The company insists that the Essential PH-1 will remain on its normal software update schedule through mid-2020, even as the fate of the company is uncertain.
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Duplex was great and all. Android P made a big step towards wider, faster distribution. But what about privacy? We talk Google I/O on this week's show.
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The first official Android P details are coming, along with possible Wear OS, Daydream or Google Home software and hardware upgrades. Here's how to follow all the Google I/O 2018 action live online.
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With the past year gone by and a trail of data devastation, we're still stuck with the companies we have to deal with. What's Google doing to make it more bearable?
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It's not just about security while internet browsing, but also an iPhone X user interface motif that might get imported to Android P, according to some conspiratorial monitors.
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On this week's show: Huawei, Xiaomi, Apple and Acer have new hardware, Facebook has newly-revealed problems around the same old concerns and notches, people, notches, what more do you want?
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Even though it's not named Android Wear anymore, the development of Wear OS is still tied down to the main version of Android.
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It was easy to predict but that doesn't make it any less sad. Discontinued way back in 2016, Google's Nexus Player is officially reaching the end of the road in terms of software support as well.
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The FBI recruited Best Buy employees as an arm of the law, but did it breach citizens' Fourth Amendment rights? That plus Android P and HTC phone feedback on our show!
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The second developer preview will be released at around the time of Google I/O. Even with five scheduled updates in total, Android P is expected to go public in the third quarter.
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Other big points for app makers include a flooding threshold for to encourage the API level support and idle state apps not being able to record device sensor data. Images for Pixel phones are available.
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Last year, the Android O Developer Preview came in on March 21. Reasonable enough to think that P could follow in that trend. There's even more features to spoil in this post.
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Some apps may be recording audio from your phone's microphone while they are latent to tune their ad-serving. Android P may stop that behavior.
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Android Pistachio Ice Cream may or may not be the name of Google's next big OS upgrade. But notch designs will be natively supported either way, according to a very reputable publication.
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When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza WHAT? Code for the "future" has been appended to the AOSP gerrit and it's taking us to the next level.
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