Messages for Android Wear has just been released in the Google Play Store, and it comes from the developers who brought us Video for Android Wear and Mail for Android Wear (appfour). This time around they are putting their talent to work to make it quicker and easier for us to respond to and read our text messages from an Android Wear device.
XDA Senior Member JavierAlonso has put together a detailed guide on how to fix the rejects thrown up by PatchROM. For the uninitiated, PatchROM is an open source project from the MIUI team to craft MIUI ROMs using assembler and disassembler techniques.
We recently learned about the possibility of getting Alexa on Fire TV and now Amazon has announced a number of new devices. There’s a new Fire TV, Fire TV Stick, Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10 tablets, a $50 Amazon Fire tablet and a $100 Kids Edition. The company has even introduced FireOS 5 with this new batch of hardware.
@upleaks just posted an image of what is said to be an upcoming Android smartphone from Lenovo. The really interesting part about this though is that he believes this device is designed (at least in part) by the Motorola team. Lenovo recently told us that Motorola’s hardware team would be designing their future devices and this is rumored to be the first of its kind.
We’re told that Vowney will not be the official name, but the company plans for it to be the “jewel in the Elephone crown”. As far as specs are concerned, Elephone says we should expect a quad-core Intel SoC, Quad HD display, 3GB of RAM, 20MP camera(possibly the Sony IMX230), 64GB storage, 3,800mAh battery and the choice of Android 5.1 Lollipop or Windows 10 Mobile installed.
New Nexus phones are coming, which means exciting times for enthusiasts and developers alike. With this new round of solid phones with pure Android, we will likely have to choose between a Nexus 5 from LG and a Nexus phablet from Huawei. Given these manufacturers’ histories, the leaked specifications and designs, and your personal preference, which one would you pick?
Now on Tap was announced at Google I/O 2015 but the feature has never shown up in any of the developer preview builds that have been released. This changes today, and as long as you have the Android M Developer Preview 3 installed on your device, then Now on Tap functions exactly like it did when Aparna demoed it earlier this year.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google Glass is now going to be called Project Aura. Not only that, but it seems that Google is also hiring some engineers, software developers and project managers from Lab126 (aka Amazon). A new hire on the project has described it as “Google Glass and beyond” and that they are also “building cool wearables”.
Google are now offering another Nanodegree through Udacity that they state “teaches you the skills you need to build your very own business, from ideation to marketing to monetization.” Check it out!
Shin Jong-kyun, head of Samsung’s mobile division has been talking to some people in the press about Samsung Pay as of late. In a recent interview, he was asked if the payment service would be available on some cheaper smartphones soon. We are told that Samsung plans to “gradually expand” the service as time goes by.
