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Today is the day that most people (including me) have been waiting for since March when Google unexpectedly announced the Developer Preview of Android N. Google completed its five month beta program and is releasing the Android Nougat 7.0 today. The new update will begin rolling out to the following devices: Nexus 6P Nexus 5X Nexus 6 Nexus 9 Nexus Player Pixel C General Mobile 4G Although it is not surprising, it’s still sad to see that the Nexus 5 and the Nexus 7 (2013) are not eligible for the update and won’t be getting it.  Follow Android   ✔ @Android It's official!  # AndroidNougat  starts rolling out today on select # Nexus  devices (5X, 6, 6P, 9 and Pixel C). https:// twitter.com/googlenexus/st atus/767780128873025536  … 11:37 AM - 22 Aug 2016     1,113 1,113 Retweets     1,339 1,339 likes Google has also hinted at the release of the new LG V20 and app...

This is a pretty expected script by now. Regardless of its competitors’ phone launches, every quarter the market share of Google’s Android only grows. Latest figures by Gartner put it at 86.2 percent of the entire market. The same quarter of last year, it stood at 82.2 percent share, compared to iOS’s 14.6 percent. As of today, Apple’s OS is further below at 12.9 percent, further brought by its own decline in sales. The remaining players got just 0.9 percent of the market. Windows, which remained third earned just 0.6 percent of the market. BlackBerry which has all but ditched BB10 for Android had 0.1-percent of the market while the “Others” segment recorded 0.2 percent of sales. Smartphone sales grew 4.3 percent in the quarter to a total of 344 million units. When it came to the companies’ table, the story was not different than expected there, either. Samsung continued its domination with 22.3 percent of the market, followed by Apple at 12.9. Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi ...

There are more than 2 million apps on Google Play Store and around 1.5 million on Apple’s iTunes App Store yet the number of apps that actually get installed and used regularly is quite small. We have known for quite some time that people usually use a few apps for their daily tasks. However, a new study on mobile app usage reveals more insights like how 1 in 4 people abandon apps after first use. The study takes a look at these aspects: App Retention App Abandonment User Retention for Messaging Apps Lets take an in-depth look at each of the aspects. App Retention A study based on mobile app usage shows that one in four users use an app only once. Data from Localytics suggests an improvement in user retention to 38% in 2016 compared with 34% in 2015. Conversely, the number of users which use an app less than 11 times stands at 62%. App Abandonment Only 23% of users launch an app once, which is only a slight improvement from last year’s 25%. It was also found that ...