The Google Team have been hard at work and it seems that even though Google I/O has passed, they are intent in ensuring their apps keep to the new clean interface (cards) that every other app seems to now follow. The most notable update though is one of great significance: “The updated Drive for Android […]
Keeping up to date with all the different announcements following I/O is not always easy, but thanks to Trendblog.net we now have it all in a ‘Google Now’ style graphic, easy to read and absorb.
If you have been watching Google I/O or following our live blog then you will be fully aware of Google Hangouts, the new chat service available on Android, Desktop and iOS. The service is now live on Google’s very own Chrome Store and you can add it to Chrome now!
I just logged onto my Google Talk via the desktop client and got this message: gmail: Disabling saving of chat history is no longer supported in this client. All new chats will be archived in Gmail. Learn more: https://support.google.com/talk/answer/161925 Now that ordinarily wouldn’t be an issue but for the fact that we know there is […]
If you pop onto the Google I/O website you will see nothing more than a I/O logo however the smart folk out there have discovered that the site is laden with Easter Eggs bases on combinations of I’s and O’s. The guys over at Android Authority have already posted some combinations and we will add […]
Google aren’t slow at getting out their factory images for devices however I don’t think any have been just quite as fast as the one for the newly announced Nexus 7 tablet. The Android 4.1 image (build JRN84D) can under the Nakasi section of the recovery download page here. If you are lucky enough to […]
In the Android Core System an Easter Egg can normally be found by tapping on the system version number repeatedly as seen HERE. It’s very rare that other Easter Eggs are found however a new one has been found in Android 4.1 Jellybean. To find this new Easter Egg simply take two Android 4.1 devices, […]
I don’t know about any one else but I’m a little bit annoyed that my Shiny new HTC One X now no longer has the newest version of Android. Obviously this isn’t HTC’s fault but what does the Taiwainese manufacturer intend to do about this? “We are excited about Android Jelly Bean and are planning […]
So in case anyone is living in a hole at the moment it is Google I/O time again and last night saw the big unveil of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, and guess what! In keeping in tradition with previous versions the Google Guys have placed an Easter egg again. In the newest version of android […]
During yesterdays presentation at Google I/O of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean (can’t say it without smiling, is this just me?) there was talk of “Project Butter” which is the new UI coming along with Jelly Bean. Please check out the video to see what is so damn good about Project Butter! Via Android Central
Google pulled out all the stops on the first day of it’s I/O developers conference, with lots of cool announcements to please us technology enthusiasts. If like me you couldn’t be there, here’s a summary of what we missed… Jelly Bean Android 4.1 proves that it’s worthy of a new dessert name (are jelly beans […]
Project Butter is a lot of work Google is putting into it’s Jelly bean system, and right now it’s involving a load of stuff to make our device much much better including: Vsync Triple Buffering Touch Responsiveness VSync improves graphical perfomance Triple Buffering is where Google have tripled the buffering, making animation really smooth as […]
Google, along with a few other slip ups early of IO starting, have let out on their Nexus Q home music streamer device, which seems like a nicer and generally better Google TV under their “Nexus” brand which a bit more consistent.
Google has this wonderful tradition where they all work together to put up these life size replicas of the code names for the Android OS. Just yesterday the latest version had just arrived. Android 4.1, code named Jelly Bean, will be the next update to the Android OS line. Hopefully Google I/O will have its […]
A recent screenshot on the Google I/O App as discovered by Phandroid could well be one showing of Android 5.0 (Jellybean) if rumours are anything to go by. The suggestion that it’s Jellybean comes from the fact that the Holo theme at the search bar has been swapped out for a more transparent search bar […]
Talk about inexpensive! At NVIDIA’s annual stockholder meeting, the company unveiled their new Kai platform. This will help Ice Cream Sandwich Tablet with quad-core processors reach a price of $199. “At $199, you can just about buy a tablet at a 7-Eleven,” said Jen-Hsun Huang, when he was informing us on this new platform. Now it seems […]
Let’s start off with a post from Google on Google+ Google I/O has officially sold out! It took just a bit over 20 minutes! (We were experiencing 6,250 qps load on our servers at 7:01am!) Wow! That is really impressive. The Google I/O event in San Francisco sold out in about 28 minutes. That is […]
Google I/O is a huge day for Android, and this year the event will happen about a month later than usual, on June 27th until the 29th. Even with the event happening a moth late you can still register very soon. Registration will be open on March 27th, and the price has certainly increased from […]
