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Amazon Alexa coming to Wearables & Headphones with Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit We’ve seen wearables with Amazon  Alexa integration, but they’ve been few and far between. That’s because the software development kit wasn’t built with portable devices in mind, but that’s changing. To help usher in a new wave of Amazon Alexa-enabled devices, Amazon on Friday announced the Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit. The Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit is designed for portable, on-the-go gadgets such as wearables, headphones, smartwatches, and fitness devices. The goal, Amazon says, is to make it easier for developers to add Alexa to devices — particularly lightweight devices which don’t have that much processing power — with “minimum investment in hardware or integration efforts.” Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit works by sending voice requests from a wearable or activity tracker to the cloud-based  Alexa Voice Service  (AVS) via the Alexa app on a pair...

Android Oreo Update is Rolling Out to the LG V30 in South Korea The LG V30 was announced on August 31 at IFA 2017   as LG’s flagship smartphone for the second half of this year. Its high-end list of specifications included a 6-inch WQHD+ (2880×1440) display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 system-on-chip, 4GB of RAM paired with 64GB of storage, a dual rear camera with a 16MP standard-angle and 13MP wide-angle sensor, and a 3300mAh battery. No matter how you slice it, the V30’s an impressive handset. The LG V30 ran Android 7.1 Nougat out of the box, but LG promised an update to Android Oreo . In November, it said it’d release the upcoming update as a preview through the LG OS Preview Program in South Korea , and a few weeks later  made good on its promise.  Now, LG’s rolling out the stable Android 8.0 Oreo update for LG V30 owners in South Korea. The company said that feedback from over 500 customers helped it optimize every app for Oreo in order to ensure a s...

Moto G4 Plus Gets Support for 64-Bit Custom ROMs Smartphone manufacturers sometimes make odd decisions . For example, Motorola released the Moto G4 Plus and the Moto G5 Plus with a  32-bit Android operating system , despite the fact both processors are capable of running 64-bit software. It never made much sense — most Android applications require 64-bit software support, including the popular  Google Camera HDR+ Port . But there’s hope: XDA Recognized Developer  vache  brought 64-bit support to the Moto G5 Plus, and now XDA Recognized Developer  Dreamstar  has come up with a 64-bit solution for the Moto G4 Plus. The instructions are fairly straightforward, and were published on XDA’s Moto G4 Plus forums along with a download link for 64-bit LineageOS 15.1, a device tree, kernel tree, vendor tree, and 64-bit enabled TWRP . In 64-bit environment on the Moto G4 Plus and Moto G5 Plus, all of the system processes except for app_process  — the system server ...