Nexus is on its way; if Google follows ...

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Google launches first update to the Android M developer preview

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Jaime Rivera

Google spent a great of time telling us what was so great about Android M at Google I/O. Surely Lollipop has gotten better with recent updates, but Android M intends to take things further, and we’ve covered most of what you’ll receive in a recent hands-on video. At the moment this new version of the OS is still a beta for developers, and today it gets an extra polish.Google has just announced its first update ...

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Will Google release its Android M preview for some older Nexus hardware?

Posted on July 2, 2015July 2, 2015 by Stephen Schenck

A little over a month ago, just after announcing Android M at Google I/O, Google made the first Android M preview images available for Nexus devices. With releases for the Nexus 5, Nexus 6, and Nexus 9, developers had the tools they needed to get started working with the new platform release – so long as they had some of this relatively modern Nexus hardware. But what about some of the more senior members of ...

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Should skinned smartphones include a Material Design theme?

Posted on June 29, 2015 by Jules Wang

The Graphical User Interface comes with the lay of the land. Each phone has its own way of telling you that you’ve gone into an application or moving between screens. And every phone has the basics dressed up in a different way. Be it the calendar or SMS or the darn calculator, every OEM wants to put their colors and shapes in the way they want. Let’s face it: GUIs can look gooey.Of course, if you don’t agree with the way your smartphone decided to do up a dialer, you have your choices. This is Android, after all. And from scanning a lot of comments, I can tell that there ...

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Sony Android M preview now available for interested devs

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Stephen Schenck

Sony’s got an interesting relationship with Android updates. On one hand, it sometimes feels like the company’s out there on the bleeding edge of progress, like how last fall it was already teasing Android Lollipop running on its phones just days after public availability began. But then we look at its actual distribution of Lollipop updates and see long waits, not to mention plenty of confusion over just which models ...

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The top 5 Android games you’re not playing (yet)

Posted on June 16, 2015June 16, 2015 by Jules Wang

Ah yes, the summer vacation … the annual pastime of losing your signal along the vast stretches of asphalt and airways. The question is: what are you going to be stuck playing with when that happens? We just might have answers for you here and we won’t waste more than five minutes. A special thanks to those that followed through from our YouTube page, the Play Store links are right below.Jelly Jump

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Android M can’t come soon enough

Posted on June 11, 2015 by Hayato Huseman

Google showed us Android M at its I/O conference a couple of weeks ago, and we’ve been running the preview ever since. It isn’t without its faults, as is the case with just about every developer preview for every platform, but Android M is already leaps and bounds better than Lollipop. The performance, the stability improvements, the battery life… It’s frustrating that these are still issues in the current version of Android after Google has put so much emphasis on improving them over the past ...

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iOS 9 beta vs Android M Developer Preview (Video)

Posted on June 10, 2015June 10, 2015 by Stephen Schenck

What’s the best part of these early days of what sure feels like summer? Grilling out in the backyard? Taking trips to the beach with friends? We guess that stuff’s pretty dope, but for our money, the hot thing to do right now is checking out some next-gen mobile platforms.Over the last few days, both Google and Apple have released the earliest public-facing editions of their forthcoming mobile releases, as the Android M developer preview and the

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Android L Nexus 4 evidence, whispers of Android M emerge

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Stephen Schenck

The public release of Android L is probably just a few weeks away, but for the moment, interested enthusiasts can check out preview builds for certain Nexus devices: the Nexus 5 and 2013 Nexus 7. We’ve wondered in the past if older Nexus models might eventually see Android L updates of their own, and while we still don’t have a definitive answer, new evidence suggests that L is at least being tested on the ...

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