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Google details Android 4.4 phone app changes

Advertisements Your Google+ photo to be linked with your phone number As we reported earlier, Android 4.4 brings a revamped phone app and now Google has revealed the changes present in the Android 4.4 phone app in detail. Here is a look at them. Better Search:  With Android 4.4, your contact search is not just […]

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General News

Android 4.4 and Nexus 5 release round-up

Advertisements Here is a quick recap of our Android 4.4 and Nexus 5 release coverage. Check out the news stories that you might have missed. Nexus 5 Google Nexus 5 official, now available in Google Play for $349 Google Nexus 5 coming to India soon for INR 28,999 Google Nexus 5 vs the competition Google […]

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Android Development Features

Android 4.4 KitKat: Top ten features for consumers

Advertisements After months of waiting, Android 4.4 is finally here. Announced yesterday without much fanfare, KitKat is the biggest Android release since the launch of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Set to reach Nexus devices and Google Play edition phones in the coming days, Android 4.4 brings a lot of new features and plethora of improvements. […]

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Download new Google launcher and other updated apps from Nexus 5 factory image

Advertisements Want some KitKat awesomeness on your Android smartphone, folks at Droid-Life have extracted most of the core applications including new Google Home launcher, updated Hangouts app, and the new Google Keyboard with Emojis from the Nexus 5 factory image and shared them online. You can download any of these applications from the links given […]

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Android Development Features

Android 4.4 KitKat: Top ten features for developers

Advertisements Unless you were living in a cave, you would have heard that Google unveiled Android 4.4 aka KitKat on Thursday. As you can expect, this new version of Android brings several new features and improvements over Jelly Bean and these are not just for consumers but also for developers. In this article, we will […]

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Android Updates Phones

Motorola reveals Android 4.4 update plans, Moto X & new Droids included

Advertisements Motorola has refreshed its update portal, which can be used to check whether your Motorola device will be getting Android 4.4 update or not. We gave it a quick spin and found that Moto X and the new Droid smartphones are sure to get the update, while the update plans for other smartphones remain […]

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Unlocked HTC One to get Android 4.4 update in a month

Advertisements HTC America President Jason Mackenzie has told Engadget that the unlocked units of HTC One smartphone will be getting the newly announced Android 4.4 KitKat update within 30 days. He also noted that the developer edition will also be receiving the update around the same time. While Mackenzie was talking about US update plans, […]

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Android Development

Android 4.4 KitKat source code live in AOSP, Nexus 5 factory images posted

Advertisements The source code of Google’s latest Android release ‘KitKat’ has been pushed to Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and is now accessible to all. The two new branches are called kitkat-release and kitkat-dev, and the release tag is android-4.4_r1. In other news, Google has posted the binaries and factory images of just launched Nexus […]

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