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How to get Google Assistant on any android phone

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Google assistant is the major highlight among Google’s latest flagship phones launched in 2016 which are the Google Pixel and Pixel XL. This new AI-powered virtual assistant from Google is a great hit. The assistant has excellent recognition skills and it answers almost everything. This beats Siri and even other assistant in various other platforms. This Google assistant is not available any other android phones except the Pixel devices even on the devices running on android Nougat. While the rooted android devices running on android Nougat can get this assistant, and now the users of android devices with android Lollipop or higher can get the assistant officially.

Procedure:

Google alpha is the new version of the Google search app released by Google. This app brings a huge range of features along with the assistant in the non-pixel devices.

For this one needs to first download and install the Google search alpha app by following the steps below.  

  • Download the app Google app 6.13.5.21 alpha from the website APKMirror.
  • Now under Settings go to Security and then enable Unknown sources, this allows the user to install the downloaded APK files.
  • Then install the Google app 6.13.5.21 alpha app on your device.

Launch and setup Google assistant:

Once the app is installed just follow these steps below to setup the assistant on your device.

  • Press and hold the “home button” on your device. Then you should get to see a screen that says “New! You just got Google assistant”. Tap on the continue button.
  • Then the assistant will tell you how to ask questions and also ask for required permissions. Finally tap “Yes I am in”.
  • Goggle will then launch the assistant in your device and it will take you through some basics of using it.

Using these simple steps you can now get the assistant on you android phone with the help of the Google alpha app.

Cortana for android gets a major update

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Cortana is the Microsoft’s competition to Google’s Assistant and Apple’s Siri. It has been introduced along with Windows 10. It is made available in various Windows phones. Microsoft also launched the android app of Cortana.

It hasn’t gained much popularity but it works just fine. Now recently Microsoft has released an update to the app.

It has got a fresh look and a few add ons are also added to attract the users. It has been now changed into a full purple colour which gives the users a very fresh look and feel.

Hey Cortana is the simple word that users can now say as it is said Ok Google.

The android app gets a very simplified look with all the necessary information made available on the home screen. The AI assistant is now responding in a more detailed manner to your various queries.

Microsoft has started rolling out this new update to the android phone users. So update the app from the Google Playstore if you wish to enjoy these latest updates from Microsoft.

Another incident of Mi phone blast

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Mi phone blast

On July 26th Ajay Raj Negi from Noida, India placed his Mi 4i phone on his desk and engaged with his office work. Suddenly sparks started coming from the phone, within few seconds the phone got blasted.

He bought the Mi 4i phone from Flipkart in last may for Rs. 12,999. Xiaomi acknowledged the damage, said sorry to the phone owner and offered replacement phone in place of damaged one.

Within a week time, today another similar incident came into light with Xiaomi phone. This time, the suspected damaged phone is Mi 5. One of the Weibo user shared his customer’s damaged phone images on Weibo. In this case, the back cover melted off.

Xiaomi uses are keenly observing the incidents and fear accumulating in their minds on the quality of the batteries equipped with the phones.

Below you can watch the Mi 4i incident occurred in in Noida on July 26th.

Soon you can run Windows apps on your Android Phone

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Android is great and outperforming nowadays. But still, there is a severe disappointment we hear from the desktop computer users about the Android operating system. Till now they can’t run Windows apps such as Adobe Photoshop, Pagemaker, etc. on Android phones.

People thought running Windows softwares on Android phones is impossible. But soon it will become reality. CodeWeavers earlier developed various bridging tools in between Windows and Mac, and also Windows and Linux, which allow running Windows softwares on Mac and Linux operating systems.

The same company is now developing another product to bridge Windows and Android. The tool is named as “Crossover for Android.” Once it finished, you can run your favorite Windows softwares on your Android smartphones and Google Chromebooks. There is a big limitation to the entire concept. Only Android devices and Chromebooks which have Intel based chipsets can run Windows apps.

Till now Chromebooks didn’t support Android apps also. Earlier Google in it’s I/O developers meeting announced Android apps support for Chromebooks. Accompanied with the Android apps, by installing Crossover on a Chromebook extends its functionality like a desktop computer as well as a powerful smartphone.

Sony Fans, Don’t expect Sony latest phones in India

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Sony Mobiles decided to defocus on Indian mobile market keeping the poor financial performance in mind, in the period in between 2015-2017.

Sony got only 0.3% nominal growth in the above period compared to previous period’s growth i.e. 8.1% in the major markets like India, China, Brazil and Indonesia.

So Sony decided to concentrate less on India, US, China and Brazil and focus more on Japan, Europe, Middle East markets. Sony is not pulling off all the existing products from our country; instead, it will spend less on marketing those mobiles.

In the last couple of years, the entire smartphone market in India changed a lot. Mobile manufacturers like Xiaomi, LeEco, Lenovo, ASUS, Micromax evolved as the major players in Indian mobile industry. They grabbed the Indian consumer pulse and manufacturing middle range smartphones with higher specifications. Even though they are keeping lower margins on every handset, they are earning through higher volume sales.

But Sony failed in this aspect. It mainly concentrated on high-end smartphones that cost more than Rs. 20,000. At such price point, Indian consumers apparently choose Samsung and other more trusted brands instead of Sony.

In June Sony launched Sony Xperia X and XA in the Indian market. Sony already announced that it is killing Xperia M and Xperia C series phones. All these changes are clearly indicating that Sony is entirely lost the market in certain segments of the World’s mobile market. Sony has to think more innovative to regain it’s market share otherwise it has to quit from other markets also shortly.