Google Android 8.1 is officially here, just about a week after the last developer preview. The code for Android 8.1 Oreo is being pushed to the Android Open Source project, and Google says the update will roll out to supported Pixel and Nexus devices “over the next week.” Factory images and OTA update images are already […]
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Google releases Android 8.1 Developer Preview 2
Google plans to release Android 8.1 to the world next month, but folks have been testing an early build of the operating system since Google released the first developer preview about a month ago. Now Google has released Android 8.1 Developer Preview 2. Among other things, it enables developer access to the Pixel Visual Core […]
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Android 8.1 can save space by reducing cache for inactive apps
Always running out of storage space on your phone? Google Android is getting a new feature that may help… a little bit. The upcoming Android 8.1 release will be able to detect shrink the amount of storage used by some apps when your device is running low on free storage space. Spotted by xda-developers, the […]
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Google launched Android 8.1 Developer Preview
It’s been about two months since Google launched Android 8.0 Oreo, and while the vast majority of smartphones on the market are still running older versions of the operating system, Google is already getting ready to launch Android 8.1. If you have a recent Pixel or Nexus device, you can give it a try now: […]
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Pixel 2 smartphones have a custom camera chip called Pixel Visual Core
The Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL have some of the best cameras available on a smartphone. They’re so good that they let a mediocre photographer like me take some pretty stunning shots. Part of that is due to the high-quality image sensors. Part comes from Google’s software which helps with everything from image […]