Google appears to be gearing up to change its Android logo almost six years after the platform’s inception. A new logo has appeared in a 17-second video that allegedly shows off the boot animation for LG’s upcoming G Watch that will be powered by Android Wear.
With iOS 8, Apple is bringing a multitude of exciting new features to iPhone and iPad. In some cases, Cupertino is playing catch-up as it tries to match what’s currently available in KitKat; in others, Apple’s next-generation mobile operating system is about to blast past the latest version of Android.
Android and iOS will secure a staggering 95 percent of smartphone market share between them in 2014, according to the latest research from IDC. While it’s strictly a two-horse race, Google’s platform is currently far out in front when it comes to number of users, with Android’s market share expected to reach 80.2 percent by the end of the year.
Google has a new Android update up its sleeve that will be announced this summer, but while Apple posts impressive upgrade percentages, Android fragmentation typically slows deployment of Google’s latest, greatest mobile OS.
A standard smartphone feature that many individuals, business-owners and employees heavily depend upon, is Call Forwarding. The original free-to-use service was invented by Ernest J. Bonanno in the early 1970s and has evolved significantly ever since .
For those of you who are unaware, the Android operating system as a whole makes it as easy as possible to configure and initiate this awesome feature and there’s a ton of nifty tweaks that you can use to make it as efficient as possible.
BlackBerry has today begun rolling out its version 2.2 update for BBM, which adds a bunch of new emoticons and makes some nice improvements. Signing up is easier than ever for new BBM users with this release — as is adding new friends to your BBM contacts list.
A leaked internal document has surfaced on the internet disclosing that Samsung is in the process of internally testing the new, unannounced Android 4.4.3 update on both the Snapdragon and Exynos-powered variants of the Galaxy S5, together with the LTE-A edition of the Galaxy S4.
