androidXperience Podcast - EP003 - The Edge of Reason

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androidXperience Show Notes

Episode #: 3

Date: 04/15/15

Hosts: Patrick Virgadamo, Todd Wright & Clay Russell

Playmaker Challenge (Tweet us @AXPpodcast and use #PlaymakerChallenge to compete)

Last week’s showdown featured this game:

• Downhill Xtreme

Last week’s rankings among the crew:

• 1st: Todd

• 2nd: Clay

• Last: Patrick

This week’s showdown features this game:

PBA Bowling Challenge

What’s Appening? (High Profile App Releases & Updates)

• Android Auto drives into the Play Store

• Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff adds a Star Trek Theme

• Atari released a fitness app, can unlock other game content

• TuneIn gets in the passenger seat with Android Auto support

• Gmail app brings you a unified inbox

• Plex updated to support Android TV and some minor UI tweaks

• OpenTable now allows you to pay for dinner from your phone

• Adobe releases Sign & Fill PDF app

• Amazon Prime video now works on Android tablets

• Microsoft’s Office Lens released in beta for Android phones

• Microsoft’s Office Remote allows you to control presentations via your Android device

Top Stories

• Huawei schedules April 15th event (P8 Announced)

• More details about Samsung Pay surface

• Microsoft Office apps to be pre-installed on select Samsung Android tablets

• Google I/O 2015 invites start rolling out

• LG event scheduled for April 28

• Laggy scrolling to be resolved with the help of….. Microsoft

• The EU is reportedly gearing up to bring antitrust charges against Google

• Google updates Material Design guidelines with a host of new sections

The Rumor Mill

• Google in talks with LG for new Nexus device

• Amazon rumored to give away paid apps for free with new 'Unlocked' program

• 3rd gen Moto x coming in the summer

• S6 Active to come with SD card slot, removable battery, available this summer

• Google carrier service details leak

• Samsung could be facing supply shortages for S6 Edge

• S6 & S6 Edge device are being delivered with the screens scratched

Buy or Sell (Rapid-Fire Segment)

• HTC confirms M7 will not get 5.1

  • One rumor says it will

• Samsung may face their own “Bendgate”

• iPhone 6 & S6 face off in speed test

• Google cut Android malware by 50%

• Samsung allegedly paid 500 “fans” to stand in line at S6 launch in China

• iFixit tears down S6 Edge, will not be easy to repair

• Grab all six Star Wars films in the play store

Update Central (run off the names of devices and carriers that are updated)

• T-Mobile

  • Nexus 6

  • S6 & S6 Edge get updated with bug fixes

  • LG G2

• AT&T

  • Nexus 6 gets Android 5.1

  • HTC One M8

  • Note 4

  • Note 3

  • S5

  • HTC One M7

  • Samsung Galaxy S4 is now receiving Android 5.0.1 Lollipop

  • LG G2

• Verizon

  • LG G2

  • Note 4 updated with 5.0

  • Note 3 updated to 5.0

+1 (& -1) Picks from the Panel

• Clay: Action Launcher 3

• Todd: Samsung Galaxy S6 edge

• Patrick: Note 3 (Android 5.0)

Listener Feedback

Tweets

• @dmtammaro - how big of a deal do you think the bending problem and the damaged displays will be for Samsung?

The Chatroom: (The Roundtable/Listener Feedback Question)

• Response to @dmtammaro

How to Reach Us:

Where you can reach the androidXperience crew

• Clay - @clayrussell on twitter, clayrussell.me on Google+

• Todd - @toddw

• Patrick - @LSULaw2009

In Closing

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