Motorola's highly anticipated Moto X is set to be officially announced on August 1st, but at this rate there won't be much left to announce. After leak upon leak over the last few weeks, today sees yet more images of the unannounced Google Android-powered handset.
Regardless of personal opinion on Google, it's pretty fair to say that a significant portion of technology enthusiasts make use of at least one of their products - or services - on a day-to-day basis. A large section of us regularly allow the company to handle our email needs through Gmail, and it's been evident in recent times that Google has been working fairly tirelessly in an attempt to enhance its extremely popular email offering and make everything a little less cluttered for all of us. The latest of those efforts has manifested itself with a fairly significant update to Gmail for web and mobile based users, that now offers a tabbed inbox experience with mails sorted into varying categories for easier organization.
YouTube has added a new feature to its video editing mode, bringing an awesome slow motion mode to videos that are uploaded to the social video service. More details can be found right after the break.
Hot on the heels of BlackBerry's announcement that BBM would soon become a cross-platform experience, Google has showcased its new Hangouts messaging system, unifying iOS, Android and Chrome users all in one convenient place. This revelation makes for an exciting face-off between the major instant messaging services, and it's fair to say, this kind of feature from Google as been a long time coming.
If you're of a certain age then you'll remember one of the best games of all time, and that's Atari's Breakout. Based somewhat on the ever popular Pong, the idea behind Breakout was a simple one - hit a ball with your paddle and try to break as many bricks as you can.
Of all the tech products to release last year, Google's Nexus 7 was one of the most eagerly anticipated and well received. Nobody could believe how much solid hardware Google had managed to pack into such a reasonably priced tablet, and one analyst is under the impression that the Big G is about to make consumers another offer they'd be hard pushed to refuse. According to resident Apple whistleblower Ming chi Kuo of KGI securities, the search giant will be adding a 5-megapixel rear camera to the Nexus 7, which will also include such features as an improved 1,920 × 1,200 display, a Qualcomm APQ 8064 processor and wireless charging. Kuo also notes that the price will stay at the very agreeable price of $199, and the design will also be notably thinner and lighter than the current generation Nexus 7.
Google Glass is the hot property on the internet right now, especially amongst those of us that live and breathe technology. But it's not just those of us that happen to spend our time inside the tech bubble that are interested in Google's bold push for computer equipped spectacles - even the mainstream media are getting in on the action.
It's one of the reasons that Google's Android is often preferred over Apple's iOS, but Google Now is no longer an Android-only affair, with the personal assistant now available for the competition's iPhone and iPad devices.
With Google I/O just around the corner, all the speculation has settled around whether Google will announce its next big release of Android during the event. Believed to be Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie, was expected to be the operating system sat on top of whatever new hardware is announced during the developer focused event.
Google finally got around in publishing Google Glass specs in the middle of this month, but despite clearing up the vast majority of the technical details, two key elements remained undisclosed until now. As reported earlier, the hackers have been out in force these past few hours and have managed to root Google Glass, and the joint efforts of both Jay Lee and Liam McLoughlin have seen details of the CPU and RAM finally revealed. Full details on these two key components can be found after the break!
