Author: Srivatsan Sridhar

After Cyanogen Inc. announced that it will be shutting down all its services, including Cyanogen-supported nightly builds by the end of the month, CyanogenMod that relied on Cyanogen for monetary support and the shared source base, announced that CyanogenMod will also shutdown, but there is a fork in the road. “Community of developers, designers, device maintainers and … Continue reading “CyanogenMod is also dead, fork of CM source code will live on as LineageOS”

LeEco and Coolpad jointly announced Cool Changer 1C last month, now these companies have joined hands once again to introduce their flagship Cool smartphone called Cool Changer S1. It has a 5.5-inch 1080p display, is powered by a Quad-Core Snapdragon 821 SoC and runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) with EUI on top. It has a 16-megapixel rear camera with … Continue reading “Cool Changer S1 with 5.5-inch 1080p display, Snapdragon 821, 6GB RAM, 4070mAh battery announced”

Google has released developer preview 5 for Android 7.0 Nougat for compatible Nexus devices, ahead of the final release of the update. It released developer preview 4 last month that brought final Android N SDK with final APIs (API level 24). This doesn’t add any new features but it comes with latest bug fixes and optimizations across the system and in pre-installed … Continue reading “Google releases final Android 7.0 Nougat Developer Preview 5”

Samsung has announced Gear IconX, it’s latest fitness tracking headset that can track heart rate, distance, speed, duration and calories burned and provide data through the voice guide, even without a smartphone.  It also has a standalone …

Yesterday LG announced that it will begin pre-orders for the flagship LG G5 smartphone in India starting today. Now the phone is available on pre-order exclusively on Flipkart for Rs. 52,990. Customers who pre-book the phone …

After announcing that it will launch a new flagship smartphone this month, YU has sent out invites for the launch of YUNICORN on May 19th. The invite reads, Fantasy will soon become reality. Join us …

Live image of the upcoming Motorola Moto X (2016) smartphone surfaced back in December that revealed metal body for the smartphone. Now press images of the Moto X (2016) and the new Droid smartphone that will …

Xiaomi Mi Band 2 with a display was teased by the company’s co-founder and CEO Lei Jun last week. Now he has shared on weibo that the release of Mi Band 2 will be delayed by …

Google has started rolling out new over-the-air (OTA) update for Nexus devices and also posted factory images as part of monthly Android Security release. The latest update this month fixes several critical issues, including issues …