Google’s Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones were the first devices to ship with Android 7.1 software. But now Google has released the first stable builds of Android 7.1 for a bunch of recent Nexus and Pixel products. New Android 7.1.1 factory images, OTA update images, are available for the Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, Nexus Player, […]
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Android 7.1 coming to Nexus phones in December
Google’s Pixel smartphones were the first to ship with Android 7.1 Nougat software, but Google has been offering developer previews of Android 7.1 for select Nexus devices since October. Now it looks like Android 7.1 is getting ready to drop the preview label. According to Vodafone, a security update coming to the Nexus 6P on […]
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Google is pretty much abandoning Android 2.3 Gingerbread in 2017
It’s been six years since Google released Android 2.3 Gingerbread, but there are still some devices running the aging operating system rather than a newer build. According to Google’s stats for devices that connected to the Play Store, about 1.3 percent of Android devices are still running Gingerbread. But many Android apps require newer versions of […]
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Android 7.1 coming to Nexus devices, but Pixel phones have exclusive features
Google’s Pixel smartphones will be the first devices to ship with Android 7.1 Nougat. But Google is also bringing the next version of Android to recent Nexus phones and the Pixel C tablet. That said, some features will be exclusive to the Pixel phones, at least for now. Android Police has a run-down of new features […]
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Jolla updates Sailfish OS (the smartphone OS, not the Google phone)
There aren’t all that many smartphones that run Jolla’s Sailfish OS. But if you happen to have one of those phones, now you have access to a few new features including the ability to open links from other apps in a web browser, use the camera flash while shooting video, and take a screenshot by […]
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Google releases Android 7.0 Nougat with multi-window, VR, and more
Android 7.0 Nougat is here. Google has released the first version of the operating system with native support for running apps in multiple windows that are visible at the same time. Other major new features include support for a new virtual reality platform called Daydream (although not all phones will have the hardware to support […]
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Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 updates are now cumulative (which means fewer individual updates to install)
Comments Off on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 updates are now cumulative (which means fewer individual updates to install)Microsoft may have tried its best to get Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users to update to Windows 10 by the end of July, but there are still millions of people using the company’s older operating systems. So now Microsoft is making it a little easier for those users to keep their computers up to […]
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You can still upgrade to Windows 10 for free… until you can’t
When Microsoft launched Windows 10 last summer, the company said it would be available as a free update for Windows 7 and later for the first year that it was available. The official cut-off date was July 29th, 2016: if you didn’t update by then, Microsoft said you’d have to pay for a full Windows […]
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Next major Windows 10 update coming in 2017
Now that Microsoft has released Windows 10 Anniversary Update, the company is starting to hint at what’s coming next: not much… until 2017. While Microsoft will continue to release regular updates to Windows 10, for the rest of the year most of those updates will focus on bug fixes, security updates, and other enhancements. You’ll […]
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You’ve got one more day to upgrade to Windows 10 for free
Have a computer running Windows 7 or later? You can upgrade it to Windows 10 free of charge if you do it by the end of the day on July 29th. After that you’ll have to pay full price fro a Windows 10 license if you want to upgrade. That means if you update today […]