Episode 338 – Jere Appreciates

Jere has a milestone next week.

Show Notes

• Android News
  • Congressman Ted Lieu(D-CA) and 14 other congresspeople requests that the House Oversight Committee investigate the President’s phone and general cybersecurity practices.
  • Gingerbread is officially dead as Play Services support lost.
• App News
  • Titanium Backup gains support for Android adoptable storage
  • Best Microsoft Apps for Android
  • Swiftkey now supports over 150 languages.
  • ConnectBot SSH Client gets first update since 2015. Material Design, improved cutting and pasting, IPV6 support, etc.
  • BatOn is an app that tries to show the battery of connected bluetooth devices, despite Android limitations on that.
  • Google Phone 8 makes voicemail shareable, starts adding RCS support to show an image provided by the other end of a call when talking.
  • Hangouts prepares for better integration of chat messages during voice calls.
  • HDHomerun and Google team up to bring live channel DVR to Android TV.
• In Other News
  • What is T-Mobile Digits and why do I want it?
  • You may soon be able to use the Amazon Echo or Google Home to make phone calls.
  • Monopoly fans vote the thimble off the board.
  • Sundar Pichai answers letter from a 7 year old girl asking for a job at Google.

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