Google has used the opening keynote of its I/O 2016 conference to announce two new offerings. The Alphabet-owned company has introduced its own Siri/Cortana/Alexa-like personal digital assistant called Google Assistant, as well as an Amazon Echo rival called Google Home. Google CEO Sundar Pichai described the underlying technology within Google Assistant as a "conversational assistant", whereas Mario Queiroz - VP of product management at Google - claims that the Home will come equipped with "strong bass and clear highs" that should eclipse the performance of the Amazon Echo from a musical enjoyment perspective.
With Microsoft selling the Nokia brand, the Finnish company has announced its grand return back to mobile market with Android phones and tablets. Here are the details.
BitTorrent has today announced a new multichannel TV application that acts as the company's own unique take on the live television experience. The multichannel video streaming application - called BitTorrent Live - will initially introduce shows and coverage spanning five key areas: news, sports, technology, youth culture, and music, and will launch on the Apple's fourth-generation Apple TV platform in the first instance this week. In addition to offering immediate support for the tvOS App Store and Apple TV, the company has plans of grandeur to bring the BitTorrent Live experience to additional platforms later in the year.
Lenovo / Motorola has made Moto G4, Moto G4 Plus, and Moto G4 Play official. Here are specs, price and release date info on all the three phones.
After releasing Gboard for iOS, Google was immediately questioned as to whether users of Android devices could expect to see the keyboard, or at least its features make the jump from iOS to Android any time soon. As it turns out, the answer is yes.
Rumor has it that Samsung could finally release a smartphone called Galaxy X with a 4K foldable display in 2017, along with four other flagship devices with 2.5K displays. Here are the details.
Tablet and smartphone owners generally opt for a particular mobile platform over others for a wide variety of reasons. In a lot of cases, you simply get staunch iOS fans who would never touch an Android device, let alone accept it as their main point of usage. Conversely, the same can be said for certain Android device owners who can't fathom the idea of moving over to the dark side. For others however, the choice often comes down to things like security, stability, aesthetic appeal of the device hardware and OS interface, and even personal considerations like how much the device costs. If you do care about the stability of a device and platform, then Blancco's "The State of Mobile Device Performance and Health" research report provides some interesting information about the stability of Android devices compared to the iPhone.
Apple's 3D Touch technology may be found in anything from a MacBook to an Apple Watch, but it's its implementation on the iPhone which Google has been rumored to be set to essentially mimic for Android, but new claims suggest that the company isn't yet ready to announce its own 3D Touch technology as part of Android N as first believed, canning it for an unknown period of time.
Samsung Galaxy Note 6 release date for the U.S. market has been potentially revealed ahead of time. The phablet will likely launch in the second week of August this year.
Google is rumored to have an Android VR headset ready to be announced at its upcoming developer conference known as Google I/O, with the device claimed to be a better choice than the current Samsung Gear VR.
















