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Android Started Off Being an OS For Cameras, Thankfully That Idea Didn’t Stick

Eric April 16, 2013 24

Android has quite the documented history at this point, but Andy Rubin dropped a piece of information today that Android could have never seen a mobile phone. Talking shop today in Tokyo, Andy Rubin mentioned that originally, the plan was for Android to be a...

Google Play Can Now Feature 7-inch and 10-inch Screenshots, Shows Automatically Depending on the User’s Device

Kellen April 16, 2013 13

The Android developers team announced this afternoon that going forward, they are allowing for both 7-inch and 10-inch screenshots from developers to be posted in their Google Play store app listings. In even better news, these new screenshots will be...

New AOKP Milestone Releases Start Rolling Out, New “AOKPush” App Keeps Track of Newest Builds (Updated)

Kellen April 16, 2013 41

The new "milestone" release from the Android Open Kang Project (AOKP) is starting to roll out today. So far, we're seeing builds available for most Nexus phones including toro (Verizon Galaxy Nexus), toroplus (Sprint Galaxy Nexus), mako (Nexus 4), and maguro (...

Motorola’s First Google-inspired Products to be “Just-right” Size With Stock Android, Shipping in Second Half 2013

Kellen April 16, 2013 155

During a conversation with PCMag, Motorola's design chief Jim Wicks opened up about the future of their products, most importantly, those influenced by the newly formed Google exec team. Wicks make it sound as if the current state of the mobile industry, one...

Microsoft Updates Outlook.com App for Android, No Longer the Worst Looking App of the Last Year

Kellen April 16, 2013 31

Back in November, Microsoft released an official Outlook.com app for Android that was, to put it simply, a terrible design. It brought back painful memories of Gingerbread with tabs, a dark theme, and nothing that reminded us of Microsoft's other beautifully...

Eric Schmidt on Motorola: Their New Set of Products is “Phenomenal”

Kellen April 16, 2013 226

Speaking at AllThingsD's Dive Into Mobile conference this morning, Eric Schmidt was asked about his thoughts on where Motorola stands and how we can expect to see Google use them in the future. His comments were brief but powerful, to say the least. After...

Google Glass Specs Finally Revealed – 5MP Camera, 16GB Storage, Bone Conduction Audio, and Full Day Battery

Kellen April 15, 2013 128

Google Glass is here, folks, whether the world is ready for it or not. After sending out notifications to participants of the Glass Explorer program and then releasing a developer API, Google also pushed out a support page for Glass which included FAQ and...

First Google Glass Devices Roll Off the Production Line, Developer APIs and Tutorials Released

Kellen April 15, 2013 37

The first batches of Google Glass hardware are rolling "off the production line now," according to emails sent out to Glass Explorers, the group of Google I/O 2012 attendees who signed up to be the first on the planet to get their hands on Google's new...