List of Devices to get Android L .. updated list

Complete list of devices which will be upgraded to Android L OS will be (Confirmed):
Complete list of Nexus smartphones and tablets getting Android L Lollipop Update

• Nexus 4

• Nexus 5

• Nexus 7

• Nexus 10

Motorola

• Moto E

• Moto G

• Moto X

• Moto G 4G

• Moto G 2nd Gen

• Moto X 2nd Gen

• Motorola Droid Ultra

• Motorola Droid Maxx

• Motorola Droid Mini

Samsung

• Samsung Galaxy S5

• Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini

• Samsung Galaxy S4

• Samsung Galaxy S4 GPE

• Samsung Galaxy Alpha

• Samsung Galaxy TabPro 8.4

• Samsung Galaxy TabPro 10.1

• Samsung Galaxy TabPro 12.2

• Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4

• Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5

• Samsung Galaxy A5

• Samsung Galaxy A3

• Samsung Galaxy Note 4

• Samsung Galaxy Note Edge

• Samsung Galaxy Note 3

• Samsung Galaxy S3

• Samsung Galaxy Note 2

Sony

• Sony Xperia Z1

• Sony Xperia Z2

• Sony Xperia Z Ultra

• Sony Xperia Z Ultra GPE

• Sony Xperia Z1 Compact

• Sony Xperia Z2 tablet

• Sony Xperia Z3

• Xperia Z

• Xperia ZL

• Xperia ZR

• Xperia Tablet Z

• Xperia Z1S

• Xperia Z3v

• Xperia Z3 Compact

• Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact

HTC

• HTC One

• HTC One m7

• HTC One M8

• HTC One GPE

• HTC One M8 GPE

• HTC Desire Eye

• HTC One M8 Eye

• HTC One Mini

• HTC One Mini 2

• HTC One E8

• HTC One Max

• HTC Butterfly S

• HTC Butterfly 2

• HTC Desire 816

• HTC Desire 610

LG

• LG G2

• LG G2 Mini

• LG G Flex

• LG G3

• LG G3 Beat

• LG G3 Stylus

• LG G Pad 8.3

• LG G Pad 8.3 GPE

• LG G Pro 2

Micromax, Karbonn, Spice

• Micromax Canvas A1 Android One Smartphone

• Karbonn Sparkle V

• Spice Dream Uno

Asus

• Asus Zenfone 4

• Asus Zenfone 4 A450CG

• Asus Zenfone 5

• Asus Zenfone 5 LTE

• Asus Zenfone 6

• Asus PadFone S

• Asus PadFone Infinity 2

And others..

• Xiaomi Redmi 1S

• Xolo One

• OnePlus One

• Nvidia Shield Tablet

• Huawei Ascend Mate 2

Other Devices would be added as soon as we get a confirmed news about them receiving Android Lollipop 5.0 Update.

Official list of Devices to get Android 5.0..!!

Google officially announced Android 5.0 Lollipop recently, and while that is great news and all, unless you are among the minority that is on Nexus or Google Play edition devices, what you are really looking for is when the OEMs, or the OEM of your device at least, will be pushing the update, if at all.

While we might not have exact dates yet, some of the Android OEMs have come forward and announced support for Android 5.0 Lollipop. This means the selected devices will be getting the update some time in the future. The rest of them will either never get the update or haven't been confirmed yet.

So here's a list of Android devices that we know of so far that will get the Android 5.0 Lollipop update in future. Currently the list only includes Motorola, HTC, Sony, NVIDIA, and of course Google. Samsung, LG and others are yet to announce their plans for Lollipop update.

Of course, more names will be added to the list in future and we'll try and keep it updated.

Google 

• Nexus 4
• Nexus 5
• Nexus 7 (2012)
• Nexus 7 (2013)
• Nexus 10

• HTC One (M7)
• HTC One (M8)
• Samsung Galaxy S4
• Moto G
• Sony Z Ultra
• LG G Pad 8.3

• Micromax Canvas A1
• Spice Dream UNO
• Karbonn Sparkle V

Motorola

• Moto X
• Moto X 2nd Gen.
• Moto G
• Moto G 4G LTE
• Moto G 2nd Gen.
• Moto E
• Droid Ultra
• Droid Maxx
• Droid Mini

Sony

• Xperia Z
• Xperia ZL
• Xperia ZR
• Xperia Z1
• Xperia Z1s
• Xperia Z Ultra
• Xperia Z1 Compact
• Xperia Z2
• Xperia Z2 Tablet
• Xperia Z3
• Xperia Z3v
• Xperia Z3 Compact
• Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact

HTC

• One (M7)
• One (M8)
• One mini
• One mini 2

NVIDIA

• SHIELD Tablet

i know there are no Samsung devices listed in this list but there has been no announcement related to them but i am sure that high-end Samsung devices will get updated really soon..

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Nexus 6 announced..!!

Google announced the new Motorola made Nexus 6 with out any big event, so lets talk about it. It has a 6" quad HD display (2560x 1440) with a pixel density of 496ppi. it's running the Android 5.0 or Android L (Lollipop)
inside it has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 with a 2.65 quad-core Krait 450 CPU inside and 3GB of RAM, at the back it has a 13MP camera same as the Moto X surrounded by dual LED ring flash and 2mp secondary or front facing camera also like the Moto X, It's internal memory in 32GB or 64GB without any MicroSD card slot.

there are two front facing stereo speakers,under the hood there is a 3,220mAh non user replaceable battery, there is a new feature in the Nexus called turbo charging which allows you to get upto 6hours of charge in 15 minutes  so i am excite to check that out and Google promises that it'll make it through 24 hours with out altering the usage.

Pre-order of the Nexus 6 will start on October 29 with shipments scheduled to start some time in November. You can but 32GB, unlocked Nexus in two colors Midnight Blue and Cloud White from the Google play store at $649.

It is the first nexus to get this high price but considering the specs the price is not to high, and if you want Android L and cannot afford a phone that high priced you can buy the Nexus 5 at $349 and get the best of Google.

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Get To Know- Displays Part 4 (OLEDs)..!!

It's time to talk about OLEDs, (Organic Light Emitting Diode) .

As in the name it contains organic layers sandwiched between the cathode and the anode, there are two organic layers.

Emissive layer and the Conductive layer emissive layer contains electrons from cathode and the conductive layer transports holes from anode.

When current is applied cathode supplies electrons to the emissive layer and at the boundary of the the emissive and conductive layer where electrons and holes are very close electrons fill the holes and release energy in the form of light.

Color of the light depends on the emissive layer the type of organic material used. Manufacturers use several types of organic films on the same OLED to make color displays.

Intensity of light depends on the intensity of current.

There are two types of OLEDs 

PMOLEDs

They have strips of cathode, organic layer and strips of anode. Anode are perpendicular to cathode and where they intersect makes a pixel. External circuitry applies current to specific strips of anode and cathode to make pictures on screen 

PMOLEDs are easy to make but are suited for small size displays  like 2-3".

AMOLEDs 

They have full layers or cathode organic material and anode, Anode layer overlays a thin-film transistor (TFT) that form a matrix. The TFT array itself is the curcuitry that determines which pixel gets current.

 They require even less power than PMOLEDs efficient for large displays and have faster refresh rate that PMOLEDs.

OLEDs have way more advantages than any other displays.

Pros

1. They are flexible and can even roll allowing devices to be more flexible and handle more stress.

2. They require way less power providing more efficient battery backup.

3. Better viewing angles.

4. OLED displays can show true blacks and really saturated colors.

Cons

1. Because they are organic they don't have long life span and can easily be damaged by water.

OLEDs can be transparent and really thin which I hope can help to make a phone like Tony stark's in iron man and make Google glass more like normal glasses 

According to me OLEDs are the future of displays they have so much potential and can be used in a lot of different ways .

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Moto X, Moto G, Moto 360....!!!

Motorola unveiled the new generation of  Moto X and Moto G and they are not named Moto X+1 or Moto X2, it's just Moto X 2nd generation. Motorola announced and made it available to buy on the same day. in the US along with the Moto 360 , But they have also arrived in Europe and Flipkart is going to make it available on the night of 5 sept which is today.

Moto X will be available in leather back and metal strip on the sides also the wooden and plastic back like the previous Moto X.

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Get To Know- Displays Part-3 (LEDs)

LED tv's are the most popular line of televisions but if we get inside a LED tv it's pretty much same as the LCDs, let see how LCD works.

LED (Light Emitting Diode)

If you want to know all the details read the Get To know- Displays Part-2 LCDs links is 

here-http://shekhar087tech.blogspot.in/2014/07/get-to-know-displays-part-2-lcds.html

I am just going to tell what the difference between LCD and LED ?

LEDs have all the components same as the LCDs,two polarizers right angled to each other Liquid crystals and everything else is the same except the backlighting LCD's use CCFLs(Cold Cathode Florescent Lapms) LEDs use LED backlighting.
But that little detail can make a huge difference, LEDs as we know require very little amount of power and also LEDs are more durable than CCFLs, so LED TVs can last longer than LCDs.

And this is all you need to know about LEDs. lets get to OLEDs now.

In January 2012 LG launched the worlds first OLED TV, with a 55" display, 4mm thick and weighing only 3.5Kgs , OLEDs are a different they work on a totally different principle.

This is the end of this article, Last part of the article will be online soon.

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read the previous part of the Get To Know and learn more about 

CRTs-http://shekhar087tech.blogspot.in/2014/07/get-to-know-displays.html  and 

LCDs-http://shekhar087tech.blogspot.in/2014/07/get-to-know-displays-part-2-lcds.html

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Types of LCD Explained Part-2.2 ( IPS, Retina Display)

TFT's improved LCD's in many ways like increased viewing angles and increasing the fps  making it more suitable for gaming but even the new improved LCD (TFT) had it's flaws, Read all about TFT's in previous part of the Get To Know- link is
here - http://shekhar087tech.blogspot.com/2014/07/get-to-know-displays-part-21-types-of.html
and to remove all that IPS displays were developed in the 1996 by Hitachi.Inc
IPS is also and LCD display it uses polarizers and liquid crystals and everything else but it a different way than TFT's and LCDs. so let's see how IPS display work?

IPS (In-Plane Switching)

The polarizers in IPS are not at a 90 degree angle to each other but are in the plane, So with liquid crystals inside the light coming from the back of the display gets through the first polarizer gets twisted by the liquid crystals and then blocked by second polarizer. 

To let the light pass through current is supplied to the liquid crystals to untwist them. 

It's pretty easy to get confused in the working of TFT and IPS displays but the simplest i can put them is lke this.

IPS Displays - work on the principle of blocking the light and let some of it pass when required.

TFT Displays - work on the principle of letting the light pass and blocking some of it when required.

And some other differences too, IPS displays unlike TFT's have transistor arranged on the same plane but, because of that most of the light coming from the back gets blocked, creating a very dim image  so a brighter backlight was placed at the back.

Retina Display

Retina Display is basically IPS display with the number of pixels so high the human eye cannot see any any individual pixel. 

Pros and Cons

• Pros

1. Accurate color, better viewing angles, higher fps
2. Do not show tailing when touch making it ideal for touch screen devices.
3. can handle better graphics and decreased respnse time

• Cons

1. Requires more power than TFT's because of brighter backlight, 15% more power consumption
2. More Expensive than TFT's

This is it, in the next part i'll be talking about LEDs and OLEDs so remember to come back tomorrow.

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CRTs-http://shekhar087tech.blogspot.in/2014/07/get-to-know-displays.html  and 

LCDs-http://shekhar087tech.blogspot.in/2014/07/get-to-know-displays-part-2-lcds.html

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Types of.. LCD (TFT) Explained Part-2.1

T.Peter Brody

Early LCDs were having motion blur anything above 8fps they used passive matrix circuit to conduct electricity that uses a grid of conductive metal to activate each pixel. But all that was going to be removed in the year 1974 first flat Active Matrix LCD was demonstrated by T. Peter Brody and his colleagues at Westing house.






that demonstration made researchers and engineers jump into the field of LCDs and later in the year 1988 Sharp Corporation made the first TFT AMLCD display. Let's see what is TFT and how it works?

But first let's take a look at Active Matrix LCD, active matrix just like passive matrix is a circuit that supplies electricity to each pixel, Active matrix can handle high frame rates without blur and decreasing response time.
Now let's see How TFTs work?

TFT (Thin Film Transistor)

As it says in the name this type of display has a thin transistors attached to each pixel that controls the current for each pixel, they are arranged in a matrix on a glass substrate. To address a particular pixel, the proper row is switch ON, and then a charge i sent down the correct column. Since all of the other rows that the column intersects are turned off, only capacitor at the designed pixel receives a charge. The capacitor is able to hold the charge until the next refresh cycle. And if we carefully control the amount of voltage supplied to a crystal, we can make it untwist only enough to allow some light through.

TFTs removed a lot of cons of the the previous LCD displays 

Pros and Cons

• Pros

1. Increased viewing angles.
2. increased number of frame rates it can handle, making it more suitable for video games.
3. Decreased response time.

• Cons

1. Even with the improved viewing angles you can still see negative of image not that easily as with the previous displays but it was still there.
2. And because they are a LCD basically so they cannot create deep blacks.

In the 1990's TFTs were supplied to the PC industry making it portable and remember the Portable Macintosh it had a TFT LCD display.

this is the end of the article but types of LCD is not finished yet rest of it will be out tomorrow come back if you want to learn about IPS and Retina Display. 

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CRTs-http://shekhar087tech.blogspot.in/2014/07/get-to-know-displays.html  and 

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LCDs Explained Part-2

After the invention of the CRT TV everything was great everybody liked it, And in a short period of time it replaced the mechanical televisions, but later people started having problems with it. taking too much space, rising electricity bill. and many more. To read more about the CRT tv's click on this
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So to get rid of all those problems in the year 1964 first Liquid Crystal Display or LCD was made, by a man named George H. Heilmeier.

George H. Heilmeier

Friedrich Reintzer

Liquid Crystal is another state of matter other than Liquid, Solid and Gas, discovered by an Australian scientist Friedrich Reintzer, yes there are more than three states of matter you have been misled by your school. but that's not the point, the point is what are Liquid Crystals ?

Liquid Crystals have the properties of both liquid and crystals it has molecular structure of crystals but it's molecules can flow over each other as a liquid. But the main reason why they are used to make electronic displays, it's because of their tendency of bending light. there are many types of liquid crystals but the one we use in displays are Twisted Nematics (TN) and the reason for that is down there some where..



LCD's play a major role in the world of technology conquering every field from desktops to smartphones from tablets to laptop LCD's are used in almost every electronic devices.
so let's see how LCD's works?

Liquid Crystal Display

LCDs consist of two polarizers right angled to each other what polarizers do is that they let only one phase of light pass through so what ever light passes through the first polarizer cannot go through the second. To let the light pass we use Liquid  Crystals and especially Twisted Nematics because TN can turn the angle of light by 90 degrees and change it's phase.

Liquid Crystals have predictable effects of electricity, when we apply current they untwist a certain degrees depending on the intensity of the current. so when liquid crystals untwist they block the light and when they are in rest mode they turn light and change it's phase. that  is how light is controlled in an LCD and speaking of light LCDs cannot produce light of their own so they need backlight. which are placed generally  at the bottom and layers of different kinds of transparent sheets spread it evenly on the screen.

On top of every thing there are different layers of  three fundamental colors Red, Blue and green are placed, yes these are the little red, blue and green dots you see when you come really close to any screen and these are called the subpixel and together they make one complete pixel.

all the colors are made by using the three subpixels.

Pros and Cons

• Pros

1. LCD's are slim, light weight and making a 50 inch LCD display doesn't take up much space.
2. Uses way less power than CRT's 

• Cons

1. Expensive.
2. Small viewing angles if you move out of the viewing angle you can even see the negative of the image.
3. Because they use back light they cannot show deep black it's always Grey and shades of Grey.

To remove the cons or inabilities of the LCDs many different types of LCDs were invented, and even changing the circuit of the display can create a big effect so the next article is all about that types of LCD's

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CRT Displays Explained

Displays are the thing we interact the most with while using any of our devices from desktops to laptops, from from smart phones to tablets, every thing has a display and all of them looks so similar every display that we see today is sharp, slim, sexy with million of colors but when you read the specs every thing is different some are LCDs,LEDs, IPS, TFTs, OLEDs, AMOLEDs and many more..

And that's what this Get To Know is all about, get inside each and every kind of display and see what it is and how it works..

But before starting this Get To Know i would like you to know that i have already made a video on this so if you want to check that out just click this link .
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Let's start with the oldest electronic TV, remember the old heavy bulky TV we had in our living room they use the same technology as the first all electronic television. CRT technology . CRT ( Cathode Ray Tube) and  was made by Philo Taylor Farnsworth in 1928 as in the name he used cathode ray tubes to make that TV but the CRT's were not his invention CRT's were developed by a Karl Ferdinand Braun. let's see how CRT tv work.?

CRT Televisions

A CRT tv consist of a electron gun which fires a beam of electron on the phosphor screen (the part where images are made) that glows at the spot where the electron struck, well that's just the summary let's take a more detailed look. Inside the electron gun there is a heating element on the cathode of negative part of the gun that excites the electron by giving them energy and when the electrons get excited they jump outside and outside that element there's the anode or positive part or the gun which attracts the electron giving them direction and increasing the speed but electron need to be in a straight line before hitting screen that is why the anode has only one opening in the middle that let's electron pass through and he electron that hit the anode nit he opening get absorbed by anode.

After that comes a two pair of horizontal and vertical pair of focusing and deflecting coils that determine the spot on which the electron should hit the phosphor screen.

But the first Television wasn't a color tv it's was Black and White, and because of the difference a question rise. How ? Television got it's color, and to understand that we have to see the difference between both the versions of the tv, the Black ans White Tv consists of only one electron gun and a phosphor screen that glows White or Grey when an electron strikes it. But the color Tv has three electron guns and a phosphor screen having little Red, Green and blue spots on it  each electron gun is sensitive only one color these spot on the screen are so small that when the screen glows light from each color blends creating a new whole different color and every color that a human eye can see is made up of these three colors.

Pros and Cons

• Pros

1.  Great viewing angles.
2. Low response time responsible for images without blur.
3. Long Lasting.

• Cons

1. Heavy and bulk taking so much space so making a big display would take up so much space.
2. Uses high amount of power
3. Can suffer Image Burn-in

Image burn-in is explained on another article link to that is here-http://shekhar087tech.blogspot.com/2014/07/get-to-know-image-burn-in.html

Image Burn-in

CRTs are great but the list of cons is not acceptable so there was a need of something better and that's when LCD's come in the picture. 

Get To Know Displays Part-2 LCD's will be out the next day this article goes online so be sure to read that tomorrow 

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