A lot of hype’s surrounding Motorola’s supposed X phone but with the winter season nearing we can only hope to contain our excitement for the next Nexus phone rumored to be called the Google Nexus 5.
Korean site Daum (Via Android Authority) claims that the Nexus 5 successor to the highly popular Nexus 4 will hit stores October of this year. The Nexus 5 is also said to debut the long awaited Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie which Google has been teasing for quite some time now.
Another previous rumor dictated that LG is making the Nexus 5 which is to be based on the Optimus G2 structure. If it is based on the G2 structure then expect the Nexus 5 to feature a Snapdragon 800 processor clocked at 2.3-Ghz processor, 13MP camera, 5.2-inch full HD display, hefty 2700 mAh battery and either 3 or 2GB of RAM.
What do you want from the Nexus 5? Let us know in the comments below.
In an official statement Asus’s CFO David Chang has revealed that his company is selling one million Nexus 7 tablets per month. He announced this information after the company’s third quarter conference that took place on Tuesday according to WSJ.
Nexus 7 is a joint venture of Asus and Android maker Google which has been undoubtedly become the most success Android tablet ever produced. Asus revealed that the sales were 500K-700K in the beginning but last month the sales jumped to 1 million units. While the number announced by Asus is good, it is no where near to the market leader Apple’s sale numbers. Apple recently announced in its third quarter results that it sold over 14 million iPad units in the last quarter alone in the US while the global sales of iPad were 25 million in the third quarter.
While Apple is enjoying the status of the most successful and the only king of the tablet industry Google is expected to boost its sales in the coming months. Google recently announced Nexus 10 with 2560×1600 resolution display and a 32GB version of Nexus 7. Google has also reduced the price of 16GB model to $199 replacing the 8 gig version with it.
Today through his blog Android and Apple homebrew developer ZodTTD has made his PS1 emulator the PSX4Droid free and available with install instructions through his blog. He claims that after removing his app from the Android Market Google also froze his developer accounts meaning Google refused to pay him his money. We couldn’t confirm this claim yet but if you wanted to test out the app be our guest, just make sure you have a spare PS1 bios and some LEGALLY obtained roms laying. We here at TechDeville prefer using FPSE which is much faster and superior to PSX4Droid and still available on the Android Market.
As most of you have heard by now Google Plus or Google+ has opened it’s doors to the public by holding a Public Beta which started on the 20th of September. So since Google+ has opened it’s e-doors to the floods of users expected to come through they need to be kept entertained, so to address that many casual games are expected to hit the search giants latest attempt at social networking.
One of the things which make Facebook (Google Plus’ closest competitor) so popular is the vast library of free to play games, so to capatalize on that Google’s struck a deal with many of the companies which produce browser based games like Zynga (which they made a huge investment in) to bring their games to Google+. A recent release is of the highly popular city building simulation game by Zynga called CityVille, Google has assured us that many other games are expected to come very soon.
Good new for Nexus 7 owners as the much anticipated XenonHD Android 2.2 Jelly Bean custom ROM has been released and is available for download.
Google and ASUS’s budget Nexus 7 tablet certainly helped in turning the tide on Apple’s domination of the tablet market. The Nexus 7 is cheap but packs a lot of neat features which can be expanded even further by installing custom ROMs like the XenonHD.
XenonHD’s feature list includes:
JB 4.2.2 JDQ39
Rooted
Busybox
Miscellaneous:
Add reboot and screenshot options to power menu.
Additional tiles in Quick Settings.
Theme Chooser support. (Updated for 4.2)
Volume rocker wake. (Settings>Display)
Volume rocker long press to seek tracks. (“”)
Show rotation lock in quick settings.
Bluetooth Message Access Profile support.
Improved scrolling cache.
Fixed December bug.
Fixed Google location service.
Add an option to change the device hostname.
New moto style softkeys.
DSPManager added with all the binaries.
Apollo Music player added and fixed for JB.
Added XenonHD wallpapers.
Louder output on speaker for Maguro and Toro.
Added Galaxy4, PhaseBeam and Holo spiral wallapers.
Run sysinit during boot.
Change sysfs permissions to allow user control ksm.
Wi-fi scan time to 100 to save battery.
Performance, battery life and other misc tweaks.
Init.d support with added tweaks and scripts.
SuperSU application for root.
CMFile manager added.
GPS, Camera, Keyboard gestures fixed.
Build.prop tweaks.
Battery life tweaks.
Some secret tweaks.
I’m forgetting soo many things. Flash and see.
Etc
Browser:
New navbar buttons.
Added a menu item in Browser called Close other tabs.
Open in incognito tab option in menu.
Increased tab limit.
Added menu option to open url in browser.
Enabled tablet like browser on grouper.
Messaging:
QuickMessage and Reply.
Custom notification vibrate patterns.
Timestamp options.
Input type selection.
Add reminder to calendar.
Templates functionality.
Split SMS functionality.
Emoji and Strip unicode support.
Etc
Phone and Contacts:
T-9 Dialer and with other stuff.
Dialpad settings.
Etc
Step 2- Connect your Nexus 7 to a computer using mass storage mode.
Step 3- Copy and paste the ROM and Google Apps zips downloaded in step 1, into the root folder of the mass storage device. It doesn’t necessarily have to be the root, but putting it in the root helps finding it easier.
Step 4- Turn off your Nexus 7 and reboot into the bootloader. Do this by pressing and holding the Volume Up + Volume Down and Power buttons.
Step 5. Use volume rocker to navigate and power button to click. Perform a data wipe + cache wipe
Step 6. Navigate to flash ZIP from SD card and choose ZIP from SD card
Step 7. Select the XenonHD Android 2.2 Jelly Bean ROM’s zip downloaded in step 1 first. Select it using the power button and confirm installation.
Step 8. Now do the same things with the Google Apps zip file.
Step 9. When installation is done, go back to the main menu of CWM and perform a reboot.
The process is now complete and you should boot into the installed ROM. If you have any questions or problems feel free to ask us in the comments below.
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Ice Cream (The next version of Android) is said to be a mixture of Android 2.3 Gingerbread and Android 3.0 Honeycomb which sounds awesome but it seems that Google might also be planning to add Google TV to the mix. Google TV failed to radically capture markets but incorporating it will the popular smartphone operating system might prove to be a very smart decision.
This decision could lead tablets, phones and TVs running on the same OS which would offer a much streamlined experience, heck we could even be able to have Android powering our house if this keeps up. This rumors sounds really good but we’ll have to wait till Google IO 2011 for the official announcement.
Just like Nexus 4 Google has officially announced the new Nexus 10 tablet without an official event. Nexus 10 is undoubtedly the best Android tablet ever produced and with its powerful processing abilities, gorgeous display, good design, and comparatively low price it is certainly going to give a tough competition to Apple’s iPad.
Nexus 10 is manufactured by Samsung but is designed by Google. It is the flagship Google tablet that will act as a benchmark for other Android tablet makers. Nexus 10 runs Android 4.2 and is powered by a dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 processor and quad-core Mali T604 GPU. It has 2GB of RAM and comes in 16 and 32GB models. The most important and notable aspect of this new Google tablet is its gorgeous screen. Nexus 10 sports a 10-inch display with Corning’s Gorilla Glass 2, that has a resolution of 2560×1600 pixels with 300ppi. For comparison its biggest rival and number one tablet of the market, iPad has a resolution of 2048×1536 pixels. The high resolution screen gives sharp text, richer colors for photos and videos, and better viewing angles.
Nexus 10 has a 5-megapixel camera on its back and a 1.9-megapixel camera on the front. It has a 9,000mAh battery that provides 9 hours of HD video play. The overall weight of the device is 604 grams. Other features of Nexus 10 include dual speakers, microUSB ports, wi-fi, two NFC chips, micro HDMI port, bluetooth and more. Nexus 10 comes in Wi-Fi version only and there’s no cellular model.
Nexus 10 will be available for purchase on November 13th in US, UK, Australia, France, Germany, Spain and Canada. It will cost $399 for 16GB model and $499 for 32GB model.
Google just removed 21 apps from the Android Market because of constant complaints that the apps were mallware and we rooting into the phone and stealing vital information like messages, passwords and contact information. The apps also installed a lot of other information onto the phone without the owner’s consent. According to the Android Police who were first to report the apps said that the said apps have been downloaded around 50k-200k over a span of 4 days.
Google just removed 21 apps from the Android Market because of constant complaints that the apps were mallware and we rooting into the phone and stealing vital information like messages, passwords and contact information. The apps also installed a lot of other information onto the phone without the owner’s consent. According to the Android Police who were first to report the apps said that the said apps have been downloaded around 50k-200k over a span of 4 days.
After making an appearance on a Spanish retailer’s website and on several other sites, the 32GB model of Nexus 7 is back to tease us all again. AndroidPolicereports that the new model of Nexus 7 tablet with upgraded storage was seen on retailer Staples Advantage’s site. The tablet appeared in a search result of Staples website for business users.
According to the site, 32GB version of Nexus 7 will be available on October 18th and will cost $248.37. Interestingly according to Staples site the price of the 32 gig model of Nexus 7 is almost $3 less than the 16 gig model, which is really strange. One explanation for this could be that Google wants to kill the 16GB model in the coming days and sell the 32GB model at the same price. But if that’s the case then why not kill the smaller 8GB model and continue selling the better 16GB and 32GB models? Well it seems like Google does not want to miss the $199 price mark of 8GB model and cannot sell the 16GB model of Nexus 7 for that price.
While there is a lot of confusion regarding the pricing and availability of the 32GB Nexus 7, as October 18 launch date does not seem possible as this leak suggests at this point of time, we certainly know that the 32GB model of Nexus 7 is coming following all these leaks thanks to the retailers from around the world.
