The Android Police Podcast is back for another week of... whatever it is we do. Let's get down to it, this week's topics are:
- Carrier 411
- Sprint says it's not going to sell any more WiMAX devices, which is great news if you have a track record of paying no attention to anything ever and buying electronics literally months after they become obsolete.
- Rumor Roundup
- Return of the Google Drive Rumors
- Three stories about the HTC One Series and a number joke I can't come up with.
- Is it going to be called the Sprint EVO One? Probably. I was still hoping for Sprint EVO XX 4G LTE Hardcore Edition With Cheese.
- One S coming April 22 to T-Mobile? There's really nothing funny about that.
- AT&T One X coming May 6 according to the leak factory formerly known as Best Buy.
- Code Google
- Google's new Account Activity tool will help you track your Google usage, make you feel bad about yourself.
- Google might open an online store to sell tablets. We try in vain to figure out why.
- The Hotsheet
- Verizon unveils the LG Lucid with 2 cores and 4G for just $80, featuring LG's KILL IT WITH FIRE! UI. Eye bleach not included.
- The LG Optimus Elite - a really terrible, cheap phone that has NFC and so you'll buy it, right? Right? Is this thing on?
- The HTC One X has a really fast camera, for those priceless action-shot moments. Like when your friend is projectile vomiting into a bush at 3AM after drinking 7 overpriced Vodka Red Bull Appletinis, because hey man, that girl was totally into him he just needed a few more min- BLUUUUUUURGH.
- Device Updates / ROMs / Etc.
- CyanogenMod 9 is out for the AT&T GSII, HP Touchpad, LG Nitro HD / LG Optimus LTE, Galaxy S i9000/i900B and Captivate/Vibrant.
- DROID RAZR And RAZR MAXX, Rezound ICS update dates leaked.
- ICS updates coming for Amaze 4G and Sensation on T-Mobile.
- ICS updates for XPERIA phones coming starting mid-April (depending on carrier).
- ICS leak for the AT&T GSII.
- XOOM Wi-Fi gets updated to Android 4.0.4.
- GSM Galaxy Nexus gets Android 4.0.4 but it's super confusing.
- Same for Nexus S - good luck.
- Transformer Prime updated with awesome new - snoooooooze.
- Kindle Fire updated to 6.3.
- App Update
- Alpha build of Utter! voice control app released, does absolutely nothing yet, gets 4.5 stars on Play Store anyway.
- Developer News
- Google pushes source for Android 4.0.4 (IMM76D) into AOSP, and if you're a developer, you may even find these words interesting.
- Android Developer Console can now be shared, will stop countless passive aggressive emails "accidentally" CC'd to the entire team.
- In Other News
- BlueStacks has a beta out, and, according to me after a few beers, it "is $#%&ing stupid."
- Some scumbag tried to game Play Store ratings using Mechanical Turk (which, no, as I learned, is not the world's first Turkish cyborg).
- I talk about a big phone doing big things and how it's important, because pretty soon we'll all have 10-inch tablets strapped to our heads with velcro.
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