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Already wondering what next year’s Android N upgrade will be called? Well, it could be up to you.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed during his tour of India this week that the company may organize an online poll to name its next Android upgrade.

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Amazon has slashed $100 off Motorola’s new Moto X Pure Edition for one day only. The discount reduces the price of the 32GB model to just $349.

Hangouts won’t be your do-it-all messaging app anymore. Photo: Cult of Android

Google Hangouts could lose its ability to send and receive SMS and MMS messages on Android.

A “trusted source” claims Google has decided it’s no longer a good idea to make Hangouts a do-it-all messaging app, but it’s not totally clear why the company has had a change of heart.

Is Apple putting its own interests over the public good? Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

BlackBerry CEO John Chen has waded in on the the question of whether or not Apple is right to refuse to help the government access smartphone data for security purposes.

“For years, government officials have pleaded to the technology industry for help,” Chen wrote in a recent blogpost. “Yet [the requests] have been met with disdain.”

Chen’s position is simple: that, “We are indeed in a dark place when companies put their reputations above the greater good.”