[The Android Police Week In Review] The Biggest Android Stories Of The Week (9/30/12-10/7/12)
Welcome to the Android Police Week In Review - your source for the biggest Android stories of the week. Don't forget, you can catch a lot of these stories (and more) on our weekly podcast.
Features
- Is this a Nexus LG HTC Samsung Apple patent Key Lime Pie 5.0 10 7 4G LTE Google lawsuit Galaxy? Click to find out, and click here after reading to find a therapist.
- What we use: the apps, tools, devices, and other stuff Liam can't do without.
- Does Samsung really innovate? AKA, watch me get absolutely hammered in the comments section of yet another editorial.
Product Reviews
- The Lenovo IdeaTab A2109 and the S2110: dual slates of suck.
- Plantronics BackBeat GO Bluetooth earbuds.
- Logitech UE 900 earbuds: $400. Just wanted to get the shocker out of the way.
Carrier 411
- T-Mobile is acquiring MetroPCS, but really, MetroPCS is acquiring T-Mobile, and Deutsche Telekom will be the majority shareholder, but it'll still be called T-Mobile, and the networks will be operated separately, but also together. Got it?
Rumor Roundup
- LG Optimus G Nexus: Yes, we're getting on board with this.
- 32GB Nexus 7 - need I say more?
- Prepare all your grains of salt: we're hearing detailed Android 4.2 rumors, and we're also seeing two new devices in our traffic logs that are running it. Oh, and LG Optimus G Nexus again.
Android at Arms
- Judge Koh lifts ban on Galaxy Tab 10.1. Now all you have to do is find a place to not buy one!
- Samsung v. Apple jury misconduct story 2252312.
- Samsung sold a lot of Galaxy S III's during some weeks after some things happened, because as we all know, correlation = causation. Period.
- Motorola wants to dismiss its own lawsuit against Apple. It's clearly a clever reverse psychology ploy!
Code Google
- Google Wallet has gained another carrier partner. But it's US Cellular, so, move along.
- Google needs to spend money to fix Motorola? Unbelievable!
- Android has bigger numbers than Apple's numbers.
The Hotsheet
- A bunch of HTC things happened this week, and most of them involve the One X+. Like AT&T getting it exclusively (dumbdumbdumb). And it having Sense 4+, because version numbers can now have mathematical function symbols! Oh, and I talked about all this because seriously HTC what are you doing.
- Motorola kills off the Webtop, Google continues to make good on its promise to un-ruin the company.
- Sony halts sales of Xperia Tablet S after learning that saying something is splash proof means that people will pour water all over your product to test that claim.
- The One X and S are getting Jelly Bean this month. That's good.
- The Samsung Galaxy Camera is coming to AT&T, because a point and shoot camera with a monthly data plan attached to it will sell like crazy.
- Motorola updates its ICS timeline again, decides Atrix, Electrify, and Photon users are all ripe for pissing off.
- Device Updates: Transformer Pad Infinity, Galaxy S III (Sprint), Xperia Go / Sola / U, Pantech Burst, Droid Xyboard 8.2 (Verizon), Galaxy S Blaze 4G, Pantech Element, Tab 7.7 (Verizon), Galaxy Note II
App Roundups
App Updates
- PlayStation Mobile is now available for some devices, but if it's not compatible with yours, don't worry: it sucks.
In Other News
- Lightplay is a pico projector with Android. Go look at it.
Weekend Poll
- If everybody made a Nexus, whose Nexus would you make your next?
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