Android Weekend Roundup: February 1st Edition
Welcome to February, month of groundhogs and heart shaped candies. Android ushered out January with some good news that we missed, so to keep you up to date, we present you with the weekend roundup.
A MobileCrunch reader who was reading his Nexus One user manual (people still do that?) found a little Google humor going on that most people probably missed. In the section showing Call Logs there are 3 calls from a “Hugh Briss” – of course Hubris actually means “excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance”. No wonder they had 3 calls back and forth in a 10 minute period.
Nexus One for AT&T Passes FC&C
Android and Ma Bell sitting in a tree – P-A-S-S-I-N-G (the FCC). That’s exactly what happened recently and we KNEW the Nexus One was likely headed to Verizon, Sprint and AT&T but this makes it all the more apparent. The current version of the Nexus One DOES work on AT&T but 3G will not – that is only compatible with T-Mobile. The one that just passed the FCC solves that problem. For those of you using the Nexus One on AT&T, how do you feel? [Engadget]
VZW Suggests Six Android Apps
New Droid user who isn’t sure what apps to get? Verizon sent out a press release suggesting six of them: (1) Weatherbug, (2) Platinum Sudoku, (3) Slacker Radio, (4) Fast Food Calorie Counter Pro, (5) dxTop: Home Alternative, (6) NBA Mini-Bobble Lebron James. Agree with these as choices? Personally I think the calorie counter is stupid (don’t eat fast food if you’re worried about calories, dummy!) [Press Release]
Xperia X10 to TMO Germany in April
The Xperia X10 is yet another device delayed by Sony Ericsson – hopefully this one will be worth the wait. In a press release E-mailed to the media, T-Mobile Germany announced an April launch of the Android device. Price and other details weren’t provided, but we know there are a lot of people waiting on this phone so… keep waiting! [TheUnwired]
Prototype Android Tablets with NVIDIA Tegra 2
With all the iPad hype going on there also seems to be a renewed interest in tablets of other types. The disappointment in the iPad’s features has led some to yearn for an Android alternative that gets it right. Will Park from IntoMobile met with the folks at NVIDIA to check out a few Android prototypes that might do just that. Here is a video:
[IntoMobile]
Hmmmmm…. I guess we didn’t miss all that much afterall! Time to go back to the future and report on things happening here and now. BRING THE PAIN!
If you’ve got news we missed from the weekend (or before) drop some links in the comments!