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This Week in News
Ads Take Up (up to) 79% of Users Mobile Data: According to a study by Enders Analysis, between 19 and 79% of data transferred on news websites are ads. They conclude that roughly half of all data consumed by publisher pages can be attributed to ads, as if they weren’t annoying enough to begin with. You can read more here.
Amazon’s Prohibited Listings Now Include USB Cables That Are Non-compliant: Benson Leung, who has been on something of a personal crusade against USB Type-C cables that aren’t complying with standard specifications, reported this week that Amazon now will ban companies who sell intentionally deceptive or poorly made cables are banned from Amazon. Hooray? Hooray. Read the post here.
Windows 10 Update To Bring Notification Mirroring on Android: Not only is notification mirroring coming to Windows Phones running Windows 10, but also to Android devices that has Cortana installed. This means that you can dismiss notifications on any device you have connected to your PC. You can read more here.
Estimates Put Samsung Galaxy S7 Sales At 9.5 Million Units For Q1: Initial estimates put the sales for Q1 at 7 million units, but that has since been upped to about 9.5 million. That’s not bad, considering it debuted in late February, leaving little over a month of sales to be included in the statistics. You can read more here, though be warned of an auto-play video.
XDA Labphone April Fools:Through a rather hefty effort, the XDA team went all in with the April Fools joke this year and announced the nearly completed “XDA Labphone”, designed for all things tinkering. After much positive feedback, however, it was confirmed to be an April fools joke… OR WAS IT? Yes. Definitely. Read more here.
BlackBerry Priv Marshmallow Open Beta: If you bought your Blackberry PRIV through the official Blackberry store, Amazon or Carphone Warehouse, you are eligible to enter the first wave of the Marshmallow open beta. If not, you can still apply, but will receive an invite at a later date. The beta is expected to last between 4 and 8 weeks, starting mid April. You can read more here.
This Week in Apps
Google Calculator Now On Play Store: Are you incredibly annoyed by your stock calculator, and for some reason just can’t find a proper replacement on the Play Store? Well, Google Calculator is now available for non-Nexus devices, so you can now bask in the glory of a Truly Stock™ Calculator. Go go go! Grab it here.
Google Photos Now Embed Original Images In Edited Ones: Another minor update, but editing a photo in Google Photos will now once more embed it in the original one, so you can easily revert if you decide you don’t like it, or save as a new copy of the original photo. Great success! Read more here.
Snapchat Introduces Chat 2.0: Snapchats new “Chat 2.0” will allow you to seamlessly transition between sending videos, audio, images (and just plain old text if you’re still longing to fill the hole ICQ left in your soul) so, get to it. Chat away! Read more here.
New Google Play Icons Coming: The third generation of Google Play icons are coming! Having last been updated with the introduction of material design, a rework is about to launch for Play Books, Music, Store, Newsstand and Games. Check out some images and comparisons over here.
Brief Introduction
Hi, I am /u/deu5ex, one of the writers for the /r/android content creation team. Economics student, hooked on customization fiddling, consumer of unhealthy amounts of caffeine, and I will be providing you with periodic content your reading pleasure. I also write for the XDA News Portal, where I go more in-depth into just about anything Android related. Check myself and /u/justblais out every Tuesday as we try to summarize the crazy stuff that happens in Android every week!
That’s it for this week. In these features, we cover news from Saturday to Saturday. In case you missed last week’s summary, you can find it here. As you guys know, there are a lot of Android news every week - and more than we can fit here - but we hope this roundup was useful for many of you!
Submitted April 05, 2016 at 02:43PM by deu5ex http://ift.tt/1S7gpdE
