Source: The Verge

Source: The Verge

Check out this exclusive from The Verge where Matias Duarte, chief of Android design unveils the new Nexus devices.

With the hurricane on the east coast spoiling the Google Nexus party, we expected that Mountain View will make us wait a few more days. Apparently, they did not want to do that. So, Google quietly revamped its entire Nexus line today and showed us the best from their camp. 

First comes the Nexus 4, an LG built smartphone running Android 4.2 with same specifications as indicated by the leaks - a 4.7 inch 1280x768 display, 2 GB of RAM, a quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro chip, an 8 megapixel Sony made BSI camera sensor and  an option for either 8 or 16 GB of storage. Nexus 4 will be available unlocked in the first half of November with the 8 GB version costing $299 and the 16 GB, for fifty dollars more. One notable omission here is LTE, which ironically was present in last year’s Samsung built Galaxy Nexus. If we leave this niggle, its a beautiful device, and perhaps one among the handful of phones we’ve really liked till date. 

If the folks at BriefMobile are right, what you see here is the Google Nexus 10 manufactured by Samsung running Android 4.2. Its the larger successor to the Nexus 7 by Asus that launched earlier this year. 

Important specifications include a 2560*1600 panel in a 10.1 inch display (which means a staggering density of 300 ppi in a tablet), a dual core ARM A15 based Samsung Exynos 5250 CPU with cores running at 1.7 GHz, a Mali T604 GPU, 2 GB of RAM and 16GB of storage (among other options) and 5 megapixel rear camera besides the front shooter.

In an effort to make October more interesting, Google has announced an Android event on Oct 29. It wants to talk about Jelly Bean’s successor and also reveal the next Nexus device (or devices).

To add, we think that the 32GB Nexus7 will also be announced that day. As per leaked screenshots, the 32GB version will be priced at $249, which is price of the current 16GB version. So, it’s better to wait for a couple of weeks before you purchase the tablet. 

Thanks Engadget for the image.

If reports from Androidandme are to be believed, the above snap is that of the next Nexus device, that would be built by LG. The phone is rumored to carry the 1.5 GHz quad core Snapdragon S4 Pro with Adreno 320 taking care of the graphics department.

Which is your favorite phone that runs Google’s mobile OS? Most people either say the Galaxy S3 or the One X. Kevlar fans may bring the Droid Razr’s name and Sony loyalists will argue about possessing the most industrial designs. Apparently, LG is not happy about this. It never made an Android, that people loved. It came close a couple of times, but it never really delivered. The South Korean company’s new flagship - Optimus G is out to do just that.

The G is quite large phone, with a 4.7 inch True HD (1280 x 768) IPS LCD covering most of the front with some new thickness cutting in-cell tech. The phone is powered by a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro (APQ8064 to be specific), and is the first quad core phone to be coupled with an LTE (read 4G) radio. Other specs include 2 GB or RAM, a 13 megapixel rear camera, a 1.3 million pixel front shooter and a 2100 mAH battery. All of this is enclosed in a rather thin 8mm shell. More photographs at The Verge.

This Ice Cream Sandwich bearer will be arriving in Korea next month. It’s expected to be released on NTT Docomo in Japan by November.

Via: Engadget 

The latest version of Google Chrome brings good news for Adobe Flash supporters (Sorry, Flash on mobile is still dead). Google has announced that, with last week’s Chrome Stable update, they have brought a much deeper level of sandbox protection to Adobe Flash Player on Windows. Apparently, Google has been working with Adobe, for over two years, to do this.

Google credits this to a completely new plugin architecture, which not only helps in increasing stability and security, but also utilizes your computer’s GPU to render Flash faster. Google says, this has decreased crashes by over twenty percent. Windows (even XP), Linux and ChromeOS users should already be experiencing this from last week’s Chrome stable release. OSX support is still in the works.

Source: Chrome Blog Image courtesy: DigitalTrends

We have two news this week, which add fire to rumors of a smaller iPad. 

First, Chinese micro blogging site Sina Weibo has posted what seem like the rear shell images of a purported seven inch iPad (or what is being called the iPad Mini). Unlike the new iPad (or the iPad2), the smaller iPad doesn’t seem to have a vent for the rear camera. We assume this is either be a cost cutting measure (like on the Nexus 7) or the shell may belong to an old prototype from the time of the original iPad.