All About Android 91
Episode 91 |
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Topic: Tons of CES, the X Phone, the ASUS Qube, Project Shield, Play Store projections, and more. Recorded: January 8 2013 Duration: 1:28:33 |
Contents
All About Android (91): (It's Called Marketing!)
Topics
- Gina Trapani joins AAA as a host
- Android Jelly Bean passes 10% adoption, ICS nears 30%, and Gingerbread finally falls under 50%
- Gingerbread Finally On Less Than Half Of All Android Handsets At 47.4%, ICS Shoots Up To 29.1%, JB On 10%
- Google-Motorola working on new flagship ‘X Phone’ to take on iPhone 5
- Samsung confirms plan to begin inching away from Android
- Google’s rumored ‘X Phone’ could be an ‘attack on Samsung’
- FTC And Google Settle: Google To Stop Seeking Product Bans Against Competitors In The US, Take Disputes Out Of Court
FTC settled its antitrust claims with Google last week. How this relates to Android has more to do with the patent wars than anything else. First: Standard-essential patents cover technologies crucial to device interoperability. Tech companies agree to license these to rivals and competitors on Fair, Reasonable, And Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) terms. Now, Motorola Mobility had agreed to license its standard-essential patents under FRAND terms, but ultimately reneged, prompting the FTC’s action. Google bought Motorola Mobility and continued this practice. The agreement made means that Google/Motorola will stop seeking product bans for standards essential patent infringement. Google senior vice president and chief legal officer David Drummond said in a statement. “We will seek to resolve standard-essential patent disputes through a neutral third-party before seeking injunctions.” How does this affect the other players? Apple, Microsoft, Samsung?
17:42
- Voicemail: Tony - recording audio from a soundboard
- iRig Recorder coming to Android at the end of January
- RecForge Lite - Audio Recorder
- Smart Voice Recorder
CES
22:06
- NVIDIA
- NVIDIA Officially Announces The Tegra 4: Quad-Core A15 CPU And 72 GPU Cores
- Hands-on with NVIDIA's first game console, Project Shield
- Nvidia’s Project Shield to not be sold at a loss, aka not cheap
- NVIDIA Shows Off Madfinger's Dead Trigger 2 For The Tegra 4, Complete With Godzombie
- Google TV
- ASUS' Qube with Google TV - Update: Hands On
- NETGEAR Announces NeoTV PRIME – A Google TV Set Top Box With Some Added Streaming Features
- Vizio
- Vizio's 10-inch tablet combines Tegra 4, stock Android, and an ultra-light body
- Vizio goes after the Nexus 7 with a Kindle-sized stock Android tablet (hands-on)
- Vizio gets back in the phone game with 5-inch 1080p and 4.7-inch 720p handsets... for China
- Random
- Lego's Mindstorms EV3 robots are here
- Polaroid confirms iM1836 mirrorless with Android, adds three more cameras
- Google Glass gets some Android-powered competition: Vuzix's M100
Apps
49.59
- Google Play will hit a million apps in June (probably sooner than the iOS app store)
- Question: Does the amount of apps matter anymore? Are there blaring omissions in the Play Store?
- Open webOS ported to the Nexus 7, gives us the Touchpad Go that might have been
Android Arena!
1:04:28
- Last Week's Poll
- Ron - Press ($1.99)
- Gina - Trello (Free)
- Jason - Dr. Panda's Veggie Garden ($1.99)
- This Week's Poll
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