News & Reviews:   operating system

With the announcement of iOS 14 being made, many users are quite excited about the new features that are coming soon to Apple devices. Other than those features, it looks like the latest OS update has some impressive skills as well. It is reported that the iOS 14 beta has caught TikTok reading users' clipboards.

Recently, Xiaomi unveiled their latest MIUI 12 Android skin which will be available on all Xiaomi and Redmi devices very soon. In terms of new features, the updated Android skin comes with new animations, new navigation gestures, cleaner UI, as well as various security features to keep the user's private information safe.

Since its release back in 2010, Xiaomi’s MIUI has been one of the reliable operating systems offered in the market until now. The MIUI is also deemed as fast when it comes to adopting the latest features from Android into its system. Recently, Xiaomi unveiled they are in the process of developing MIUI 12, and it will be released in Q3 2020 to celebrate its 10 year anniversary.

When Android 10 was launched this year, it was the first time Google decided not to use any dessert name. Recently, the company is planning another major change for Android 11 as well. After many years, the next Android OS is finally going to let us record videos that go beyond 4GB.

Other than building a social media empire, Facebook has also been acquiring technology companies like Oculus, which works on virtual reality (VR). Now, the company has announced that they will be working on a new Operating System (OS) to be used for Oculus and Portal devices.

Based on a statement by xda-developers.com, Google will not approve Android-based smartphones that are running on Android Pie and below by 31 January 2020. However, this does not mean that Google will stop providing updates to Android Pie due to the fact that the roadmap states that it is expected to receive updates until the launch of Android 11 which will be around August 2020.

Instead of naming the Android Q after a yummy dessert, Google threw everything we knew about their Android operating system naming scheme out the window and settled with Android 10 instead. Not only that, it seems that subsequent Android operating systems in the future will have a numerical identifier instead an alphabetical order we’re all familiar with.

Whatsapp has announced that it will stop the support for certain operating systems on Android and iOS such as iOS 7 and older as well as Android Gingerbread 2.3.7 and older. Whatsapp has recommended to upgrade your device’s operating system to the latest operating system version your device is able to, in order to receive continued support from the messaging app. For more updates like these, stay tuned to TechNave.com.

We are expected to see something special this coming 4th October, as Google readies to launch several new items. One of them is apparently a new software initiative, which Google is calling “Andromeda”, an Android/Chrome hybrid OS.

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%.