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Android O wants to make your phone twice as fast

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Well, well, well. The latest chapter of the mobile war is in full swing. Google announced Android O at its annual developer conference,  Google I/O 2017 , giving a first taste of its forthcoming software for phones, tablets and Android TV . And Apple responded with  iOS 11 , its next-gen platform for iPhones and iPads. Which one's winning so far? We won't really know until we get iOS 11 and Android O on phones side by side, but on the whole,  Android O is coming out ahead . So let's take a look at O and everything it has to offer. If you're hoping for a ton of crazy features that make the OS look and feel completely different, it's time to temper your expectations. Like  Android 7.0 Nougat , Android O focuses mostly on the nuts and bolts of making the software work better, faster and save battery. More from Google I/O 2017 Android O, Google Lens and VR: Everything important from Google I/O Google Photo's AI is better at sharing your photos than yo...

Mobile phone

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A  mobile phone  is a portable  telephone  that can make and receive  calls  over a  radio frequency  link while the user is moving within a telephone service area. The radio frequency link establishes a connection to the switching systems of a mobile phone operator , which provides access to the  public switched telephone network  (PSTN). Most modern mobile telephone services use a  cellular network  architecture, and, therefore, mobile telephones are often also called  cellular telephones  or  cell phones . In addition to  telephony , 2000s-era mobile phones support a variety of other  services , such as  text messaging ,  MMS ,  email ,  Internet access , short-range wireless communications ( infrared ,  Bluetooth ), business applications, gaming, and  digital photography . Mobile phones which offer these and more general computing capabilities are referred to as...