Android 7.0 Nougat

Android 7.0 Nougat

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Google Pixel

Google Pixel: UK price, release date and best features as Google reveals its rival to the iPhone

Google unveiled a raft of new products at its annual autumn event, including the Pixel phone, the Daydream View headset, a new Chromecast and the Google Home speaker, an AI-powered rival to the Amazon Echo.

Here's what you need to know:

Pixel and Pixel XL

Google has taken the battle for supremacy in the mobile phone market directly to Apple by releasing its first full competitor to the iPhone.

Opinion: Google's Andromeda OS sounds 2.537 million light years ahead of rivals

Opinion: Google's Andromeda OS sounds 2.537 million light years ahead of rivals

During an event later today, Google is expected to launch an OS codenamed 'Andromeda' which is omnipresent across hardware powered by the Mountain View-based web giant. The event is hardware-focused, so we should be seeing plenty of examples of how the OS will enable a more seamless experience across Google's ecosystem. 

"Google continues to underscore the importance of leading in mobile with the announcement of their new line of Pixel smartphones, but it is the announcement of Andromeda, the merged operating system for Google laptops (Chrome OS) and Google-powered smartphones (Android), that will have the biggest impact on our digital world," says Dennis Jones, CEO of payments technology company Judopay. 

EU's Android Antitrust Charges

Google Has Until October 31 to Reply to EU's Android Antitrust Charges

Alphabet's Google has been given until the end of October, the fourth 

extension, to rebut EU antitrust charges that it uses its dominant 

Android mobile operating system to block competitors, the European

 Commission said on Monday.

The Commission in April said the US technology giant's demand tha

t mobile phone makers pre-install Google Search and the Google Chrome

 browser on their smartphones to access other Google apps harms

 consumers and competition.

The EU watchdog had initially set a July 27 deadline for Google

 to respond to the charges. This had been extended three times

 at the company's request, with the previous deadline Sept. 20.

The new deadlines are October 31 for the Android case and 

October 26 and October 13 for cases relating to online search 

advertising and shopping.

In the shopping case, Google has been accused of favouring its

 shopping service over those of rivals in internet search results

 while the AdSense case centres on the company's measures

 which block competitors in online search advertising.

"In each of these cases, Google asked for additional time to 

review the documents in the case file. In line with normal practice,

 the Commission analysed the reasons for the request and granted

 an extension allowing Google to fully exercise its rights of defence

," Commission spokesman Ricardo Cardoso said in an email.

The EU antitrust enforcer intends to hit the company with

 deterrent fines in the Android and shopping cases, 

according to charge sheets seen by Reuters.

Google can be fined up to $7.4 billion (roughly Rs. 49,684 crores),

 or 10 percent of its global turnover, for each case if found guilty
of breaching EU rules.

Nexus 6 Users Start Receiving Android 7.0

Nexus 6 Users Start Receiving Android 7.0 Nougat Update, October Android Security Update Released

After promising the Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 LTE devices would get the

 Android 7.0 Nougat update in "the coming weeks" in the middle of 

September, Google has finally made good on its promise - at least 

for the Nexus 6. The update was released alongside the monthly

 Android security update for Nexus and Pixel devices. According

 to the security bulletin, Google has released two security patch

 level strings, one on October 1 and the other on October 5.

 The first one is partial patch with few bug fixes, while the

 October 5 patch brings crucial fixes and is the final version.