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Tag: iPhone wannbes

Disgraced Google executive Andy Rubin’s Essential shuts down

Wednesday, February 12, 2020 5:10 pmThursday, February 13, 20204 Comments

Essential Products, an Android smartphone peddler founded by disgraced Google executive Andy Rubin is shutting down, the comnpany confirmed Wednesday…

Corning unveils glass less likely to break when you drop your iPhone

Wednesday, July 18, 2018 4:58 pmWednesday, July 18, 20189 Comments

Corning Inc., which makes the glass used in Apple Inc.’s iPhones and smartphones from Samsung Electronics Co…

Google’s latest Android version tries to make Android phones more like Apple’s iPhone X

Wednesday, May 9, 2018 1:01 pmWednesday, May 9, 201814 Comments

Google has a new version of Android coming to your phone with features…

Essential sold fewer than 90,000 phones in its first six months

Tuesday, February 13, 2018 9:38 amTuesday, February 13, 20187 Comments

Essential, Android co-founder Andy Rubin’s new smartphone venture, had a rough go of it…

Google’s next Android version to mimic Apple’s iPhone X notch

Monday, February 12, 2018 11:01 amMonday, February 12, 201813 Comments

Google is working on an overhaul of its Android mobile software for a new generation of smartphones…

Longtime Google engineer quits, saying the company is ‘100% competitor-focused’ and ‘can no longer innovate’

Wednesday, January 24, 2018 5:35 pmWednesday, January 24, 201833 Comments

A Google engineer who just left the company after nearly 13 years criticized it Wednesday…

Eric Schmidt to step down as the executive chairman of Alphabet Inc.

Thursday, December 21, 2017 8:49 pmThursday, December 21, 201720 Comments

Eric Schmidt will be stepping down as the executive chairman of Alphabet’s board of directors…

Andy Rubin takes leave from Essential as probe into ‘inappropriate’ Google relationship goes public

Wednesday, November 29, 2017 11:25 amWednesday, November 29, 201726 Comments

Essential founder and CEO Andy Rubin has taken a leave of absence from his new company for ‘personal reasons’ following a report…

In colossal screw up, Essential shared customers’ driver’s licenses over email

Wednesday, August 30, 2017 3:00 pmWednesday, August 30, 20177 Comments

Last night, some customers who had preordered an Essential phone received an email asking for a copy…

SoftBank scraps $100 million investment in Android creator Andy Rubin’s ‘iPhone killer’ startup due to Apple pressure

Monday, March 20, 2017 4:57 pm7 Comments

SoftBank Group Corp. scrapped a planned $100 million investment in a smartphone startup…

Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android push towards two-OS smartphone world

Wednesday, March 15, 2017 1:30 pmWednesday, March 15, 201710 Comments

iOS achieved continued growth across most regions tracked, except for Japan, Spain, and Urban China…

Apple CEO Cook and Google CEO Pichai spotted dining together at restaurant

Friday, March 10, 2017 12:02 pmFriday, March 10, 201731 Comments

While often made out to be fierce competitors, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai…

Google Android’s VP of design says Apple’s iPhone interface is ‘heavy and burdensome’

Wednesday, December 30, 2015 10:49 am37 Comments

Google’s Matias Duarte has a problem. In the next ten years he wants to replace the computer on your desk and the phone in your pocket…

Former Android head Andy Rubin leaving Google

Friday, October 31, 2014 11:27 amFriday, October 31, 20148 Comments

Andy Rubin, co-founder and former leader of Google Inc.’s Android…

Motorola warns holiday quarter sales below expectations, blames Apple

Friday, January 6, 2012 9:02 pmFriday, January 6, 201225 Comments

Motorola sent out a warning late Friday that its fall performance wouldn’t meet…

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