Today, Motorola confirmed that they are laying off a number of employees from their Chicago office.
"In late 2017, Lenovo announced a worldwide resource action that would occur over the next several quarters, and impacting less than two percent of its global workforce. This week’s employment reductions are a continuation of that process. We are reducing our Motorola operations in Chicago however this did not impact half of our workforce there and our Moto Z family will continue. - Motorola said to 9to5Google"
Well, that's not all. According to the latest reports, Lenovo-owned Motorola is cancelling the Moto X4 successor, the unannounced Moto X5 which was leaked back in January with FullScreen Display and iPhone-X like notch.
The report further says that Motorola will be narrowing its focus back to Moto G, Moto E, and the Moto Z Smartphones.
Just yesterday, Google announced the first developer preview of the Android 9.0 P with exciting new features and a few user interface changes. The Android P Developer Preview 1 is only available for Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, and Pixel 2 XL and can be flashed via Firmware Images or OTA files.
We tried Android P DP1 on the Pixel XL and below are some videos and screenshots showing off the new UI and Changes in the Android P.
Android P Overview
Android P Animations in Slow Motion
Android P Screenshots
Android P New Features [Developers]
Android P introduces great new features and capabilities for users and developers. This document highlights what's new for developers.
Indoor Positioning with Wi-Fi RT - Android P adds platform support for the IEEE 802.11mc Wi-Fi protocol—also known as Wi-Fi Round-Trip-Time (RTT)—to let you take advantage of indoor positioning in your apps.
Display cutout support - Android P offers support for the latest edge-to-edge screens with display cutout for camera and speaker. The new DisplayCutout class lets you find out the location and shape of the non-functional areas where content shouldn't be displayed. To determine the existence and placement of these cutout areas, use the getDisplayCutout() method.
Notifications
Android P introduces several enhancements to notifications, all of which are available to developers targeting Android P and above.
Support for images: Android P now displays images in Messaging Notifications on phones.
Save replies as drafts: Your app can retrieve the EXTRA_REMOTE_INPUT_DRAFT sent by the system when a user inadvertently closes a messaging notification.
Identify if a conversation is a group conversation: You can use setGroupConversation() to purposefully identify a conversation as a group or non-group conversation.
SmartReply: Android P supports the same suggested replies available in your messaging app.
Multi-camera support and camera updates - You can now access streams simultaneously from two or more physical cameras on devices running Android P. On devices with either dual-front or dual-back cameras, you can create innovative features not possible with just a single camera, such as seamless zoom, bokeh, and stereo vision. The API also lets you call a logical or fused camera stream that automatically switches between two or more cameras.
Animation - Android P introduces a new AnimatedImageDrawable class for drawing and displaying GIF and WebP animated images.
Security enhancements - Android P introduces a number of new security features, including a unified fingerprint authentication dialog and high-assurance user confirmation of sensitive transactions.
Android 9.0 P first Developer Preview is now available to the Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, and Pixel 2 XL.
Note that there won't be any OTA beta to join, so you'll need to flash the Developer Preview Images or OTA files manually. Download Android P Factory Images and OTA files from below.
OnePlus is all set to reveal its trump card, the OnePlus 6 with almost Bezel-less display, dual camera, and other 2018 flagship features. We have already seen the live images of the OnePlus 6, and it looks gorgeous with premium glass back and notched display.
Today, folks at AndroidCentral leaked the AnTuTu benchmark scores of the OnePlus 6, codenamed A6000. They also confirmed other key details about the upcoming flagship.
OnePlus 6 scores 276510 at AnTuTu and kills the previous champion, the upcoming Mi Mix 2s. The Smartphone will run on Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 845 processor paired with 6/8GB of RAM.
FYI, the Samsung Galaxy S9 scores a total of 241470 on AnTuTu, the iPhone X (Bionic A11) has a total of 224538, and the last year's OnePlus's flagship the OnePlus 5T at 180651.
OnePlus 6 is confirmed to feature an iPhone X like notch with 19:9 Display. As per earlier leaks, it would run OxygenOS 5.1.0 which is based on Android 8.1 Oreo. Thoughts?
Motorola is planning to release the latest Android Oreo update to its Moto Z2 Play Smartphone. Final Android 8.0 Oreo update Release Notes for the Moto Z2 Play are now live.
Android Oreo comes with numerous enhancements over Android Nougat, such as faster booting, new Settings and Quick-Settings UI, Picture in Picture (PIP), Adaptive icons, Autofill, Notification timeout, Motorola might also add several new features to the latest software update. Android 8.0 Oreo update for the Moto Z2 Play would also feature the latest March 1st 2018 Security Patch, Stability improvements, and brand new Camera Application.
So, the company is most likely to start Android 8.0 Oreo official rollout for the Moto Z2 Play by the end of this month or early April. We will let you know once the update is live. Stay tuned to our Facebook and Twitter page to get the first News. Moto z2 play - Android™ 8.0 Oreo™ - Informações sobre a versão [Portuguese]
INTRODUÇÃO
Temos o prazer de anunciar uma nova atualização do software para o moto z2 play da Motorola. Essa atualização traz o Android™ 8.0 Oreo™ para o seu telefone juntamente com outras melhorias.
Para mais informações sobre atualizações e suporte, acesse www.motorola.com/mymotoz.
NOTA: todas as informações do telefone serão salvas. Não é possível utilizar uma versão anterior do software após instalar esta atualização. MELHORIAS
Esta atualização inclui alterações como:
Segurança Android: inclui as atualizações de correções de segurança Android até 1º de Março de 2018;
