In Episode 18, Jere is Sick, we discuss a new ROM for Guru, comics…and we run long this week. Those 15 minutes we gave you last week…we’re taking them back.
Show Notes
- iPhone vs Android vs. BlackBerry – Amusing Comic
- Platform News
- Tinkerdroid is a new Q&A site for Android-based questions.
- App News
- Netflix coming to Some Android Devices Next Year. The issue they claim, is a lack of a common DRM system they can use on all handsets, leading to a fragmented solution as they make deals with manufacturers. Without DRM, the studios will not let them stream. They are hoping for a platform wide solution in the long-term. Oddly, other services that require some form of DRM have succeeded in making Android apps.
- Wall Street Journal App comes out for Android Tablets only, not for Android phones.
- Elsewhere, RadioTime has announced a version of TuneIn Radio optimized for Google TV.
- Evernote 2.0 Released, features a new home screen, new search interface, new views and options, etc.
- Bing for Mobile now available on all major carriers
- Rhapsody for Android Beta 2 now available in the market. From most reviews, still not there yet. Millions of songs for $9.99 a month.
- Opera Mobile 10.1 Beta now available.
- Twidroyd was updated, switches to a new model: Both the free and pro are now the same app, only one has ads. Offers recommended users, mute users, etc.
- Google enhanced Google News for Smartphones. Mobile-Optimized Sites vs Webapps.
- Notion Ink
- I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted
(Book Guru is Currently Reading)
- Alternate Contacts/Dialer Apps
- Youlu Address Book – (Install via AppBrain) Alternate Contacts app. Nice interface, but won’t unify multiple accounts, no landscape mode, not yet there.
- Dialer One (Install via AppBrain) – Continues to improve
- Root Report – Guru and Bugless Beast, a modded Droid ROM, reasonably close to stock.
- The Danger of Rooting?
- Developer’s Corner
- Android Developer making over $1000 per month from ads. From May through October, revenue on 6 Android apps has grown from $4.95 to $1059.31.
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