Ever since the Stagefright scandal in 2015, Google began offering up regular security patches and manufacturers tagged along very loosely.
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Carriers and manufacturers are taking Android security updates seriously
It's been a two-year campaign to make Android a safer mobile platform. That requires a lot of maintenance and all parts of the provisions machine running.
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Gartner: Windows phones sales for OEMs total 750,000 for Q2
Microsoft’s efforts in mobile have downsized and downplayed in accordance with its downsized sales of Windows phones. It’s a trend that doesn’t look to be reversing without major stimuli.As Microsoft reported only 1.2 million Lumia sales for the second calendar quarter, research firm Gartner believes that the company’s manufacturer partners have only been able to sell about 750,000 smartphones.Windows phone sales wedged in just under 2 million units for ...
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Pichai: Nexus stays with OEMs, but Google has more authority
Google knows what it wants when it comes to Android hardware. It always could make those machines on its own, but it doesn’t as a favor to the manufacturers that it would be cannibalizing. Instead, those OEMs help Google execute its reference designs.But something changed when Mountain View decided to make the Pixel C. The company put in ...
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ASUS celebrates third year of being Taiwan’s top global brand
Ah, Taiwan. For tiny quasi-country not recognized by the UN, it can fit a lot onto an island. Home to great food, extremely varied climate and a ton of techies — semiconductors to original equipment manufacturers to plain ‘ol manufacturing in general. HTC has set up shop here along with Acer and ASUS.To make Taiwan ...
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Lightning-fast OEM Android updates: an OEM success or a Google failure?
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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Windows Phone Needs More OEMs
My esteemed colleague, Stephen Schenck, wrote yesterday that by the time Windows Phone 9, or whatever it will be called, comes out Nokia may be the only player left at the Windows Phone blackjack table. It got me to thinking – it’s not completely crazy and could easily happen. Nokia enjoys a special relationship with Microsoft – a sort of friends with benefits kind of relationship. Microsoft pays Nokia, Nokia pays Microsoft, Nokia puts together a nice little perk package in Windows Phone 8, ...
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Dear OEM’s. I’m Sick Of Compromise
I was having one of my rare introspective moments the other day when I suddenly realized something. This is something that has been building for quite some time. It has also been expressed by a number of technology folk I interact with. It’s an uncomfortable feeling, not exactly boredom, but it’s definitely a feeling of discontent with the mobile industry. Everywhere you look in the mobile industry in 2013 there is nothing but compromise. Every phone has some sort of trade-off. You can have this, but not this. You can have that, but not that. Pretty much every phone out there has ...