Other Google Revenues - Other revenues from the Google segment were $1.65 billion, or 10% of total Google segment revenues, in the fourth quarter of 2013. This represents a 99% increase over fourth quarter 2012 other Google segment revenues of $829 million.
Promising results, as this includes the Play Store revenue, apps, media and devices.
" Plants vs. Zombies 2 has launched on Android in China, and it’s outselling the iPhone version of the game six-to-one in that market, according to comments from Gibeau. "
"The Moto X’s pseudo-stock Android 4.2.2 uses ext4 for all partitions with the exception of user data storage, which uses F2FS (Flash Friendly File System)"
"So Google has abandoned the open source part of Android and is now developing the operating system as a completely closed product."
Not sure what's new here.. Play always came with strings attached. OEMs can choose Play or use AOSP and roll their own Play analogue like Meizu or Xiaomi or Amazon.
Supposedly, in the near future Motorola will release NFC tags and also an update to set a trusted device's (your car or your headphones) bluetooth connection as authentication mechanism to override the lockscreen.
"The benchmarks are impressive considering its older architecture."
Blame Qualcomm's idiotic naming scheme. They are calling this a Snapdragon S4Pro, same as what's in the year old Nexus4.
In reality, it has the same Adreno 320 GPU as of the Galaxy S4 and the HTC one. Also the same Krait 300 CPUs of the S4 and HTC One, just 2 of them instead of the 4.
Available Q2 it seems. Also more details on the SoC from Anandtech: 4 Cortex A15 on 28nm HPL (28nm low power with high-k + metal gates) running at up to 1.9 GHz and a fifth A15 core for low power work.
Promising results, as this includes the Play Store revenue, apps, media and devices.