From today, T-Mobile Galaxy S5 owners can grab the 900MB Android 5.0 Lollipop update OTA or via the Samsung Kies software package. The update contains the tweaked Material Design-esque Touchwiz UI, new notification and lockscreen features, and performance and the battery life improvements that we have seen with previous Galaxy S5 Lollipop updates.
As usual, you can manually check for the update through Settings > About phone > Software updates or by connecting your phone to your PC and using Samsung Kies.
Compared with everyone else out there that’s shipping Android smartphones and tablets, Amazon is a unique Android device maker, as the online retailer took an entirely different approach when creating the Kindle Fire. Instead of only customizing the user interface of the Kindle Fire Android OS version, like most companies do with their products, Amazon went a step further and built its own Android-based OS, that’s independent from Google.
In the process, Amazon went ahead and removed Google’s online services from the Kindle Fire’s OS including the Google Play app store – Android Market as it was called back then.
When you own an Android device, you are assured of performing functions with much ease and convenience. That is one advantage of owning a very capable gadget, such as a tablet or a smartphone, all the more when the OS your device is running on is no other than Android.
With the launch of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, people have been very much eager and excited to try out the features that this OS has.
Now Russell Holly of Geek.com claims that “multiple sources” confirmed to him that the upcoming Nexus 10 would actually be made by Asus. According to the report, the refreshed Nexus 10 will bear the same name as the original, just like the Nexus 7 (2013).
The device will supposedly be available in the Google Play Store and at Best Buy in time for holidays. The 2012 Nexus 10 launched in mid-November, so Google will probably go for the same period for the 2013 edition.
It’s easy to view Black Friday as an opportunity to upgrade your TV or computer. However, it’s also a great time to upgrade your smartphone. We’ve gathered the best Black Friday smartphone deals in the lists below. We’ll continue to gather additional deals in the coming days.
Also read: Black Friday 2019: Our full guide
Pre-Black Friday phone deals AmazonGoogle Pixel 3a XL
Google Pixel 3
Motorola Moto G7
LG G8 ThinQ
The Nexus 5X has been discounted quite a lot lately and now there’s another chance to grab yourself a bargain. The handset can currently be found on eBay, brand new, for just $239.99, a saving worth $160 (40 percent) off the recommended retail price.
For a mid-range smartphone, the Nexus 5X packs in some pretty decent hardware. There’s a hexa-core Snapdragon 808 processor, a 5.2-inch 1080p display, 32GB of internal memory, and an excellent 12.
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Google has shared some tips for improved online security. Most of these tips, such as unique passwords and two-step verification, are very useful. It might be hard for some to listen to Google when it comes to account protections — the company continually receives flak for its approach to privacy. That said, Google’s tips for Safer Internet Day seem like common sense suggestions that everyone should follow.
First up, you should be using unique passwords for each of your accounts.
Notifications are a powerful tool in the Android developer’s toolkit, helping to keep your users up-to-date on events that are happening inside your application, even when they’re not looking at your app directly. A well-timed and useful notification is also a great way to tempt the user into launching your application – particularly if they haven’t visited your app in a while!
In this article, I’m going to show you how to get started with notifications by creating a very simple and straightforward notification that, when tapped, launches the user’s browser and boots up a website (bonus points if you can guess what that website is going to be!
After hitting China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia, Huawei’s first (sort of) high-end smartphone looks finally ready to be made available in Europe. The Ascend P1 has popped up onAmazon Germany and Unieuro Italy‘s websites, where it’s almost equally priced, but neither of the two retailers has announced a release date or a pre-order start for the handheld.
Hands on video of Huawei P1 The 4.3-incher is set to go for €449 in Germany and for €449.
Japan Display Inc. (JDI) has announced its development of a new display technology known as a “Full Active” panel. The new design boasts that it can reduce the width of the bottom bezel down to as narrow as the other three sides, potentially reducing the size of smartphones using this display type. To coincide with the announcement, the company also introduced a 5.5-inch 1080p LCD display for smartphones built on this technology.