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Mention of Android 4.3 quickly pops up and disappears from official Android website

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Just hours before Google I/O even begins, The Verge has come across a mention of Android 4.3 on Android's official developer website. The mention of the next version of Android has since been removed. We don't know much about...

Google talks Nougat security including how they got rid of the StageFright bug

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With Android 7.0 rolling out, Google is starting to talk a little more about what's under the hood and one of the big features is improved security. As part of the improvements to file systems, fingerprint security and boot...

Nexus Factory images for Nexus 4, 5, 6, 7 (2013) Wi-Fi, 9 and 10...

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Last nights announcement that Google would be releasing a security update for a range of Nexus devices has come through this morning with factory images being posted to the Google Developers page. Of the devices promised, only the Nexus Player...

Google updates Developer page with Jelly Bean factory images for Nexus devices

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The factory images page on the Google Developers website has been updated with the stock factory images for the Nexus S(Except Sprint 4G and Korean Version), Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7. The images that Google supply on this site...

Google’s Project Tango tablet is coming to consumers next year

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Google's ATAP team functions under the lead of Regina Dugan, who has referred to her Advanced Technology and Projects team as "a small band of pirates trying to do cool shit," - took to the stage to talk and...

CyanogenMOD 10.1 M2 is out and ready for your consumption

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The next stable release of CM 10.1 has now hit their servers and is ready for you downloading pleasure. Based on Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, the builds are still marked as Experimental, so as always there are bugs and things...

Xposed for KitKat Loses its Beta Tag

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With the release of the Nexus 5, I have been searching for options to give me all the features previously only available in custom ROMs. After many prodding and hinting from one of our own staff members here at...

Android users could determine which tasty treat Android N will become

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Cupcake, Donut, Éclair, Gingerbread...Marshmallow, we've all come to appreciate the new tasty treat that Google serves up every year which represents a new version of Android. What we've all done previously is wait for Google to choose then announce...

Google Play is getting better betas, ‘Collections’, a pre-launch report, benchmarks and more

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Google Play is getting some new features which haven't been really announced as yet, but it's definitely coming. The features are for developers and include the new Developer Console app released this morning and also includes features like Betas,...

Optus are also about to start network testing Samsung Galaxy S II Ice Cream...

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Optus have just confirmed with us via email that they are about to start network testing the Android 4.0.3 update for the Samsung Galaxy S IIl. This means that all the major carriers are about to be in the...

Google Talks Android L Preview – followup reveals that new images probably won’t be...

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The release of a preview version of the next version of Android - Android L - has set in motion a very promising new way for Google to seek out and destroy bugs before a full launch of a...

HTC One M8 Lollipop update on the horizon

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Since the announcement of Lollipop, and HTC's subsequent promise to update US based HTC One M7 and M8 handsets to Android 5.0 within 90 days, owners of the handsets have been waiting with bated breath. Now HTC Developer LlabTooFeR...

Original Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatch being being updated to Tizen

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If you own Samsung's first ever smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, you may have found an update being pushed out that moved the Gear smartwatch from Android to Samsung's own Tizen OS. Tizen OS is, of course, the operating system...

Upcoming releases of Android could break Root apps

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Changes made to the Android Open Source Project master tree have revealed that there are upcoming changes to the Android security model, which means that a large number of root apps could be rendered unusable in future releases of...

OPPO outline the ColorOS 7 and Android 10 updates for their Australian devices

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It has been nearly three months since Google released Android 10 to the world and we are starting to see manufacturers list the release timeframes for their devices. Last week OPPO announced the timeframe for their Chinese devices...

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