This is Android Buffet.
Show Notes
- Jere’s Setup on Reddit
- It’s CES and Blogworld Week. Expect Hardware announcements
- In Other News
- For Sale or Rent: Used Launchpad – Kennedy Space Center is preparing to sale/rent LaunchPad 39A, space in the Vehicle Assembly Building, the Orbiter Processing Facilities, Hanger N, the Launch Control Center, etc. NASCAR may be renting the runway for race car tests.
- California Teen Girls charged with drugging parents to evade Internet curfew
- Scientists Find Temperature Below Absolute Zero. Not absolute after all.
- Microsoft issues response to Google’s decision to discontinue ActiveSync support, announces they are “disappointed” that Google does not wish to pay a licensing fee to them to support free users when they can simply support an open alternative.
- Samsung announces new Bluetooth speaker with NFC and apt-X codec support…the speaker allows pairing triggered by NFC and Apt-X is a new codec for quality.
- With new LTE super antenna, can support 12 frequency bands in a single phone, may allow fewer versions of a phone to be built, with all the various frequencies being used.
- Corning Announces Unveiling of Gorilla Glass 3 at CES.
- T-Mobile Bringing Unlimited 4G Data Plan to Prepaid
- Over the Top VOIP users to reach 1 billion in 4 years
- Platform News
- Android Platform Numbers, Gingerbread 47.6%, ICS 29.1%, Jelly Bean 10.2%.
- An Android powered oven? Do you want your oven to notify you by push notification that your meal is complete?
- Ubuntu for Phones revealed, will be compatible with most Android devices.
- WeMo by Belkin is coming to Android. WeMo is a home automation product, currently iOS only.
- My Life With a Nexus 7 As My Phone
- Samsung pushing update to fix Exynos security exploit
- Hyundai and Kia to bring Google Maps, Places to in-car navigation
- App News
- Titanium Backup updated, offers web server upload/download. (Play Link)
- DropSpace automatically backs up an SD Card directory to Dropbox, offers a Tasker plugin. (Play Link)
- Falcon Pro continues to update….new light theme and multi-window support. (Play Link)
- Agenda, formerly an iOS calendar app, now on Android. (Play Link)
- Tile Launcher Beta offers tile-based launcher, not quite like Windows Phone. (Play Link)
- Reduce Device Lag on Nexus 7 and Others with Seeder Application, expands the limited pool of entropy to decrease lag.
- Facebook Messenger update adds voice message option.
- Fring for Android updated. (Play Link)
- Nova Launcher updated to 2.0, lots of new features and tweaks.
- Gym-Pact, never miss another workout…get paid to go to the gym. (Play Link)
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