We had another busy week at TalkAndroid so here’s a recap of all the top stories. E3 and WWDC took place this week. E3 showed us some new upcoming games and WWDC was just about Apple trying to play catch up, but what else is new? Samsung has announced all their rumored devices, which pretty much just leaves the Galaxy Camera 2 for their June 20th event in London. We are getting very close to the HTC Butterfly S, HTC One Mini and the Xperia ZU. BTW, is it too soon to start talking about the Galaxy S 5? It’s time to get caught up and get ready for another exciting week.
Guides
How to use any song you want with HTC Video Highlights
30 seconds not long enough? How to create a longer HTC Video Highlight
Best Android apps for monitoring data usage [June 2013]
Reviews
Featured Android Game Review: Dawn of the Dragons [Arcade & Action]
Accessories
Power By Gen running Father’s Day promotion on Andru chargers, $19.99 with free shipping
Dead Zebra announces 10-piece set of rainbow Android figurines, on sale today for $69
Nyko announces product accessories for NVIDIA Shield
Apps – General
Get the “Parallex Effect” iOS feature on Android with 3D Image Live Wallpaper
Apps – New
EA announces unique twist for cross-platform gameplay in Need for Speed: Rivals
Floating Notifications recieves big update in the Play Store
Verizon’s FiOS Mobile TV and VOD comes to Android
Asphalt 8: Airborne officially on its way to Android devices
Crayon Physics Deluxe makes its way to the Play Store
Google releases Cloud Print app for Android
Apps – Updates
Google+ app for Android receives a fairly huge update
Google Music app updated and brings forth some nice improvements
Google Gesture Search update gets multilingual
Cameras
Leaked images of Samsung’s Galaxy NX Android Camera surface
Carriers
AT&T extends upgrade period to 24 months
AT&T announces new 4G LTE markets
AT&T expands LTE coverage in several cities
AT&T updating GoPhone prepaid plans, GoPhone devices to get LTE access June 21st
T-Mobile launches ‘Bring your own device’ program on MetroPCS
Gaming Hardware
MOGA Power Series Pro to feature rumble tactile effects from Immersion
Mad Catz Project M.O.J.O. gaming console revealed at E3
Apple officially dumps Google in Siri… wants Bing and Siri to be cozy instead
Google announces acquisition of Waze, plans to use it to enhance Google Maps
Be part of Chrome’s latest experiment with Cube Slam
EU committee investigates Google’s alleged anticompetitive tactics to boost Android’s market share
Google introduces Project Loon, hoping to bring the entire world internet access via balloons
Google Glass
Google Glass gets dissected and disassembled
Google TV
Sony NSZ-GS8 Google TV device adds support for voice search
Hardware
NVIDIA Tegra 4i is expected to debut in Q1 2014
Phones – Casio
Verizon Casio Commando render leaks
Phones – HTC
HTC to announce Butterfly S on June 19th
More screenshots of HTC’s Butterfly S; Will feature front speakers with “BoomSound”
HTC Butterfly S rumored to head to Sprint, not Verizon
August release date rumored for HTC One Mini
The HTC M4 now confirmed to be the HTC One Mini… And here’s what it looks like
HTC One Mini (M4) rumored to launch on T-Mobile
Phones – Huawei
Huawei shows off the extremely thin Ascend P6 with a Facebook photo
Huawei Ascent P6 specs and pictures of new “Emotion UI” leaked
Phones – LG
LG rumored to drop Optimus name from its high-end lineup of smartphones
LG announces budget-friendly Optimus L4 II with IPS display
Phones – Motorola
Phones – Oppo
Oppo Find 5 Mini leaks with 3.7-inches of goodness
Phones – Samsung
[Deal] Grab the Verizon Galaxy S 4 for $119 at Amazon
[Deal] T-Mobile drops $50 off the price of the Galaxy S 4 for one month
Samsung shows us how much stress the Galaxy S 4 can handle
Samsung Galaxy S 4 smartphone “selling well”, despite lowered expectations by analysts
AT&T announces the Samsung Galaxy S 4 Active, available June 21 for $199
Samsung releases short video showing off Galaxy S 4 Zoom features
Samsung announces the Galaxy S4 Zoom, 10x optical zoom and perfect picture taking
Samsung finally comes to its senses and is expected to feature an aluminum body for the Galaxy S 5
Samsung Galaxy Note III prototype officially outed!
Leaked photo from Galaxy Note III suggests 13 megapixel camera
Could Samsung SCH-I435 be the Samsung Galaxy S 4 Mini headed to Verizon?
Samsung makes the entry-level Galaxy Ace 3 official
Phones – Sony
Sony’s Xperia ZU slated for June 25th announcement, specs revealed early
Phones – ZTE
ZTE Nubia Z5 Mini gets approved in China
Sprint Vital gets June 14th launch date, $99 with two-year contract and mail-in rebate
ZTE U988S With 1.8GHz Tegra 4i Processor and Android 4.2.2 Gets Benchmarked
ROMs
HALO project open sourced by Paranoid Android team
Smartwatches
Sony now allowing 3rd party firmware for their SmartWatch platform
Tablets
7-inch ASUS tablet running Android 4.3 shows up on Bluetooth SIG
New Nexus 7 may support Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile LTE bands
Updated Nexus 7 to be priced at $229
AT&T to release Galaxy Note 8.0 LTE in ‘a few weeks’
Amazon releases Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ in Canada
Updates
Samsung delays Android 4.2.2 for the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II
Rumor: Android 5.0 to arrive by October; Optimized for devices with at least 512MB of RAM
Miscellaneous
Acer has no interest in rewriting Android
Humble Bundle weekly sale features 3 top-notch Android games
The future of smartphone battery life could be with new solar-charging screen technology
Jay-Z wants fans to tune in to NBA Game 5 for more on Samsung partnership
Brazilian bar designs new beer glass made to keep your eyes off your phone
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