Category: Android
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ZTE AXON 7 Announced as Stylish New Flagship Model
With a design based on luxury cars and coming wired for sound, ZTE today revealed its brand new flagship smartphone – the AXON 7. Featuring a choice of stylish Ion Gold or Quartz Grey casing, the AXON 7 follows the original AXON (yes, despite the name there has been only one predecessor). It looks sleek […]
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Microsoft Lay-offs Signal End of Nokia Mobile Division
Microsoft has let go another 1,800 employees of its Nokia mobile division based in Finland signalling the end is near for the combined smartphone brand. After first dealing with the Finnish company in 2011 to launch the initial Nokia-made flagship smartphone, the Lumia 800, Microsoft completed its total buyout the mobile maker in 2014 embarking on […]
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Kickstarter Launched for Pebble 2, Pebble Time 2 and Pebble Core
After teasing us on Twitter at the start of the week Pebble has delivered the goods by returning to its Kickstarter roots and announcing new crowd-funding projects for three new wearable products – the Pebble 2, Pebble Time 2 and Pebble Core. Pebble 2 and Pebble Time 2: First up, the Pebble 2, which is […]
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Lenovo to Release First Consumer Phone to Support Google Project Tango
Quite a few months ago the Gadget Helpline published an article about Project Tango; the AR project initiated by Google. Things have developed since then obviously, and the first consumer Project Tango device is due to launch in a matter of weeks. Lenovo have now partnered with Google to release a smart phone capable of […]
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Don’t Flip Out – Motorola is Relaunching the RAZR!
The Motorola RAZR was an early noughties must-have. After its release in 2004, the lord of flip phones sold in excess of 100 million units worldwide. Now the phone is rumoured to be making a comeback. The Motorola mobile brand, under the guidance of new owner Lenovo, suggests a new RAZR handset will arrive next […]
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Google I/O 2016: Google Home – Smarter Than Your Average Speaker
As you’ve probably seen, a lot of big announcements have come from this year’s Google I/O, another of one of them being the Google Home – a smart speaker that has incorporated Google’s rather amazing voice recognition software with a system to help you with virtually everything. And all you have to do is say […]
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Google I/O 2016: New Android N Details Revealed, Beta Launched
With the arrival of the developer preview for Android N in March, the Public Beta of Android N has been released at the Google I/O 2016 – Google’s annual development conference which is the must see event on any Android enthusiasts calendar. Android N is now available to users of various Google devices, listed on […]
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Google I/O 2016: Google Daydream – Android Powered 4K VR
In the series of Google I/O announcements last night, Google has upped its game in Virtual Reality platforms, moving away from Google Cardboard and introducing their version of Oculus Rift for Android smartphones. With a plan to release it in late autumn 2016 Google are calling this Daydream. In the ever long Android battle of […]
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Google I/O 2016: Chrome OS to Support Android Apps and Play Store
Chromebooks are compact, light, and are great for use on the go – as long as you have a mobile hotspot for Chrome to use. They’re completely reliant on the Chrome browser for laptop functionality, using services like Google Drive to replace Office software and using websites rather than specialised apps. That may be about […]
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Google I/O 2016: Smart & Video Messaging with Allo & Duo Apps
Yesterday’s Google I/O event has really set an impressive outline for the Android platform moving forward throughout the next 12 months and amongst the exciting new additions there comes a pair of revolutionary new messaging apps called Allo and Duo. Firstly we have Allo, which is a new chat-based smart messaging application that is being […]
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Google I/O 2016: Instant Apps for Android without the Download
One of many announcements at yesterday’s Google I/O event was that it will soon be possible to use Android apps from the Play Store without fully downloading them. The new feature is called Instant Apps. Instant Apps means that rather than installing storage-hungry software onto your Android device, when all you really need is a […]
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Android Pay is Now Available in the UK
It seems Google’s contactless payment service Android Pay has come to the UK a lot sooner than expected! Earlier today, Google tweeted “Download #AndroidPay today from @GooglePlay. Now available in the UK” – with this announcement a link to the Google Play Store page for the app was also included. Similar to the main competitor Apple […]