Gadgetory

welcome back to android weekly yes my name is Jace and we talk all things Android in these parts and this past week was really all about minis pluses and compacts and the question remains for those of you who are not phablet fanatics can these manufacturers provide us with flagship power in smaller packages cuz come on people like me need more one-handed lovin oh I should never a set it that way yes that's right so let's start off with the Samsung Galaxy s5 mini it is official and as expected it's sort of a neutered s5 packing a 4.5 inch HD AMOLED display the galaxy s5 mini is powered by a quad-core processor spinning at one point 4 gigahertz along with 1.5 gigabytes of ram 16 gigabytes of storage expandable to six or four gigs by the micro SD card slot the device comes with 8 megapixel rear facing camera 2.1 megapixel front facing camera with a 2100 milliamp hour battery all weighing in at 120 grams now to be fair to Samsung the mini version still does provide access to the ultra power saving mode the kids mode and the revised s health app does take advantage of the heart rate monitor now for those of you love the Moto X but wish it was just a little bit bigger this rumor is for you according to the rumor the handset will offer a 2.26 Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 with 2 gigabytes RAM as well as at 5.2 inch 1080p display it will have a 12 megapixel rear camera 5 megapixel front facing camera 32 gigabytes of storage with a microSD card slot twenty-nine hundred million power battery and of course Bluetooth and NFC now for those of you who are doubting the expandable storage you should remember that the moto g 4g LTE and the Moto e did provide micro SD card slots so that expandable storage is still possible I am this close to calling it the cold war between Android and iOS is user interface display I think it's over from the screenshots and first impressions from Josh Android L looks gorgeous one of the very nice features of android l is the newly designed notifications the notification will float near the top of the screen and pop up over any other application even in full screen immersive mode now you should know that Android L is not ready for primetime just yet but you can access a developer version there's instructions on how to do so in the show links below but the good news is is that Android l's material keyboard is available in the Google Play Store and is stable you can download it i tried it and it looks very good indeed now moving on a good news about the sony xperia z compact renowned xperia developer doom Lord has been spilling the beans regarding the Sony Xperia Z compact according to the leak the slim down flagship will come equipped with a 2.5 gigahertz quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor a 4.5 inch 720p display 2 gigabytes of ram a 20.7 megapixel rear camera and a 2.1 megapixel front facing camera now some of you may be thinking Jace what's a 720p display doing on my flagship device come on it's a 4.5 inch display 720p is perfect and just in line with the kind of battery life that most of you want having 1080p and a 4.5 inch display silly overkill ah clever don't need tweezers though I got a tool that's more powerful flavors gone now thanks for watching android army my name is Jace love to connect with you here on google+ or twitter don't forget about my brothers in andhra jobs joe in the tech ninja kevin lon and chris yes all working very hard to deliver the best android content on the web you have any questions please put them in the comments below I read them all may not reply to all of them though and please start being nice in the comments just saying bye