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Google has sold devices under the Nexus brand for the last few years. The Nexus program serves as a proving ground for competitively priced smartphones and tablets, but also as a means to show off the latest and greatest in Android technologies. This has driven the industry to include the new features (NFC, barometer, etc.) in their own handsets, and helps keep prices down. Like it or not, manufacturers inevitably replace much of the Google-ish UI with their own user interface. This may add features and functionality, but it can also add overhead and lag -- and ultimately, the user ...

When Samsung announced there would be a Google Play edition Galaxy S 4 after the Google I/O conference in May, many existing owners of Galaxy S 4s  were upset, and rightly so. They purchased what they thought they had been waiting for: one of the best smartphones ever created. It still is, don't get me wrong, but when it was revealed that there would be a "pure Android" version available soon, many were disappointed. I'd be frustrated, too. I've long been an advocate of stock Android. Fortunately, members of the development community have come to the rescue yet again!  Press play to ...

Taylor Martin might've taught you how to make your own carrier-branded HTC One into a fancy Google-Edition version with some crazy (easy) hacking, and he might even have made another video demonstrating all the reasons you should go ahead and do just that. He might even be working on another video, demonstrating how to reverse all that action and return to the BlinkFeed-rocking world of Sense, at this very moment. But you know what? Sometimes, you don't want to get involved with all that l33t hax0r nonsense. Sometimes, as discussed on today's extended episode of the Pocketnow Weekly ...

Just yesterday we've heard reports of Android 4.3 being prepared for the Samsung Galaxy S 4 Google Edition and it looks like today there's purported proof. The screenshots above and below are allegedly taken off of an early Android 4.3 build. The build is powering a Qualcomm Snapdragon version Samsung Galaxy S 4 and the details of the build are, as seen in the screenshot below: Android version is 4.3, build number JWR66N.S005.130625, and Android build number. Android 4.3 is not official yet but it seems like OEMs already have the code so that they can prepare their ROMs (and updates) in ...

Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside recently confirmed that the Motorola "X Phone" is not a figment of our imagination, nor a wishful hope. "It's going to be called the Moto X (and) it's going to be broadly distributed" later this year. There you have it: it's not the "Motorola X Phone", it's not the "Motorola Nexus X". The new phone, when it's released, will be called the "Moto X", and I want one. Hello Moto! GeoLocation & Situational Awareness The letter X is often associated with location. "X marks the spot" and "You are here -> X" come to mind. This holds true with the aptly named Moto ...

Sometimes you get listener mail that asks how the band got together in the first place. Sometimes that happens the day after you drop some nostalgic sentimentalism all over the internet. Sometimes, simultaneously, there are some sweet, juicy rumors and leaks about a top-of-the-line camera phone with what looks like a moon crater on it. Sometimes you gotta put all that into a podcast with the original cadre of Pocketnow 'casters, and see what comes out. All that, plus the longest outtake reel in the history of Pocketnow, more Nokia EOS rumors than you can shake a stick at, the first-ever ...

Topic Google Edition smartphones seem to no only be the trending topic, but also the next big thing. Those preferring a vanilla Android experience, a Nexus experience, if you will, will definitely prefer the Google Edition Samsung Galaxy S 4 and HTC One devices. Without TouchWiz or Sense, and with the latest vanilla version of stock Android, you can basically choose your own Nexus device. Is this the new trend for the future? Will we see more manufacturers adopt this dualist system of offering a device with two different user experiences? Will this mean that OEM personalization will slowly ...

One of the announcements at Google I/O this year was somewhat unexpected. We'd heard a few scattered rumors of another Samsung-made Nexus based on their new Galaxy S 4 platform, but I don't think anyone was ready for what we actually got: an unlocked, cross-carrier version of the Galaxy S4 -- the Galaxy S4 Google Edition. Earlier today Pocketnow's Stephen Schenck wrote about this new but "not quite-a-Nexus" phone, and why it's a "slightly" bad deal. His points are fair and accurate, and I can't say that I disagree with any of them. Why is the "Google Edition" of Samsung's latest flagship ...