Top 10 Android News Stories May 3rd Edition

Sometimes it’s hard to stay up on all the news during a busy work week, and just in case you missed anything we’re wrapping up the top 10 stories to recap everything that may have fallen by the wayside. It was a big week for LG, having officially announced their flagship for this year, the LG G4. While LG made a big to-do about their new flagship smartphone Samsung quietly launched a new mid-range tablet in U.S. retail stores with the Galaxy Tab A on May 1st, and Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge owners on T-Mobile started getting updates to Android 5.1.1 Lollipop.

Samsung devices weren’t the only devices getting Lollipop this week, as Sony Canada began pushing out Lollipop to owners of four different Xperia devices, the Xperia Z1, Xperia Z2, Xperia Z Ultra and Xperia Tablet Z2. Lenovo announced a new Chromebox this week while Google announced some new voice actions for the OK Google command, and it was discovered that phablet use by consumers has tripled over the past 12 months, once again displaying that there is plenty of popularity surrounding large screen devices. If you want to know more, you can check out the list of top 10 stories below.

Exclusive: Samsung’s Galaxy Tab A Tablets Now Available From Multiple Retailers In The U.S.

The Nexus 9 Android 5.1.1 Over-The-Air Update Should Be Arriving Soon For Users

New Study Finds Phablet Use has tripled within the Past Year

Google Announce New Custom Voice Actions Available For “OK Google”

YouTube’s CEO Announces Its Mobile Audience Alone is Larger than any TV Network

T-Mobile Appears To Be Sending The Android 5.1.1 Update To Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Owners

Sony Canada Pushes Out Lollipop 5.0 to the Xperia Z1, Z2, Z Ultra and Z2 Tablet

Google Messenger Updated And Now Allows For Quick Reply To Incoming Messages

Lenovo Announce ThinkCentre Chromebox and Tiny-in-One Running Chrome OS

LG Finally Launch the LG G4 With Real Leather Back Options, Snapdragon 808 and f/1.8 16-Megapixel Camera

Justin DiazContributing Editor

Justin loves craft beer, food, video games(of all kinds and platforms), and generally anything technological, and has been a fan of Android since the T-mobile G1. Game of Thrones is one of his vices, and you can usually find him playing a match of League of Legends or some other game during parts of his free time. He currently uses a Sony Xperia Z3 as his daily driver which he is deeply fond of.

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