Google has announced Android Wear 2.0 for smartwatches and wearables. Here are all the new features in one single place, along with a video demo showing them all in action.
Like a plethora of other companies and newly founded startups, Google is using its vast resources to dive two feet first into the world of virtual reality. The Alphabet-owned company has used the opening keynote of its I/O 2016 conference in Mountain View to introduce Daydream, a virtual reality platform that leverages the power and versatility of Android N as the underlying operating system. In its purest form, Daydream is a much more advanced successor to Cardboard, Google's budget virtual reality technology that has allowed many more people to get involved in the world of virtual reality.
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.
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.
Google has outed a new teamwork and collaboration app for Android, iOS and the Web called Spaces, and it's available to anyone who has a Google account.
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.
8Bitdo's NES30 is not going to win any prizes or any fans based purely on its name, but let's be honest, no-one is really going to care about what this thing is called. It is however likely to garner a lot of attention and immediate love from hardcore old-school gamers who absolutely loved the look and feel of Nintendo's NES gaming controllers from back in the day. This particular gadget may have been built with the modern world and mobile gaming in mind, but it stays true to the original design by offering that "same NES touch, same NES feeling".
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.
Chinese company Fuze has announced the Tomahawk F1, an android-powered gaming machine that looks like a cross between PS4 and Xbox One, and will cost buyers just $140 when it goes on sale.
