Google CEO Sundar Pichai at Google I/O in Mountain View announced that the company has passed 2 billion active devices on its Android platform.
The growth is quite astonishing considering that Google has added nearly 400 million devices powered by its mobile operating system since September 2015 when it last reported this figure. Continue reading “Android surpasses 2 billion monthly active devices”
Google is out with the numbers for Android distribution and this time it’s latest OS – Marshmallow has made its first appearance. The latest Android OS that started rolling out to a variety of Android devices mostly the Nexus series is now present on 0.3 percent of devices.
Continue reading “Lollipop present on 25.6% of Android devices, Marshmallow debuts at 0.3%”
Samsung’s Gear S2 and S2 Classic smartwatch went on sale in the US last week. Now, the company has made its Gear Manager app available to other non-Samsung Android devices.
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Samsung has expanded its S Health app to all Android devices. The app that landed on Play Store earlier this year was available only for Galaxy devices until now.
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The Stagefright vulnerability threat that was said to affect 95% of Android devices is being too stubborn and not ready to leave. Researchers from Exodus Intelligence has discovered a flaw in the security patch fix that was released by Google.
Samsung has announced that it will roll out “Android security update process” that fast tracks known security patches over-the-air (OTA) to devices.
Continue reading “Samsung to start rolling out monthly security updates for its Android devices”
HTC will soon make Zoe its a video clip-making application available to Android devices. Zoe will be the first HTC app to join other Android Devices and the beta version of its Zoe camera app will launch later this week.
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