Android Auto connects your phone to the car, competes with Apple CarPlay
Android Auto heavily leverages voice recognition. You can send messages, navigate to places, and make calls - all hands-free.
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Google I/O: First Look at new Android user interface (Video)
Google embraces a flat world. "Material Design" will bring new icons, fonts, and cards to the Android user interface.
Google I/O: Android powers over 60% of all tablets
Google head of mobile Sundar Pichai revealed that Android market share on tablets has jumped from 39% in 2012 to 62% in 2014.
The T-Mobile experiment
Music Freedom? T-Mobile's new service courts controversy. But it also deftly took some of the wind out of Amazon's phone event.
With new 3D Fire Phone, Amazon raises stakes against Google, Apple
Late to the game. Does Amazon's long rumored Fire smartphone have enough to woo the Android and Apple faithful?
Prime Data could be the Amazon smartphone killer feature
What 3D holographic display? "Prime data" could very well send shock-waves across the mobile industry by allowing consumer unlimited Amazon content.
Surprise! Samsung unveils Tab S tablets, touts Super AMOLED displays
According to Samsung, its new S Tab 8.4 and 10.5 feature what the world's first Super AMOLED displays found on a tablet. But is it…
Prime Music a decent perk for existing Amazon subscribers – no threat yet to Spotify
Amazon enters streaming music fray with Prime Music, a modest service featuring only a million tracks. But, once again for CEO Jeff Bezos it's the…
For Apple, innovation means a massive in-house ad agency
Will an in-house ad agency help Apple get its creative mojo back? There's some issues to overcome first, not the least of which is attracting…
Don’t blame Google Glass – it’s all about “foregrounding”
Glass "doesn't create Creepshots." The issue is societal. And it has always been there. Therefore banning creepshots and Google Glass won't make this problem go…