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It's a very special holiday edition of the Android Central Podcast wherein we talk the Verizon HTC Thunderbolt, more on LTE, what's coming up at CES, and a whole mess o' Android. Listen in!
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Top o' the news - Here comes LTE
- Did the HTC Incredible HD (aka HTC Mecha) just appear for its close-up? (Update: More pics show up)
- Verizon Thunderbolt actually is the LTE Incredible HD/Mecha?
- HTC Thunderbolt: The first to 4G, again
- Another shot of the HTC Incredible HD appears
- Verizon Samsung LTE device outed, sporting front-facing camera
Hardware news
- More pictures of the HTC EVO Shift 4G surface
- New devices coming to the Xperia line at Mobile World Congress
- Nexus S now available in the UK from Carphone Warehouse
- TELUS-branded HTC Desire HD shows off for the camera
- Playstation phone may be 'Xperia Play,' reportedly will hit stores in April 2011
Tablet news
- Motorola to show Honeycomb Android tablet at CES
- New Dell tablet receives WiFi certification
- Dell Streak 7 television ad slides leak out
- Verizon Galaxy Tab drops to $499 sans contract at Best Buy
Software news
- Swype reopens beta program for all!
- Swype now offers 'micro' build, says Evo users need to uninstall beta before latest OTA upgrade
- SPB Mobile Shell for Android looking for a few brave beta testers
- Touiteur changes name to Plume [Android Twitter clients]
- Firefox 4 beta for Android is updated
- Howard Stern channels have gone live on Sirius XM for Android
- Android quick app: X-Plane 9
Google news
- Google makes Android Market changes official
- Market gets new app categories, AT&T users can charge apps to bills
OS updates
- Android 2.3 source code being now pushed to the Android Open Source Project
- How to flash AOSP Gingerbread to the Nexus One [Updated with video]
- Nexus One's Android 2.3 Gingerbread update promised 'in the coming weeks'
- Epic 4G's Froyo update looking pretty good for a Dec. 26 push
- Motorola updates Android OS roadmap; some of you won't like it
- Sprint acknowledges problems with Samsung Intercept Froyo update
- Nexus S gets its first OTA update
- Droid Pro update now available, brings slew of bugfixes and improvements
- HTC Wildfire getting Froyo over the next couple months, Europe this week
- Droid 2 Global update begins rolling out
- Blur 3.0 update for the Droid 2 leaked and customized
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pjsnyc says:
Great show!
But, FWIW - I live in NYC where 3G on sprint hovers in the 700kbps range. Switching to Wifi and/or 4G make a HUUUUUGE difference - even when simply browsing around (I even notice it on craigslist).
Granted - I get closer to 2mbps when I get out into the sticks so I dont notice it as much, but there is a BIG difference when I'm on Wifi/4G as opposed to Sprint's 3G
wezra says:
For those on T-Mobile that don't have HSPA + I am here in Atlanta where we do have it and my feeling is that it makes a nominal difference over 3G. No question it is faster, but by how much, I am not sure technically what the difference is. One thing I do know is that I can do downloads in my office from the Market, where as I couldn't do that before on 3G. I have a myTouch 4G HD and it is on "H" nearly all the time sans when I am at home and on Wifi.
By-the-way... Great review of the myTouch 4G Jerry! I was wondering when someone would get around to doing a review of this phone. I could not agree more... it is without question a "high end" Android phone. I have had a number of phones... the Cliq, Cliq XT and myTouch 3G Slide and they can't touch the 4G. And the quality of the phone itself is terrific... this is no plastic brick as some have suggested. Especially with that metal back on it. Just a great phone and one of the better looking ones as well.