Episode 42: Got Android?

By | May 3, 2011
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The droids we're googling for
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Special Guest Daniel Frey, co-host of The Linux Link Tech Show(the oldest running Linux show, having just passed 400 episodes, debuted in September of 2003) and the MythTVCast, author of two Android apps, OpenSchedule for Android and MythFlow, an app to stream MythTV recordings to an Android device.

Show Notes

  • For Love of a Nook – Nook Color gets Froyo, App Store, etc. Makes it almost a real tablet if you haven’t already made it one.
  • Platform News
    • Motorola announces “intention to enable the unlockable/relockable bootloader currently found on Motorola XOOM across our portfolio of devices starting in late 2011, where carriers and operators will allow it.” Will now blame carriers for bootloader lock.
    • Nielsen announces Android is now the most desired OS in America. “Among recent buyers surveyed in March, Android is king, maintaining 50 percent of the market share, overshadowing the 25 percent held by iOS and the 15 percent held by RIM. Total market share data among all consumers reveals Android in a sizeable lead with 37 percent, with iOS coming in second at 27 percent.“
    • Editorial: Android’s problem isn’t fragmentation, it is contamination
    • More Android tablet capable apps needed.
  • Market Watch
    • Amazon offers promotion for $25 Amazon App Store credit with purchase of new Android device
    • Amazon Appstore now offers 7,500 apps.
    • Revisiting YAAM, the Yet Another Android Market. App developers get 100% of their gains, less Paypal fees.
  • Concerned about location tracking, check out Android Location Cache Viewer (Market Link). See where Android thinks you’ve been.
  • App News
  • Root Report
    • Cyanogenmod 7.0.2 released, Final release for the Motorola Droid

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