News & Reviews:   Android

A report online stated that OnePlus is set to combine their two branches into a single OS for faster and better OS development for their customers. Oxygen OS – used in OnePlus devices in the general market – and Hydrogen OS – used in OnePlus devices in the China market – is set to combine together in the near future. Will this news hold water?

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.

With news saying they are returning, Nokia is again becoming a hot topic among tech enthusiasts online. Now we have seen a photo that may share how the next smartphone from Nokia looks like.

After their purchase of the company SurfEasy that provides easy-to-use VPN apps, Opera has finally released Opera VPN for Android for free as a standalone app.

A new partnership has been announced by Microsoft and Lenovo, which will see the company’s products to be pre-loaded with the other’s productivity apps such as Word, Skype and OneDrive.

The tablet market is getting smaller and smaller, as more people turn to their large smartphones for their tablet-like experience. Of course there are situations where tablets will benefit greatly, and when paired with the right accessory, a tablet will bring new meaning to working on the go. Which is why this new leak of a new Samsung tablet with the S Pen is good news.

You know Android is the king of smartphone when you get numbers like this – a report online shared that the OS from Google is currently holding about 86.2% of the world smartphone market share for the first half of 2016. Trailing way behind is iOS with under 12%.  

While we are getting new processors, screen and even housing design – the humble battery is still essentially the same tech that the ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia used way back. Now MIT may have just cracked the code to make current battery more efficient – up to two times if the report is correct.

There were rumours about two new Nokia smartphones coming soon earlier this year. The news is apparently correct, as a report stated that Nokia is readying an announcement by the end of the year, with a return to markets by early 2017.

If you are the type that sends Whatsapp messages to many people at once, the new update on the world’s most popular chat app may interest you. They now have enabled multi-message sending and a ‘frequent chats’ module.