Jere tries to deal with Sprint, Guru plays with Ting.
Show Notes
- In Other News
- Canada’s postal service ending home delivery over the next five years. Mail will still be delivered to community, grouped, lobby, and rural mailboxes.
- Doom celebrates its 20th anniversary. On December 10th, 1993, id Software uploaded the first version of Doom.
- CTIA, FCC come to agreement on cellphone unlocking terms. This will include disclosure requirements, postpaid and prepaid unlocking policies, response time, and more.
- Qualcomm wants your next budget phone to have LTE…new chips look to lower the chip price of LTE.
- Ting, one week in.
- How Can I avoid Using Too much Smartphone Data?
- Platform News
- EFF criticizes Google for removing secret Android app permission manager. Tool which allowed individual permissions to be turned off was an experimental feature.
- Is Google close to publicly releasing the Chromecast SDK?
- Google Play holds its first annual Players’ Choice Awards for best apps and games.
- Chromecast now works with Google Play Music, Movies, and TV from the web.
- Google to show email images by default in gmail without compromising security and privacy.
- Google removes Gallery App from new Google Play editions, must use Google+ Photos instead.
- Google Enables Overflow button on all devices, even if there is a dedicated menu button. By the way, Menu Button vs Recent Apps button?
- App News
- Cover, the smart lockscreen, now out of private beta into public beta. (Play Link)
- Skype introduces floating PiP view for tablets and more.
- Google+ app updated with better performance.
- Minecraft Pocket updated with Minecarts, Increased View Distance, etc. (Play Link)
- Gmail 4.7 to add vacation autoresponder, cloud printing, archive downloading, and better performance.
- Spotify on mobile goes free. (Play Link)
- Android Device Manager Application now on Google Play. (Play Link)
- Google announces 10 new Chromecast apps, including VEVO, Red Bull TV, Songza, PostTV, BeyondPod, Revision3, Plex, Avia, and Realplayer Cloud.
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