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Google I / O 2016 is focusing more than ever on virtual reality
Google has revealed some of the timing of Google I / O 2016, so we can see what issues are at the center this year carefully now. Many people have already declared 2016 the year of virtual reality, and Google seems a bit here to contribute with VR sessions. On the diagram shows that there are seven panels are wholly dominated by virtual reality. Judging by the title, the session called “Google’s Vision for VR ‘interesting to follow. Here we get to hear what Google has built, what lessons have been learned out there and where Google wants to go with virtual reality. Clay Bavor, Google’s head of the new VR division, will give the presentation.
Police dissatisfied Galaxy S5 as a service telephone
gain since mid-2015, all police officers in the Netherlands highly secure Samsung Galaxy S5 as phone service. By using this smartphone include the old-fashioned paperwork to the past. Now the machines for a while from his and that security and police bundled software is very heavy, the device seems to most agents on his return. These agents complain en masse on the mediocre battery life, so the device does not reach the end of service in some cases. The Galaxy S5 is considered by many very slow and work work on the unit seems to take more time than it saves.
Sony brings Android N Developer Preview for Xperia Z3
Sony has the Developer Preview of Android N made available for the Xperia Z3. It is the first time that a non-Nexus device can install a trial version of Android. Earlier this month, surfaced already hints that the Android Developer Preview N would also come to other devices, and confirmed today. Sony and Google namely released a test version of N for the Xperia Z3, which users can manually flashing the device. The software installation is not – as with Nexus devices – via the official beta program from Google, but using the desktop app Xperia Companion. It is not clear whether the Android N trail soon also be released to other Sony devices.
So hard grew Google Play in six years
the number of apps in Google Play continues to grow rapidly and are also increasingly downloaded from Google’s app store. A new study of Sensor Tower shows exactly how Google Play has grown over the years. The study looks at the Google Play growth in the period from December 2009 to February 2016. This shows that in the first quarter of 2016 no less than 11.1 billion apps were downloaded. This is an increase of 6.7 percent over the previous year. WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Facebook top the list of most popular apps, though Snapchat is also working its way up. Photography apps grew by 20 percent in the first quarter of 2016 the fastest. Games grew by less than 1 percent but by far the largest category in the app store.
HTC smartphones receive the fastest Android updates
the Consumers Association conducted an investigation into the rate at which manufacturers roll out updates to Android. HTC devices would receive the fastest update to the latest Android version. Reason for the investigation was the slow updates to Android 6.0 (Marshmallow). “Of all the devices that the Consumers ‘Association has tested the last two years, only 16 percent of Android 6.0 Marshmallow,” the Consumers’ Association. The study includes smartphones Consumentenbond tested during the period from April 2014 to part of April 2016. 42 percent of the tested HTC devices on Android 6.0 and this percentage at Motorola and LG at 27 percent. Samsung is in fourth place with 21 percent.
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