Verizon will control Android updates for Google Pixel phones it sells
Verizon will control Android updates for Google Pixel phones it sells
If you buy a Google Pixel or Pixel XL from Verizon Wireless, you'll be at the mercy of the carrier when it comes to future Android updates.Google has apparently confirmed to 9to5Google that Verizon will be in charge of delivering Android software updates to all Pixel phones that it sells.That includes units purchased from Best Buy, since the popular electronics store is carrying Verizon's Pixel models and not an unlocked version of the "phone by Google."
Facebook's Messenger Lite lights up old Android phones
Facebook's Messenger Lite lights up old Android phones
Enlarge Image FacebookFacebook has a tiny, speedy new messaging app designed for owners of older Android phones.Facebook Messenger Lite, announced Monday, takes up a much smaller amount of a phone's storage -- just 10 megabytes -- than the full-fat app that most users have installed on their phones, and it has been pared back so that it runs peppily over slower-than-average networks.It is the companion app to Facebook Lite, a stripped-down version of the social network, also for old Android phones, launched in 2015.
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