Phone makers may be slow to update some older phones to the latest version of Android (if they ever update them at all), but there’s a robust team of independent developers building custom ROMs for many phones, tablets, and other devices. CyanogenMod has long been one of the most popular, not only for bringing new […]
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General Mobile GM 5 is the first Android One phone to ship with Nougat
Smartphone maker General Mobile has unveiled a new phone with a 5 inch 720p display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, and dual SIM support. It’s called the General Mobile GM 5 and it’s the first Android One smartphone that will ship with Android 7.0 Nougat software. Also, apparently Android […]
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CyanogenMod 14.1 development begins, based on Android 7.1 (CM14 won’t be officially released)
Comments Off on CyanogenMod 14.1 development begins, based on Android 7.1 (CM14 won’t be officially released)The developers behind CyanogenMod have scrapped plans to nightly builds of their Android 7.0-based operating system… because they’ve begun development of a version based on Android 7.1 instead. In other words, the next version of the operating system will be called CyanogenMod 14.1 rather than CyanogenMod 14. It’ll incorporate the latest updates to Google’s operating system […]
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Android N’s seamless updates will leave less free space on phones… but there are upshots
Comments Off on Android N’s seamless updates will leave less free space on phones… but there are upshotsWhen Google introduced a preview of Android N in May, the company teased a feature which wasn’t available yet when the company launched Android 7.0 Nougat in August: Seamless updates. But they’re coming soon: Xda-developers has dug into the Android Open Source Project code to find out how seamless updates will likely work on the upcoming […]
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Google Android 7.0 source and Nexus factory images released
Google started rolling out Android 7.0 Nougat to folks with recent Nexus devices yesterday. Now the company has made factory images, OTA images, and binaries available for those devices. The source code for Android 7.0 is also being uploaded. In plain English, that means if you’ve got a supported device you can download and install […]
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Google’s Android engineering team answers questions ahead of Android 7.0 launch
The next major version of Android is coming this summer, and Google has just released the 5th and final developer preview of Android 7.0 Nougat. The latest preview includes some bug fixes and a handful of new features, including an Easter Egg that’s a pretty in-depth cat collecting game, and the ability to see which […]
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Final Android 7.0 Nougat developer preview now available
Google has released the 5th and final developer preview of Android 7.0 Nougat. The next release will be the official one and it should be available later this summer. The update is available for the Nexus 5X, Nexus 6, Nexus 6P, and General Mobile 4G Android One smartphone as well as the Nexus 9 and […]
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Android 7.0 Nougat is coming this summer
Google will launch the next version of Android this summer, and for the past few months the company has been referring to it as Android N. Now we know what the N will stand for: Nougat. The company has been using “tasty treat” themed code names for each version of Android. So while we still […]