A representative of Droidifi shows up.
Show Notes
- Droidifi
- Kickstarter Project
- Project Home
- In Other News
- Judge slashes Apple’s damages in Samsung trial by $450 million
- Chrome hits 17 month low, Internet explorer and Firefox up.
- Pandora caps free monthly usage on mobile to 40 hours.
- FCC to look into legality of unlocking cellphones, may not have grounds to be involved.
- Researchers at U. of Illinois working on rechargeable, flexible battery.
- Platform News
- Google I/O registration opens March 13th.
- XDA Makes Swappa its official Marketplace
- Breathe New Life into an Old Smartphone..ideas such as a VoIP/Skype handset, videophone, smart thermostat, alarm clock, music player, portable gaming device, camera remote, etc.
- Google+ Hangouts adds a sign language intrepretor app and expanded series of shortcuts.
- Google releases Google+ sign-in, allowing users to sign into apps using Google+ credentials. When you sign in to a website, you can install the companion mobile app with a single click. Sharing is selective, and is for doing, not just for viewing.
- Google+ signin includes new Google Settings icon in your launcher, will unify settings from Google apps.
- Google releases full binaries for Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 to AOSP. First devices that have 100% of necessary drivers/code to build for the device.
- Realizations in the revamp of Sense…Most people don’t differentiate between widgets and apps, widgets aren’t widely used, fewer than 10% use any other than basic widgets, after the first month, 80% of people do not modify their homescreens much.
- Android-x86 team releases new build based on Android 4.2
- Google starts using HTML5 and WebM for premium content.
- An E-Ink Android phone that runs for weeks on a charge.
- Samsung reveals new venture called Wallet, stores tickets, membership card, etc.
- Interested in trying Ubuntu Touch, builds will soon be available for more than 20 devices.
- App News
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