Sentences with phrase «android than other manufacturers»

Sony adds more bloatware on top of Android than other manufacturers like HTC and even Samsung these days, but the Sony launcher is nice and pretty useful, offering not only search functionality but suggested apps too.

Not exact matches

Samsung sold more phones than anyone else, but sales slowed and profits fell last year as other Android - phone manufacturers made similar devices at half the cost and Apple finally released two big - screen iPhone models.

Chevy boasts that it offers Android Auto and Apple CarPlay compatibility in more models than any other manufacturer, ranging from the 2016 Spark to the Corvette Z06.

Other rumours hint at the new Nexus 10 having a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor instead of the Samsung Exynos chipset, as it will be from a different manufacturer, and that it could even come with Android 4.4 KitKat from the box, rather than the expected 4.3 Jelly Bean.

But so far, Asus has been fairly on the ball when it comes to Android upgrades, so the potential of unacceptably extended delays seems less worrisome than with other manufacturers» OS - modified models.

Samsung has pushed Android tablets further and faster than any other manufacturer, so if anyone will have a state of the art quad - core tablet at CES, it will be Samsung.

Alves declined to confirm the manufacturer responsible for the device, nor indeed the OS that it might run; the carrier currently offers a single (non-4G) model, the Samsung Galaxy Tab, but the exec said there are plans to sell slates based on other platforms than Android.

HTC, above and beyond any other manufacturer, has done more than its fair share of popularising Android.

Even if companies wanted to support he most popular Android devices (which, to be fair, Samsung Galaxy devices do have more accessories than most other manufacturers), that will still be several different devices to develop for, each of which has its own modified version of Android.

But it's the refinement of the package that appeals: Samsung offers the latest in Android Oreo and more features out of the box than any other smartphone manufacturer.

Interestingly, LG chose to go with a Micro SIM card slot, rather than use the Nano SIM the iPhone and other Android phone manufacturers are starting to embrace.

Some Android manufacturers are faster than others, however, and that's what we're looking at today.

A strong partnership with Google means these phones run a pure version of Android straight from Google and it also gets version and security updates much faster than any other manufacturer.

While Fossil is the only manufacturer to have confirmed so far, remember that Google has a great deal more control over Android in watch form than it does other forms of Android pushed out to phones.

Some Android manufacturers and custom ROM makers bodged battery level readings into their interfaces — some more crudely than others.

And since mid-2017, we haven't seen any Android Wear watches from manufacturers other than fashion brands with limited functionality.

It runs all apps on Android including games, messaging, Chrome, and more it making less crippled than similar solutions from other manufacturers.

Traditionally, Motorola has offered very little bloatware on top of Android's software meaning users get a more refined experience than some other manufacturers.

Most manufacturers already have their own portrait mode and even though some are better than others, it's unlikely the big players in the Android space will take advantage of Google's portrait technology.

Many Android phones over the years have differentiated themselves from others by focusing on value, offering great specs but for less than Apple or other Android manufacturers offer their phones.

Unlike some other manufacturer - customized Android skins, you swipe horizontally rather than vertically to move through multiple pages of apps.

If HTC does one thing better than just about any other Android manufacturer, it's design.

In other words, in a year of ongoing software development and improvement, and of Google encouraging manufacturers to adopt the latest version of Android and apply regular monthly software patches, the market is in the same position with less than 1 % of today's devices running the latest version of Android.

Huawei releases the latest Android updates faster than other Chinese manufacturers.

Vanilla Android, on the other hand, gave consumers the best the platform could offer simply by trying to stay clean and doing less, or, as I like to put it, working as a canvas; a blank piece of paper that the user — rather than a manufacturer — had to fill via the immensely powerful tool represented by the Play Store.

It is worth mentioning that Sony along with Motorola, HTC, and OnePlus are the only Android manufacturers who tend to update their high - end devices sooner than the others.

NVIDIA can hold this over Samsung's head — not necessarily Apple's, as as they update their devices regularly too, but they're certainly better at it than any other Android manufacturer.

Google released Android 6.0 Marshmallow more than six months ago and while all of the company's Nexus devices have been updated with this OS, the same is not true for other smartphone manufacturers.

Today, the company regularly releases software updates for both of its 3 - series phones, and as I sit here with a newly - released Midnight Black OnePlus 3T running Android 7.1.1 Oxygen OS Open Beta 4, if you must know), I am simply floored at its uniformity, at how utterly cohesive and mature the thing feels, and how OnePlus managed to figure out how best to sell its products — that is, by doing simple and good better than any other smartphone manufacturer.

Manufacturers often fit Android to their hardware, rather than the other way around.

There's certainly nothing wrong with HTC's new Sense UI 5.0, but many Android users love a stock experience, and other than rooting your phone and installing a custom or stock ROM, there's no way to get that on most Android devices, as many manufacturers put their own twist on the user interface.

The ZenWatch 3 runs the same software as every other Android Wear watch on the market, something Google designed to keep continuity between watches, giving manufacturers the ability to stand out with their hardware and custom features rather than worrying about custom software upgrades and the like.