Android Developer Preview 2 is Rolling out Today

Its been a month now when Google launched its first developer preview for Android N. Every time Google announces a new developer preview, they include additional changes that don’t make it into their blog posts or changelogs. Like little changes in user interface and some changes in some icons.

Today’s Android N Developer Preview 2 includes Launcher shortcuts which includes users can then add to their launcher to get stuff done quicker, Emoji Unicode 9 Support  and some other Bug fixes. The Full Changelog of Android N Developer Preview is posted below.

• Vulkan: Vulkan is a new 3D rendering API which we’ve helped to develop as a member of Khronos, geared at providing explicit, low-overhead GPU (Graphics Processor Unit) control to developers and offers a significant boost in performance for draw-call heavy applications. Vulkan’s reduction of CPU overhead allows some synthetic benchmarks to see as much as 10 times the draw-call throughput on a single core as compared to OpenGL ES. Combined with a threading-friendly API design which allows multiple cores to be used in parallel with high efficiency, this offers a significant boost in performance for draw-call heavy applications. With Android N, we’ve made Vulkan a part of the platform; you can try it out on supported devices running Developer Preview 2.


• Launcher shortcuts: Now, apps can define shortcuts which users can expose in the launcher to help them perform actions quicker. These shortcuts contain an Intent into specific points within your app (like sending a message to your best friend, navigating home in a mapping app, or playing the next episode of a TV show in a media app).An application can publish shortcuts with ShortcutManager.setDynamicShortcuts(List) andShortcutManager.addDynamicShortcut(ShortcutInfo), and launchers can be expected to show 3-5 shortcuts for a given app.


• Emoji Unicode 9 support: We are introducing a new emoji design for people emoji that moves away from our generic look in favor of a more human-looking design. If you’re a keyboard or messaging app developer, you should start incorporating these emoji into your apps. The update also introduces support for skin tone variations and Unicode 9 glyphs, like the bacon, selfie and face palm. You can dynamically check for the new emoji characters using Paint.hasGlyph().


• API changes: This update includes API changes as we continue to refine features such as multi-window support (you can now specify a separate minimum height and minimum width for an activity), notifications, and others. For details, take a look at the diff reports available in the downloadable API reference package.


• Bug fixes: We’ve resolved a number of issues throughout the system, including these fixes for issues that you’ve reported through the public issue tracker. Please continue to let us know what you find and follow along with the known issues.

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Blackberry Priv Android Marshmallow Beta Roll out Begins

BlackBerry starts rolling out Android Marshmallow Beta for “Priv” users who registered to take part in the Beta program started by the company on April 4th. Moreover registration period will last for Two week and the testing will be done in next 4-5 weeks after that some time in May company says the Official Stable Marshmallow rollout will hit the devices.

Some participants will start to receive Marshmallow software tomorrow (Wednesday, EST). We will take a similar approach to how we brought people into the program when rolling out the software update: start with a small group, monitor for any critical issues, then expand to larger and larger groups. We expect to have everyone updated by the end of the week (and for clarity this time, weeks end on Sunday in Waterloo! :] ) – Said by Blackberry

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• Blackberry Priv Beta Access For Marshmallow Testing


• Blackberry Priv gets the March Android security patch


• BlackBerry PRIV Now Available Via Verizon

If you own a PRIV and haven’t signed up to test yet, head on over to the BlackBerry Beta Zone and see if the Android OS beta program is available to you. If you already signed up for the Beta Program than check it at the Beta Zone and follow the instructions over there.

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India Startup CREO launched its First phone

Indian Startup company CREO launched its first smartphone named Mark 1. The main highlight of this phone is New mobile operating system Fuel OS which is based on Android. CREO Mark 1 was launched at an event in New Delhi by CREO CEO Sai Srinivas and will be available at a price of Rs 19,999.

CREO’s Mark 1 features a 5.5-inch quarter HD resolution with a pixel density of 534 pixels per inch, the phone is powered with MediaTek true-oct processor clocked at 1.95GHz married with 3GB RAM, it comes with 32 GB of on-board space that which can be expandable up to 128 GB, it haves a 21 MP camera at the back and 8-megapixel snapper for the front, 3100 mAh battery.

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• BlackBerry is Coming with Two New Android Mid-range Smartphones


• Lenovo PHAB Android Mid range phone Launched in India

The phone will be sold exclusively on Flipkart. The phone is expected to release on May 18. Moreover,The company will offer a service called Sense for which it has 106 services centers in 91 cities for phone repair and pick-up and drop services at the doorstep of the user.  It plans to expand this to 300 service centers in over 150 cities. The Official Photos of CREO Mark 1 are in the gallery below.

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Verizon's Moto X 2014 gets the Latest Security Patch

Verizon is currently rolling out the an update to Moto X 2014 which includes the latest Android Security Patch. The update does not include anything else than the latest security patch.

The update will have the latest batch of vulnerability fixes from the folks at Google. Since the update is just rolling out so it may take some time to land on every device. If you did not get the Notification than check it manually by going through Settings > About Phone > System Update.

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Moto X Pure Edition is a powerful phone for a reminder here are the specs of phone which includesa large 5.7 inch LCD display big enough to enjoy photos taken with the 21MP rear facing camera, is powered with a Snapdragon 808 chipset paired with 3GB of RAM and Adreno 418 graphics. The Moto X is also compatible with all GSM and CDMA networks in the US including Sprint and Verizon.

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HTC 10 Launched Officially with USB Type-c and JBL high-res earbuds

HTC launches its flagship samrtphone HTC 10 with some how similar to HTC M9. But company says they have spent 12 months designing this phone.

HTC 10 is packed with 5.2-inch Super LCD 5 display with curved-edge Gorilla Glass

and display has a 2560 x 1440 resolution, it is powered with 2.2GHz quad-core 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor with 4 GB of RAM, 32/64GB of on-board storage which can be upgraded upto 2TB via microSD. HTC 10 have 12MP HTC UltraPixel 2 (1.55µm pixel size) with laser autofocus, OIS and f/1.8 aperture at the back and 5MP (1.34µm pixel size) with OIS and f/1.8 aperture on the front.

Also Read:Download: HTC 10 Wallpapers from the Basket

Now we comes to connectivity phone has USB Type-C, 3.5mm stereo audio jack,Bluetooth 4.2, Wi-Fi: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (2.4 & 5GHz),NFC,etc. It has a 3000 mAh Battery which is Quick Charge 3.0 compatible to charge quickly. HTC 10 runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow out of the Box.

Moreover, HTC 10 will be available sometime in April in Carbon Grey, Glacier Silver and Topaz Gold color options.

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BlackBerry is Coming with Two New Android Mid-range Smartphones

Although the Blackberry Priv is appreciated in many Reviews but all the people says the smartphone is priced very high. Although conpany says 600,000 units of the Priv were sold in the fourth quarter of its fiscal year.

Now Blackberry is coming with two new midrange smartphones one with the physical keyboard and one with full touch screen. This is said by the CEO of Blackberry John Chen in an interview to The National. But he does not give any information about the devices in this interview.

“The fact that we came out with a high end phone [as our first Android device] was probably not as wise as it should have been,” – said by John

Also Read: BlackBerry Teases Marshmallow Beta Testing for Priv by Next Week

By this statement one thing is clear that company has admitting a mistake they did with the price of Blackberry Priv and that’s why they are coming with two new Android Mid-range smartphones this year.

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Lenovo PHAB Android Mid range phone Launched in India

Lenovo has launched its new Phablet PHAB in India with 6.98-inch Display. New phablet will be sold exclusively on Flipkart with impressive price tag of Rs 11,999. Earlier in September last year company has introduced the PHAB Plus but this time around, it will simply be the Lenovo PHAB that has been introduced to the market.

Lenovo’s New Phablet PHAB features a 6.9-inch HD display and is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core 64-bit Snapdragon 410 SoC. It has a 13MP main camera with LED flash and a 5MP front facing camera. It is 8.9 mm thick, has a metal frame and comes with Dual SIM support and 4G connectivity with support for both TDD-LTE Band 40 (2300MHz) and FDD-LTE Band 3 (1800MHz) for India. It also comes with software features for comfortable one-handed usage. It is packed with powerful 4250mAh battery.

It will go on sale by April 21 but sign up for pre-ordering is already available at Flipkart.

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HTC 10 Leaks in Video Just Few Hours Before Launch

Once Again HTC 10, has been leaked with some details surfacing. This time a video has been spotted via The Verge showing some of the features of the phone.

The video teaser shows the edges, build and design of the HTC 10. Also a rebranding from HTC One M to HTC 10 is also visible at the end of the video. HTC is visualising the HTC 10 as the “power of 10”. Also we came to know about the speaker grill on the bottom side along with the USB Type C charging port, a Dual Led on the back, volume button, SIM card and microSd ray on the right side of the device is also visible.

It is coming in three different colors as per the video. The three colors are Golden, White and grey.

Well, the launching event is scheduled for April 12th which is just 24 hours away.

How many of you are looking forward for HTC 10?

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Deal: Get LG Urbane for Just $150

LG’s Crisp, classic design, fully round smartwatch,LG Urbane is available to Buy for Just $150 on eBay. If you missed the deal back in January 2016 than this is the best offer to get the LG’s most popular smartwatch powered with Android Wear.

The Price of LG Urbane is $349 at the Lauch time and Normal Price of LG’s Smartwatch is $239.99. So it is a big price cut on this device. It is available in gold color and shipping is free anywhere in the United States.

Also Read: Deal: Buy Kmashi 20000mAh power bank for Just $20

If you want to have a reminder about what exactly LG Urbane is powered with than here are the specs. It features a 1.3” Full Circle P-OLED  320 x 320 pixels resolution with (~348 ppi pixel density), it is powered with Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7 with 1GB of RAM and 4GB internal memory, 45.5 x 52.2 x 10.9 mm, 66.5 g weight, 410 mAh battery, when we come to connectivity this smartwatch is poered with GSM / HSPA / LTE. LG Urbane also have a Changeable strap.

Deal: Get LG Urbane for Just $150

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