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Google has been working on a new Chrome Android interface for nearly two years now. The first iteration was ‘Chrome Home’, which moved the address bar to the bottom of the screen. That interface was essentially done, but Google decided to scrap it for unknown reasons. The project was changed to ‘Chrome Duplex’ in February, […]

Last August, Google announced an enhancement to its Play Store search and discovery algorithms, all in the pursuit of a better consumer experience. This was a natural next step after the company said it began tuning its algorithms “to optimize for user engagement, not just downloads” at its Developer Day at the Game Developers Conference in […]

Update 1: 2018/06/30 11:19am PDT Scaled down versions of apps are nothing new; Google has made plenty of “Go” apps made specifically for emerging markets where internet connections are unreliable, phones are generally less capable, and plans offer less data. Uber is now getting in on the act, too. Uber Lite has been built with India […]

I’ll be the first to admit that the Moto G6 is not the most exciting phone in the world. The days of being wowed by sub-$300 phones simply on the basis of not being terrible are long gone, but Motorola still rolls new budget devices out every year. The new Moto G6 is probably at […]

Affordable phones will always be a compromise, but Google hopes it can make entry-level devices a bit better with something new: Android Go. It’s the same Android platform you know and presumably love, but optimized for sub-1GB RAM environments. That way low-end hardware can have its own low-end version of Android, rather than suffering an OEM […]