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Nimbu Paani

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Google I/O 2016 , the annual developers conference for Google, introduced a plethora of new goodness.  Google also announced improvements to Android — though N, out of beta this summer, still needs to be named.  You can participate too by visiting this page  . I personally would like the name "NimbuPaani". Its high time Google gives India some importance now that we have Sunder Pichai there for support. Out of all the major improvements to the new OS , in Andoid N you will be able to run android application without the need to download it. Some more exciting things that you may see coming soon are Allo, Duo, Daydream, 

Things I Miss

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Just after seeing an article " Giving up my iPod for a Walkman " I realized there are lot many things in the world which we sparingly use now a days. Certain things which were a must have and hard to live without  have vanished from the face of earth now. Technology took a drastic turn in the last decade and its worth noting that few things we were used to in our earlier childhood will never exist and the generations coming might never have heard or experienced them. Talk about calculators and kids now a days would really be amazed to know that they actually had a device for calculator while its an application in their smartphone or tablet. Pay phones are slowly becoming obsolete, can't remember when I used one to call someone. Postbox - Remember the red shiny box that stood in street corners where you would drop your letters which you intend to send to some friend or distant relative. Rightly called as snail mail it has been replaced by faster means of com