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Now that +Android  dominates the market share for smartphones, Google threw the tech world a curveball today with its Android Wear platform, a wearable version of Android. This could make all those other smart watches look like they're standing still. Introducing Android Wear . Information that moves with you. Useful information when you need it most - at a glance or in a word. Major functions of Android Wear: 1. Google Now-style "homescreen" with a scrollable list of cards, 2. Notification system that alerts you to information from your smartphone, and 3. Series of contextual tools that pop up during certain activities. It provides a series of cards with contextual information based on your Google info, like Email, location, browsing history, recent Hangouts chats, flight times, making reservations, sending texts, controlling your music playback, etc. Android Wear watches feature always-on displays, so you’ll always see important info like time, calls, and alert...

Finally, a go-to place for news, magazines, and online feeds for my +Nexus . Everything I want to read all in one place. Read latest publications like +The New York Times , +Wall Street Journal  or +Lifehacker  browse magazines, or add your favorite feed quickly. And bookmark stories to save them for later. Read Now surfaces the most interesting stuff. The more you read, the better it gets. Follow topic tags to discover related stories and new sources. Offline features minimize data and battery usage. From serious to seriously beautiful, who knows what I'll discover next?

After a long wait, I finally got a chance to put my tinkering paws on Google and LG's lovechild. The verdict?  Google Nexus 4 . It's simply phenomenal. The phone is just attractive. Very solid-feeling, and the Gorilla Glass front and back give it a jewel-like appearance. After trying to decide between Nexus 4, Samsung Galaxy S4, and the HTC One. I found SGS4 plasticky and not a flagship device. Also, it wasn't as fluid as I've got used to after using Nexus devices. HTC One was much better. It felt great in hand, the speakers sounded great, and it was smooth. But, then I really  came to a conclusion  that I couldn't ignore, all of these phones will be outdated in a year and just plain old in two years. With Nexus 4, even though hardware would pale in comparison to next gen. devices, but software inside it would keep it fresh for me to use it on daily basis. So, I went with Nexus 4(N4). It certainly feels in the same league as the HTC O...

Glass is finding its way to developers and others and the reaction has been, well, predictable. I’ve been watching with great interest over the past few weeks as the naysayers seem to have gone overboard trying to bash +Project Glass  every chance they can. I’ve seen articles on Wired , CNN , Venturebeat , Businessinsider and on blogs, etc., all stating how terrible Glass is. Oh NO, geeky white dudes are wearing Glass ! This will never work!  Nobody Likes Google Glass  Oh no, I will punch someone in the face if they try talk to me with them on — all sorts of gibberish. It’s these kinds of comments, however, that are stoking the privacy fears around Glass, no matter how unfounded they are. There’s nothing like change to bring out the absolute haters. It seems like every time something comes out that represents change, people freak out. It’s not enough to say, “this thing is not for me.” People like to go absolutely overboard, talking about how horrible s...

For someone who has been working with smartphones for so long and loves mobile technology, what took me so long to get a Google Nexus phone is something you may be wondering. I have always been a huge fan of HTC phones & their layer of Sense on Android, I think that it adds quite a bit to the OS that I find useful. I really thought that getting a HTC device would be the best device for me, Sense, great camera with sturdy premium hardware, nice look, all that I could really want in the device, but then I began thinking again. Up until recently, I didn't feel the same way about Android devices, I was always afraid of buying what would quickly become outdated, and that always scared my wallet away from the purchases. I knew it was going to be supported, but I did feel like I was spending money on something that would be out of date the next month. With too many choices on the market, and even more rumors of future product announcements from HTC ( One series phones ) and Samsung...

Google  and Motorola today  announced  that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire  Motorola Mobility  for a total of about $12.5 billion in cash. The news is a shocking turn for the fast-growing Android ecosystem, which was built off of Google’s operating system but did not include any actual hardware built by the company. Soon Google will have a hardware platform that it controls and could offer the sort of integrated hardware-OS package that Apple is famous for. Google co-founder and CEO  Larry Page  writes in a  blog post , that Google has acquired Motorola not only because of its strength in Android smartphones and devices, but also for being a “market leader in the home devices and video solutions business.” It’s also a move to build up the company’s patent portfolio, he adds, as it will “enable us to better protect Android from  anti-competitive threats  from Microsoft, Apple...

According to June date from  Nielsen , Android( despite mounting legal challenges ) has claimed the top spot in the U.S. smartphone OS market. Figures have it as: 1.      Google Android comprising 39% of the market, i.e on about four out of every 10 smartphones sold in the U.S. 2.     Apple iOS a distant second at 28%, 3.     RIM BlackBerry OS, dragging its feet at 20%, 4.     Windows Phone 7 at 9% and 5.     HP WebOS and Symbian (both at 2%). This should not surprise Nokia owners, given what seems like the gloomy lack of Nokia smartphones in US. Few interesting tidbits: Android moved up to 39% from 29% between  November and January , a rise that has come at the expense of BlackBerry, which fell from 27% to 20% over the same period. Apple’s iOS has grown 1% since November to January period. Meanwhile, Windows Phone 7 and Windows Mobile lost a point over the same period, falling from 10 to 9 percent. Simply put, t...