Images of a BlackBerry Passport Silver Edition running Android 5.1 are rumored to be photographs of a prototype being developed by the company. According to the latest speculation, a version of the handset powered by Google’s open source OS will be made available in the second quarter of 2016. The…
Android Central 250: Famous Marshmallows of Note
It’s a milestone podcast! Well, insofar as it’s one more since last week. We’ve got CrackBerry.com editor-in-chief Chris Parsons with us to talk the latest on the BlackBerry Venice leaks. Plus we dive deep into Android 6.0 Marshmallow, the new Android Wear update, what’s wrong with the Galaxy Note 5…
Street Art Watch Faces bring a different aesthetic to Android Wear
If you’ve ever spent much time in a city, you’ve probably seen murals or other street art that breaks up the monotony of building after building. In cities all over the world, artists turn brick and mortar walls into works of art. With that in mind the Google Art Project…
Google updates Android Wear with support for interactive watch faces
Google today announced a new feature of Android Wear: interactive watch faces, which can be enabled following an update that’s going to be available to “all Android Wear watches in the coming weeks.” As the name suggests, interactive faces bring more life to your Android Wear smartwatch, and more ways…
The state of the smartphone market: Android dominates, Apple grows slightly, Windows shrinks
Gartner has unveiled its latest research about the state of the phone market in the second quarter of 2015, and there are two big conclusions: Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS together now control a whopping 96.8% of the smartphone market, and the second one is that all the other contenders,…
5-second BlackBerry Venice video shows how the QWERTY slides on the Android flavored model
Earlier today, we passed along a video of the BlackBerry Venice slider that had been tweeted by Evan Blass. The video showed fleeting images of the QWERTY, and a view from the side, showing two versions of the device. One version is expected to be powered by Android while the…
Skype for Android updated with custom ringtones, photo sharing between conversations
Skype for Android has received a pretty nice update today, bringing along some oft-requested features. Coming along in today’s update are personalized ringtones and the ability to forward photos from your chats to other Skype users. View full post on MobileNations
ZTE Warp Elite is the newest affordable Android smartphone in the US (available via Boost Mobile)
ZTE may have recently released the high-end Axon Pro in the US, but the company is (unsurprisingly) not done with making less advanced handsets. The latest in ZTE’s line-up of not-so-impressive devices is the Warp Elite, which is available starting today via Boost Mobile. Presented as Boost Mobile’s “most feature-packed…
Infinix HOT 2 is Google’s latest Android One smartphone (made for Africa)
Google today announced a brand new Android One smartphone, which, for the first time ever, is made for Africa. Called Infinix HOT 2, the handset is – like every other Android One device – affordable. The new smartphone is already available in Nigeria, where customers can buy it for around…
Android 6.0 Marshmallow app permissions: a closer look
After months of being simply known as “Android M”, it finally became clear that the upcoming major version of the OS will be known as Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The statue of the Android robot with a giant marshmallow was erected on the lawn in front of Alphabet’s most important subsidiary,…