Micromax subsidiary YU Televentures has postponed the unveiling of its upcoming Yunicorn flagship smartphone. The device, which was earlier scheduled to be made official on May 19 (today), will now be announced on May 31.

Apparently, the reason behind the delay is lack of media coverage – May 19 has been chosen as “vote counting day” by the Election Commission of India (several states in the country went for elections recently), so obviously the media will be focusing there.

Coming back to Yunicorn, YU is marketing it as “the phone that will redefine flagships.” Not much is known…

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Signing up for an app that’s in Beta has always been a cumbersome process. You’ll usually be invited to try a Beta app through a link that puts you on a whitelist to download the latest build of such apps. The problem with this model that has been plaguing it for a while, is that the system always took several moments for the Beta request to go through before you could even download the application.

Google is taking new steps in order to make it simpler for people to discover new apps in Beta by putting these apps in the search results for the general public to download and access. This…

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Google I/O brought the announcement that might make many Android using drivers pretty happy. Google has announced that soon the Android Auto app will be fully accessible through your phone’s screen and will no longer require an actual radio compatible with the platform. All you would need in order to use Android Auto is to hook up your audio to your car via 3.5mm auxiliary jack or Bluetooth streaming.

Google has also announced new features to the platform such as voice activation and Waze integration. But the bigger news is that Google has allowed for car-makers to customize Android Auto…

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Xiaomi has teamed up with Google to bring the Mi Box with 4K streaming and Android TV built in. Xiaomi has announced it will also be the first OEM to team up with Google for its new VR platform called Daydream, all built on Android N.

This new sleek box will be HDR TV-ready and 4K compatible. It will be able to feed UHD (4K) video content at 60fps for the sharpest and smoothest video playback quality. It will also support HDMI 2.0a, a new standard of HDTV that’ll be enabled with the release of Android N. YouTube, Netflix, Vudu, and FandangoNOW are onboard for the new HDMI standard and…

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Today marked the start of Google I/O, the search giant’s annual developer conference. And while in the past this was the occasion that saw a new Android version announced, this year we only got a quick recap of the most important new features coming in Android N, since the first developer preview for that iteration came a couple of months back. Oh, and there was also the big Daydream announcement, let’s not forget.

Now that Google has basically released the first beta version of Android N and said the final software will be rolling out to Nexus devices later this summer, you might be…

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Google wants to shake up the way that people communicate with each other and it believes that Allo will do just that, by integrating AI (artificial intelligence) elements with every day communication methods. Duo, a new video calling app, has also been announced for users between Android and iOS to communicate with each other. Both of these apps will be available to iOS and Android users in the summer of this year.

Allo

Allo is Google’s new smart messaging app that uses your phone number to find other friends who are also on Allo. It offers new ways to send messages and lets users be…

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At Google I/O today one of the projects becoming official is Android Instant Apps. This basically means that you can run an app without installing it.

Behind that simple use case are some slightly more complicated tweaks that developers need to make to their apps for them to support this. That’s because an app needs to be modular, so to speak, to be able to achieve this.

When, for example, someone sends you a link to a product listing on a website, you’ll get to view it in that retailer’s app – even if you don’t already have it installed on your phone or tablet. Android will load only…

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Android Wear grew really fast in the two years of its existence. At Google I/O 2016, the company showcased parts of the latest Android Wear 2.0 and it looks refreshed.

With the latest version of Android Wear, smartwatches running it will be completely standalone and won’t require a smartphone as a companion. Devices will connect to Wi-Fi networks automatically, and will rely on cellular when you’re out and about.

The biggest change comes in the design, though. Google released new and enhanced Material Design guidelines for Wear 2.0. You can check them in the source link…

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Coming with the final Android N release later this summer is Daydream. This is essentially the name for Google’s new VR platform that will be part of Android itself.

Daydream will be the home of VR content inside Android. There will be a Daydream version of the Google Play Store, and it will contain all the VR-ready apps. You’ll use this in VR mode, and whenever you are in Daydream you can easily go back to the list of your VR-capable apps. Among those you’ll find Street View, YouTube, Play Movies, and Google Photos, but also many games as you’d expect. When inside Daydream, your…

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Android N is coming and is under heavy development. However, Google doesn’t have an official name for the latest Android version just yet. This is where it would like your help.

Interestingly, you can offer a name that’s not a dessert, but as you’d imagine, it’s preferable. While thinking of a name, check out the funny video Google did to promote the project.

If you have an idea on your mind, check out the source link and share your name idea for Android 7.0 N. Don’t forget to share it in our comments section, too.

My idea name is Nougat.

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