News and notes on the latest from Google.
In case you missed it, the hotly anticipated Amazon Prime Day is today (July 11), and for the first year ever, I’m a bit impressed. Some of the deals had me checking my wallet to see if I could shell out a little consumer impulse. This year, it doesn’t feel as if the retailer wants to just discount overstock items, especially after the barrage of negative feedback it received last year. Go check it out for yourself.
Continue reading “Amazon Prime Day is today, but I bought from eBay”
Android co-founder Andy Rubin’s heavily-hyped phone, the Essential Phone, is now officially delayed. When it launched, Rubin said that it would ship to customers within 30 days, and it seems that hasn’t happened.
Continue reading “Essential Phone buyers will have to wait indefinitely now”
Over the past couple months, Google has been refining Chrome OS and adding some welcome features to it. The latest findings are that Google is working on an entirely revamped launcher for Chrome OS—one built for touch.
Sony is preparing to launch new smartphones yet again. They’re holding their traditional IFA conference on August 31st, where they’ll announce two phones, the G8341 and the G8441. However, the latter just passed through AnTuTu Benchmark, revealing a possible new iteration of their Compact line.
Continue reading “Sony G8441 hits AnTuTu Benchmark, could be the upcoming Xperia XZ Compact”
Earlier in the week, the HMD Global controlled Nokia announced that it had partnered with Xiaomi to explore a use case of Xiaomi’s home-brewed Surge S1 processor in their smartphone lineup. What is interesting is that this relationship marks the beginning of a symbiotic relationship between Xiaomi and Nokia. Ironically, we have also come full circle, in a sense.
Continue reading “Nokia ties up with Xiaomi, Carl Zeiss: Here’s everything you need to know”
We recently posted about the Moto M2, that is rumored to be launching in India this October. It seems that the rumor bandwagon is yet to stop, with more details leaking ahead of the official unveiling of the device.
Continue reading “More Moto M2 specs leak, reveals a smaller 4.6″ screen”
The OxygenOS Beta program has just dropped update 19/10, and it adds some new improvements and customization abilities.
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Rumors about the successor to Motorola’s Moto M device are in full steam today. We have news that the successor to Moto M, touted Moto M2 is going to see a launch in India in October of 2017. The rumored specs of the device state that Motorola is going with a Mediatek Helio P20 processor for this phone. It is supposed to have two variants, one with 4 GB RAM and 32 GB storage, and the other one with 6 GB RAM and 64 GB of storage.
Continue reading “The Moto M2 is coming to India this October”
Patents are just patents. They don’t mean a finished product is underway. According to Patently Mobile, Google has applied for a patent for a touchpad on the backside of a phone.
Continue reading “Future Pixels could come with a backside touchpad”
Google has a knack for testing a lot of its updates and changes through server side changes, and it appears there’s another one for its search engine on Android.
Continue reading “Google appears to be testing another new search UI on mobile”
