Lenovo will release a new smartphone with augmented reality features. Lenovo will release a new smartphone with augmented reality features. The device was developed under Google's Tango Project, according to Lenovo Chief Executive Yang Yuanqing's interview at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The Moto X and Moto X 2nd Generation are both getting Android 5.1 across several different world markets in the next week, signaling that U.S. users of the original Moto X (2013) might have to wait too long to finally get Android 5.1 Lollipop.
Motorola once again steps up at the front of the OEM pack by offering a big Lollipop update to the 2014 Moto X (second generation) and Moto E LTE -- rolling out an OTA Android 5.1 Lollipop update on U.S. Cellular now.
When Google sold its struggling Motorola Mobility division to Lenovo, it didn't sell off the entire thing: Google kept the good stuff. One of the things Google held on to was the futuristic, modular smartphone program, Project Ara, which the company just released new details about.
Motorola's former Project Ara is still in Google's hands after it sold the hardware division to Lenovo, and Google is apparently serious about the experimental 3D-printed, modular smartphone.
Google is not averse to taking risks, but it's also a company that has to make a profit. That's why Google surprisingly put in a bid to buy cellphone company Motorola Mobility in the summer of 2011, and also why it is selling it now.
The Nokia Lumia is an amazing phone. The Nokia Lumia 1020 is an amazing phone. It has what Nokia calls "reinvented zoom with 41 megapixels. " Basically that means it's a point and shoot camera inside of a smartphone.