Author: Clinton

While the news dominating the Android world the past 24 hours has been the release of the technical preview for Android N, that doesn’t mean that Android Marshmallow is dead and gone.  Today customers on the Sprint network that have the Samsung Galaxy S6 are the latest to see the current shipping version of the OS hit their devices.  The update brings the device up from Lollipop and weighs in at a hefty 1.2GB so you will absolutely have to be on Wi-Fi for the update to download.

Microsoft has released updated versions of their Office apps Excel, Word and PowerPoint for Android today with several new features and enhancements.  The apps are starting to show up in the Google Play Store and if you have the apps installed already, you should see the updates hit your devices over the course of the next few days.  While there are some unique features to Excel and PowerPoint, all three of them have received general update that users of the suite will appreciate.

AT&T announced yesterday on their support site that an important security update for Galaxy Note 5 users on their network will start receiving.  The notice simply states that the update has security and performance enhancements in it but does not go into details on what exactly those enhancements are in detail.  That’s not that uncommon but what is good to know is that the update brings along with it the February Android Security update for Lollipop 5.1.1 with it.

The evolution of Google+ marches on and thanks to Google’s Luke Wroblewski, the details of the update to the Android app for the social & community site are now available.  The update has already started rolling to the Google Play Store so if you haven’t received the update yet, you will over the next few days.  The updated version you are looking for is 7.4.0 and it will be available for both Android phones and tablets.

If you are still wanting to pick up a great deal on the Nexus 7 (2013) LTE, Amazon is the place for you. You can pick up the Asus built Nexus 7 (2013) with LTE support and 32GB of storage for an amazing $149.99.  This is $250 off the retail price and $70 off the latest price on the tablet.  This is a refurbished model from Amazon but it is like-new and it warrantied for 90 days from when you receive it so you have some comfort in knowing they have you covered in case something goes wrong.

Last week the Chrome browser for Windows, Mac and Linux was update to Build 49 and as expect, the update is now hitting the browser for Android devices.  The new build is 49.0.2623.91 for those keeping score at home and it is rolling out to the Google Play Store today.  You should expect it to hit your device via an OTA update any time over the course of the next few days.