Jere and Guru discuss all the poop.
Show Notes
- In Other News
- AT&T to Power Down 2G Network by 2017. Approximately 12 percent of subscribers still are holding on to 2G phones.
- Contract-Free Cell Phones only account for 23 percent of U.S. Wireless customers.
- T-Mobile loses half a million contract customers, gains 227,000 new prepaid users.
- Taiwan Central Bank proposes HTC bailout to help company and stability Taiwan’s economy
- Trial begins in the case of kidney sold for an iPad. Nine people are being tried in China’s Hunan province after allegedly helping a 17-year-old boy sell one of his kidneys in order to buy an iPad and an iPhone
- All four major US Carriers join with Google, ISIS to form Mobile Payments Committee…absent is Square, who just hooked up with Starbucks in a gigantic deal.
- MetroPCS becomes first carrier to offer VoLTE, combining its voice, messaging and Internet services onto a single IP network. MetroPCS has a need to switch, due limited resources. Verizon plans to launch its first VoLTE phone this year. AT&T can revert to GSM when customers get out of range of LTE. CDMA does not have that option. Sprint has a motivation to switch to LTE, but just started its LTE network.
- Platform News
- HTC One X update offers a saner option for backward compatible menu button support, long-press the multi-task button
- Samsung begins mass production of fastest embedded NAND storage for next generation of mobile devices.
- Droid World, a gathering of Android devs, begins October 2nd in London.
- Not in London, try Appsworld in San Francisco February 5th and 6th, in San Francisco.
- The Digital Reader asserts the “Android Tablet House of Cards Collapsed Today” Are Android tablets getting better, or are they a failure?
- Ubuntu for Android demoed at tech conference, shows potential for phones/tablets that morph into full fledged OSes with helper harder, ie Webtop.
- CM9 Stable released, developer focus now on CM10.
- OTA Update Center brings over-the-air updates to any ROM Developer.
- App News
- Holo Launcher HD, yet another JellyBean inspired Launcher, hits the market. Free and Plus versions. (Play Link)
- Twitpic for Android releases app dedicated to sharing photos on Twitter. We wait for Twitter to shut them down and steal their business model. (Play Link)
- American Red Cross Releases Second App, dedicating to Hurricanes (Play Link)
- Dolphin HD updated, now simply Dolphin. Offers improved tablet interface, improved performance, etc. (Play Link)
- Perfectly Clear for Android, offers simple automatic image correction. (Play Link)
- Online Nandroid Backups without Rebooting Ported to Most Android Devices
- Apex Launcher updated to Jelly Bean base (Beta)
- Google Listen discontinued, as people “now have access to a variety of podcast apps”
- Slices for Android by OneLouder, a new Twitter client from people who already offer a Twitter client. Tries to create a new type of list that is not compatible with Twitter lists. (Play Link)
- My TSA Mobile App Now Available on Android (Play Link)
- Gmail updated, improves 7″ support, new Labels API for developers, bug and performance improvements
- Root Explorer updated with Holo Theme (Play Link)
- Amazon Mobile updated to 2.0, shop by department and more like website. Still not tablet compatible. (Play Link)
- Spotify launches unlimited free radio for Android users in the US (Play Link)
- SeatGuru by Tripadvisor offers seat maps and reviews. (Play Link)
- Gmail Canned Responses Beta reproduces the Gmail Labs feature. (Play Link)
- U.S. Census Bureau releases America’s Economy app for Android. (Play Link/Tablet Play Link)
- WebMD releases Android app for expectant parents, WebMD Baby.(Play Link)
- Pooplog..yes, we said pooplog. Track your feces. (Play Link)
- Flipboard for Android updated with improved navigation. (Play Link)
- Guru once again gets screwed, FlightTrack offers new free version, paid version still lacking in update. (Play Link)
- From the creator of StackOverflow, Trello organizes your projects, website and associated app, allows you to organize any project by boards(Projects), and cards (individual aspects of a project). (Play Link)
- Google Translate updated, adds reading of road/shop signs, offers instant translation as you type, and new dialect options.
- Bank of America check deposits coming to Android.
- Tasker updated, now supports AutoRemote, allowing you to execute commands remotely for anything with a web browser.
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