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Android Lollipop is a major facelift since Android 4.0 ice-cream sandwich. It’s been years since Android staying on 4.x version with Android 4.0-4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich(2011), Android 4.1-4.3.1 Jelly bean (2012) and finally 4.4-4.4.4 Kit Kat(2013). October 2011 Ice Cream Sandwich was released; the milestone Google made to the success of the most popular mobile platform Android. Until Ice cream sandwich Android was just another mobile platform in the mobile market dominated by Nokia’s Closed Source Operating System, Symbian .  Even if Google tried to more features to Android platform with Gingerbread at 2010, the system was couldn’t utilize the precious hardware and had a lagging interface. But unlike Symbian OS, Android was growing very rapidly with tons of new feature with each updates.  Android Ice cream Sandwich could bring more visual appeal and better performance than its predecessor but the platform was not as smooth to work on. Thus Google star...

Google in collaboration with Asus brings an incredible device the first device running the recently announced Android smart TV platform based on Android L, the   Nexus Player . The tech Giant Google step into vast area of interest including TV, Watch, Gaming, Car interfaces and lot more from a base of a smart phone platform Android. On October 16 th , 2014 Google announced its first Android TV based device called Nexus player along with Nexus 6 and Nexus 9. Nexus player allow you to stream data directly from the web or from any of your android device/chrom device. Google have priced Nexus player petty low at $99 which make it a ideal opponents for other competitors like Roke 3, Apple TC and Amazon Fire TV.   Design Nexus player is design to fill in with your other home entertainment system. It’s like a sleek thick circular disk that will perfectly match with your TV. Connection Unlike other TV set top box with an analog video or...

Everyone is so excited to get Android 5.0 in their devices but will it happen? Android Lollipop comes with a vast IU change (material design), performance bump up and low power consumption which an Android user can’t miss. Still only some of the manufactures have official announced about the Android L update, many are mute. [UPDATE] Android Lollipop is now in AOSP (Android Open Source Project). Developers can download the code and start working on it. As of now, the devices that will get update without much further delay are: Nexus After the elegant announced of Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 , Google also confirmed that all nexus device back from nexus 4 will be getting Android 5.0 update very soon. Expected date for OTA release is on 3 rd of November 2014. Nexus 4,5,7(Wi-Fi & LTE) and Nexus 10 are confirmed with the Android 5.0 update. [UPDATE]  Google released Android Lollipop 5.0 for  Nexus 5,  Nexus 7 (201...

As Motorola smart phones trends since last few years, they push update for their smart phones much faster than any other manufactures. As per the recent Motorola blog post , Motorola has confirmed that Android L (Android 5.0) will be arriving to Moto X (1 st and 2 nd gen), Moto G (1 st and 2 nd gen) and   Moto G with 4G LTE . As Motorola’s device have almost stock android, it may not take much long for them to optimize Android L to their devices.  And also the same blog reveals that all the Motorola smart phones launched in 2013 and later will get the new update.    Moto E along with Droid Ultra, Droid Maxx and Droid Mini will receive the Android L update. But the phone maker didn't reveal when the updates will be given. The new Android L update will bring: Material design UI Improved performance Updated lock screen and notification Battery saver Document-centric multitasking and faster multitasking ...

Yesterday, 16 th October 2014 Google announced the new HTC Nexus 9 along with Nexus 6 and Nexus playe r . Nexus 9 is the first HTC manufactured tablet in the Nexus tablet series. Nexus one released at January 2010, one of the most popular nexus device on market at the earliest stage of the nexus venture was handcraft by the Taiwanese company HTC. With the announcement of Nexus 9 its pretty clear that HTC is stepping back into tablet market very strongly. Design Even if the device was unlike the rumor (unibody metallic design), HTC delivered a premium looking tablet like Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 with matte soft plastic feel and a vertically aligned Nexus logo at the back.  OS Nexus 9 will the first android tablet optimized for 64-bit with both hardware and software. With  Android L (latest Android version) include new Material design changes, notification improvement, improved security, battery optimal usage and lot of minor tweaks like searchable settings and...