Taking a look back at the week in news across the Android world, this week’s Android Circuit highlights a number of stories, including Samsung presenting their challenger to the iPhone 6, Motorola’s potential champion waiting in the wings, IDC’s market share numbers are good news for Android, HTC announcing their Creative Lab for creating software that will run on any Android device, Asus preparing to launch an Android Wear smartwatch, Facebook’s Android permissions, and the success of Xiaomi’s Mi3 handset in India.
Android Circuit is here to remind you of a few of the very many things that have happened around Android over the last seven days.
Samsung Pushes The Galaxy Alpha To The Front Lines Against Apple
It’s an easy decision on what to lead with this week… Samsung’s announcement of the Samsung Galaxy Alpha. With a metal chassis, it brings a new material to the Galaxy range, although the handset continues to use a plastic back cover and Corning’s Gorilla Glass 3 to cover the screen. Specification wise the Alpha is at the very top end, with the Exynos 5 Octa 5430 powering the handset, alongside 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB on on-board storage.
It does feel like Samsung’s counter to Apple’s iPhone 6, launched just ahead of the competition so Samsung can say ‘first’ for many of the elements. Forbes’ Gordon Kelly takes a look at the match up, but don’t expect a declaration of a winner just yet. We need to see the iPhone 6 officially, and even then not everyone will tell you which phone to buy.
Motorola Prepare Some New X-Phones, G-Phones, And Smartwatches
Motorola has invited the world’s tech press to Chicago for an event on September 4th. While the invites are coy about what will be on display, it is widely expected that the follow-up handset to the critically acclaimed Moto X will be announced. If you trust the rumors, the Moto X+1 will come with a quad-core Snapdragon processor, 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of storage, and run Android 4.4.4. This is Motorola’s handset that will compete with the iPhone 6, the Galaxy Alpha, and a few more similarly specced flagships from other manufacturers.
It would not surprise me to see the Moto 360 Android Wear smartwatch given a release date at the event, and the debut of a mid-tier smartphone to follow up on the successful Moto G handset from last year. -forbes
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