TalkAndroid_Weekly_Recap

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

Google

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

Specs leak for the highly anticipated Motorola X phone, featuring HD screen, 2GB of RAM and dual-core processor

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

Sony sends out July 4th Save The Date invites, all but confirms the arrival of Sony Xperia Z Ultra phablet

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

Steve Kondik, founder of CyanogenMod, seeks to protect Android devices with a system wide ‘Incognito Mode’

Smartwatches

Sony now allowing 3rd party firmware for their SmartWatch platform

Tablets

Samsung currently working on an even larger Galaxy Note, thinks 12.2 will be the sweet spot for consumers

7-inch ASUS tablet running Android 4.3 shows up on Bluetooth SIG

Mystery ASUS K009 unit shows up at the FCC doorstep, tries its best to hide its Nexus 7 colors in the process

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

Now you see it… now you don’t: Verizon pulls latest Galaxy S III update due to massive connectivity and battery issues

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

Samsung to allegedly release kill switch to improve mobile security and prevent device theft as soon as July

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