Episode 192 – Keeping Up with the Joneses

By | March 24, 2014
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Keeping Up Appearances title card.

Guru gets a Nexus 5.

Show Notes

  • In Other News
    • Consumers will get VoLTE phones, but the real target is businesses…by moving people to VoLTE, which is over the top data, this will allow multiple phone numbers on the same phone, other over the top services. 2G networks can be shut down to add more spectrum to LTE, the same way this was done during digital conversions.
    • Federal jury decides Google owes SimpleAir $85 million over a push messaging patent infringement
    • Sprint cutting over 1850 jobs, shutting underperforming stores, over a 1000 are Call Center jobs.
  • Platform News
    • Everyone is worried about the future of Google Voice
    • Google Play allows different changelogs for production, beta, and alpha versions
    • White House Communications Agency testing smartphones from Samsung and LG for official use by the President to replace his Blackberry
    • Gmail is now only HTTPS, instead of optionally so.
    • Chromecast now available in 11 more countries…Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the UK.
    • Google Play Services 4.3 incorporates Google Analytics, Tag Manager, and the Drive API into Services, as well as a new Address API.
  • Taking a Moment with the Wearable
    • Pebble has sold 400,000 devices since January 2013.
    • Android Wear Developer Preview Now Available
    • LG and Motorola announce Android Wear smartwatches
  • App News
    • PocketCasts 4.5 is out for Android, adds Chromecast support and more.
    • Google Keyboard updated, adds suggestions/corrections from Google apps and services.
    • BBC iPlayer now supports the Chromecast
    • Skype updates to correct battery usage issues.
    • Pushbullet now available as an IFTTT channel.
    • Link Bubble is a link manager for Android. (Play Link)
    • MarkAsRead adds a Read link to Gmail’s rich notifications (Play Link)
    • Google Search now supports “Take a Photo” as a voice command.
    • Duolingo update introduces Lingots…a virtual currency and a shop to spend it in.

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One thought on “Episode 192 – Keeping Up with the Joneses”

  1. Tom Scales

    Guru,
    Once you root your Nexus 5 you can install the Xposed framework and then use the “Gravity Box” module to tweak your settings-shade buttons (among many other things). Xposed can let you change a bunch of things under the hood without needing to flash a new ROM.
    Good luck, should you choose to accept this mission…

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