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Android 9 aka Pie Rolls Out Today To Pixel Phones, To Be Fully Available Later This Year

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Google has finally told us what Android P stands for and as you may expect, it has to something to do with food again thereby following the pattern. The Android P stands for Android Pie as Android’s VP of engineering Dave Burke announced a while ago with a pie image on Twitter. The Android P or 9 succeeds the Android Oreo or 8 even as Google makes the P"s source code available to the Android Open Source Project. The latest Android flavour is rolling out today to Pixel phones first . [xyz-ihs snippet="david-burke-Pie-tweet"] The greatest highlights of the latest Android version all around artificial intelligence (AI). The smartphones that will eventually run on it will learn more about you and how you use apps as well saving battery life by automatically adjusting brightness. According to an Android blog post , “ Go more with a single charge. Adaptive Battery learns how you like to use your phone, so the apps and services you don’t use as much aren’t a battery d...

The Best iOS 12 Features That Apple Didn’t Talk About Onstage

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At WWDC 2018, Apple announced a bevy of new features for iOS 12 , but that wasn"t the half of it. Despite the talk that most main changes to iOS will be under the hood, Apple didn"t stop at breathtaking performance and stability enhancements in comparison with iOS 11, but introduced a full basket of new features, some of which users have been clamouring for since the Ice Age (grouped notifications), and some which are brand new and welcome, like the Emoji avatars that present your lovely self to the world as your creator intended. There is, however, a number of smaller bunch of changes and new features that didn"t make the keynote and we are still discovering them, so take a look at what else may be in store for you when iOS 12 hits your iPhone or iPad this fall. Here are 12 things Apple didn"t mention onstage at WWDC. 1.Answer calls and have chats over HomePod or Apple Watch . FaceTime got a big update with the addition of group video chatting at WWDC, but even the...

Android P: A First Look At Google’s Boldest Mobile OS Update Yet

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This year, things got a little bit different and spicier with Android as the tech giant during its I/O developers’ conference explained that instead of showing you all the ways you can use its phone operating system to do more, the company is creating features to help you use it even less.  Android P is the upcoming ninth major version of the Android operating system. It was first announced by Google on March 7, 2018, and the first developer preview was released on the same day. Second preview, considered beta quality, was released on May 8, 2018. An operating system due to be out later this year, will have a new dashboard that tells you how often, when, and for how long you are using every app on your phone. It will also allow you to set limits on yourself. You could give yourself a half-hour of Instagram per day, for example. Once your 30 minutes is up, the icon will go from its usual eye-catching gradient to a dull grayscale. Android P also includes a new core interface th...