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Apr 9, 2013

Microsoft, Nokia, and others file a complaint against Google for bundling services in Android

Stefan Constantinescu

Legal proceedings are incredibly boring and almost always have zero impact on consumers, which I why I don't plan on covering them on Android Beat, but this one is special. According to The Verge,

GOOGLE

Apr 9, 2013

Leak: Photos of Babel, Google’s upcoming chat client that will try to take on WhatsApp

Stefan Constantinescu

Google has an instant message service called Google Talk that's incredibly basic. It works like the same IM services you used to use back in the 90s, by that I mean you need a

GOOGLE

Apr 9, 2013

WhatsApp squashes the rumors saying they’re going to be bought out by Google

Stefan Constantinescu

Roughly 48 hours ago, a site called Digital Trends posted a rumor saying Google is in talks to buy WhatsApp for $1 billion. For some strange reason, everyone on the internet covered the rumor. I

GOOGLE

Apr 8, 2013

Leak: Here’s a photo of Google’s upcoming Play Store redesign, courtesy of a YouTube employee

Stefan Constantinescu

Google is going to hold their annual I/O event next month where it's widely believed they'll unveil the next version of Android, a successor to the Nexus 7, and an updated Google

GOOGLE

Apr 5, 2013

comScore data shows Android losing a tiny bit of market share to iOS

Stefan Constantinescu

comScore uses a large sample of continuously updated data to estimate which smartphones are currently being used in the United States, Western Europe, and a handful of other territories. Their numbers are held in high

GOOGLE

Apr 4, 2013

Google to fork WebKit and create a new rendering engine called Blink

Stefan Constantinescu

WebKit is the rendering engine that powers Apple's Safari web browser and Google's Chrome browser. Those two browsers alone are responsible for a majority mobile web traffic. Google has announced that they're

ANDROID TABLETS

Apr 3, 2013

Reuters: ASUS made and Qualcomm powered Nexus 7 successor to land in July

Stefan Constantinescu

Retuers, who doesn't publish a rumor unless they know it's going to happen, says Google will begin selling an updated Nexus 7 in July. Said tablet will be made by ASUS, just like

GOOGLE

Apr 3, 2013

Google’s new way of counting Android users makes a lot of sense

Stefan Constantinescu

If you're a developer making mobile applications, then you want to know just what sort of devices your users actually use, right? Google, every two weeks or so, updates a web site that shows

GOOGLE

Mar 25, 2013

Dear handset makers: Give me the best quality display you can buy, even if it doesn’t do 1080p

Stefan Constantinescu

Earlier today, just a handful of hours ago actually, I covered a rumor about the next Nexus that said the phone was going to ship with a 720p display instead of a 1080p panel. At

ANDROID PHONES

Mar 25, 2013

Will the Nexus 5 skip the large 1080p screen trend and go for 720p and portability instead?

Stefan Constantinescu

A new rumor coming out of Phone Arena says that the next Nexus phone isn't going to have a 1080p screen; it's going to have a 720p panel that measures just 4.5

GOOGLE

Mar 25, 2013

Rumor: Motorola X Phone to launch in November; 4.8″ 1080p screen, Snapdragon 800

Stefan Constantinescu

Another day, another rumor. This time it's about Motorola's first "real" phone. I say "real" because Motorola had several devices in development when Google snatched them up back in May 2012. We're

GOOGLE

Mar 22, 2013

FT: Google’s Android division is working on a “smart watch”

Stefan Constantinescu

The Financial Times says Google is working on a smart watch. To be more specific, Google's Android division is in charge of the watch's development. They don't say when it's going

GOOGLE

Mar 21, 2013

Straight from the horse’s mouth: Android and Chrome OS will not merge, at least not yet

Stefan Constantinescu

Reuters says more in one sentence than I can: "Google's Chrome and Android operating systems will remain separate products but could have more overlap, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said, a week after the two

GOOGLE

Mar 21, 2013

Video: Here’s what the next version of Google Play is going to look like

Stefan Constantinescu

Google Play, the place where Google expects you to go to buy apps, music, books, everything, is going to get updated to version 4.0 pretty soon. Two websites, Droid-Life and Android Police, managed

GOOGLE

Mar 21, 2013

Google Keep just went live, and watching the media warn people about it is remarkable

Stefan Constantinescu

Google Keep accidentally went live a few days ago. I called it nothing more than an Evernote clone. Earlier this morning, Keep went live for real. Several media outlets have already come to the same

ANDROID TABLETS

Mar 21, 2013

Video: Google’s new ad for the Nexus 10 is high on emotion, low on actual content

Stefan Constantinescu

The video below is Google's latest advertisement for their flagship 10 inch tablet, the Samsung manufactured Nexus 10. If you can't watch it, you're not missing much. All it shows is a

COMPONENTS

Mar 21, 2013

Will the next Nexus really have a Nikon camera? I don’t buy it.

Stefan Constantinescu

PhoneArena recently published a rumor that hit the internet like a lightening bolt. They say that the next Nexus phone, which they're calling the Nexus 5, will have a camera that has Nikon branding.

GOOGLE

Mar 18, 2013

Google to launch an Evernote clone called Keep

Stefan Constantinescu

There are people out there who refuse to throw anything away because they think their garbage will some day prove to be useful. These people are called hoarders. The same type of mentality exists in