Looking back at this week’s news and headlines in the Android world, adding Galaxy S25 Ultra Reviews, Pixel 9A Trining, China’s Growing Market, Google Play Protegs updates, the launch of Nothing (3A), always-on notifications, and the return of Pebble.
Android Circuit is here to remind you of a few of the many discussions around Android in the last seven days. You can also read my weekly digest of Apple news here on Forbes.
Cameras remain one of the festival’s key spaces on smartphones. Samsung has driven the new features of the Ultra Galaxy S25, but how does it compare to last year’s styling?The GSM Arena team has taken a hike from San Jose to get out:
“Starting with the two-hundredMP main camera explained in its default 12MP mode, the difference in symbol processing is more visual than inside. The old Galaxy S24 Ultra produces sharper symbols – it can go too far in places.
(GSM Arena).
The average range of Google pixel makes its debut at the time of its Convention on E / O developers in May. They will spend a few weeks after the possible leave of Apple iPhone, and may be sure that the head to head comparisons take place. One of those problems will be the price, and we have a strong indicator where Google will describe its bar:
“Now, we can exclusively reveal the pricing for the US and Canada, thanks to our sources. In the US, the Google Pixel 9a will be priced at $499 for the 128GB model, and $599 for the 256GB model. That is the same starting price as the Pixel 8a, however, the 256GB model is $40 more expensive. This follows the new pricing structure that Google started with the Pixel 9 series last August, where the 256GB model was $100 more than its 128GB version”
(Android titles).
The annual position of Chinese smartphones is greater than 5. 6%, according to the new IDC analysis. Vivo took the first position in 2004, with Huawei at number two and Apple falling in number three, Apple took the lead during the last quarter of the calendar with the launch of the iPhone 16 family:
“China’s smartphone marketplaceplace shipped 76. 4 million sets in 4Q24, a 3. 9% year-on-year building up (YoY). This expansion has been driven through new product launches and government subsidies initiated in some provinces and cities. For the year 2024, the Chinese marketplaceplace shipped 286. 2 million sets, a year-on-year expansion of 5. 6%, marking a recovery after two years of decline thank you to pent-up call for and inventions like Genai. “
(IDC Mobile Tracker).
Google Play Store team reviewed 2024 to talk about how the applications ecosystem around Android (at least for Android devices that are strongly connected to Google Play services protects). This includes a general presentation of shots on how it deals with malicious, bad applications. actors and malware:
“Last year, those investments included AI-powered risk detection, more powerful privacy policies, supercharged developer tools, new industry-wide partnerships, and more than 158,000 accounts of bad developers who attempted to publish destructive apps.
(Google Security Blog).
Instead of jumping at all (3), following the nothing (2) and not nothing following (2a), the team moved directly to Handsetarray. A resolution not surprised since the iPhone SE and Pixel 9a are scheduled in the coming months:
“Nothing has always set it up to challenge the leading smartphone brands, including Apple. And numerous reports have said that this Spring, Apple will be introducing its own affordable phone, the iPhone SE fourth-generation (although it could come with an entirely different name).”
(Forbes).
While some Android programs already have persistent notifications, Google is explained to standardize the formula in Android 16 and leave it blank available to all developers. The existing beta edition shows existing paintings with a new available notification taste.
“Android 16 Beta 1 is introduced only for progress-focused notifications, a new flavor of notification that shows the progress of anything like a rideshare van, a food delivery depot or a distance to the next corner. Developers can use this new notification flavor to imply statuses and milestones in a user’s adventure through issues and segments in a progress bar. “
(Android Authority).
Those with long memories will be one of the first Smartwatch successes on Pebble. Google will have become the eventual owner, while third-party developers worked on Reppebble to keep the platform alive. Now they have a momentum, as Google releases both source code and source code as power:
“The operational formula built with freertos, so the Pebble source code included several modules for reminiscent, graphics and the stopwatch, as well as a prolonged frame to load and execute tradition programs written in C and JavaScript. However, Google had to delete some code from the owner of the database before you can publish it.
(Github, Android Authority).
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