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Aug

[The Android Police Week In Review] The Biggest Android Stories Of The Week (7/29/12-8/5/12)

Posted by David Ruddock in News, Week In Review

Welcome back to the Android Police Week In Review - your one-stop shopping destination for all things Android news in the last 7 days. You can also find a lot of these stories in a semi-easy-to-digest format as part of our weekly podcast.

Features

Android Back To School Smartphone Buyer's Guide 2012

Carrier 411

Republic Wireless is ready to take on some new customers - so if you want to spend less in order to have both a crappy phone and a crappy network, now's your chance to feel good about yourself.
Verizon was fined $1.25 million by the FCC, told to play nice with its spectrum.

Jul

[The Android Police Week In Review] The Biggest Android Stories Of The Week (7/22/12-7/29/12)

Posted by David Ruddock in News, Week In Review

It's time for yet another Android Police Week In Review - don't forget to check out these stories and a lot more [off-topic banter] in our weekly podcast, too!

Feature

A Complete Overview Of The Apple v. Samsung Trial

Weekend Poll

What's your preferred tablet screen size?

Product Reviews

The Meizu MX 4-Core: like sticking a V10 in a Ford Pinto.
The Solid Gray Polypropylene Backpack: so this is what a hermit crab feels like.
MEElectronic Air-Fi AF9 Bluetooth Earbuds

Carrier 411

Sprint LTE is coming to FOUR MORE MARKETS before Labor Day. Guys? Is this thing on?

Jul

[The Android Police Week In Review] The Biggest Android Stories Of The Week (7/15/12-7/22/12)

Posted by David Ruddock in News, Week In Review

Welcome back to the Android Police Week In Review, which is getting published slightly late this week because hey, the matinee screening of The Dark Knight Rises was cheaper. Don't forget, you can hear a lot of this over the course of an hour instead of 10 minutes in our podcast.

Carrier 411

Sprint LTE is finally available in most of its launch markets. And they're promising an absolutely earth-shattering 6-8Mbps
Meanwhile, Verizon has announced its bi-weekly LTE mega-expansion that should make the above even sadder.
AT&T has shared data now, and it might save you money. And probably really confuse your parents.

Jul

[The Android Police Week In Review] The Biggest Android Stories Of The Week (7/8/12-7/15/12)

Posted by David Ruddock in News, Week In Review

The Android Police Week In Review is back! And that shouldn't be surprising, because it's Sunday. Unless you have amnesia. Or you're just reading it for the first time. I'm going to guess the latter is probably a little more common. And whether you're an amnesiac or a first-timer, you can catch a lot of these stories on our podcast, too.

Features

Hardware Reviews

DROID Incredible 4G LTE: Just don't.
Iconia Tab A700: Probably don't, too.

Carrier 411

AT&T's LTE footprint just got a little bigger - let's hope Zappos still has its size.

Jul

[The Android Police Week In Review] The Biggest Android Stories Of The Week (7/1/12-7/8/12)

Posted by David Ruddock in News, Week In Review

It's time for the Android Police Week In Review, your source for the most important Android bullet points of the week. You can catch a lot of this news in our podcast as well.

Features

11 modern Android devices compared with 13 storage benchmarks (spoiler alert: the Transformer doesn't do well).

Android at Arms (legal news)

~~The~~ ~~Galaxy Nexus~~ ~~just got banned from the United States~~ ~~and~~ ~~Google Play, probably asked a stupid question in IRC.~~ And it's back on the Play Store.
And Google is going to release an update to un-ban it.
Nokia politely suggests the Nexus 7 is probably infringing on one of its Wi-Fi patents, manages to avoid filing 20 lawsuits in the process.

Jul

[The Android Police Week In Review] Google I/O Special Edition (6/24/12-7/1/12)

Posted by David Ruddock in News, Week In Review

Welcome to a very special edition of the Android Police Week in Review. This week was obviously all about Google I/O, so that's what we're going to be focusing on. Oh, and you can hear even more I/O-y stuff on our podcast.

GOOGLE I/O

Nexus 7

Feature: Nexus 7 initial impressions and hands-on.
The Nexus 7: by the numbers.
Full factory images for the Nexus 7 (JRN84D)
Nexus 7 UK availability.

Jelly Bean (Android 4.1)

Feature: Getting to know Android 4.1, Part 1 - Slide Unlock / Software buttons / New Icons, or, An Obsessive Compulsive's Guide to Jelly Bean.

Jun

[The Android Police Week In Review] The Biggest Android Stories Of The Week (6/17/12-6/24/12)

Posted by David Ruddock in News, Week In Review

It's time for the Android Police Week In Review, where I lay out a smorgasbord of delectable news-bites for your reading pleasure. You can catch a lot of this appetizing information on our weekly podcast as well, which airs live every Thursday at 5PM PST, at androidpolice.com/podcast. There's an IRC channel there, too. We might even use it occasionally.

Hardware Reviews

Ron reviews the Samsung Galaxy S III: and it's surprisingly adequate.
Fuhu Nabi 2: because your kids are too clumsy and destructive for an iPad.
Have you ever wanted a cool retro travel clock radio with Bluetooth that is basically so fragile you can't take it anywhere?

Jun

[The Android Police Week In Review] The Biggest Android Stories Of The Week (6/10/12-6/17/12)

Posted by David Ruddock in News, Week In Review

Welcome back to another edition of the Android Police Week In Review. It's like news inception. You can also catch a lot of these stories on our weekly podcast - available here, and broadcasting live every Thursday at 5:00 PM PST.

Hardware Reviews

LG Optimus 4X HD: Needs more acronyms. And to generally be better.
Some sort of case for the EVO 4G LTE. And some for the One X.

Carrier 411

Verizon has finally unveiled its shared data plans, and of course this has upset nearly everyone.

Rumor Roundup

Sprint's making a mobile payment service of its own, because WiMAX went so well.

Jun

[The Android Police Week In Review] The Biggest Android Stories Of The Week (6/3/12-6/10/12)

Posted by David Ruddock in News, Week In Review

It's that time again - time for the Android Police Week In Review (and probably for you to find something more productive to do on a Sunday). Don't forget, you can catch a lot of this news on our weekly podcast, which we can transmit directly to your ears, free of charge.

Hardware Reviews

HTC One V

Carrier 411

AT&T wants to let you stream Netflix without it counting against your data plan. Presumably, this has absolutely enraged everyone.
AT&T also wants to change your entire phone plan to one big data plan. Please, lower your expectations now.
Sprint is ditching Google Wallet to start its own next-generation mobile payment service that only it will use.

Jun

[The Android Police Week In Review] The Biggest Android Stories Of The Week (5/27/12-6/3/12)

Posted by David Ruddock in News, Week In Review

The Android Police Week In Review is back. And I have coffee, so I'm very excited about it! And if you don't want to read my jittery ramblings, you can always check out our weekly podcast, where you can hear my (and the rest of the podcast team's) slightly-drunken ramblings. About news, and stuff.

Hardware Reviews

Holy crap the Huawei Ascend P1 is boring.
Cameron reviews a stylus. Get to the point, already.

Features

Eric says you shouldn't expect your smartphone to be revolutionary. I guess Samsung should cancel its plans for the Galaxy Che Guevara.
Ron has done another amazing Google I/O preview that will probably set your expectations way, way too high, but it's fun to dream, right?

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[The Android Police Week In Review] The Biggest Android Stories Of The Week (7/15/12-7/22/12)

[The Android Police Week In Review] The Biggest Android Stories Of The Week (7/8/12-7/15/12)

[The Android Police Week In Review] The Biggest Android Stories Of The Week (7/1/12-7/8/12)

[The Android Police Week In Review] Google I/O Special Edition (6/24/12-7/1/12)

[The Android Police Week In Review] The Biggest Android Stories Of The Week (6/17/12-6/24/12)

[The Android Police Week In Review] The Biggest Android Stories Of The Week (6/10/12-6/17/12)

[The Android Police Week In Review] The Biggest Android Stories Of The Week (6/3/12-6/10/12)

[The Android Police Week In Review] The Biggest Android Stories Of The Week (5/27/12-6/3/12)

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