Android Wear 2.0 was officially launched on February 8 after months of speculation. It arrived with the LG Watch Style and LG Watch Sport, but it has taken until now for Google to announce the update for any previous watches running Android Wear 1.0.
Via the Android Wear support page, a Google Community Manager has revealed that the first three watches to receive the update are the Fossil Q Founder, Casio Smart Outdoor Watch, and TAG Heuer Connected.
Flash memory is a massive market in the mobile industry, a $60 billion market to be precise. It’s used in virtually every handheld electronic device, from cameras to tablets, but yesterday Crossbar announced its new type of memory chip which could replace the traditional flash memory that we’re all so familiar with.
Crossbar’s new technology is known as Resistive RAM (RRAM), which offers substantial storage and speed improvements over existing flash memory.
Whenever a new system update is released, Google makes the factory images for Nexus devices available on its developer website. While these updates can be downloaded right away, the problem is you need to have an unlocked bootloader to flash them. And if you can’t seem to track down the OTA (.zip file) for that particular update, you’re stuck waiting until the over-the-air update rolls out to your device, which could be days after the initial release.
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Sprint reportedly provided its employees with talking points they can use with customers. Employees use the talking points when customers ask them about the merger with T-Mobile. T-Mobile and Sprint officially announced plans to merge their operations. With the announcement that T-Mobile and Sprint officially plan to merge their operations, Sprint now has the unenviable task to relay the news to its customers. How does the United States’ fourth-largest carrier plan to do that?
Smartphones are useful, even necessary, but most of us are haunted by the dreaded charging woes which come with such powerful and portable computing devices. The situation has definitely been improving, but even fast charging is not enough for the street warrior who finds it a nuisance to be continuously tethered to an outlet.
Many of us carry around special battery packs (here are our favorites) to aid our smartphone lifetime, but these can be bulky.
Welcome back to our Meet the Devs segment! In this piece we take a little time to get to know the people who really make Android what it is today and that is the app developers. In this week’s developer interviews, we are talking to Basel Sader.Name: Basel Sader
Developer Name: Basel Sader
Country: Israel
Website: N/A
How many people on your team? 1
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When you own a nice and expensive gadget like the Samsung Galaxy S II Epic Touch, you definitely want to protect it with a heavy duty case designed to survive what life might throw at it, right? Let’s be honest – even if you’re the most careful person on the planet when it comes to your device – accidents still do happen, and that’s where Ballistic’s case comes into play.
I’ve talked before about how I wish we’d all move on from the ARMv6 architecture, now that we’re already getting so close to the launch of the 64 bit ARMv8 architecture within the next 2 years. The sad reality is that most devices, especially the low-end ones, are still on this decade old architecture.
Hopefully, with the launch of Cortex A7 next year, which is built on ARMv7, we’ll finally start to forget about ARMv6, at least for new devices.
Only a few days have passed since Foursquare refreshed its app for Android, bringing in NFC Beam support and smoother scrolling speed. That has not stopped the busy folks developing the location-based social network from quickly releasing another update that helps users stumble upon interesting places nearby.
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Android Auto support has been put in a large number of cars on the road, allowing owners to navigate to their destination with Google Maps, listen to their playlists and more much. However, all of them require the use of a connected smartphone in order to work, either with a cable or, in a few instances, wirelessly. The good news is Google has been working on a standalone version of Android Auto that will work without a smartphone for a while now.