Water is wet, grass is green, and Nutella is the tastiest dessert that starts with the letter N. Don’t even try to think of a sweeter treat, as everything from nougat to nocciola, Neapolitan, Norman tart and New York Cheesecake (?!) feels embarrassingly inferior.Why is then Google still considering a number of candidates, including some proposed by you, for the ...
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We’ve been running the iOS 10 developer preview for a little more than a day, but it’s not the only BETA being run in our offices. We also have Google’s latest build of Android N running on a Nexus 5X. We think it’s time for a comparison.This is a big update for Apple, reaching the tenth iteration of iOS, a lot of attention has been paid towards streamlining interactions, incorporating more 3D Touch and gesture support, and catching a few services up which have been lagging behind the competition.Likewise, Google has a lot riding on Android N, in making this build ...
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Memory leaks are regrettably nothing new for even vanilla Android builds, with Google’s software engineers struggling to quash a widespread system bug of this nature in Lollipop pretty much since 5.0 debuted.The issue, or rather multiple similar issues uniting and disguising as one, carried over into version 5.1, then were ultimately kinda sorta fixed, but returned with a bang in Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Once again, online reports flagging ...
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Google’s kept up one of the longest name games for its next version of Android this year. It did not reveal the full name of Android N at its I/O conference. Instead, it got its fans to contribute some ideas.Well, time’s up. We’re soon to learn about what “tasty treat” Google will go with for what’s rumored to be
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You probably didn’t pay much attention to ZTE’s secondary announcement of a basic VR headset with Daydream support alongside the exquisite-looking new Axon 7 phone yesterday, but it turns out that might well have been the absolute highlight of the company’s Beijing event.It’s a pretty big deal that the ZTE Axon 7 and its head-strapped partner will be ...
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We recently produced a video tour of the newest Android N preview, and viewers were quick to point out an omission. This build of Android lacked a dark theme. This has been a long requested feature in the Nexus community, and we’ve seen glimpses of it pop up in BETA builds, but Developer Preview 3 has cut the ability to go dark.Why go dark?Some might see this as a throwback to the Holo theme days of Android 4, but there are some advantages in making a phone’s interface dark. For folks using phones with AMOLED displays, ...
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We know that the OnePlus 3 will get an out-of-this-world purchase experience and a decent 8-megapixel selfie camera. We think we know that it has a 20W charging solution that may get branded as “
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We know that the OnePlus 3 will get an out-of-this-world purchase experience and a decent 8-megapixel selfie camera. We think we know that it has a 20W charging solution that may get branded as “
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Android developers are starting to get what we want to do on our tablets — read a whole bunch of stuff at once. And in the latest Developer Preview, we can definitely do that on Chrome.Taking advantage of the Split Screen feature that got canonized this week, opening up Chrome and looking at the extended context menu will allow you ...
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We’ve been watching the Android N previews closely. Following Google I/O 2016, the Android team released a new BETA of the yet-to-be-named mobile operating system. We’ve already detailed most of the exciting changes coming to our phones and tablets, like better multi-tasking support and the new notification shade in previous videos.Google is in a tricky position with this round ...
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There’s a new Moto G coming soon. How will it compete in a market full of mid-range and entry-level phones? Google I/O delivered some exciting developer news, what might consumers have to look forward to on Android? The Nokia brand is returning to smartphones! What might we see out of Finland?Plus, we’ll be announcing the winners of our 200th episode giveaway!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
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Google didn’t really go into as much detail about Android N as we’d have liked during its big I/O 2016 keynote, leaving the dessert name decision (partially) up to us, only hinting at the version number, and vaguely bringing up
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Google I/O’s keynote was yesterday and today all the developers are attending learning sessions where they can dive deeper into some of what was presented in the keynote – and a quite a bit more. Now that the hype from the keynote is over, and the glitz and glamor are starting to wear off, let’s take a closer look at the Google I/O 2016 keynote and see what we really learned.Google I/O 2016 KeynoteIn the keynote, a spoken sentence could contain several announcements or unveil numerous changes to the current ecosystem. Sometimes the full impact of what that sentence ...
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And with that, Android has suddenly lost its touch.There’s been plenty of experimentation with a string of code that makes use of Force Touch at the homescreen level. What was dubbed as “Launcher Shortcuts” took a bit of engineering from app developers to suss out, but we hoped that enough progress would be made for it to be a mentioned feature at Google I/O. Well, it didn’t get mentioned among
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Google expanded its Cardboard VR efforts with the announcement of its Daydream project at I/O yesterday. But while manufacturers are working off of the reference designs for the requisite headset and controller right now, Google itself has gone on to confirm that it’s making its own headset and controller.Clay Bavor, chief of VR at the company, made the announcement at an I/O presentation called “VR at Google”. It’s the second original manufacturing push for Mountain View in recent ...
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