[The Android Police Week In Review] The Biggest Android Stories Of The Week (11/11/12 - 11/18/12)
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
Product Reviews
- My initial impressions of the DROID DNA: don't get too excited about the screen. Do stop whining about the size of the battery.
- Ron's Nexus 4 review addendum: lock screen widgets are kind of dumb, battery life is better, and benchmarks still produce numbers.
- The Huawei MediaPad 7 Lite: You can use it for a hammer, because it isn't good for much else.
Carrier 411
- AT&T is doing more LTE in more places (and even more) and I am so out of 4G jokes.
Rumor Roundup
Android at Arms
- Samsung's mobile chief says he "refuses" to negotiate with Apple. Right.
- Google-Moto and Apple possibly want to play nice with patents.
Code Google
- Google forgot December in Android 4.2 [in the event UI for contacts, BUT STILL!].
- The Nexus 4, 10, and 7 HSPA+ all went on sale on Monday, promptly went off sale after about 30 minutes. Eric thinks you should put down your pitchforks.
- Oh, and if you did get a Nexus 4 order in, it might be delayed for up to three weeks. Hooray!
- And if you didn't, well, T-Mobile will sell you one... with a contract.
- The Nexus 4 isn't supported in AOSP (yet), but it is now in AOSP. Kind of.w
- But, of course you can root it - here's how.
- It also has an LTE chip you can't use, if you were looking for another reason to be resentful toward Google.
- ASUS and Google will give you money back if you bought a 16GB Nexus 7 before the price drop. This could only be the result of a Change.org petition!
- Android 4.2 is now in AOSP, to the excitement of people with beards everywhere.
- Google didn't like that whole Aliyun fiasco, changes its SDK terms to sternly forbid that sort of nonsense.
The Hotsheet
- DROID DNA: 5" of eye-melting* 1080p, now official. (Eye-melting will not actually result. Probably.)
- The DROID DNA has an international sibling that, let's face it, we all probably want more.
- AT&T has new Android things you can buy - but wait, there's more: you might actually want to buy them.
- CyanogenMod 10 stable is being rolled out for a bunch of phones.
- CyanogenMod.com was temporarily held for ransom, least popular kang ever.
- Device Updates: Galaxy S III (T-Mo), Galaxy Stellar, Transformer Prime.
- Nexus Updates: Galaxy Nexus (Takju), XOOM / Nexus S (non-update), Nexus 7.
App Update
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