Google is not abandoning Project Ara, after taking over the ambitious experimental smartphone design concept along with the Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group from Motorola. ATAP only just announced Tango, its 3D-environment sensor for mobile devices, and now it’s revealing a two-day developer conference April 15 and 16 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
Ara, for those who aren’t familiar, is a modular smartphone project that would allow users to swap out interchangeable parts to give their device...
Showing posts with label MWC2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MWC2014. Show all posts
Thursday, February 27, 2014
BARCELONA, Spain -- Mozilla will take over some responsibility for issuing Firefox OS updates that carriers today have, a move that could help users avoid the fate of Android phone owners saddled with older operating system versions.
"We are pushing that envelope," Chief Technology Officer Brendan Eich told CNET. "We think we can get people on Wi-Fi upgrading through Mozilla."
That would mean a person could step into an Internet cafe then update the software as soon as Mozilla releases a new version or security fix, rather than waiting for...
Saturday, February 22, 2014
iPhone 6, Galaxy S5
The much-anticipated Mobile World Congress 2014 (MWC 2014) is all set to begin on Monday and several smartphone makers are expected to announce an array of devices, including Samsung Galaxy S5, LG G Pro 2, Nokia X, andSony D6503 Sirius. The event will be held in Barcelona from 24-27 February, 2014.
Samsung Galaxy S5:
The South Korean electronics giant had sent out a press invite, titled...
This coming week should have plenty of Android news from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This past week in the Android world wasn’t quiet though. Reported details of the HTC Desire 8 leaked out in advance of MWC. The Desire 8 may be the biggest news from HTC at the show because the company isn’t expected to introduce its next flagship phone until March 25.That means the Desire 8 will be a more affordable device and the alleged specifications show exactly that: A 1.6 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400, 1.5 GB of memory, 8 GB of internal...
Friday, February 21, 2014
When Google sold Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 Billion at the end of last month, many were worried about what this would mean for the future of the team behind Motorola’s modular smartphone project code named Ara. Then one week ago, the ATAP team announced that it would be moving from Motorola to Google. This naturally lead to speculation regarding whether the ATAP team had anything else cooking in their secret ovens. The answer is now here: Google Project Tango.
In its current form, Project Tango is a working...
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