Tag: Android
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Android Marshmallow now running on over 15.2 percent devices: Report
Search engine giant Google has posted its Android distribution numbers for the month of August. According to the data, the latest Android Marshmallow is now running at 15.2 percent, an increase of 1.9 percentage points compared to last month’s 13.3 percent. KitKat is still at the helm of things powering 29.2 percent of smartphones running…
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Android Nougat 7.0 release date this month, tipped by leakster
According to a report, Google will presumably release the next Android version this month itself. The Android 7.0 Nougat may be unveiled two months before schedule. We generally get to see a new Android version in the month of October every year. In the year 2014, Google started the Android Developer Preview initiative with the Android…
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WhatsApp withdrawing support for Nokia, BlackBerry, Windows phones
If you work with old Symbian OS based Nokia smartphones, you will not be able to work with WhatsApp messaging app from December 31, 2016. Moreover, WhatsApp has decided to drop support for older versions of Android, Windows Phone, and iOS by the year end. If you make use of a smartphone with Symbian OS,…
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Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Vs Huawei Ascend Mate 8: Which one to buy?
China is a humongous market and yet there is only a handful of leaders in its smartphone market with the top two of them being Xiaomi, the privately owned Chinese electronics company and Huawei, the Chinese multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company. For the record, Catalys has reported that, as data from the…
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Amazon offers Samsung Galaxy S6 32GB UNLOCKED post-Cyber Monday deal for $499
Christmas shopping season is right around the corner, and the Seattle-based online retailing giant has already commenced a spree of deals on flagship Android smartphones, now also including Samsung’s Galaxy S6. Amongst the best-selling tech products during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping season were smartphones, especially the high-end ones, which come with stellar…
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Sony Xperia Z5 Compact Review: A quality mid-range smartphone, but is it worth the money?
Sony brought a whole generation to the Z5 series (Z5, Z5 Compact, Z5 Premium) and the Compact lies somewhere in the middle. As the name suggests, it has a compact design, an outstanding camera with nearly limitless possibilities and it’s just a pity that Sony stuck with the 720p display instead of a Full HD…
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Discount on LG G4 and Samsung Galaxy S6 smartphone: Which Black Friday 2015 deal is the best?
It’s that time of the year again. We’re getting closer and closer to Black Friday, also known as “The Day After Thanksgiving”, a day that the news media have long described as the busiest shopping day of the year. The popularity of this shopping celebration-day comes from a combination of reasons. “As the first day…
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Microsoft Corporation Windows Mobile smartphone shipments plunged 35%
According to the latest statistics released by market research firm Gartner on Wednesday, Windows Mobile shipments hit the floor in the third quarter, plummeting 35% from the same period in 2014. Such percentages are highly concerning, especially considering that the overall smartphone shipments at a global scale climbed an impressive 15% in Q3. According to…
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Microsoft Corporation Skype UPDATE for Android lets users save video messages
Skype, the first app of its kind, decided to make a cumulative update for its Android version, in order to add several brand new features that seem to come in pretty handy. The new version 6.11 turns Skype into something more than a video calling and texting application. It actually gives the user new options;…
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Google Inc. will merge Chrome OS with Android in 2017
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA- Google Inc., (NASDAQ: GOOG) A new report has surfaced suggesting that the search giant is planning to merge its Chrome OS web-only software with its mobile operating system, Android. Google first talked about the ChromeOS operating system back in the July of 2009, while current Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, called the product at…