Tag: android

New technology is developing fast in this day and age. However, it always takes its share of time before actually making it to widespread activity. Google is not known to advocate radical changes and cut off on traditional technology ruthlessly unlike Apple. However, they might be trying to do something similar in the case of their Android apps. In the...

Google, owned by Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL), has estimated that at the end of 2018, the number of devices running Android Pie will be more than the number of devices that were running Android Oreo at the end of 2017. This has come across as an extremely odd claim to make when considering the very few devices having the latest Android version at...

Since last few days, Xiaomi has been posting the images and videos of its highly anticipated, upcoming flagship smartphone, the Mi Mix 3, on its official Twitter account. Armed with features like a dual front-facing camera of 24MP and 960 FPS video support, Xiaomi is all set to spice up the competition in the premium smartphone segment with its Mi...

In today's day and age, smartphones have become absolutely fundamental to our way of life, so much so that our smartphones have basically become an extension of our personalities. And just like personalities, different people appreciate different smartphone designs and features. Nowhere is this more apparent than in one's choice of mobile OS.Most people either are Google Android enthusiasts...

Google, owned by Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) recently released data on Android OS version distribution data, and the story is much the same as it has always been with Android. As we have come to expect, there remains a great degree of Android fragmentation in the user-base when it comes to the version of Android their devices are running on. According to...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has rocked the smartphone world with their decision to discontinue iPhone X and release three new iPhones - iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR. Now, looks like Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (KRX:005930) is following the footstep of Apple. Rumours had been going around for some time now that Samsung is going to release three new models in...

Alphabet Inc.'s Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) has kicked off the technology takeover of the global automotive industry with a sensational new deal with global automotive conglomerate Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi that is sure to make the whole industry sit up and take notice. According to the terms of the deal, Google will provide in-car infotainment systems based on their Android operating system for...

Unless a third relevant player enters the Smartphone OS market, which seems quite unlikely at present though, there will always be a comparison between the two biggest players in the domain - Android of Google and iOS of Apple - for one or some other reason. And this time, it's about the data collection category. It has been reported...

This has been a firing debate for almost a decade now; Android Smartphone vs iPhone, which could be a better choice. While it's really impossible to find something very conclusive, efforts are on to understand why a smartphone user jump off the ship. Apple fanboys find iOS ecosystem much more stable and secure than Android, while, on the other...

The release of Android Pie version has put a lot of Android developers on work. Most of them are busy in figuring out the new changes Google has introduced with Android 9.0, aka Android P. But among all, the change in call recording in Android Smartphone has caught the eyeballs of Android app developers. With the release of Android Pie...

In a bid to overcome Android's long pending battery performance issue, most Android users always have a battery saver app installed on their smartphone. Google has been constantly working hard with each version of the Android OS to make it more adorable. While Android fragmentation is the biggest challenge for Google, the battery performance issue has been a major...

Good news for all WhatsApp users! For all the users who were tired with the spam links forwarded on WhatsApp, that more often than not contained malicious downloads, you all can heave a sigh of relief. WhatsApp has finally stepped up and solved the prolonged issue of receiving such spam links. Amidst increasing concerns regarding the circulation of fake...

Andy Rubin, in our opinion, is one of the most impressive personalities who not only had the skills of an inventor, but also the acumen of a business person. The founder of Android, now a part of Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG), has also a slew of patents on his name and is the reason smart-phone adoption in the world has...

Although Google Chrome OS is not the most popular OS of the likes of MAC and Windows, it is the first to narrow the gap between smartphone and computing environments. Among the host of announcements in the latest Google I/O show, a few developments related to Google's web-based OS managed to create the 'buzzword' in the operating system vocabulary.The...

Android's vulnerability is not something unfathomable. Despite, security researchers have finally discovered an effective way to hijack an Android phone remotely through a nearly four-year-old hacking technique known as 'Rowhammer'. On Thursday, researchers from Vusec research group published a paper that unveils how the Rowhammer exploit, dubbed as GLitch, leverages embedded GPUs to remotely execute malicious code in Android...

The lust and love for Apple's products among employees are once again proved. iPhone over Android and Mac over Windows is the choice for enterprise employees.Communication tools - majorly computers and mobile devices - have become a vital partner for any business enterprise since information technology came into existence. Workplace these days is dominated by technology apart from people,...