Today, Google announced a major update to Google Play Music. The new update brings whole design and experience changes to Google Play music. From a card-centric design to a whole new interface built around album art, bright colors and vector graphics.
New Google Play Music home screen will work as your "personal DJ" and will be sensitive to where you are and what are you doing. Google Play Music will learn what type of music you like and listen to in specific places, times, activities. The new update is already out according to Google, but we haven't received any. Grab the new update at Play Store (when available).
Our Motorola Connect Coin has just arrived! The new smart tag from Binatone, the new owner of the Motorola Accessories division, promises to be a very handy little device. We were curious to see what it would come with and how it worked, so here's our unboxing and first impressions of the device.
The front of the box has a clear window to the product and shows the dedicated app, which will let you sync and set-up your Coin with your phone. This will let you use your Coin as a multimedia button and will also let you send alerts to your beloved ones if you are in danger. It will let you find your keys/bag/purse straight from the app, too.
The back of the box shows all its main features, like replaceable battery, 300 days of standby, and a range of 100 feet. It will also show you motorolahome.com as official website, not motorola.com, since accessories are not made by the Lenovo-owned Motorola Mobility. All home products and mobile accessories are sold on the Motorola Home website.
As you would expect, the box comes with very little inside. What you see is what you get, in the end. Yes, there are some user guides, a small tool to replace the battery, and a little Connect Coin pendant, but nothing else.
Finally, the product itself, in all its glory. The Coin is small, compact and light. Our unit is black, though there's a wide variety of colors available. It comes with the classic Motorola dimple and feels very premium quality. It's wide notification light is bright and will be useful after paired with the dedicated app.
Overall, it's a pretty impressive device. It's just so little! We will keep testing it to see how useful it is, but our early impressions are very good. Hellomoto indeed!
Few days back, we reported that Meizu is working on a Full edge-less Display Smartphone. It looks like the report was real and Meizu will announce the Bezel-Less Meizu PRO 7 on December 24.
The newly surfaced renders and Information from weibo shows Meizu Bezel-less Smartphone in works.
According to these leaked images, Meizu Pro 7 will feature a 5.62" FHD Display, 12MP rear and 8MP front camera. With 6.4-millimeter width this smartphone will come in two versions: one with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of built-in storage and another with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. The Device runs Android with Flyme 5.1 on the top and has integrated Fingerprint sensor into the screen.
Here are some leaked Images of the Bezel-Less Meizu Pro 7-
Google's Pixel and Pixel XL comes with a new navigation bar and even a new home button animation which gets enabled when activating Google assistant. When activating Google assistant, Four dots slide out in each respective direction, and then quickly aligning themselves horizontally.
Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P users can now also enjoy this new Home Button Animation. Thanks to Chromloop, who successfully ported new Pixel animation to Nexus 5X and 6P running Android 7.1.1 (Developer preview). You can grab the modded file and read the Instructions by visiting Chromeloop.
At PwnFest, a hacking competition in Seoul, South Korea, A white-hat hackers team named Qihoo 360 hacked the Google's Pixel under 60 seconds. The team used a zero-day vulnerability to remotely install code, and then the exploit launched Google Play store and then Google's Chrome before showing the message "Pwned by 360 Alpha Team".
Google gave $120,000 to Qihoo 360 for showing them the vulnerability in Google Pixel. Google will now work on patching the same. The team also won a total of $520,000 in cash prizes after demonstrating additional vulnerabilities in Microsoft Edge, and Adobe Flash.
Remember we talked about a phone some weeks ago? It could either be 2017's Moto X, the next-gen Moto-M or the upcoming Moto C (HelloMotoHK leaked the roadmap names, remember?).
What we have here is a render we made ourselves to give you a better look of this upcoming device, which potentially looks like the Moto X 2017. We already know it's an all-metal phone, with a similar camera set-up to the Moto Z series (even the flat tire). Check it out:
The device kind of reminds us of the original Droid Turbo/Moto Turbo/Moto Maxx from 2014, and it actually looks pretty good. We don't have much specs for the device, although we know it will have a front fingerprint scanner like Moto Z has and will come in Silver and Gold color, from the size of the hands in the leaked picture it comes with a small-ish screen, most likely a 5.2" screen or less.
Whatever device it is, it sure looks like 2017 will be an interesting year for Moto. Note:- The render is based on what our source told us and the above leaked Image, the actual design may vary.
Flip phones. Who doesn't love them? They represent the 2000s to us, and they represent the best of Motorola to us, crazy Moto fans. These phones have something special, that we can't tell what it is. Feeling cool while closing the flip, pretending to make calls just to open it, and open-close it until the phone begs you to stop. It's just an awesome feeling.
That's why this is one of my most beloved pieces from my collection. This is the 2012 MotoSmart Flip (XT611). This phone was a Latin American exclusive in the middle of the storm, after Google acquired Motorola and started firing everyone and cancelling awesome projects. This device was lucky to see the light and it became the last Motorola flip phone EVER.
The phone looks amazing, though it was totally under-powered. A 3.2" screen (HVGA), 800MHz processor and 512MB of RAM. And you could only install 5-6 apps, otherwise it would give you an annoying no-memory notification (unless you rooted it and installed Link2SD, remember those days?).
(forgive my 2012 English-level...it's a really old video)
It came with an awful 5MP camera and its wifi connection was slower than any other device ever released. But it was an freaking Android-powered flip phone. Its external glass, similar to the MotoMING, or (Krave ZN4 for our American friends) let you use the phone with the flip closed so you could take pictures, listen to music or read text messages. It was such an awesome feature alone that all the drawbacks seemed to disappear.
I always go back to the Smart Flip when I'm feeling nostalgic, but then I power it on and remember it's a Gingerbread phone running on 512MB of RAM. That's when I remember why I didn't come back to using it the last time, and I put it away.
But it sure lies in my collection as one of my finest pieces. It's the last flip phone Motorola ever released. Who knows, maybe Lenovo asks Moto to release another flip phone one day. Many people will be happy when that happens. Until then, I will cherish this little, under-powered gem.
OnePlus 3 users will be getting Android 7.0 Nougat (Beta community build) this month, as said by Brian Yoon, the software head at OnePlus. Also Read:- OnePlus CEO Teases Android 7.0 Nougat update for the OnePlus 3 Not only OnePlus 3, but OnePlus will also update the OnePlus 2 to Android Nougat very soon. Yoon didn't say anything about the OnePlus X and OnePlus One, so it might be possible that OnePlus might ditch these two smartphones.
As said earlier, OnePlus will now merge Oxygen OS and Hydrogen OS for faster updates and it seems that "Android 7.0 Nougat" is going to be a fruit of the same. The reports also say that OnePlus will roll out Official build of Android 7.x Nougat for OnePlus 3 by the end of this year.
