The task of rooting an Android device has grown tall recently and with Android Nougat, there are now several roadblocks in the way that would prevent developers from getting in to root the upcoming Pixel phones — built on Nougat from the ground up — with ease.The first block is a kernel feature in Nougat called “device-mapper-verity” that checks the /system directory of the device while it is booting to see if ...
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The HTC 10 has an IP53 rating that guarantees that the phone will be protected from dust getting into its vital components and for spraying water for up to five minutes. The way devices get tested for that rating is vigorous and, while not government-regulated, is pretty important to the International Electrotechnical Commission.HTC, said to make this year’s Google Nexus
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One HTC-made “Nexus” device, codenamed “Marlin” and perhaps to be brought to market as the “Pixel XL,” may use an entirely new mobile camera sensor from Sony.@LlabTooFeR, the source of several previous leaks on HTC, has tweeted out some supposed camera information for the Pixel XL.HTC ...
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The Nexus brand seems to be in a moribund state as of right now. There’s been word that we won’t get to know the devices of HTC’s craft running Google’s vision of Android as “Nexuses.”Now comes word from one reliable source to Android Police and another separate source that the device codenamed “Sailfish,” with a 5-inch ...
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This year’s supposed HTC-made Nexus devices, codenamed “Marlin” and “Sailfish,” may not have “Nexus” in their names.Sources to Android Central are instead saying that “Google” will be integral to the branding of the phones. Another integral part to the products is that they will feature special and exclusive software features beyond the set given on Android Nougat.Completely muddled in all of this is what may or may not be included in
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It seems that the Nexus 5 will remain the smartphone apex of value-for-dollar in Google’s standardized Android device lineup.With all of the top-of-the-line specifications and standardized hardware design that have been discussed for both the smaller “Sailfish” and larger ...
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There’s another Snapdragon 820 device from HTC just beginning to make the rounds on GFXBench. We already think that the Nexus devices will get Android 7.1 before they launch, though.So, what’s this thing with Android 6.0.1? Perhaps the Desire 10 Pro? It seems like it.It has all the typical trimmings: 4GB of RAM, 32GB of storage and a 12-megapixel camera on the back with a 5-megapixel front facer.But is that quad HD screen really at 5.1 inches?
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LG may get the first word in for putting out the first Android Nougat smartphone on September 6. But that’s just word. Not phones in boxes being sent through a postal delivery system.Instead, the HTC-made Nexus devices — rumored to debut on October 4 — will actually ship first. That’s the word according to Android Police managing editor David Ruddock. Yes, ...
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Documents have popped up at the FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology for two new HTC devices. We are certain that these are the much rumored Nexus devices.NM8G-2PW2100 is what we’re assuming to be the smaller “Sailfish” model while G-2PW4100 will be the “Marlin”. The Draft User Manual submissions required for both devices mention the Google Nexus support site.The special “G” notation for the models is something new ...
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Something real has seemingly appeared on the Nexus front. It is not like anything we’ve seen before, unless you count very vague appraisals and a generic slab non-Easter egg in a Google Photos ad that everyone (including us) thought it just might have been similar enough to something else.That said, what else can manufacturers’ slab culture run ...
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Google continues its promotional campaign for its Photos service, but with one big detail that feels quite out of touch.The Instagram clip shows some Google groupies ready posing for the ubiquitous “freeze jump” shot when just as the phone’s about to take the photo, an iOS prompt tells us that the phone’s storage is full. We pull back from the screen to see a hand flick away the prompt, right past the Google Photos pinwheel logo.“Never run out of storage ...
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Perhaps this thing about Google being more assertive in its design on its Nexus phones has a whole bunch of implications that we may have to dive into come release time.Remember the Night Mode feature that was dropped so long ago? We remember it every night when an urgent notification interrupts our rest and we ...
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The new Nexuses may share a single a single design despite their rumored size differences. Whether or not you consider it as good news or bad depends on how you view these prospective renders. And if you’re seeing what we’re seeing, one thing comes to mind — it’s as if the Nexus 6P’s glass capsule on back started swallowing rear-side real estate like “The Blob”.We ...
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The M1 crawls from the edge of London all the way up through the Midlands up to Aberford in West Yorkshire where it meets up with the A1. We say it crawls because the M1, also a codename for a rumored HTC-made Google Nexus device this year, seems to be crawling and holding itself back.The device, also known as “Marlin,” now appears in a Geekbench log running Android N — because duh — ...
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When one shoe drops, the other shoe has to at some point. When one of two Nexus devices — both supposedly made by HTC — got its specifications splayed out in the open, you knew that the other had to be outed sooner or later. Well, Android Police has an idea of what a 5.5-inch phablet will bring, thanks to its source.So, what’s going on with this spearfish? An
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