BitStream is a one - stop , full - course repast of applied science news and rumors you may have neglect yesterday . Lets dig in .
Thereports regarding the Nexus 5 ’s deathhave been greatly exaggerated .
Google crazy good and crazy cheap smartphone was finally resuscitated and marked “ for sales agreement ” on the Google free rein store yesterday in both 16 GB and 32 GB options . For the last couple month , Google has rent its 6 - inch phablet monster , the Nexus 6 , be the fleur-de-lis bearer for the complete Google smartphone experience . Now that the Nexus 5 is back , we all once again have a sanely sized ( and sanely brassy ) smartphone choice .
I just hopeyou like the gloss black .
Android has always had a number of a problem getting all its smartphones around the world turn tail the latest and greatest operating system — and Lollipop is no exception .
fit in to Android , Lollipop is officially on the board with only 1.6 percent install fundament over say 40 percent using KitKat ( or even the 7 percent using Ice Cream sandwich ) . Google ’s former software system has been out in the technical wild now for about three calendar month , and many smartphonesfrom HTCandMotorola ’s Moto X ( 2014)are still struggling to force out updates to their users .
But at the very least , Lollipop has more installs than 2010 ’s Froyo . I mean , seriously Froyo ? [ Android ]
Historically , Wi - Fi router are some the ugliest , least intuitive gadgets you ’ll ever use . That ’s whyEero is such a disclosure . Designed by the same genius behind the Nest , this future - forward Wi - Fi router makes it easy to create an intelligent mesh web in your habitation . Need to make it fully grown and quicker ? Just sum up another Eero .
What ’s really revolutionary about the Eero , though , is n’t what ’s inside but rather what it does . It makes complicated Wi - Fi prepare up and maintenance a matter of the yesteryear , with an visceral port for your smartphone . The like Eero app permit you localise up a net in less than 60 seconds . The app also makes it easy to pay for guests to the connection in one tap , cope all of your connected gimmick — without the need for an impossibly long password — and make monitoring the connection security department a girth .
But it ’ll cost you . you could pre - place a single Eero for $ 125 justly now , though that monetary value will go up to $ 200 when the society starts shipping . To revel the full experience of an in - house mesh web , however , Eero urge you grease one’s palms a pack of three router . That ’ll cost you $ 300 during the pre - order flow and $ 500 thereafter . [ Adam Clark Estes ]
Apple Watch is still a yoke month away , but we ’re easy learn all the news stuck in its orbit , including this new iPhone ikon .
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Mobile World Congress is usually a engineering genus Circus appropriate for smartphones , but HTC may be ready show off its first wearable , too . [ Ubergizmo ]
Here ’s one that I ’m hoping is genuine . Microsoft is catch quick to labor out Windows 10 for phones on the Insider programme this Wednesday [ Feb. 4 ] . [ IBTimes ]
Samsung sent out invites to Barcelona yesterday , and as technical school invites often are , people have been pick it apart . The latest possibility is that the outline is the unusual contours of the raw Galaxy S6 . appear … like something .
Twitter ’s new crying timeline is designed for the later adopter in intellect by fill up new newsfeeds with content by analyzing your phone ’s contact lens , who they observe , and what you might care . [ The New York Times ]
Tinder is prepping the spillage of its new paid - for dating app , Tinder Plus . One of the nifty features ? A back push for all those sorry left over swipes . [ TechCrunch ]
Pebble has sold over a million smartwatches . Go them . But we have n’t seen anything new from Pebble in more than a yr — that ’s changing in 2015 . [ The Verge ]
A possible case - up by a Qualcomm White House confirms that a “ best in class ” Lumia smartphone is coming , powered by the Snapdragon 810 processor . [ Gigaom ]
See anything pretermit from that phone up above ? Yep . Hardware buttons . The Chinese smartphone Manta 7x habituate capacitive buttons and match sensor for everything . [ Android Headlines ]
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