This week’s Android Circuit includes the leaked Galaxy Z Fold 4 camera, news on the OnePlus 10, Google’s iOS to Android tool, the Pixel Smartwatch design revealed, the importance of the Pixel 6a, Microsoft’s latest Android update, and more...
the launch of the Pixel smartwatch at the event. Presumably powered by wearOS, this would be the first ‘own brand’ wearable from Google that it will hope defines the market in much the same way as the Pixel smartphones:
"As a device that’s been literally years in the making — and widely anticipated for even longer — Google’s first own brand wearOS device, a.k.a. the Pixel Watch, is most certainly the unicorn of the wearable space. Codenamed Rohan... the round-faced, digital-crown-equipped watch is finally starting to break cover, with a reveal expected in the near future.How important is a mid-range, mid-specced Pixel 6a? If you’re used to playing Specifications Top Trumps, then not very.
"The one area where Google's seen some manner of meaningful commercial success is in the midrange realm — with its Pixel"a" line of devices. But the most recent Pixel"a" phone, the Pixel 5a, sells for $450. With the high-end Pixel 6 flagship of the moment costing only a cool 600 smackers, $450 suddenly doesn't seem like such a bargain anymore."Windows 11’s long awaited ability to run Android applications has arrived.
"Unfortunately, Android apps are infamous for poor big screen support — that's why Android 12L exists, after all. So when opening the Washington Post app on my PC , I wasn't surprised to see a small window taking up less than a fourth of the display. Nor was I shocked to find it asking me to"swipe to continue" on a device without a touchscreen."Microsoft continues to build out its Android app suite with an update to its Authenticator app.
" Microsoft’s Authenticator app is now one step closer to rival services such as Bitwarden with a new feature that helps you generate passwords automatically. We’ve seen similar features from other password managers before, but this is the first time Microsoft has included a password generator within its Authenticator app."Android Circuit rounds up the news from the Android world every weekend here on Forbes.