We review the best of the last 7 days in Android Week. Motorola has been the protagonist of the week with the different news about its possible new smartphones, about the possible new Nexus, and also with the new data of the Motorola Moto 360. In addition, as always, we have also told you the best tricks for your smartphones and Android tablets. This is Android Week.
Motorola Moto Maxx
Last week we learned about the possibility that Motorola was working on a successor for the Motorola Droid Maxx, a smartphone with a high-capacity battery that was launched in the United States, and was sold only with the Verizon operator, as is the case with all The Motorola Droid, hence we believe that this new smartphone could also be exclusively marketed by Verizon. However, this week we have learned that Motorola has registered the name Motorola Moto Maxx, so it is most likely that the American company acquired by Lenovo is planning to launch a smartphone with a large battery capacity, which could be what we have known until now as Motorola Moto XL. Its launch should be this year, and it could be next September.
Update to Android 4.4.4 KitKat for the Motorola Moto G
In addition, The update to Android 4.4.4 KitKat for the Motorola Moto G arrived in Spain. The official update is now available for all Motorola Moto G in Spain, and among the main novelties we find a new call application, the possibility of installing the Motorola Alerts application, and also the possibility of removing the name of the operator from the bar notifications, an option that already arrived with the update to Android 4.4.3 KitKat, but since this version was not finally released, it has not been integrated until the new Android 4.4.4 KitKat version.
Motorola G2
The successor to the previous smartphone, which until now has been the best-selling smartphone in Motorola's history, would also arrive this year, next September. And precisely we have learned new data about the Motorola Moto G2 thanks to some photographs that have been published of the smartphone case. The LED could be integrated into the camera itself, and the housing would now have a texture that would make it difficult for the smartphone to fall out of hand, something that is quite simple in the case of the Motorola Moto G.
New Motorola Nexus
We have not talked this week about the Nexus 6, although we have talked about the other Nexus smartphone that the company would launch this year, since it seems that it will launch two. This second smartphone, which will actually be a Nexus phablet, it seems more and more a reality. The new smartphone would feature a 5,9-inch screen and should be released this year. What does not seem so clear is that two Nexus smartphones made by Motorola are really going to be launched this year, since since the publication of the information about this phablet, there has been no talk about the other supposed smartphone.
Motorola Moto 360
But of course, almost all the prominence regarding the brand has been the smartwatch, the Motorola Moto 360. And, what seemed like it was going to be the best smartwatch on the market this year, might not be of a level so tall. It has been said that the Motorola Moto 360 could be made of plastic, and it would also have a greater thickness than other smart watches that have already been released, such as the LG G Watch and the Samsung Gear Live. We have also talked about whether The Motorola Moto 360 will be a great success if its autonomy is only one day. And yesterday we said that the new Motorola Moto 360 would arrive in two different colors, one silver, and one darker silver.
Tricks
But we have also talked about the best tricks for your Android smartphones and tablets. Specifically, we have published four new articles in the series 20 tricks for Android that maybe you did not know. We have talked about how to close apps that are left running in the background. Also about how to establish limits and notices for data consumption with which to ensure that we do not exhaust the high-speed data quota that we have each month, something that will be essential on vacation, due to the increased use of the mobile Internet connection that we make. We have also talked about how to save battery and system resources by uninstalling the applications that we do not use. And finally, we have also seen how can we configure an applicationn as the default to run certain tasks.