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The mobile phone world is a strange one, a place where keeping up with the inexorable march of progress means working out how to pawn a new iPhone or Galaxy device shortly after the setup screen closes. It was perhaps inevitable that Google, which released the premium Google Pixel phone in October last year, would hop on the yearly…
Google Pixel XL users were surprised to see that they had received the May Android Security Update ahead of time. It was then discovered that this was a test internal build – called a dogfood build – for Google developers to test out the security patches ahead of the actual release to the public. Google…
LG Display is the new star in the OLED constellation. With Samsung’s production capacity stretched to its limits due to iPhone 8 requirements, its South Korean peer electronics giant LG and its display unit are now under the spotlight. Apple is keen on LG supplying OLED screens for its 2018 iPhones, but Alphabet might want…
South Korea’s Electronic Times has reported that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is offering LG Display Co. an investment of up to $880 million to ensure the smooth supply of flexible OLED panels that are used to make curved smartphone screens. One possible assumption is that one or all of the Google Pixel 2 lineup of…
Last year’s Google Pixel and Pixel XL set several benchmarks for smartphones, not the least of which was the performance of its camera, which is now considered one of the best in the industry according to several sources and benchmark sites. But what about Google Pixel 2 and the lineup of three devices for 2017?…
We’ve known this for some time now as a rumor, but the Android Open Source Project has just confirmed the codenames of the three Google Pixel 2 smartphones that are slated for release later this year. Spotted by Android Police in an AOSP gerrit (Gerrit is a collaborative code review tool developed by Google’s Shawn Pearce)…
According to reports on 9to5Google and information from Reddit users, the Google Pixel C tablet is getting an OS update to Android 7.1.2 Nougat, which brings a makeover that tweaks the UI to be more like the company’s Google Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones. Until now this update has been available to beta testers, but is…
It is widely known that Google has no intention of stopping with the Google Pixel line of smartphones. The company has already confirmed its plans for the second lineup of Google Pixel 2 and Google Pixel 2 XL smartphones, along with a possible third, larger phone currently going under the codename Taimen. But a recent…
As you might know, Android O, the successor to the Android Nougat mobile operating system from Alphabet’s Google was released to developers as a preview earlier this week. The new mobile OS for Android devices is currently available as Developer Preview 1 (DP 1) for Nexus and Pixel devices, and we’ve covered some of the…
What people are now referring to by its codename – Taimen – or even Google Pixel 2 XXL (we know it’s not going to have the Pixel branding, though) appears to be a device much bigger than what we’re typically used to. But how big can a smartphone be before it is no longer a smartphone –…
It’s been almost exactly one year since Google launched the Android N Developer Preview. Starting today, Google is releasing the dev preview of its latest mobile operating system version, Android O (we speculated earlier that it stands for Oreo) and developers can now download the preview version to see what’s new. Or, you can keep reading……
We’ve known for some time now that Alphabet will be launching two new Pixel smartphones this year – the Google Pixel 2 and Google Pixel 2 XL – but information has recently emerged about a third, much bigger device from Google that may not have the Pixel branding. Codenamed Taimen (the Eurasian giant trout, and…
It appears that Google Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones are facing serious issues with their three built-in microphones. In a thread on their support forum, Google acknowledged that the problem is related to hardware and, therefore, cannot be fixed with a software update. As a result, Google is replacing units that have this issue. Google…
An internal Google document seen by 9to5Google shows that the Google Pixel 2 will not have a 3.5mm audio port, similar to last year’s iPhone 7. The source is being kept anonymous, but 9to5Google says that the word usage in the document “presents the removal of the jack as a matter of fact.” To us,…
Top executives often skirt around the issue when it comes to new products, but they sometimes make it so obvious that it’s hard to believe. So, when a clear message comes from a person like Hiroshi Lockheimer, SVP Android, Chrome OS & Play at Google, we take notice. Google’s head of Android recently tweeted an image that…
