Category: Android

June 21, 2017

Even after years of trying various ways to reduce Android fragmentation, Google’s most notorious mobile OS issue appears to be getting worse, as Marshmallow literally just surpassed the three year-old Lollipop’s popularity while Nougat is barely looking to break the […]

June 16, 2017

Although slower than other Android OEMs, Sony continues to push the long-awaited Android 7.0 Nougat update to many of its smartphones. Fans who own the Xperia XA Ultra will be pleased to know that their handsets are the next to […]

June 9, 2017

There may not be any huge, user-facing additions in the Android O Developer Preview 3 release that came out today, but there is one interesting tidbit of info contained within the update. In the new Android O Dev Preview 3 […]

June 6, 2017

It’s not really fair to compare the “installed base” of the latest iOS version with Android distribution numbers, and Apple knows that full well, but at a dev-focused conference where macOS High Sierra debuted (for real), we shouldn’t be surprised […]

June 6, 2017

Keeping updates on schedule, the BlackBerry Security Incident Response Team has now announced they have begun the rollout of the June Android security update for BlackBerry smartphones. As per normal, once downloaded and installed, you should see your security patch […]

June 2, 2017

These days, most mobile OS upgrades tend to revolve more around refining than reinventing. That’s basically been the case with Android since 2015’s Marshmallow release — and that’s not to say the updates have been inconsequential. They’ve just been more […]

May 25, 2017

Google I/O was just last week and it has almost passed from our memory as if it never happened. Sure, we’re super excited about some of the neat things coming to Android, but there were no skydivers, or robots bursting […]

May 19, 2017

Though we got out first peek at Android O back in March, Google finally revealed  more details this week at its I/O developers conference about the soon-to-drop version of Android. Though we’re still quite a ways away from the official […]

May 18, 2017

Google properly unveiled Android O during its main keynote at Google I/O 2017, though the new mobile OS system was launched in preview mode a few months ago. The Android O Developer Preview is technically available to developers only, and […]

May 17, 2017

What could the LG G5 and HTC One M9 possibly have in common, aside from low sales figures and the imminence of oblivion? Fun fact – while they may seem just as old, obsolete and unattractive, one is actually 12 […]