What Was the Best Android Thing That Happened in 2015?

The year is almost over, and as we wrap it up, it’s time to look back at 2015 and reflect on how our favorite platform has changed. From a full OS version jump to new amazing services, Android has seen a lot this year. XDA, too, provided amazing contributions as always, including multiple Xposed releases and the customization goodness we know and love. And finally, we saw old OEMs like Blackberry adopt the platform, while others like Sony further cemented their development community efforts. What was the best thing to happen to Android in 2015, in your opinion?

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Mediatek Helio X20 MT6797 Spotted on GeekBench, Peaks Multi-Core Performance

Mediatek Helio X20 MT6797, which is Mediatek’s deca-core chip for 2016 with 2x Cortex A72 for high performance, 4x Cortex A53 @ 2.0 GHz for general performance and 4x Cortex A53 for low processing tasks, has been spotted on Geekbench. The Helio X20 aces Multi core performance, coming at par and beyond all current flagship chips, but delivers a believable performance on Single core performance.

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A Case for OEM-Provided Root: How Could Everyone Benefit?

YouTube Accuses T-Mobile of Throttling Video Traffic

T-Mobile recently launched a service called Binge On, that lets users watch as much video content from select sources as they want. The trick here is that the company down scales the content to 480p and this is something that YouTube agreed to. What YouTube didn’t agree to is allowing T-Mobile to throttle the bandwidth of its users, which YouTube is now accusing T-Mobile of.

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HTC A9 to Receive Android 6.0.1; Unlocked M9 to Receive Android 6.0 Today

HTC is ready to roll out a pair of Marshmallow updates to two of their biggest 2015 smartphones. The unlocked version of the HTC One M9 is said to start receiving the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update today. The company is also starting to roll out the Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow OTA update to the HTC One A9 sometime today as well.

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Class-Action Lawsuit Against Apple’s iMessage Dismissed Over Technicalities

Apple was accused of rigging iMessage to prevent Android users from receiving text messages after they had switched to Android. The company requested that the lawsuit be dismissed since two of the people no longer had their iPhones, they could no longer demonstrate whether the texts went to their Apple or Android devices. The Judge agreed and is not granting the case class-action status either.

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NVIDIA Found to Infringe on Samsung’s Patents

Samsung had accused NVIDIA of infringing on its patents in November of 2014, which happened two months after they accused both Samsung & Qualcomm of infringing on theirs. The first round of lawsuits is over and a judge has just decided NVIDIA is infringing on three patents that Samsung owns. NVIDIA says this judgement is unfair because the older technology isn’t even used in modern chip designs anymore.

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