Galaxy S6 will be presented on March 2 according to Samsung

Things are accelerating. After the many rumors about the Galaxy S6, a Samsung frame quoted by the Chosun Ilbo, one of three major South Korean daily, has more or less officialized the date of the presentation of the future flagship.

As expected, and as a logical wanted, the company will benefit from the MWC of Barcelona to present his smartphone.Specifically, the day of the official opening of the show, Monday, March 2. It is a day after that HTC will hold a conference on 1st, probably for its One (M9).

It says nothing about the features of the phone. According to a subcontractor, Samsung would have developed many prototypes, but it would not yet have chosen one that will be mass produced. At one month of the announcement, one can expect, at least for the terminal arrives on the market shortly after the show. If the rumors are true, we must expect a significant further commercialization in the announcement.

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Sony Unveils three Xperia running Lollipop

The Japanese company has released a short video showing the Xperia Z1, Z2 and Z3 running version 5.0 of Android. But consumers will have to wait until early 2015 to enjoy.

Sony is one of the first manufacturers to have announced the passage of some of its smartphones to version 5.0 of Android. To wait (and salivate) consumers, the Japanese company has released a YouTube video of three of its devices (Xperia Z1, Z2 and Z3) running a version of AOSP (Android Open Source Project version manufacturer) Lollipop.

On his blog, Sony also indicates that a pilot program is underway in Sweden for collecting reactions Z3 Xperia users running Android 5.0 and that it should put online in the coming days the binaries files of Lollipop to the attention of developers for Xperia Z.

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WHAT IS ANDROID?

You have just purchased a smartphone where a little green man is displayed proudly on your smartphone or tablet, it is a bugdroid, the mascot of Android. But what does mean Android? Answer on this issue!

In this guide we will explain you what is Android, from a given user, developer and integrator. A complete file accessible to all everyone. So Android, what is it, what does it mean, what does it do? What is this?

Many fake truths circulating on the web about Android. Android is primarily for any user is an operating system. It is this operating system that will give life to the devices, he can talk to the components and you can also talk to him directly via a graphical interface. This "program" and will serve as a liaison, the most emblematic of the rest OS Microsoft Windows installed on over 90% of the IT park.  Android park is itself dedicated to mobile devices, smartphones and tablets, but also connected with the solution televisions Google TV. These mobile devices have need to develop an OS dedicated to them, the reason is simple: the user experience of a smartphone or tablet requires interaction and a special operation.

Android is on smartphones, tablets, TVs, digital music players, car stereos, home automation in the kitchen ... this is an open and very flexible system. Technically it is based on open source components (open source) - Linux, as well as specific components specific to Google. Android is supported by a consortium of very diverse companies, operators (T-Mobile, Bouygues Telecom, etc.. ), manufacturers (Samsung, LG, HTC, etc..) and many other useful participants in this ecosystem (eg smelters, with Intel, Qualcomm or Nvidia). This consortium is called the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) - Official website - and is now composed of thirty members.

It does not really exist Google Phone, there are phones designed for Google Nexus One (HTC) and Nexus S (Samsung), but there are especially hundreds of styles, dozens of manufacturers.

Android is used by dozens of manufacturers, among the most famous you can find Samsung, HTC, LG, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Asus, Acer, etc..

Android is now on the market through several versions (anecdote, each version carries the name of a cake) 

Android 2.2 (FroYo)/Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) dedicated to smartphones up to 7 inches.
Android 3.2 (Honeycomb) dedicated to tablets up to 10.1 inches.
Google TV dedicated to TV and set-top box .


By the end of the year, Google will unveil Ice Cream Sandwichque we call us, Android 4.0, the version that should bring smartphones, tablets and TV. Now you know what Android but it will have to continue reading to learn more. We will talk about this in the next article.

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