Motorola has established a reputation for building cheap, feature-rich smartphones of late, and the Moto G, which first hit the scene late last year, is no exception. Having launched in the United States at a cost of $179, the 4G-enabled refresh of the Moto G has just arrived on UK shores, retailing at a cost of just £160.
With Google I/O right in front of our face, speculation is understandably rife as to what the search and Android giant will have to say. New versions of Android are usually on the agenda at Google's big developer outing, and we see no huge reason why this year's event would be any different. With that in mind, the next version of Android could be just around the corner, and with the next letter in the alphabet-based naming convention used for Android being 'L,' we may have our first real look at what it is going to look like.
Having spent the best part of a year developing its head-mounted technology in the United States, Google has just rolled out the Explorer Edition of Glass to interested parties in the United Kingdom. At a price of £1000, it works out at roughly the same cost as the U.S. version, and although Google alluded to a wider roll-out across more countries in its announcement post on G+, the UK is the currently the only group of countries officially outlined as beneficiaries of Glass.
If history has taught us anything, it's that persistent rumors tend to have some kind of foundation to them. That's why we aren't surprised to see more information pertaining to the speculated Nexus tablet from HTC coming into the public domain.
If you're big on mobile gaming, you'll be pleased to learn that some of the best titles from Electronic Arts and SEGA, makers of many great Sonic games over the years, are both running a great deal on their respective catalogs for iOS and Android. Below, we've got a list of all the titles benefiting from the discount, so if you want to stock up on some fresh, challenging games this weekend, be sure to join us after the fold!
The long-awaited, albeit incremental Android 4.4.3 update was only officially released a couple of weeks back for folks on the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 smartphones, along with the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets and Google Play Edition devices. Already, though, the Big G has deemed it necessary to push Android 4.4.4, and the reason for this swift update is to fix a lurking security bug discovered shortly after Android 4.4.3 dropped.
The Google Play Store is the focal point of most Android users' digital world; the go-to portal for apps, games, movies, books, music, and other such wondrous content. But even though Google's stringent moderation system ensures that infiltration by malicious software is kept to a minimum, there appears to a fundamental flaw in the Play Store's infrastructure that leaves users potentially vulnerable to having their passwords and personal credentials logged without explicit consent.
Never the ones to miss a good game and movie tie-in, Hasbro has released its latest iOS, Android game on the App Store and Play Store, respectively.
Social apps are on the rise, instant-messaging is, after Facebook's monumental acquisition of WhatsApp, also experiencing something of a spike as ambitious folk look to cash in on the potentially lucrative market. But while the App Store is awash with scores of WhatsApp and Viber clones laden with features, one developer has gone the other way and created an IM app with just one feature. Yes, the appropriately-named Yo app lets you say "Yo!" to your friends, but while they can also say "Yo!" back they you so wish, there's not much else to see here.
With Microsoft's BUILD and Apple's WWDC now done and dusted, Google will be the last of the Big Three to run its annual developer event when I/O kicks off in San Francisco next week, and following on from the recent announcement of its smartwatch-flavored Android Wear software, the search giant's emphasis on the emerging wearables market will likely be atop the agenda. In advance of arguably the biggest date in the company's calendar for this year, an introduction clip of Android Wear has just been released, offering even more of an insight into what smartwatch owners can expect from this extension of the company's traditional mobile software.
