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7 Exciting Smartphones for 2015
With 2014 coming to a close, those in the market for a new phone are going to have to pick from what’s available as companies have exhausted their pipelines for the year and are now looking toward the future. Those who can wait to buy a new phone have their eye on that future and on the top smartphones of 2015. Unsurprisingly, 2015 smartphone rumors have started to sprout up, teasing users with what’s to come.
This year was a big one for the smartphone world. Over the past year, we’ve seen a steady stream of premium smartphones emerge, feeding the appetites of smartphone enthusiasts and average consumers alike. Many devices in this year’s crop find themselves amongst the best smartphones ever made. It has been a very exciting year.
LG again released one of the year’s best smartphones in the LG G3, a device that is considered by many to be one of the best Android smartphones on the market. Motorola released two exciting smartphones in theMoto X and Moto G 2014. HTC’s One M8 was a qualified sequel for last year’s HTC One M7 and theSamsung Galaxy Note 4 and Samsung Galaxy S5 are two of the best flagships Samsung’s ever built. It doesn’t stop there.
Google’s new Nexus 6 is a solid companion for the Nexus 5 and Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have made headlines with their massive screens and souped up specs. Microsoft also continues to release Windows Phones and the Verizon Nokia Lumia Icon, in our opinion, is one of the best smartphones of the year. All around, this year has been good to smartphone users.
With 2015 fast approaching, we’re starting to hear about some of the devices that could emerge to replace the stars of 2014. And while devices remain shrouded in mystery, it’s fairly easy to predict what might be up next for some of these popular manufacturers. Here, we take a look at seven smartphones that we think are the most exciting prospects, heading into the new year. Here are the seven exciting smartphones for 2015.
Android 5.0 Keyboard and Messenger Apps Hit Google Play
Today appears to be the official release date for Android 5.0 Lollipop with the release of Nexus 6 reviews, not to mention the official Android 5.0 Lollipop update is rolling out for an array of Nexus devices. And now a few key Android 5.0 apps are available from the Google Play Store for everyone else.
Android 5.0 Lollipop was announced nearly one month ago on October 15th along with the Nexus 6, Nexus 9 and Nexus Player, and since then Android users have been waiting patiently for its arrival. Google promised it was coming soon, updated many key apps to the new Android 5.0 material design UI, and now two more apps are available for those interested.
While we’ve seen multiple Google apps all receive updates to support the new look and feel of Android 5.0 Lollipop, today they pushed brand new apps to the Google Play Store giving users the chance to add parts of the new Android experience to devices still awaiting updates.
Today Google published and released the official Android 5.0 “Google Keyboard” app, as well as the new Messenger app in Android 5.0 Lollipop to the Google Play Store. Available now to download for an array of smartphones with Android 4.4 and above.
For starters, the Google Keyboard app is nothing new, but today was update to support Android 5.0 Lollipop as well as the new Material Design user interface. The keyboard will now look completely different from the subtle and casual view of before, and there’s four themes to choose from. Those being Holo Blue and White from Android 4.4 KitKat, and a new Material Light and Dark option for the Android 5.0 look and feel.
