Android tablets, both low-cost and “premium”, don’t seem to be going anywhere, and it’s been that way for several years now. It’s perhaps no coincidence Google also inexplicably stopped manufacturing 7-inch Nexuses back in 2013, focusing on larger, far less popular form factors.The 2014-released HTC-produced N9 was practically forgotten before 2013’s second-gen ...
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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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Owners of some Nexus devices (Nexus 6, Nexus 5, Nexus 9, Nexus 7 2013, and Nexus Player) can already get a taste of Android 6.0 Marshmallow thanks to Google, who made the factory images available on its servers. But what if you own a smartphone (or a tablet, for that matter), and your carrier of choice is T-Mobile? Magenta confirmed the Marshmallow update to be in the works for 17 of the devices on its line-up.The page also reiterates something we know so well (and learned to hate) concerning ...
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Google’s Nexus event has just finished, and the company made sure it didn’t disappoint. Not only did we find ourselves with a new batch of powerful Nexus devices to choose from, whether you’re on a budget or not, but we also saw Google announce a major update to its Google Chromecast, in addition to its
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To a certain extent, it feels natural for mobile enthusiasts to show a lot more interest in hardware upgrades prepped by Google rather than software makeovers. The two new Nexuses in the pipeline are palpable and, if you disregard the recent rumor flood, more secretive than
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To be able to get the most out of your smartphone or tablet, you really need to be able to trust it: trust it with details about your personal life, your finances, and plenty of other specifics that you’d rather not fall into the wrong hands. The companies behind these devices are growing more cognizant to that fact, and we just heard from Samsung about how it intends to make security a big priority going forward, and plans to deliver monthly security updates to its Android phones. Just after ...
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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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After Android 5.0 Lollipop debuted with the Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 last fall, Google was quick to start making Lollipop updates available for most of the rest of the Nexus family. We saw phones and tablets alike graduate from KitKat to Android 5.0, then 5.0.1, and most recently, a few select models have been graced with Android 5.0.2. And while that was great, not every Nexus device was so quick to join the Lollipop party: despite Google making
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In January of 2012 something magical happened: executives from Asus and Google got together and began work on a project that would change the face of mobile computing. Apple had released the first iPad two years earlier and OEMs had followed suit with tablets powered by Android shortly thereafter. All the options – both Apple and Android – were relatively costly. What Asus and Google did changed the industry. Those two powerhouses came together and built a tablet with very respectable specifications and a price that couldn’t be matched.
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We were only just starting to see Android 5.0.1 hit the last stragglers of the Nexus family: this past Monday, the Nexus 5 finally saw its OTA incoming. And with that, all the Nexus phones that would be getting the update had access to it, following earlier availability for many Nexus tablets. But the weeks that follow the release of a major Android update like Lollipop are ones that are inevitability chaotic, full of devs scrambling to correct little issues that made it through the cracks or deliver ...
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We know that you’re all super-tired with Android 5.0 at this point, it’s just so old. In case you somehow feel that way, we have quite the treat for you: say hello to Android 5.0.1. The update, mainly to squash the various bugs we found in the initial Lollipop build, has been pushed to AOSP and factory images have been made available for select Nexus devices to sideload as well.As far as we can tell, build number LRX22C (which flies in AOSP as Android 5.0.1_r1, by the way), brings no functional changes to Lollipop – it’s mainly a compilation of fixes to a bunch of ...
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Android 5.0 Lollipop, the latest iteration of Google’s mobile operating system, has been rolling out since the beginning of the month. Not everyone has gotten it yet, and some won’t get the update at all. Because of the rapid development cycle of consumer electronics these days, OEMs don’t have much incentive to update “old” devices with new versions of operating systems, it’s much more profitable just to sell you a new device with the new OS already on it.One of the purposes of the Nexus program is so ...
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It’s a big day for Android 5.0 Lollipop, and following Motorola’s confirmation that this year’s Moto X and Moto G were seeing their Lollipop updates go public, we got word from Sprint that we should be on the lookout for an update to the Nexus 5. As we mentioned in an update to that story, Google has since tweeted that “the rollout has started,” but we were careful to not read too much into what it meant there without getting some further confirmation. Based on a growing number of ...
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Android 5.0 Lollipop has managed to get a lot of users excited, and, sadly, the longer you have to wait for something you want, the more you want it. OEMs are doing their best (but so far only a select few have managed to succeed) to offer timely updates to Google’s latest and greatest, and if you have an original Nexus 7 tablet (2012), you’ll be happy to know that Nexus 7 Android Lollipop factory images are now leaked and available for you to try out.The build number is LRX21P, and, according to reports, these have a great chance of being final versions of the firmware. ...
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With all the news about Android 5.0 Lollipop, Google’s flagship tablet (the Nexus 9), and Apple’s updated iPads, it might be easy for some to forget that those aren’t the only tablets available these days. Google’s recent “Be together. Not the same.” ad campaign illustrates what I’m talking about. If you’re in the States and want a Nexus 9 you can head over to the Play Store and pre-order one that will ship by November 3rd. If you’re not in the States, if the Nexus 9 is too big, or if you’re looking for something a little ...
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