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Android N is now officially Android Nougat

Android N is now officially Android Nougat

Google has officially N-ounced that Android N is no longer Android N: it’s Android Nougat! Nougat was a medium-strength contender for the name of the upcoming OS, and while we still don’t have a version number, everyone knows it’s the dessert part that’s more exciting anyway. https://twitter.com/Android/status/748547400210472961 Here’s a picture of the statue, which, frankly, seems like a pretty…

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Microsoft and Xiaomi expand partnership to bring productivity services to millions of devices and customers

Microsoft and Xiaomi expand partnership to bring productivity services to millions of devices and customers

Microsoft Corp. and Xiaomi Inc. have expanded their global partnership to provide innovative user experiences on mobile devices. As part of the agreement, Xiaomi will ship Microsoft Office and Skype on Xiaomi Android smartphones and tablets. As a result, tens of millions of consumers and business customers in China, India and around the world will have new ways to work, collaborate and…

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ASUS Introduces Three New, Affordable Giant ZenFone 3 Phones, One With a 6.8-Inch Display

ASUS Introduces Three New, Affordable Giant ZenFone 3 Phones, One With a 6.8-Inch Display

Computex is currently in full swing this week and ASUS has done their typical big production for the event. That, of course, means lots of new products in all of their categories, but it also means new ZenFone models. Today, we have the ZenFone 3 family, which includes three phones with massive screens and what I would consider to be rock-bottom prices. First up, we have the ZenFone 3 Deluxe…

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OPPO honors one of the world’s greatest football clubs with F1 Plus FC Barcelona Edition

OPPO honors one of the world’s greatest football clubs with F1 Plus FC Barcelona Edition

Exactly one year ago today, up-and-coming smartphone manufacturer OPPO unveiled a somewhat surprising and no doubt costly promotional partnership with FC Barcelona, which only one week later walked away from the Olympiastadion in Berlin with its fifth ever UEFA Champions League trophy. In the meantime, OPPO surged and surged and surged, becoming a force to be reckoned with in the global mobile…

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Samsung shows off its next-generation smartphone display: 5.5-inch, VR ready with 806ppi pixel density

Samsung shows off its next-generation smartphone display: 5.5-inch, VR ready with 806ppi pixel density

During last week’s Display Week festivities in San Francisco, Samsung showed off its next generation smartphone display. The 5.5-inch screen is “VR ready” and features a resolution of 2160 x 3840. That works out to a pixel density of 806ppi, which is 44.7% higher than the pixel density found on today’s displays. Those who had a look at the screen commented on how bright and clear it looked, but…

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Cult-Favorite iOS Weather App ‘Dark Sky’ Rumbles Onto Android

Cult-Favorite iOS Weather App ‘Dark Sky’ Rumbles Onto Android

LORD KNOWS, THE last thing the world needs is another weather app. OK, except maybe this weather app: Dark Sky, a longtime iOS favorite, has finally made its way to Android. In the years since Dark Sky first launched iOS (as a successful Kickstarter, no less), other weather apps have caught up with its to-the-minute forecasts. AccuWeather, for instance, in 2014 introduced something called…

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YouTube tests an in-app messenger for sharing videos with friends

YouTube tests an in-app messenger for sharing videos with friends

YouTube as a messaging app? Sure, why not! Everyone’s doing it, after all. In case you missed it: YouTube announced this week that it’s testing a new feature with a subset of its mobile app user base that will allow them to easily share videos with family and friends. Users with the feature can chat about those videos in a new tab in the app, the company says. The feature makes sense, as a lot of…

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Android 6.0 Marshmallow Distribution Rises To 7.5%

Android 6.0 Marshmallow Distribution Rises To 7.5%

Last month and last we checked, Android 6.0 Marshmallow’s distribution was sitting at 4.6%, but now according to the latest figures offered by Google on the Android Developer Dashboard, it looks like that number has since risen to 7.5%. Granted this is a pretty big leap but apparently it is still slow when compared to previous versions of Android, such as Lollipop. That being said, Lollipop’s…

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Google Keyboard 5.0 Arrives With Lots of feature

Google Keyboard 5.0 Arrives With Lots of feature

Google Keyboard just showed up today as v5.0 and it is packed full of awesomeness. We’re talking about keyboard height adjustments, borders around keys, one-handed mode, new gestures, and some new layouts when in the number and symbol layout, that includes a flip to a dial pad. The other gesture is much simpler and its a way to use the spacebar as a cursor adjustor. By sliding your finger across…

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LG’s phone fingerprint sensor doesn’t need a button Existing phone fingerprint readers are less than ideal. When they're on the back, you can't sign in while the phone sits on your desk; on the front, they chew up valuable device real estate; on the side, they're tiny.

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Huawei EMUI for look like stock Android N theme running

Huawei EMUI for look like stock Android N theme running

Android N is my new theme for EMUI 3.1 & EMUI 4.0 Fully compatible with EMUI 3.1 & EMUI 4.0 -Very large palette of muffin icons -Beautiful design Android N -Interesting color gamma and select the[/B] How to install: Download ZIP file, unzip it and place the .hwt file in HWThemes and apply it in Themes app. Restart your phone -> Done! IMPORTANT: The theme was tested on Huawei P8 Lite EMUI 3.1 and…

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Samsung is testing a power efficient TouchWiz launcher

Samsung is testing a power efficient TouchWiz launcher

Samsung has been trying to address TouchWiz-related issues since the launch of the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge by dialing down on software customization. The company is now trying to leverage Vulkan APIs to optimise the TouchWiz launcher. The Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge were the first smartphones in the world to use Vulkan APIs for improved graphics performance. At the ongoing Samsung Developers…

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Security updates hit Samsung Galaxy A8 & Galaxy A3

Security updates hit Samsung Galaxy A8 & Galaxy A3

Samsung has started rolling out security updates to a couple of its A series smartphones, including the Galaxy A8 and Galaxy A3. The former (model SM-A800F) is getting the April security patch, with the update bumping the firmware version to A800FXXU1APD1. On the other hand, the Galaxy A3 update – which bumps the firmware version to XXU1BPC2 – brings the security patch for the month of March as…

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Instagram is testing a new black & white design

Instagram is testing a new black & white design

Of all the major social platforms, Instagram has evolved the slowest. (Insiders might say “the most thoughtfully.”) Long after the rest of the world has moved away from skeuomorphism, Instagram continues to use a realistic camera as its icon. But there are signs that the app is modernizing: new screenshots show Instagram moving away from its blue-and-orange aesthetic into plain old black and…

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Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 and Mi 5 open sale kicks off in India Xiaomi's conducting an open sale of theRedmi Note 3 and the Mi 5, making the phones available for purchase without a registration for the first time.

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MIUI 8 to arrive alongside Mi Max on May 10, Xiaomi confirms

MIUI 8 to arrive alongside Mi Max on May 10, Xiaomi confirms

The post was also accompanied by a video demo for the MIUI 8 notification bar. The Xiaomi Mi Max – which is said to sport a mammoth 6.4-inch FullHD display – will be unveiled on May 10. However, turns out that Xiaomi will make a couple of more announcements that day – the company has confirmed that the next major iteration of its MIUI ROM as well as the Mi Band 2 will also be unveiled on May 10.…

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OnePlus 3 might have a whopping 6 GB of RAM

OnePlus 3 might have a whopping 6 GB of RAM

We’re still expecting the OnePlus 3 in Q2 of this year, so you should definitely expect the rumor mill to start churning things out as we get closer to the middle of the year. The newest rumor about the device suggests that we might see two different variants of the device, and one of the might have an insane amount of RAM. Some new benchmarks have cropped up of the A3000 and the A3003, both of…