Welcome to the Android Police Podcast, Episode 63.
Don't forget - the Android Police Podcast's live broadcast is every Thursday at 5PM PST (www.androidpolice.com/podcast). The unedited video version of the podcast is not available this week, sorry! You'll have to wait until next week to get your various verbal expletives, technical snafus, tangents, and 5-10 minutes of pre-podcast banter.
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The Cast
- Matthew Smith, Host
- Bob Severns, Editor, A/V
- David Ruddock, Co-host
- Cameron Summerson, Co-host
- Eric Ravenscraft, Co-host
THE OUTLINE
Rumor Roundup
- The SPH-L600 cruises through Bluetooth certification, is going to be huge. No, literally - it's a Galaxy Mega 6.3. It's quite large.
- The HTC One Mini shows up in more photos, still looking slightly smaller than the HTC One, to the surprise of no one.
Android at Arms
- President Obama wants to stop patent trolls, kind of.
- The iPhone 4 on AT&T will be banned just in time for it be discontinued. That's progress.
Code Google
- The white 16GB Nexus 4 is back in the Play Store, was apparently gone.
- Mobile Chrome stuff is happening on June 7th and 13th. No, it's not exciting.
- The new version of Gmail is rolling out to pretty much everyone now. Accept the warm embrace of the labels.
- Google Glass team on face recognition software: Nope.
- Jelly bean is running on more things than it was running on before, is a larger piece of arbitrary pie chart.
Hotsheet
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Verizon finally admit the HTC One is coming "later this summer," continuing "Some people in the world don't even have smartphones. You should be grateful."
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The Galaxy S4 Active is real, really waterproof.
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The Galaxy Tab 3 8 and 10 are here, and they're.... well, pretty boring, actually.
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Acer has successfully managed to run Android with an Intel i5 Haswell processor and - wait for it - 1GB of RAM on a giant-ass monitor.
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The LG Optimus F3: the first LG phone with TouchWiz except not.
Product Reviews
App News
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Dead Trigger 2 is coming soon, increases number and quality of zombies by 800%. That figure may not be accurate.