The wait is over! Here we bring to you the official Motorola Moto Z Droid wallpapers and boot animation.
As you would expect, the phone comes with a Droid-branded boot animation for its Verizon variant. We will have more details about that next week when Motorola and Verizon hold their Moto Z event. Other than that, there are four new wallpapers carrying the usual Verizon designs.
We've said it a thousand times already, but we miss the batwing. In fact, it is rumored that many fans will make a petition soon to bring it back, but that's another story. Here are the wallpapers so you can download them:
And here is the boot animation. Download it here: bootanimation.zip
Exactly a month back Motorola and Lenovo revealed the Moto Z and Moto Z Force in Lenovo's Tech World event . Moto Z and Moto Z Force are the first Modular devices by Motorola and Lenovo .
Both The Smartphone comes with Stock vanilla Android OS , but Lenovo have other plans for Market in China . As previously said , Motorola Moto Z and Moto Z Force will be coming with Lenovo's Vibe UI in Chinese Market . We Got the first image of Moto Z Running Lenovo's Vibe UI with some Moto Applications pre-installed .
According to our Source , The Vibe-powered Moto Z inhabits the same Specification as Regular Moto Z .
Though , The New Vibe-Powered Moto Z will come with some new Moto Application ( Moto Survey is one of them ) and dual sim capability .
The viral Game "Pokemon Go" is now all around the web . The Game is now available for Android and iOS devices .In Pokemon Go , Players start with Charmander, Bulbasaur, or Squirtle . But they can actually pick Pikachu instead !
So , Here Goes the first secret Pokemon ( Pikachu ) in Pokemon GO ! Folks at Polygon found a way to catch Pikachu as a starter !
All You have to do is -
When Professor Willow tells you to go choose your starter Pokemon , Clicking on one will result in obtaining your first Pokemon . Just Don't click on any of the three ! Instead just keep moving ( walking away ) until the Three of the Pokemon disappears . Though , They will re-spawn again , but you have to keep doing it Four times . If you managed to ignore Charmander, Squirtle and Bulbasaur four times, they’ll come back with another friend ( Pikachu ) in tow. Just Try your best to catch the Electric Mouse .
After playing with the leaked XT1650 firmware for a bit we could extract its boot logo. No, this isn't the bootanimation.zip, this is the image that you see first when the phone powers on.
As you would expect, the batwing is gone to bring in the Moto trademark and then a Lenovo logo probably. Don't worry though, the phone is still a Motorola-made phone, as you can see all the details here. It's designed and manufactured by Motorola, but Lenovo started to include its brand too in the box and the boot animation for future phones.
We haven't been able to extract much from the firmware, although we can confirm it comes with the old 2004 HelloMoto ringtone (hasn't been used in any Motorola device since 2011-2012) and does bring the 2015 boot animation, even though we don't know if it will be the final one or if we will see one with a Lenovo logo.
It should be noted though, that the Droid editions might come with the batwing (fingers crossed!). We'll know more about it next week when Verizon and Motorola announce its pricing and availability during their event.
Anyway, here's the new Boot logo that will come with the Motorola Moto Z XT1650. It's certainly much better than the Moto G4 one, and it looks quite nice indeed. We'd rather see the iconic batwing and then the Lenovo logo, but hopefully they can add that back through a software update or something. Enjoy!
Motorola Moto G Turbo edition was launched back in December 2015 . The G Turbo was an upgrade over the Moto G 3rd Generation . Moto G turbo edition came with Android 5.1.1 Lollipop and was updated to Android Marshmallow this year . In This Article , We will be talking about Android N ( Nougat ) for Moto G Turbo edition ( AKA Moto G3 Trubo ) .
Official Android N 7.0 Nougat for Moto G Turbo edition -
Yes , The Motorola Moto G Turbo edition will be getting Official Android N By Motorola .
Accordingly Google will release Android Nougat in August or September and Motorola will get hands on to Nougat's source code from Google in August or September.
Motorola will start roll out of Android N Nougat for several Motorola devices in first quarter of 2017 , and Moto G Turbo edition will be one of the devices getting Android N .
Unofficial Android N 7.0 Nougat for Moto G Turbo edition - Moto G3 Turbo users will be able to Install Android 7.0 Nougat on their Smartphones unofficially ( By Rooting and Installing via TWRP ) .
Moto G Turbo edition has a great developer support and It will get Android N very soon ( In 2016 ) after the release of Android N AOSP source codes OR Cyanogenmod 14 source codes .
Screenshots of Android N ( 7.0 Nougat ) -
We will keep updating this Article , As soon as any news or any custom rom based on Android N Nougat comes for Moto G Turbo edition .
Following the success of the Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X , Google is all set to release other two new Nexus smartphones later this year , probably along with Android Nougat .
As reported earlier , the upcoming Nexus Smartphones will be seemingly made by HTC, codenamed Sailfish and Marlin . While the smartphones are expected to sport displays measuring 5 inches and 5.5 inches, respectively, they may look very similar.
Few days back , AndroidPolice leaked the first concept image of Nexus Sailfish , following Android Police , a Redditor ( ApSciLeonard ) just created New Nexus Sailfish Concept in 4 different colors .
Motorola Moto G has always been the smartphone that offered strong performance, decent specs, timely upgrades, all at a reasonable price. The company recently launched Moto G4 series , though they really messed up doing a three-way split by launching Moto G4 , Moto G4 Plus and Moto G4 Play .
The Moto G4 Plus and Moto G4 are almost same , but the Plus has a better camera, adds a fingerprint scanner, includes a TurboPower charger and comes with 2GB as well as 3GB variant .
So , Lets take a closer look !
Design
The round-edged smartphone with a square-shaped fingerprint looks amazing and feels much better in hands . It comes in Black and White color , Though you can make your own via Moto Maker . The Square shaped fingerprint sensor is not a button , but it looks and feels like a button .
The Smartphone has 5.5-inch FHD display, 153 x 76.6mm dimensions and is 9.8mm slimmer . The Device is really very light ( Yeah even lighter than previous generation Moto G devices ) . The device has a nano coating which protects it from water splashes .
Specs and Performance
The Moto G4 Plus comes with a 2GB / 3GB / and even 4GB RAM ( Moto Maker ) options with 16GB/32GB/64GB Storage with MicroSD card support . The device comes with an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 chipset, with four cores clocked at 1.5GHz and the other four at 1.2GHz, paired with a 550MHz Adreno 405 GPU.
The specifications are not that nice but they are competitive at this price . The Performance is fast and smooth , Stock Android Marshmallow adds more sweetness to its performance . The device has a 3,000mAh battery which usually lasts more than a day even with a heavy use . It becomes very easy to charge the device quickly using the Turbo charger . It take actually takes 15 minutes to get six hours of power .
Camera
Moto G4 Plus comes with a 16-megapixel camera with f/2.0 aperture, PDAF, Laser auto-focus and dual-tone LED flash . It has a 5-megapixel front-facing selfie shooter with f/2.2 aperture. The 16MP camera is just wonderful , but the 5MP is not that good !
I have already done a full camera review of Moto G4 Plus with Camera samples , Head ahead toMoto G4 Plus Camera review .
Pros and Cons -
Pros -
Speedy , Smooth
Light weight
Amazing Camera
Great Display
Fingerprint sensor
Cons -
Gets heated while charging and while using Camera
No NFC
Verdict
The Moto G4 Plus is an amazing Smartphone which comes with a great feature , Though the specs are not that impressive but the G4 Plus provides a better quality and design than any other Smartphone in this range .
The Moto G's are and will always remain Smartphone's "Budget King" .
Google has finally announced The name of Next Android version after asking all of the world "What N should be" . So , Android N 7.0 is for Nougat .
Google will reveal the Final Android Nougat along with New Nexus Devices later this summer . Android Nougat will be coming with some awesome features and Here the top features you need to look out for in Android 7.0 Nougat .
1. Night Mode
This new Android Nougat feature will allow user to switch to a darker color scheme ( Not black , but dark grey ) . If you don't like White color scheme , then just switch to Night mode for a darker scheme .
There will be an option to automatically switch to Night Mode after the sun set .
2. The Notification Shade
The Notification bar and the Notification toggles are completely changed and the new redesign looks spectacular . Android Nougat will give you ability to reply a message within Notification shade . Additionally, users can also long press a notification and choose whether they would like to block or display them.
3. Doze Mode -
Google is making changes to Doze mode in Android Nougat . In Marshmallow, Doze activates its battery-saving features when the phone was stationary , while In Nougatit will get activated even when the screen is turned off . Hence, it will save upon more battery.
4. New Settings -
The new Android Nougat will come with a new Settings Application that gives us more information , One will be able to see how much data is consumed , WiFi Status etc without selecting that option .
The Another change in settings is that , One will be able to swap from One to another Setting menu easily .
5. Multi-Window -
This feature will enable users to use applications in split screen mode and picture-in-picture mode as well .
The feature already comes with Samsung's Note series and some of the Smartphones . But Now Android is finally introducing this new feature with Android Nougat .
Recently OnePlus started rolling out OxygenOS 3.2.0 for OnePlus 3 which came with sRGB mode , Memory management fix and much more . Though they stopped the roll-out of the update in-between because of some issues with the OxygenOS 3.2.0 , Read full news .
Now , OnePlus is rolling out a new update of OxygenOS 3.2.1 for OnePlus 3 skipping OxygenOS 3.2.0 . Here's the new changelog with OxygenOS 3.2.1 -
Six months have already been passed in checking dozens of Smartphones and finding out the best of them . Most Popular benchmark maker AnTuTu has released list for the Top 10 Performance Smartphones for the first half of 2016, and guess what ? This time OnePlus 3 is king of AnTuTu’s Top 10 smartphones for 2016 .
Beside Poor RAM management and some display issue , the smartphone just made out the first place defeating flagships of 2016 .
The 6GB RAM Smartphone is now the king of Antutu for the first half of 2016 . Comment below If you want to express or add something to this story !
Motorola's First Modular Smartphones i.e Moto Z and Moto Z Force are all set to get a price tag from Verizon on July 14 .
Verizon will reveal Moto Z and Moto Z Force pricing and launch date of Droid sub-branded Moto Z , on July 14 in an event which is in New York .
Verizon will be the only network to sell The Modular Droid Smartphones ( Moto Z and Z force ) and Moto Mods in USA .While The Moto Z will go global with unlocked models in September .
Till then , Watch out Specs and Features of Moto Z and Do comment below whether you are going to buy this modular beast or not !
In this History of the RAZR, part 2.5, we will talk about the Razr3 series and why it was never released. We are talking about the third generation Razr, set to be released in late 2008 to early 2009.
The History of the Motorola RAZR: the Razr that never was...
It was mid-2008 and Motorola had no flagship for that year. Its product cycle was delayed by one year due to issues with a supplier and every news outlet was jumping onto the Moto-hate bandwagon.
Sanjay Jha, Motorola's former Co-CEO said once that during his first day at Motorola he asked to see the roadmap of all the upcoming phones and there wasn't even a single smartphone in it.
Motorola had two options then: to release a third generation Razr phone or to wait until they had their first smartphones ready. As we all know, they chose the smartphone-way, but because of this, a truly amazing phone never saw the light of the day. You may have seen some leaks or heard some stories, but this phone we are about to show you is the cancelled RAZR3 by Motorola.
Going the smartphone way meant the death of this phone, but there are also some other reasons. To begin with, the Razr series needed a break since Motorola was criticized non-stop for releasing Razrs. The phone was still the best selling phone in the USA in 2008 but it wasn't seen as an icon anymore, so they knew it would be risky to release yet another Razr.
Plus, they needed to cut costs by late 2008 due to the economic downturn and one of their decisions was to kill development for all future Linux and Symbian devices to focus on Android. And this Razr came with Symbian so it had to be killed.
By November 2008 every Moto fan was expecting this phone to be released or announced at any time. However, it was announced that the phone codenamed "Ruby" was cancelled, leaving many fans in tears. But that was not the end!
Around MWC 2009, official press shots for Motorola model VE1 were leaked by Mobile-Review, leaving everyone confused. Were they cancelling the phone or not? Was it coming at MWC?
It seems that for a moment they thought about launching it but they made a last minute change and killed it back again, sadly. But that wasn't it, again.
By 2009, Motorola moved to Android-powered devices and was on top of the game again because of the Droid smartphone. But they quietly released the phone somewhere: South Korea. That country has always been known for having some exclusive Moto phones but we wish they had released it somewhere else. Ruby was finally alive somewhere in all its metal and glass glory.
It had some lower specs and a different (and Korean) OS, but the concept was the same. In a weird branding move to make people forget about the Razr series, the phone was renamed to Motorola Klassic V13. And that was the end of the RAZR series for some time.
The mysterious Razr3 VE1 often pops up on Youtube and other sites. Some of them were produced, and it was about to be released, but for some unknown reason it never happened. By 2010 a video of a prototype leaked, showing the original phone running Symbian UIQ.
As you can see this is a very interesting device that has become every collector's dream. I am one of the biggest Motorola collectors out there (that's how TechDroider reached out to me and then I became Editor here!) and I still can't find this phone. It's impossible to get but I won't give up. For the next chapter we will discuss the Droid RAZR, and how the Razr series were reborn, now running Android and becoming a hit once again.
Remember Nokia ? Yeah , We all do ! Nokia is finally now all set to enter into Android Market with its new Upcoming Android Smartphone namely "Nokia P1" .
Today , a press render of a device allegedly revealing Nokia's first Android Smartphone " The Nokia P1 " has been leaked . The device was reportedly developed by engineers at InFocus/Sharp.
The Device will be available in two colors ( blue and salmon ) . For now we don't have any information ( Specs and features ) about this new device . According to the terms of the agreement Nokia made with Microsoft when the buyout was completed, the company isn’t allowed to create smartphone products until the third quarter of 2016 .
Get Your Money Ready 'Cause Nokia is back' !
(via | source )
Earlier after OnePlus 3 launch , we got a report from engadget , stating that OnePlus is finally killing the OnePlus X series . CEO Pete Lau said that they will focusing on its flagship series only .
The Beautiful OnePlus X seems Officially dead now and there are no plans of The company for making a successor of OnePlus X .
Even The device is marked out of stock from the Official OnePlus store . Some OnePlus Forum users, who have already ordered the OnePlus X have got a notice with 10$ compensation for buying any other OnePlus device . It states clearly that OnePlus has no intention of producing any more OnePlus X units . Though the last units of device is still available at some online sites . The 5 inch metal frame Smartphone with two panels of black glass is finally gone ! RIP OnePlus X !
We have already talked about that Motorola is working on Cheaper variant of Moto Z i.e Moto Z Play . The Device was tipped to be announced with Moto Z and Z Force but due to some reasons , Motorola didn't announced it . The Unannounced Moto Z Play has now been caught in a new leak . The AnTuTu screenshots of Moto Z Play shows that the device will be coming with Snapdragon 625 SoC , Andreno 506 , 3GB RAM and 32GB ROM .
The device also feature 5MP front and 16MP Back camera . The model no. of Moto Z Play will be XT1635-03 . Moto Z Play will also feature modular capability and this device will be priced around approx 300$ i.e 20,000 INR . source | via
Motorola released the Moto X Play (Droid MAXX 2 in the US) back in late 2015. Introduced as one of the phones with the longest battery life, the phone got great reviews. The phone came running Lollipop and then it got Marshmallow some months later. Will it get Android Nougat now?
In this article, we will talk about moto X Play and Droid MAXX 22 Nougat update
We have good news for you all. The answer is YES, your phone will get the Android Nougat update by the end of the year, IF you have the moto X Play version, not the Droid version. The phone was launched in 2015 and Google's policy of software updates cover 18 months past its release, and moto X Force is covered here. Don't expect it to get Android O, though, as N will be its final update.
Bad news for you guys! You WILL get the update, but it will most likely come in mid 2017, considering it got Marshmallow some weeks ago, very late into the game. That's Verizon's speed with updates. But you will get it afterall.
ROMs
There's some good news if you love custom roms: although developer support is limited, you will see custom ROMs released by the end of the year for moto X Play, since its developer support is quite large, although not much for Droid Maxx 2 since it's got a locked bootloader and limited developer support, so if you have the X Play you will be able to play with all the new features that come with Nougat and some developer features. Custom ROMs won't support the Moto apps, though.
We will keep this post updated through the rest of the year to update you with all the news about the update. Moto X Play will likely see most of the popular roms like CyanogenMod 14 and others available as soon as they are released. Droid Maxx 2 won't see much until early-mid 2017.
As we told you some hours ago, moto X2 and Droid Turbo from 2014 won't get Nougat officially, because its update would degrade its performance. Same will happen to Droid Turbo from 2014. But 2015 Moto phones will get Android Nougat for sure!
OnePlus One users are reportedly getting a new Incremental Update with July 1 Security patch . The Update is of 276.7MB and It comes with few bug fixes and critical security updates for OnePlus One .
You can Check the new update from Settings > About Devices > Software updates . Comment below , if you have received the update !
It's been 2 days since OnePlus started rolling out The OxygenOS 3.2.0 for OnePlus 3 , Stating that "This will be an incremental rollout. We should reach 100% coverage in the next 48 hours or so. "
Now , OnePlus has stopped the Rollout of OxygenOS 3.2.0 for OnePlus 3 . Accordingly Due to some reports of issues while upgrading, OnePlus have temporarily stopping the rollout to investigate.
Motorola released the Moto X Force (Droid TURBO 2 in the US) back in 2015. Introduced as the unbreakable phone, the smartphone was loved by most of the people. The phone came running Lollipop and then it got Marshmallow some months later. Will it get Android Nougat now?
In this article, we will talk about moto X Force and Droid Turbo 22 Nougat update
We have good news for you all. The answer is YES, your phone will get the Android Nougat update by the end of the year, IF you have the moto X Force. The phone was launched in 2015 and Google's policy of software updates cover 18 months past its release, and moto X Force is covered here. Don't expect it to get Android O, though, as N will be its final update.
Bad news for you guys! You WILL get the update, but it will most likely come in early to mid 2017. That's Verizon's speed with updates. But you will get it afterall.
ROMs
There's some good news if you love custom roms: although developer support is limited, you will see custom ROMs released by the end of the year for moto X Force, although not much for Droid Turbo 2 since it's got a locked bootloader and limited developer support, so you will be able to play with all the new features that come with Nougat and some developer features. Custom ROMs won't support the Moto apps, though.
We will keep this post updated through the rest of the year to update you with all the news. Moto X Force will likely see most of the popular roms like CyanogenMod 14 and others available as soon as they are released. Droid Turbo 2 won't see much until early 2017.
As we told you some hours ago, moto X2 won't get Nougat officially, because its update would degrade its performance. Same will happen to Droid Turbo from 2014. But 2015 Moto phones will get Android Nougat for sure.
Motorola released the Moto X Style (Moto X Pure Edition in the US) or 3rd Gen back in 2015. Dubbed as phone of the year by many, the smartphone was loved by most of the people. The phone came running Lollipop and then was one of the first to get Marshmallow. Will it get Android Nougat now?
In this article, we will talk about moto X Style (Pure) Nougat update
We have good news for you all. The answer is YES, your phone will get the Android Nougat update by the end of the year. The phone was launched in 2015 and Google's policy of software updates cover 18 months past its release, and moto X Style is covered here. Don't expect it to get Android O, though, as N will be its final update.
There's some good news if you love custom roms: the phone has a great developer community and custom ROMs supporting it will be released by the end of the year too, so you will be able to play with all the new features that come with Nougat and some developer features. Custom ROMs won't support the Moto apps, though.
We will keep this post updated through the rest of the year to update you with all the news. Moto X Style (Pure) will likely see most of the popular roms like CyanogenMod 14 and others available as soon as they are released.
As we told you some hours ago, moto X2 won't get Nougat officially, because its update would degrade its performance. But 2015 Moto phones will get Android Nougat for sure.
