Welcome back to another week of the Android Police Podcast - and this week, we're keeping the variety of content down, because the Galaxy S III is officially here, and it's only natural that we should discuss it. Hit up the outline below the RSS subscription info to see the topics we'll be delving into this week.
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Carrier 411
- Republic Wireless has begun beta invites, will presumably become Empire Wireless after it figures out how making money in the telecom industry actually works.
Code Google
- Our own Ron Amadeo has made this amazing chart of Android version distribution over time, and if you don't like big colorful charts, we just can't be friends. Well, unless you're colorblind. In which case, I'm sorry, I take it back. We can be friends.
- Google is bringing carrier billing support for Play Movies, Music, and Books - which is great news for 14 year-old kids without credit cards everywhere.
The Hotsheet
- The Galaxy S III is here, and it's natural. Like rocks.
- Here's a video of the whole event, so you can watch Samsung's really confusing and terrible "lifestyle" marketing campaign over and over and over until you naturally have an aneurysm.
- Here's us going hands-on with the Galaxy S III.
- Here, you can sign up for email news about release dates and stuff, for which Samsung will use only the greenest triple-recycled press releases.
- US Galaxy S III's will probably only get 2 cores, halving the amount of toxic core byproduct used in each phone.
- The Galaxy S III: hot or not? Vote in our polls.
- Here you can watch Samsung talk about just how much peyote they had to do to come up with the idea to the shape the Galaxy S III like a rock / Palm Pre.
- HTC One XL (Qualcomm S4) vs. HTC One X (Tegra 3): it's like bread for fanboys. If fanboys were ducks.
Hardware Reviews
- I review the HTC One X, which is approximately 130 grams of pure awesome.
- Cameron reviews the Acer Iconia Tab A510, which is some larger amount of grams of pure awesome.
In Other News
- Hulu might want to absolutely ruin its current business model even more.