Android Central Podcast Episode 13

Android 2.2 - Froyo and Flash

  • Google IO Day 2 Keynote: Froyo time! [#io2010]
  • Android 2.2, Froyo, officially announced
  • Most 2010 HTC Android phones will get Froyo ...in 2010
  • No Froyo just yet, Google says
  • Android 2.2 / Froyo to bring Bluetooth voice dialing
  • Google takes plenty of shots at Apple
  • Android 2.2 SDK available now
  • Adobe explains Flash 10.1 on Android
  • Android: 100,000 units per day, 2nd in smartphones, 1st in usage
  • Google shows off new mobile ad formats
  • Android to stream your desktop music over the air

Google TV

  • Google Announces Google TV, coming Fall 2010
  • Logitech + Google TV details: specific remote, Video calling software
  • Hulu on Google TV? Only if Hulu wants it

Sit-down with the Android leadership

  • Android's Andy Rubin: It's 'legacy,' not 'fragmentation'
  • Comparing Android-iPhone to Mac-PC wars: 'We're lovers, not fighters'
  • Why the Google phone store didn't work out (and what happened to the Sprint and Verizon Nexus Ones)

Other Google IO news

  • All participants (including press) get an Evo 4G
  • Hands-on redux with the Samsung Galaxy S
  • Hands-on with Laminar Research's X-Plane Android flight sim
  • Android Writers Roundtable: Predictions for Google I/O
  • Hands-on with the Chevy Volt OnStar Android app
  • The Great Wall of Android
  • Seesmic shares new Android beta with Google I/O attendees, with support for Google Buzz
  • Official Google I/O T-shirt has a few surprises
  • Man, Google IO really socked
  • Hands-on with the Android Kindle app [#io2010]
  • Sports Illustrated shows what print publications can (and should) do online

Everything not Google IO

  • HTC Vision looks to be a WVGA Android slider
  • Android 2.1 for the Sprint Hero is now officially official
  • Android 2.1 update is officially live for the Sprint Samsung Moment
  • Droid Eris Android 2.1 update -- the good, the bad, and the ugly
  • HTC Wildfire headed to Virgin Mobile UK
  • Android Launcher Pro beta makes an OK home screen even better
  • Verizon CEO says LTE Android tablets will debut next year
  • HTC Hero with Cox branding spotted

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