Friday, May 29, 2015

Google launched Password manager called Smart Lock for its Android and Chrome

While the Google I/O is going on, Google does not mentioned anything related to Password manager in its keynote session, but Google has launched a password manager for Android & Chrome named Smart Lock to keep Passwords, we found it on Google's developer page in Google Identity Platform.

As per Google users will be able to Sign-in into Android Apps & websites within Chrome with hassle free manner & user will get Signed-in to all devices automatically. This will also help user to save their credentials into Smart Lock & once it is save they no longer required to enter their credentials to login to Android app or in Chrome website once the user is logged in.

This will help user to keep their password safe & risk of forgetting password will also come down, this will only work with trusted apps or sites. Netflix, The New York Times, Instacard, Orbitz and Evenbrite are some of the services that will support the feature. Unlike password managers like LastPass, the system will not work with all app and developers will need to integrate the features through Google's API.

This feature will be part of Google Play service 7.5 that means user will not have to wait for the release of Android M to use it,


Wednesday, May 27, 2015

2 Nexus Smartphones in 2015 from Google, but No Nexus Tablet: Report

It’s been 7 months from the Launch of Nexus 6, The Nexus 6 was disappointing from Google compared to the past nexus series, due to its Price & Size, we all were expecting from Google to continue the Nexus series & here we are with the new of upcoming 2 new Nexus series smartphones.

As we all know this will be first time when Google will be launching 2 Nexus smartphone in a year, as per the report we don’t have detailed specification about the phone but what we came to know is as follow

The one smartphone will be from LG which is being developed under the codename of Bullhead, will have Screen size of 5.2-inch with backed of 2700mAh battery, as per the reports LG is planning to go with Qualcomm Snapdragon 808.

The second smartphone will be from Huawei which is being developed under the codename of Angler, will have Screen size of 5.7-inch with backed of 3500mAh battery, as per the reports Huawei is planning to go with Qualcomm Snapdragon 810.

We are expecting both phone to launch in October as this is the time frame when Google had launched it past Nexus smartphones.

Google I/O 2015 is on 28th & 29th May 2015, we are expecting the announcement upcoming Android version i.e. M about its features & release date.

Monday, May 25, 2015

Beware Android users..Factory reset won't erase all personal data

Android is the no. 1 Mobile operating system in the world & If you are one of the android lover who frequently buy and sell Android smartphone or review a different one every few weeks, it's likely that you're leaving traces of personal data even if you use the phone's factory reset feature, before passing on the phone to someone else.

According to a new study titled 'Security Analysis of Android Factory Resets' by Cambridge University, Android's factory reset option does not let you get rid of all your personal data. As part of the study, researchers tested 21 smartphones made by five different device makers running Android 2.3 to 4.3.

They found that all devices retained a part of the users' old data which included SMS, e-mails, pictures and videos and contact information from third party apps such as Facebook and WhatsApp.

What's more worrying was that this data was accessible even if full-disk encryption was used. Also, in most smartphones, researchers were even able to get access to the master token to access the user's Google data.

The study estimates that about 500 million Android phones are at risk.