Android Advisor Magazine Issue 6 Back Issue

Well hasn’t June been a bangin’ month for Android. Google I/O was ending as we went to press and, although we got very little in the way of new hardware, we’re more excited than ever about what’s to come from the platform.

In the same week we also learned how Google was bringing its Glass smartglasses to the UK, and we were treated to a surprise (yes, an actual surprise) Android Wear-based smartwatch launch in the form of the Samsung Gear Live. We must be slipping.

We round up the best of Google I/O, and go into more detail on Android’s biggest ever OS update, for now known only as ‘L’, Android Auto, Android TV and Android Wear.

The Google I/O and Glass announcements came on the back of the launch of one of the worst-kept secrets in tech: Amazon’s Fire Phone. It’s not ‘technically’ available in the UK (since when does that stop us?) but, actually, that’s probably for the best. We’ll tell you why not only will the Fire Phone fail, but how it proves the whole Kindle Fire model was a mistake for Amazon.

Let’s not forget Samsung’s Galaxy Premiere event. Witness Samsung’s latest declaration of war on Apple with its new Tab S tablets.