IFA 2016: LG to unveil the V20 Android N smartphone in September.

LG V20 leaked, two screens.

LG on Monday unveiled its plan to launch the new V series, V20, in September (IFA 2016 ?) with no specific timeline included.

"The V20 is designed to offer optimum multimedia experience for users," said an LG Electronics spokesman.

The company said in a statement that the new handset comes with the latest Android operating system (OS), Android 7.0 Nougat. LG said the decision reflects its strong partnership with Google, with both parties previously agreeing to exchange patents until 2023.

The LG mobile chief said in the statement: "The V20 is our first device to equip the up-to-date Android OS." He said the company hopes to set a new standard for the premium device market with the enhanced multimedia functionality of the V20.

Late last month, the company said in a regulatory filing that it will strengthen functionalities in video and audio for its new V series, as the V10 previously won favorable market responses for its dual-selfie camera and dual-screen.

An industry source said: "LG appears to have decided to introduce the new flagship handset earlier than expected, as the company should brace for fierce competition against other new premium smartphones from Apple and Samsung."

The V10 won explosive market responses in the United States where the company had sold more than 450,000 V10 handsets, only 45 days after its launch there.

The achievement enabled the company to record a 35.7 percent U.S. market share among smartphones with more than 5.7-inch display, according to market researcher International Technology Group (ITG).

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Android N is Android 7.0 Nougat, Google says. Video.

It is Official , Google´s Android division just unveiled in June 30, 2016 the name of  the upcoming new mobile version of its OS as Android 7.0 Nougat.

As a candy a really like the best Nougat the one made in Spain Alicante, where you can ask in spanish about it as a TURRÓN.

History of the NOUGAT:

Many legends exist around nougat’s origins. The early recipes of white nougat were found in a Middle Eastern book in Baghdad the 10th century where it was borrowed from Central Asia. That nougat was called ناطف nāṭif.^[6] One of these recipes indicates that the nāṭif comes from Harran, a city located between Urfa (now in southeast Turkey) and Aleppo, Syria. Mention of nāṭif was found in a triangle between Urfa, Aleppo, and Baghdad. At the end of the 10th century, the traveler and geographer Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn Ḥawqal wrote that he ate some nāṭif in Manbij, Syria, and in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.^[7]

Distribution and popularity

In southern Europe, where it is likely to have originated,^[8] nougat is largely associated with the Christmas season

Turrón, a candy related to the traditional French nougat, is produced in Spain (turrón, or, in Catalan, torró) and some neighboring parts of France, 

in Cremona, Taurianova and Sicily in Italy (where it is called torrone, or Cupeta from LatinCupedia;^[9] the most famous Sicilian nougat is called cubbaita), Greece (where it is known as mandolato), Malta (where it is known as qubbajd and sold in village festivals), and it was customized in Tabriz in Iran with the same name.

The "nougat" used as an ingredient in many modern candy bars in the United States and United Kingdom is different from traditional recipes, being a mixture of sucrose and corn syrup aerated with a whipping agent such as egg white or hydrolyzed soya protein or gelatine. It is a preferred and often used ingredient of large candy companies, being inexpensive to make and used as a "filler". It may also have vegetable fats and milk powder added, and is typically combined with nuts, caramel, or chocolate. In contrast, some American confections feature such "nougat" as the primary component, rather than one of several. Varieties of nougat are found in 3 Musketeers, Double Decker, ZERO bars, and Baby Ruth bars.

In Britain, nougat is traditionally made in imitation of the southern European varieties and is still commonly found at fairgrounds and the seaside. The most common industrially produced type^[10] is coloured pink and white, the pink often fruit flavoured, and sometimes wrapped in edible rice paper with almonds and cherries, sometimes substituted for peanuts, or omitted altogether.

Variations

Spanish turrón follows the traditional recipes with toasted almonds, sugar, honey, and egg whites. It has a minimum 60% almond content.

Torrone from Italy includes these same basic ingredients as well as vanilla or citrus flavoring, and is often sandwiched between two very thin sheets of rice paper.^[11] In the Venetian town of Cologna Veneta is produced mandorlato, always based on honey, sugar, egg whites and almonds (mandorle in Italian) but with a different taste and harder to bite thantorrone. Cologna Veneta is well known for its nougat production.

"Wiener (Viennese) Nougat" is a variant which contains only sugar, cocoa butter, nuts, and cocoa mass, and has a mellow consistency. The nuts used for Viennese nougat are usually hazelnuts. In both Germany, Sweden and Denmark, Viennese nougat is what has traditionally been associated with and labelled as nougat,^[12][13] while in Sweden and Denmark the original nougat is referred to as "French nougat".^[14][15] In Germany, gianduja is traditionally called nougat.

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When will Android N ( 7.0) be ready to the public?

The Google´s Android N 7.0 OS has a rolling out schedule consodering the Nexus smartphone as the always first device to get it this year:

March: Android N developer preview 1 (alpha)

April: Android N developer preview 2 (beta)

May: Android N developer preview 3 (beta)

June: Android N developer preview 4 (with final APIs and SDK)

July: Android N developer preview 5 (near-final build)

August/September: Final Android 7.0 AOSP build.

When Samsung, HTC, LG and Huawei will update their smartphones to Android N? Let´s figure it out a little:

Samsung:

It took Samsung five months to sort out its first Android Marshmallow update last year, for instance. Android Marshmallow launched on Sept. 29 and Samsung pushed its first update out to the Galaxy Note 5 (Verizon) on March 3, 2016.

What does this mean for Android N? Simple: you probably won’t be getting it on your Galaxy S7 until at least Q1 2017.

HTC:

HTC did A LOT better than Samsung last year with updates; Android Marshmallow landed on the HTC One M9 in December, just two months after Google’s official release.

Unlike Samsung, HTC has A LOT to prove in 2016. The HTC 10 is up against one of the strongest Android lineups in recent memory with the LG G5 and Samsung Galaxy S7/S7 EDGE, so the company needs to ensure it delivers the goods with respect to timely Android updates.

Best case scenario? The HTC 10 will be rocking Android N by December, just in time for Christmas.

LG:

Like HTC, LG has been pretty good with its Android updates — the company was the first, save for Google, to get a carrier version of Android 6 out the gates. The first Android Marshmallow update landed on the LG G4 in December 2015. The V10 and G3 received the same update in March.

This means we could be looking at an Android N update for the LG G5 in December — and, early-December at that.

Huawei:

It was also one of the first handset makers to get an Android Marshmallow phone out — the AWESOME Huawei Mate 8 shipped with Android 6 during November, just one month after Google released the software.

This puts Huawei in very good stead, as it is confirmed to be updating its Mate line at exactly the same time this year — November. If this happens, an entirely plausible potential, then Huawei would have one of the first, save for Google’s Nexus phones, Android N phone on market.

Expect the Huawei P9 and Mate 8 to get the same treatment during December at the earliest. 

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Preview Video of Android N . Screenshots.

The developer version of Android N   OS  is now available for developers only. A commercial version will arrive probably this Summer.

According to Dieter Bohn from The Verge the OS is more faster and fluid than previous versions of Android.

New features like the split screen multi tasking, vision settings ,animations are much faster than they are in Android M Marshmallow. More details on the video:

SCREENSHOTS:

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First Preview of Android N: Developer APIs & Tools are up.

Press Release:

Today we’re happy to announce a Developer Preview of the N release of Android! We’re doing something a little different this year by releasing the preview early… really early. By releasing a “work in progress” build earlier in development, we have more time to incorporate developer feedback. 

Also, the earlier preview allows us to hand off the final N release to device makers this summer, so they can get their hands on the latest version of Android earlier than ever. We’re looking forward to getting your feedback as you get your apps ready for N.

Here are a few APIs and features we want to highlight which are available as a part of the Android N Developer Preview today, with more to come as we continue developing the release:

Multi-window - A new manifest attribute called android:resizableActivity is available for apps targeting N and beyond. If this attribute is set to true, your activity can be launched in split-screen modes on phones and tablets. You can also specify your activity's minimum allowable dimensions, preventing users from making the activity window smaller than that size. 

Lifecycle changes for multi-window are similar to switching from landscape to portrait mode: your activity can handle the configuration change itself, or it can allow the system to stop the activity and recreate it with the new dimensions. In addition, activities can also go into picture-in-picture mode on devices like TVs, and is a great feature for apps that play video; be sure to set android:supportsPictureInPicture to true to take advantage of this.

Direct reply notifications: The RemoteInput notification API, which was originally added for Android Wear, now works in N for phones and tablets. Using the RemoteInput API enables users to reply to incoming message notifications quickly and conveniently, without leaving the notification shade. Learn more here.

Bundled notifications - With N, you can use the Notification.Builder.setGroup() method to group notifications from the same app together - for example individual messages from a messaging app. Grouped notifications can be expanded into individual notifications by using a two-finger gesture or tapping the new expansion button. Learn more here.

Efficiency - We launched Doze in Marshmallow to save battery when your device is stationary. In N, Doze additionally saves battery whenever the screen turns off. If you’ve already adapted your app for Doze, e.g. by using the GCM high priority message for urgent notifications, then you’re set; if not, here’s how to get started. Also, we’re continuing to invest in Project Svelte, an effort to reduce the memory needs of Android so that it can run on a much broader range of devices, in N bymaking background work more efficient. If you use JobScheduler for background work, you’re already on the right track. If not, N is a good time to make that switch. And to help you out, we’re making JobScheduler even more capable, so now you can use JobScheduler to react to things like changes to content providers.

Improved Java 8 language support - We’re excited to bring Java 8 language features to Android. With Android's Jack compiler, you can now use many popular Java 8 language features, including lambdas and more, on Android versions as far back as Gingerbread. The new features help reduce boilerplate code. For example, lambdas can replace anonymous inner classes when providing event listeners. Some Java 8 language features --like default and static methods, streams, and functional interfaces -- are also now available on N and above. With Jack, we’re looking forward to tracking the Java language more closely while maintaining backward compatibility.

Get started

The N Developer Preview includes an updated SDK with system images for testing on the official Android emulator and on Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus Player, Nexus 9, and Pixel C devices (and to help test out these features on a tablet, developers can get a $150 discount on Pixel C).

This initial preview release is for developers only and not intended for daily use or consumer use. We plan to update the N Developer Preview system images often during the Developer Preview program. As we get closer to a final product, we’ll be inviting consumers to try it out as well.

We are also making it easier for you to try out N on your development devices with the new Android Beta Program. Starting today, you can update your Android devices to the developer preview of N and receive ongoing updates via OTA by visitingg.co/androidbeta.

Click here for more details on getting started with the N Developer Preview and let us know what you think -- the sooner we hear from you, the more of your feedback we can integrate.

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