News & Reviews:   Google

We like the Motorola Moto 360 – but according to a new report, we may not see another model come anytime soon. Motorola said that they do not have any plans to release a new smartwatch to coincide with Google’s Android Wear 2.0, which is due to be released in early 2017.

The agreement is done. Nokia has announced that the talks between HMD Global, FIH Mobile and Microsoft is done. What this means is that the brand is officially off and running, and we will be seeing products from the company in the second half of 2017.

While the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 shows what curved displays can be like to own, we are still plagued with the limitation of smartphones – both phones still have bezels around the display, albeit a very tiny one. Sharp, one of the premier manufacturers of displays, has reveal a display that is without bezels, and spans from corner to corner.

Google’s parent company Alphabet has suspended Project Ara, the ambitious project to build a modular smartphone for the masses. Instead, they will look for manufacturing partners who can licence the product instead.

Walking around in a Virtual Reality (VR) environment is a fun thing to do. Which is why more companies are creating VR products to tap into this budding market. Xiaomi is one of the companies who are doing just that, and we have a first look on how their implementation should look like

A recent filing on the US FCC site from Huawei may just give us some insight on the upcoming models from the China-based company. H1622 and H710VL are the models that was registered with FCC – and seeing that the Huawei 6P was registered with the model H1511, this could be the next model in line.

We have seen the supposed specs of the upcoming Google Nexus phone, codenamed Sailfish here. Now, we have early renders of what the smartphone may look like in its final form, and it looks unlike anything we have seen before.  

We have seen the specs for the “Sailfish” Nexus model, and now we have the specs of the second model, “Marlin” spotted online, if the report is legitimate. Both Google devices will be built by HTC this time around, and the specs of the phone looks to be quite good for a flagship device.

If you are using a Google Nexus device now – take note of this news. Google just listed the end-of-support dates for their current Google Nexus devices, i.e. end dates when they will roll out updates, security updates and releases of new OS versions.

Always wanted to have the ability to run apps side by side? Well, ever since the introduction of Android N, Google did just that but they could only do that if they have already installed a separated browser alongside Chrome to do that. Now, Android N Developer Preview 3 has fixed that.