The Start-up funded Android-based gaming console OUYA is now real, the idea is now an actual product and OUYA is ready to start shipping out the developer consoles to those who backed the Kickstarter project.
The first OUYA units will start shipping on December,28th and will reach in the next couple of days. These will be running an early version of the hardware and software and are meant for developers to create their games for OUYA. For those who want to develop for OUYA but could not afford the price of the dev console, OUYA has arranged a giveaway.
Specifications & Price
The final OUYA consoles will be shipping to buyers by April 2013, which will be priced at $99, and can also be used for game development. The hardware consists of NVIDIA Tegra 3 running on Android Jelly Bean but the console will have it's own content delivery service so you can't just download stuff off of Google Play. Every game on OUYA will be FREE to play, it will be a demo that you can download for free but if you like it you can choose to upgrade it to the full version.
The Meizu MX2 has become official today. The device comes with a new MX5S chipset with four 32nm Cortex-A9 CPU cores, 2 GB RAM, a 4.4" screen of WXGA resolution (1280 x 800 pixels) with a 347ppi pixel density. There's also a faster GPU and Flyme 2.0 UI on top of Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean out of the box.
The Meizu MX2 will hit the shelves in China in the middle of December in 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB versions. They will cost $400, $480 or $640 respectively or ¥2,499 / ¥2,999 / ¥3,999. It remains unclear if the MX2 will launch globally and when.
These posters you see above is from Facebook's Menlo Park campus as Facebook is telling its employees to switch to Android and leave their iPhones (which the company have given them). The reason behind this was they knew that the Android version of their app sucks and that they wanted their employees to teest their app and report back on what's wrong with it.
Facebook employees get to try the latest and greatest versions of the apps before everyone else. Their version also has a feature called "Rage Shake", where the user just shakes their phone when they come across an issue and it gets reported automatically.
However, with most of the employees at Facebook using iPhones, they weren't getting enough data on the Android app to know what's wrong with it, so this initiative for asking the employees to switch is a step to correct that problem.
Canonical is trying to spread its free Linux-based Open source Operating system Ubuntu on Android Smartphone and tablets. Nowadays, handheld Devices is very powerful, take Galaxy S III and Nexus 7 for Example, they both have a 1-2GB Ram and Quad-core processors, Ubuntu can make use of your device's CPU power to run the latest Ubuntu edition smoothly without the need for a specific mobile version, you can run the same desktop version you're running on your PC but on your device. Check the video a the end of the article to know more.
Ubuntu on Android is a concept Ubuntu is trying to sell to Android phone makers, enterprise-level customers, and peripheral manufacturers. You can see Ubuntu's pitch and explanation of features and specifications on their site. The idea is that a full, slightly modified installation of the Ubuntu desktop is stashed on the storage of a multi-core Android phone. Whenever that phone is set in a dock and connected to a monitor, that Ubuntu installation comes to life and runs. The Android phone becomes just a very small computer, and the owner gets the full desktop experience of keyboard, mouse, and big screen.
The snappiness and space depend on each phone, of course, but with most major new Android smartphones arriving with at least dual cores and at least 32 GB of space available to users, Ubuntu is a feasible option. Watch the demonstration video, and you'll see that browsers open fairly quickly, and app switching is fairly fast. This has something to do with the solid-state nature of Android storage, and the lightweight nature of Ubnutu. There are definitely delays, especially when switching from Android to Ubuntu and back again from dock plugging, but it's early-stage software that can hopefully be optimized.
With over 20 million users, Ubuntu is the world's favourite free operating system and Ubuntu for Android is the first complete solution for office productivity on a phone. It lets Android and Ubuntu share the same Linux kernel, so they can run at the same time Android for the phone experience and Ubuntu when docked. Which means one address book, one set of bookmarks, one place for text messages and one inbox for mail. And thanks to careful integration between the Ubuntu desktop and Android, user's have access to the phone's functions when it's docked including making and receiving calls.
As Google has just revealed the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean to the public and to the developers too (SDK) with some minor Updates to the platform. A mysterious Sony smartphone device called "Sony LT30i" appeared on the NenaMark benchmark charts, and listed that it's running Android 5.0 (Key Lime Pie) during the test.
Seeing an Android 5 build being tested so soon is a very good News, as this means that Google is already working on improving its platform faster than before.
Android 5.0 will be Named Key Lime Pie, its rumored to be released on May-June 2013. One of the biggest improvements Android 5 is expected to bring is in tablets, but again that is just a rumor.
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