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We’re at Google I/O 2014, follow us for the latest Android news
It’s that time of year again Android fans, the time of year when Google bestows upon the world all of the cool and exciting projects that they’ve been meticulously working on behind closed doors. Rob Jackson, Steve Albright, and I are here in beautiful San Francisco ready to take in everything that Google has to offer over the next two days. If you’re an Android enthusiast or a Google product lover, it’s basically Christmas time.
Phandroid will be keeping you up to date on everything you need to know from Google IO as soon as it happens (watch our live stream!). We’ve already made our Google IO 2014 predictions over here. Be sure to have all your bases covered by following us across social media, downloading our app on Google Play, or checking in right here at Phandroid.com throughout the day for your dose of Google IO news and announcements.
Of course, you can also follow the three of us on Google+ as we’re sure to be posting enough Google IO related goodies to keep any Android fan drooling over the next couple days.
All of our notebooks, cameras, tablets, and phones are charged. It’s happening. And we’re ready.
What are your predictions?
Next version of Android (Lollipop?) to be revealed tomorrow at Google I/O
Android circles are freaking out after a statement made by Android lead Sundar Pichai suggests we could see the next version of Android unveiled (in some capacity) during this week’s Google I/O developer conference. According to Bloomberg, Google will preview Android L (Lemonhead, Lollipop?) during this year’s keynote, with Pichai going on the record as saying:
“I want the world to understand what we are doing sooner.”
-Sundar Pichai
While that quote doesn’t necessarily reveal much, Bloomberg says this is Mountain View’s effort for greater transparency in regard to firmware updates. With Apple already giving the world a preview of their next OS release for mobile — iOS 8 — during WWDC last month, perhaps this is Google’s way of stealing some of Apple’s thunder.
Where we didn’t expect to see anything more than a Google app redesign at this year’s I/O, we suppose the event (and Android) is still too young to pin a specific pattern of announcements or releases. As we all know, when it comes to Google (and Android), you never know what you’re gonna get.
In the back of our minds, we can’t help but hope Google will also provide a limited developer preview of Android L before it officially rolls out to the world with their rumored Android Silver program. Hey, we can dream, right?
As we prepare our bodies and our minds for tomorrow’s event, don’t forget to check out the full 5-page interview with Sundar Pichai here as well as his Q&A session here. It’s a great read.
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