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ANDROID
LATEST SMARTPHONE, TABLET AND APP REVIEWS
ADVISOR
ISSUE
06
The best of
Google I/O
Android L • Android TV •
Android Auto • Android Wear
Why the Fire
Phone will fail
Meet Samsung’s
best ever tablets
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Welcome...
W ell hasn’t June been a bangin’ month for
Android. Google I/O was ending as we
went to press and, although we got very
little in the way of new hardware, we’re more excited
than ever about what’s to come from the platform.
In the same week we also learned how Google was
bringing its Glass smartglasses to the UK (expect
our full review in the next issue), and we were
treated to a surprise (yes, an actual surprise) Android
Wear-based smartwatch launch in the form of the
Samsung Gear Live. We must be slipping.
We round up the best of Google I/O over the
next few pages, and later go into more detail
on Android’s biggest ever OS update, for now
known only as ‘L’ (page 11), Android Auto (page 13),
Android TV (page 17) and Android Wear (page 21).
The Google I/O and Glass announcements
came on the back of the launch of one of the
worst-kept secrets in tech: Amazon’s Fire Phone.
It’s not ‘technically’ available in the UK (since when
does that stop us?) but, actually, that’s probably for
the best. On page 38 we’ll tell you why not only
will the Fire Phone fail, but how it proves the whole
Kindle Fire model was a mistake for Amazon.
Let’s not forget Samsung’s Galaxy Premiere event.
Turn to page 71 to see Samsung’s latest declaration
of war on Apple with its new Tab S tablets.
If you’ve liked this issue (or even if you haven’t),
get in touch via facebook.com/AndroidAdvisorUK
or email marie_brewis@idg.co.uk .
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Best of Google I/O 2014
Google’s annual I/O developer conference kicked o
on 25 June. We round up the best bits of I/O 2014
T his year’s Google I/O wasn’t as dramatic as
the I/Os of yesteryear. Nobody jumped from
a blimp with a radical new face computer
strapped to his face, and Larry Page neglected to
step foot on stage, much less wax poetic about the
infi nite sadness in the world. But despite the lack of
theatrics, this year’s I/O was still pretty exciting, thanks
to the glimpse Google o ered us into its future. The
tech giant unleashed a slew of updates, synergies,
and even whole new platforms designed to weave
computing into our everyday lives in — Google hopes
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— a seamless way. Here’s a look back at everything
announced at Google I/O.
Upgrades for Android
First up was Android L, the successor to Android
KitKat. The most blatant thing about Android L hits
you square in the face right away: it looks awful
pretty. Google’s introducing a new aesthetic dubbed
Material Design in Android L, with a focus on object
depth and animation. The beauty is more than skin
deep, though: Android L’s bringing handy-looking
improvements to the way the system handles
notifi cations, along with an intriguing ‘personal
unlock’ feature that does away with the lockscreen
if you’re already carrying another device that can
provide authentication wirelessly.
Android L also boosts the OS’s graphical and
battery performance, ditches the stodgy old Dalvik
runtime powering Android for the new and improved
ART (Android Run Time), and adds more than 5,000
APIs for developers. While the launch is still months
away, a developer preview is available now.
Android L
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Android One
Sundar Pichai, the boss of Android, Apps, and
Chrome for Google, also revealed a new initiative
dubbed Android for Work, which aims to bolster
Android’s security and business chops. As part
of that, Pichai announced native Microsoft O ce
integration for Google Drive in Android. Previously,
editing traditional O ce fi les in Google Drive
required a messy conversion process that was
far from seamless. Android L will let you open
spreadsheets, documents, and presentations fi les
without all the muss and fuss. Proper mobile support
for Google Slides is also incoming. (It’s about time.)
Pichai also announced an endeavour called
Android One, designed to bring low-end phones
to emerging markets such as India — and boost
Android’s share of the market in the process.
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