Google has finally announced the official name of the latest version of its Android mobile software, codenamed Android N: "Nougat."

No, it's not Nutella. Its Android N: "Nougat."

Google has finally announced the official name of the latest version of its Android mobile software, codenamed Android N: "Nougat."

Yes, the next version of sugary snack-themed Android and the successor to Android Marshmallow will now be known as Android Nougat, the company revealed on Snapchat and Twitter.
The announcement comes days after Google set up a website for users to submit suggestions for the name of Android N.
Android has maintained its tradition of naming its Android mobile operating system by the names of alphabetically-ordered sugary delights starting from Android Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean, KitKat, Lollipop, and Marshmallow.

The final release of Android Nougat is still in beta and due later this summer.
The good news is that the Google Android team has brought several meaningful features to your smartphone and tablet with the release of Android Nougat.
Android Nougat will bring a redesigned notification panel, a split-screen multi-window mode, VR enhancements, seamless updates, a new Data Saver mode, support for side-by-side apps, and a lot of other improvements.
If you want to try Android Nougat, you can download the latest developer preview of Android Nougat as long as your device is supported.

This is what the ‘i’ in iPhone means

Ever wondered what “i” in the iPhone stood for? Here is the answer!

Apple has been naming its devices with a i prefix. We have the iMac, iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iPad all of which have the omnipresent “i” prefix since the release of the first iMac in 1998. Have you wondered what the “i” in all the prefixes means? Why Apple prefers naming its products starting with a “i”.

Well there have been many answers to this question. In fact last week, Internet has been abuzz with Apple fanboys remembering exactly what Apple’s “i” stands for. We briefly try to answer the question.

In 1998, at an Apple event in 1998, Steve Jobs introduced the iMac. Jobs explained the link between “i” and “Mac.”

“iMac comes from the marriage of the excitement of the Internet with the simplicity of Macintosh,” he said. “We are targeting this for the no. 1 use that consumers tell us they want a computer for, which is to get on the Internet simply and fast.”

In 1998, the “i” in iMac stood for Internet. Jobs followed these statements with a slide that expanded upon what else the “i” means to Apple:

Besides Internet, Apple’s prefix also stood for individual, instruct, inform and inspire. It should be noted that Apple didnt have Internet in mind when naming the iPod and Internet in the “i” came much later.

When the iPhone was announced in 2007, one of its three key ingredients was Internet communication, bringing the “i” back to its original intended meaning of Internet. (The other two fundamentals were music and phone calls.)

Since then, “i” for Internet has lost the meaning because all the Apple products now have some form of Internet connectivity built in. But as Apple grows, the “i” has emerged has some soft of brand niche for Apple. Though it abandoned the “i” while branding its smartwatch and TV boxes. Instead of iWatch and iTV, we have Apple Watch and Apple TV.

But sooner or later, Apple will return to its iconic “i” because it sells!

It’s official: Facebook Messenger for Android supports multiple accounts

Facebook Messenger now supports multiple accounts, but only for Android devices

Facebook has officially launched the multiple account support for its Messenger, which it had been testing for a while now with beta users and some non-beta users. This feature would allow multiple people to log in and use Messenger from a single device.

According to Facebook’s post, messages will remain private amongst accounts, so you can use and pass someone else your phone and need not worry about them reading your messages. “The beauty of this new feature is that your messages stay completely private. Anyone else who shares the device will just see the number of notifications of messages that you have, but they will never be able to see the content of your messages.”

Facebook wants families to be able to potentially be able to use Facebook Messenger while sharing the same device. This is how the new feature can be activated in Facebook:

– In the Messenger for Android settings, look for a section called ‘Accounts’.
– Add the accounts related to each person – signing up with Messenger. You are not required to be logged in Facebook for this.
– The first time someone switches from another account on a phone to their account, it will require a password. After this, the user can choose whether to require a password each time they access their account, or leave it open for anyone to access.

While users can see notifications for new messages and unread counts for all accounts on their shared device, the actual contents of an account’s messages will only be visible if you switch to that account. However, if you want to stop sharing a phone, you need to simply remove your account from that particular device. If accounts are password protected, the number of new messages they have will show up in-app.

Currently, the feature will be available only for the Android version of Messenger. However, there’s no word on when the feature will roll out to iOS users or the Web versions of Messenger. Unfortunately, till then they will have to keep signing in and out if they want to use multiple accounts.

World's first smartphone with 6GB RAM and Snapdragon 820 processor World’s first smartphone with 6GB RAM and Snapdragon 820 processor

Vivo to unveil world’s first 6GB RAM smartphone

The fight for those extra GBs will continue this year with Vivo planning to launch the world’s first smartphone with 6GB RAM. The Chinese smartphone manufacturer will be launching Xplay 5, its flagship smartphone on 1st March before any other company has a chance to launch world’s biggest RAM smartphone.

It was earlier reported that Huawei would launch its P9 with 6GB RAM to take the honours of being world’s first 6GB smartphone. But according to reports, Huawei P9 may not have 6GB after all, thus paving the way for Vivo.

Vivo is leaving no stones unturned to publicise the massive RAM in its Xplay 5. It has already started releasing teasers which detail the awesome Xplay 5 configuration. According to GizmoChina, the Xplay 5 will have 6GB RAM and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 processor to make it perhaps the most powerful phone yet. Aside from the powerful hardware configuration, we also know the Xplay 5 will come with a dual-edge display that will probably support Quad HD (2560 x 1440 pixels) resolution.

While Vivo has kept other specs in dark to create hype, rumors suggest that Xplay 5 could have a 16-megapixel rear-facing camera, an 8-megapixel camera in the front, and a massive 4,300 mAh battery.

If no other smartphone maker manages to hoodwink Vivo and come out with their own 6GB offering by 29th Feb, then Vivo Xplay 5 will become the world’s first handset to pack such a high amount of memory.

While Vivo is publicising the Xplay 5 with gusto, it has so for not revealed the price of the fact whether Xplay 5 will be available for users outside China.

Can a broken Android phone be turned into a toy robot? Yes it can!

Tired of keeping your broken Android phone as a worthless paperweight? Try this instead!

Smartphone repairs are hard to execute and can sometimes result in the entire device going up in smoke rather than tackling the hardware issue that was found in the first place. This happened with an Android smartphone owner who also owns a YouTube account ElectroBOOM. His smartphone’s integrated power-management circuit apparently blew, rendering his mobile phone completely useless, at least that is what he thought after he decided that there was another use for it after all.

Thanks to the combined efforts of ElectroBOOM and his daughter, they tried to come up with several ways to salvage the parts of the device that still worked. So what were they able to create after accumulating all the parts together? An adorable toy robot whose primary body comprises up of the head of a toothbrush.

This is how the talented duo were able to transform the broken Android phone into a toy robot; after taking the phone’s vibrator module, a coin cell battery, a switch and some wire, both of them mounted these items on top of the top of the toothbrush head. Flipping the switch would make the device vibrate, which resulted in the toothbrush head move around in circles.

While it might not be the most sophisticated of creations to be made from a broken Android phone, it is still better than having a device that would be sitting around powered off as a paperweight or be turned to scrap after it has been discarded in a trash bin. There is a video posted below showing how ElectroBOOM and his daughter were able to make this creation so watch the video and tell us what you think.

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This Wi-Fi can only be accessed by squeezing a banana

Gooey Wi-Fi : You can only access this Wi-Fi by squeezing a banana

Every office has a unique Wi-Fi password which guest need to access the Internet. This office has a unique Wi-Fi which can only be accessed by squeezing a banana. Yes, you read it right! You need to squeeze the banana to access the guest network in this office.

The contraption is designed by Danish network engineer Stefan Milo and made by wiring a piece of fruit to a Makey Makey board and a Raspberry Pi mounted on acrylic glass. According to Milo, the cost of this contraption is $100 but the fun it provides to guests is immense.

The Register notes that this is perhaps the most novel way of accessing Wi-Fi. Milo told The Register that most offices normally have a ticket-based system that physically prints a code unique for each visitor. Guests have to get the unique code needed for accessing Wi-Fi network.

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“When you go to $corp, and the receptionist hands you a small piece of paper that someone printed out on an A4, and then spent time on cutting out into small pieces, I cringe,” he explained. “Even if you have a small voucher printer, it still involves the receptionist, installing of the printer, support when the printer driver effs up etc. And it still involves paper – what is this? 1999?”

Exasperated at what he saw, Milo decided to design his banana squeeze novel way for accessing Wi-Fi. The gadget is based on a simple bash shell script on Raspberry Pi. When a banana is pressed by the guest needing the Wi-Fi password, Milo’s script is triggered via the Makey Makey board. This activates the Raspberry Pi which will then show the key on its monitor. The user then enters that key as their guest login credential.

Milo told The Register that his banana contraption will be able to serve only five guests a week, but with a simple expansion of the voucher file (and regular banana changes), the setup could run for years on end, accommodating thousands of office guests.

If you are interested in Milo’s banana squeezing Wi-Fi password is worth a try, he has published the details on a Reddit thread here.

“It’s important to me that tech is useful,” he said, “but if you can put a smile on peoples’ face while they’re using it, then I’m a happy packet-pusher.”

Facebook to introduce 3D Touch on its iOS FB App

iPhone users can soon use 3D Touch with Facebook App

Here is some good news for all iPhone 6s and iPhones 6s Plus users as Facebook will introduce 3D Touch within the FB timeline and News Feed. However, the latest 3D Touch tricks will be initially rolled out to ‘a small group of people’ with everyone else getting it ‘over the coming months.’

In conversation with TechCrunch, a Facebook spokesperson said, “We are excited to start rolling out support for 3D Touch in our iOS app so people can quickly and easily peek into a preview of anything they are interested in on Facebook, and pop into that content to see more.”

3D Touch will allow users to hardpress on FB timeline posts to preview content and take further action on the options instead of tapping and swiping

The 3D Touch feature in Apple smartphones was codenamed ‘peek and pop’ and was introduced on Apple’s new smartphones last year. Many developers are yet to take full advantage of the 3D Touch option in iPhones.

Facebook App will soon have this feature which will work with web links, profiles, Facebook Pages, Facebook Groups, Facebook Events, photos, profile pictures, and cover photos.