Xiaomi is doing everything correct to disrupt leadership of established major consumer electronics brands specially in smartphones category, to proove my point here is yet another excellent smartphone from the company. Redmi Note 3 is a mid-budget handset with excellent specs for the price which is RMB 899 (~$141), the phone features a full sand-blasted precision engineered metal body with a 5.5-inch 1080p display paired to a 64-bit octa-core MediaTek Helio X10 Cortex-A53 CPU, 2GB of RAM, 13-megapixel primary camera with phase detection autofocus (PDAF) and two-tone flash, 5-megapixel front-facing camera, dual-SIM, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS + GLONASS, Fingerprint sensor and 16GB of storage. If you're willing to pay a little extra, for RMB 1,099 or $172 you can get 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage version instead. Don't miss the feature images of the handset posted below.

In 2012 at the Google I/O event, Google announced Android Jelly Bean on June 27th, and its release date followed on July 9th, 2012. During the Google I/O 2013, Google announced the release of Android Kitkat via the Google’s Official Blog on October 31, 2013. During the event at Google I/O 2014, the announcement of Android Lollipop occurred on October 15th, 2014. Afterward, its release was later during the year on November 12th, 2014 via the Google’s Official Blog. The yearly trend seems to be similar to Google’s announcement and release of higher versions of Android. It seems like history usually repeats itself. Hence, if we go by the history then there is expectations of Google to release the latest version of Android with the codename M in its upcoming event; Google I/O 2015 conference. The announcement could happen late this month of May since the developer conference begins on May 28th, 2015 and ends on 29th in Moscone Center West in San Francisco, CA. Its release is expected to happen later during the year between the end of October and early November.

Google has always named its previous versions of Androids after their sugary treats during the conference starting from Apple to the latest one Lollipop. Therefore, going by the company’s naming trends in history; individuals have started guessing what the next Codename M could be. Perhaps it could be Marshmallow, Mint, Mentos, Milkshake, M&M, MilkyWay, Macaron, Muffin, etc. Several individuals bet it would mostly be Marshmallow, but there’s no assurance yet; thus time will tell.

People have a lot of expectations about Google Android 6.0 Codenamed M. The first one is improved security; Android M may bring about a significant change in protecting the privacy of users. According to Android Headlines, Google might introduce Smart Lock to its next version of Android to enable users to keep their phones and details safe from unauthorized access. It would save the users from having to create passwords several times to secure their smartphones. Besides, the Smart Lock would ensure that the Android users can connect their phones to Bluetooth and NFC gadgets and remain unlocked, even though; the smartphones are connected to such devices. This would be a great way to save the users who rarely lock their phones. Additionally, there are anticipations that Android M might include a feature that can block apps from seeing the user’s contacts. For instance, users would choose either to let apps like Facebook access their locations, but deny them the access to their contacts. Isn’t this an achievement? Of course, it is and enhances the security of the users.

In earlier days of Google Android OS, one has to root and hack their way into the core operating-system files just to install additional fonts like Hindi as demonstrated in an earlier post. Nowadays, we have quite a lot of options to install additional keyboards in multiple languages like the free Hindi keyboard provided by Google.

To make things easier for Indian users we now have an excellent free app - Swalekh, the app brings power of local language expression through an easy-to-use app. Users of Swalekh can express themselves in their own language - be it while sending a text message, a Facebook update, a tweet, writing a blog, or sending an email. Supporting English, हिन्दी (Hindi), বাংলা (Bengali), తెలుగు (Telugu), मराठी (Marathi), தமிழ் (Tamil), ગુજરાતી (Gujarati), ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada), മലയാളം (Malayalam), ଓଡ଼ିଆ (Odia), ਪੰਜਾਬੀ (Punjabi) and অসমীয়া (Assamese). Swalekh comes with word predictions (English and Native), auto-correct, a native language keyboard as well as an PHONETIC option to which will transliterate text to your native language using the familiar QWERTY Keypad.

Ubuntu Edge was an awesome concept but sadly it failed to reach it's crowd-funding goal, however Mobile and desktop computing convergence is still a sought after concept and new solutions have started to appear now. Instead of creating new hardware from the scratch Andromium seamlessly turns your existing Android device's with powerful hardware into a full-featured desktop computer. A user simply needs to attach their devices to "The Andromium Dock" which comes with three full-sized USB ports and they can use the computing power of phones on the TV screen with an easy-to-use desktop user-interface combining the Mac OSX simplicity and Windows 7 familiarity. Do watch the video demo shared below.

Andromium User Interface combines Mac OSX simplicity and Windows 7 familiarity

Google has officially unveiled the Android 5.0 Lollipop with a new range of Nexus family devices. The newly announced devices are a 6-inch smartphone named Nexus 6, a media streamer called the Nexus Player, and a 8.9-inch tablet built by HTC Nexus 9 - all powered by the next Google Android OS, the Android 5.0 Lollipop.

This year's Google I/O Keynote got some really exciting announcements from the company where they showed their upcoming offerings like the next version of Google operating-system dubbed "Android L", the in-car Android mode as "Android Auto" and the "Android TV" to name the most interesting ones. Here are three videos providing you with important information about the upcoming new technology.

Want your personal R2D2 robo which follows you, can be controlled by your smartphone and comes with an 1080p on-board projector that can display movies, games, TV, images anywhere you want?, Well now you can have this now, thanks to the 'Keecker' gadget revealed at ongoing CES 2014.

Powered by Android 4.2 operating system Keecker can run majority of Android apps, including streaming multimedia and play Android games. The robo comes loaded with a terabyte of internal storage which can be populated using your computer or via the Web app over Wi-Fi. Keecker's movements can be controlled via Android or iOS app, or can be configured to automatically follow you around the house acting as a personal moving entertainment system. Don't miss the video shared below.

Root 101 plans to be the most open-source and affordable Android powered tablet, currently vouching users for crowd-funding via Indiegogo. The tablet will feature a completely stock version of Android Jelly Bean 4.2 (with promise to deliver 'latest and greatest' updates as early as possible) with no bloatware, no skins, and with full root access. While the good, clean Android build does wonders for both performance and battery life, the makers have also allowed for easy flashing of custom ROM's for non-technical users.

The $169 tablet will offer an experience similar to Google Nexus with it's 10.1” IPS HD (1280 x 800) multi-touch capacitive screen, AmLogic Dual Core 1.5GHz CPU, Dual Core Mali-400 GPU with 1080P video, 1GB RAM, 16GB Internal Storage, MicroSD Slot, WiFi, Front and Rear Camera, Micro USB Port and Mini HDMI slot – output up to 1080P to TV. Do watch the video demonstration posted below.

We have already learned how to install Hindi font support on your Google Android device, which takes care of Hindi font display. Here is an excellent offering from Google to take care of the writing, allowing typing of messages, updates on social networks or emails in Hindi on your Android device.

Free Android App, Google Hindi Input allows users to take advantage of a Hindi keyboard to type with support for "Hindi transliteration". The transliteration mode enables users to type in Hindi's Devanagari script by using English words; for example if you type "Hindi" in English it gets converted to "हिंदी" automatically.