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

Android Police

By David Ruddock

Published Jun 24, 2012

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

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? Me neither.

Carrier 411

Verizon is at it again, giving more people in more places 4G LTE service.

Android at Arms (legal news)

Judge Posner has officially tossed Apple's case against Motorola, and actually made some sense doing it.

Rumor Roundup

Some Motorola keyboard phone is coming to Sprint. The supposed device codename is "Irrelevant."
The Wall Street Journal says Google is working even harder on voice control. Great police work, Lou.

Code Google

Google Play now allows developer to reply to users. Finally, an opportunity to publicly shame everyone with budget phones trying to download Shadowgun.
Android tablets still suck. So there. Read about why.
Google spilled the beans on Jelly Bean.

The Hotsheet (device news)

Some LG phones with quad-core Krait processors are coming this fall. Unfortunately, no number of cores can fix ~~TouchWiz~~ Optimus UI.
~~Shipping delays~~ overwhelming demand has resulted in the Galaxy S III launch in the US being pushed back on Sprint and every other carrier.
T-Mobile's Galaxy S III doesn't have a quad-core processor. And that's because they want to be able to say it's faster in commercials. Make sense? Good.
The EVO 4G LTE is having issues with Wallet. Issues that sound faintly like nails being hammered into a coffin.
HTC knows the Tegra 3 One X has a hardware Wi-Fi problem, and has corrected it in newly produced phones. So that fixes everything!
CyanogenMod 9 Nightlies: Transformer Pad 300, Galaxy S III (Int.), Tab 8.9.
Device updates: Xperia S, DROID Incredible, Archos G9 80/101, DROID Bionic, Transformer Pad 300.

App Update

Yo dawg, I heard you liked apps. So we got you an app that make apps so you can make apps while you use your app. And TV screens in headrests.
Zombies, Run! Become a member of the rundead.
Swype is updated, lets your kill people texting while driving more accurately.
Flipboard has landed in the Play Store, expect hundreds of reviews from people saying "X app that isn't available on iOS is better."
All 12 people with TiVo - there's an app in Play Store for you now.
The Amazon Appstore is headed to Europe this summer, presumably to "find itself," which we all know really means to hook up with a bunch of strange European phones and experiment with other apps.