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- Android Community Weekly: July 30, 2011
- HTC Sensation and EVO 3D Permanent S-OFF and Recovery Finally Here!
- HTC Planning on 6 to 8 New Devices Over the Rest of the Year
- AT&T Verifies Data Throttling in Future, October 1st it Begins
- Samsung Slider Phone for AT&T is NOT the Galaxy S II Attain
- Samsung Galaxy S II Headed to T-Mobile?
- Acer Iconia A100 7″ Tablet Coming in August for $300
| Android Community Weekly: July 30, 2011 Posted: 30 Jul 2011 09:39 AM PDT In this issue of Android Community Weekly, you'll find more devices upgraded to Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), some great unboxings and reviews, and much more!
Monday, AT&T confirmed that all Android phones released on their network during 2011 are guaranteed an update to Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). Also headed to AT&T will be a Samsung flagship keyboard phone; later on this was confirmed to be the Samsung Galaxy S II Slide. Over on T-Mobile the G2X resurfaces to their website. The device is now in stock and will be running Gingerbread from a recently pushed OTA. Tuesday we found out Verizon will officially be the first US carrier to launch the Galaxy S II. Also, those waiting for the device will be pleased to know it will be 4G LTE capable. Benchmarks of the Verizon HTC Vigor were released Wednesday; the device is said to sport a 1.5 Ghz dual-core processor and 720p HD display. It is not yet known whether this device is a phone or tablet. We had heard Gingerbread would hit the Droid X2 Tuesday, and surely enough it did two days later. Many new features were included in this update: Motorola's new user interface, a new manager application, and many bug fixes. Another upgrade we've all been eagerly awaiting is for our XOOM 4G LTE upgrade. We had heard it would be here in "no time flat" on their official sign up page, but unfortunately the upgrade will not be available until September. Also not appearing until September will be the Droid Bionic according to Motorola's CEO Sanjay Jha. We had all hoped for an August 4th release, but unfortunately we must wait even longer. We had many reviews this week on some amazing devices! The first for the week included the Toshiba Thrive tablet. Unique to this device was a more rugged exterior compared to today's standard tablet. Next up was a review of the Motorola XPRT by Chris Burns. This little smartphone packs a whopping 1860 mAh lithium-ion battery… so don't expect it to run out juice during your lunchbreak. Also reviewed by Chris Burns was the Motorola Photon 4G. This device was simply a powerhouse in the benchmarks conducted. Expect to see an amazing new camera interface on both of these new Motorola devices as well. After given some hands-on time last week, the HTC Status has finally been thoroughly reviewed – so don't forget to check it out! The Lenovo Ideapad K1 tablet was unboxed Thursday; expect a full review of it within the next few days. Another hands-on/unboxing was conducted for the LG Thrill 4G. This device is essentially the Optimus 3D rebranded for T-Mobile's network. Finally, don't forget to participate in both the Archos 70 internet tablet giveaway, and Week 3 of TABLETPALOOZA! Both winners will be announced Monday August 1st. )
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| HTC Sensation and EVO 3D Permanent S-OFF and Recovery Finally Here! Posted: 29 Jul 2011 02:49 PM PDT It’s finally here, what everyone that has an EVO 3D or Sensation has been waiting for. To be able to achieve S-OFF, Root and get a recovery for your phone. It is now available for download but before I get into it I figured I’d hurry and share the news with the world. This is just breaking so bare with me.
Just like we told you this morning this was coming today and I’m glad they got it done so fast. You can read the original post here. Follow @unrevoked for all the details over the coming days if you need more information. With help from many developers team Unrevoked and AlphaRev have finally made this available for the mass public if you dare. The details are still light but if you head over to the main download page at revolutionary.io you can download this and get started right now for both Windows and Linux. This is still a developer preview but the devices have been tested pretty thoroughly but you could still run into issues. If you aren’t completely confident in what you are doing I suggest you wait a few days for everything to get ironed out. Next all I need is CyanogenMod which is coming soon and I’ll be happy. Full details at the via below. [via Revolutionary] )
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| HTC Planning on 6 to 8 New Devices Over the Rest of the Year Posted: 29 Jul 2011 02:19 PM PDT HTC has confirmed that they will release between 6 and 8 new phones and tablets before the year is out. Unfortunately, the looming eve of Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) means that these new devices will not be exclusively Android, but HTC did say that our little green friend will be powering the majority of the devices. Let’s take a quick recap of what we know, and what may be in store.
First up we have the all but confirmed HTC Puccini, who popped up in some very official looking photos this week. The Puccini is a 10″ tablet, HTC’s first, running Honeycomb (presumably 3.1 or 3.2). The tablet has been seen hanging around the FCC where it showed off AT&T’s LTE bands. We haven’t heard anything official on AT&T’s LTE network, but if its cleared the FCC, the Puccini can’t be too far off. Next up we have the HTC Ruby, another definitely Android device. We don’t know too much about this one yet other than that it is destined for T-Mobile. There is a similarity in the camera interface in a leaked photo to that on the MyTouch 4G Slide. Because of this, we are speculating it may be the newest MyTouch phone, but only time will tell. To top it all off we have the HTC Ignite (a recently leaked Windows Phone) and a slew of new codenames HTC just trademarked. So our count so far is 2 Android devices and 1 WP7. That is a majority all right, but only 3 devices. That means HTC’s cooking up some fancy new Android toys for us that will be here before Christmas. [via SlashGear] )
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| AT&T Verifies Data Throttling in Future, October 1st it Begins Posted: 29 Jul 2011 02:10 PM PDT It has begun! AT&T has officially reported that starting on October 1st, 2011, the top 5% of AT&T will start to see reduced speeds. Top users, in this case, meaning those who use inordinate amounts of data on a daily basis, downloading Star Wars all day long and listening to the Imperial March on Spotify. What AT&T plans to do about you wild and crazy data machines is to force choke you – and by force choke I of course mean throttle your data speeds, making you have slower uploads and slower downloads once you get to a certain point during the month when AT&T thinks you’ve simply had enough. AT&T made it clear today that it’s not you average Americans that they’re slipping their fingers around, it’s the evil rebels using “12 times more data than the average of all other smartphone data customers.”
First of all, who in the heck are you people? Are you running a download farm from your basement in order to take out Anonymous with your massive amounts of House episode copies? Then I’d like to note that AT&T says that starting on October 1st, smartphone customers with unlimited data plans may experience “reduced speeds once their usage in a billing cycle reaches the level that puts them among the top 5 percent of heaviest data users.” That’s GOT to be a lot, right? AT&T goes on to note that you power users will continue to be able to USE your data for the rest of the month, but it’ll be going slower than you’re used to. AT&T will also “provide multiple notices, including a grade period.” Get ready for some pop up notes saying that they’re closing in! One of the options AT&T offers to power users of such a nature is one of their many tiered usage plans, “where customers can pay for more data if they need it and will not see reduced speeds.” Now I may be a Negative Nilly when it comes to this sort of Darth Vader sort of stuff, Adbusters crushing your soul where you’d been free to use all the data in the world whenever you wanted, but here I’m going to have to side with AT&T. The only thing that I think anyone should have a right to protest is the fact that there’s really only a few cellular companies in the United States worth considering working with. With this lack of great choices in the field, every one of the bigger groups can choose to use this stream of reasoning where you can have as much data as you want, but if you’re going to get all crazy about it, we’ve got the right to put the leash on you. What do you think? Is throttling a right the mobile device companies have? )
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| Samsung Slider Phone for AT&T is NOT the Galaxy S II Attain Posted: 29 Jul 2011 01:05 PM PDT The Samsung slider phone that showed up this week as the SGH-I927 was rumored to be Galaxy S II. Turns out this wasn’t the Android we were looking for. The super slim Galaxy S II Attain will (presumably) stay as skinny as the original when it launches AT&T in the coming future
With Samsung letting those interested register for updates on the Galaxy S II coming to the U.S. it can’t be far off. Throw in the fact that the Galaxy S II Attain just crossed the FCC and Samsung fans can finally start getting excited. Will the wait be worth it though? Does this mean we have two Galaxy S II versions coming to Ma Bell? If so other keyboard bearing phones on AT&T better watch out. For those who don’t need that physical button to press, it sounds like we’ll be able to get our hands on the the same slim Samsung that we’ve been envying for the past few months. Let’s just hope nothing else gets changed. [via Android Police] )
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| Samsung Galaxy S II Headed to T-Mobile? Posted: 29 Jul 2011 12:25 PM PDT We have been seeing tons of Galaxy S II news this morning and all week, but still we have not heard a peep regarding if T-Mobile will actually get the Galaxy S II or something else like the Samsung Hercules. Yesterday we posted that Samsung had a email sign-up page live, but taking a closer look they include T-Mobile in the carrier dropdown menu. Does this mean T-Mobile will get a SGSII?
The sign up page will alert you via email for the latest news regarding the exciting SGSII and if you select the dropdown box for carrier preference you have T-Mobile listed when we’ve originally heard the other three main carriers for the U.S. would get it but not T-Mobile. Whether this means they will actually get the superphone or not we don’t know and is up to you to decide. Since we have covered so much Galaxy S II news this week I’ll just direct you to our Galaxy S II portal for all the news you’d like to read. Check this out though, you might soon be able to buy the SGSII in white. While this doesn’t prove for sure T-Mobile will see the phone, it does make us think a few different thoughts. One being that the Hercules isn’t just the alternative but a completely different device slated for a different release date, and that Samsung may in fact be aiming to launch more than one big phone on each carrier this late summer, or early fall. Device Info
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| Acer Iconia A100 7″ Tablet Coming in August for $300 Posted: 29 Jul 2011 11:45 AM PDT For those waiting for a fancy 7″ Android tablet you can fit in your jeans pocket to finally come with Android 3.0 (or 3.2) Honeycomb it appears the Acer Iconia A100 will finally be hitting the streets come August. The 7″ Honeycomb slate was announced in February but quickly delayed due to Honeycomb incompatibility.
Android 3.2 Honeycomb SDK was recently released bringing support to the 7″ form factor as well as other needed changes, this was the initial cause for delay so when it lands in August it should have extra honey drizzled on top with Android 3.2 Honeycomb on board. I’m excited to see the 7″ tablet form start to really hit the market as the portability is great. We spotted the Acer A100 pricing at Walmart for $349 even though its yet to even be released. These early reported pricings are not confirmed and the latest details from our release date source also claim it will come to market at a much more competitive price point — It should launch for only $300 for the 16GB variant and $349 for the 32GB. We will be sure to keep you posted as the details start to flood in. [via Engadget] )
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