Tuesday, November 11, 2014
TalkAndroid Daily Dose for November 11, 2014
With hectic schedules, it can be hard to keep track of everything in your news feed. That’s why we created the TalkAndroid Daily Dose. This is where we recap the day’s hottest stories so you can get yourself up to speed in quick fashion. Happy reading!!
Android Wear
Mural Watchface pulls images from 500px service to join your own photos
Here are the new features coming to Android Wear
Apps
HTC Camera app now in Play Store
Carriers
AT&T announces November 12 pre-orders for Nexus 6
AT&T reverses course on in-flight wireless service plans
Nexus 6 from Sprint to go on sale on November 14th
Samsung Galaxy Note Edge for US Cellular stops by the FCC
Chromecast
Chromecast gets support for Showtime Anytime, Starz Play, Encore Play, and a slew of new games
YouTube music service said to be weeks away
Phones
Carphone Warehouse now offering HTC One (M8) in blue
LG’s new AKA smartphone will be your emotional buddy
LG G3 (D855) gets Lollipop through flashable ROM from latest build
Motorola posts Lollipop update documents for the Moto G (2nd Generation)
AT&T announces November 12 pre-orders for Nexus 6
Nexus 6 from Sprint to go on sale on November 14th
Nexus 6 set to cost €649 when it goes on sale in Europe next week
Samsung Galaxy Note Edge for US Cellular stops by the FCC
Samsung struggling with producing metal cases for Galaxy A3 and A5
ROMs
LG G3 (D855) gets Lollipop through flashable ROM from latest build
Smartwatches
Samsung posts “unofficial review” of their own Gear S smartwatch
Samsung releases 30 second commercial for the Gear S smartwatch
Updates
Motorola posts Lollipop update documents for the Moto G (2nd Generation)
Miscellaneous
iPhone 6 devices help Apple regain enterprise market share from Android
Robinson Cano partners with HTC to be brand ambassador
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[Leak] Download Lollipop LRX21P Factory Image for 2012 Nexus 7 WiFi
Sometimes late nights lead to interesting tips finding their way into our inbox. Tonight was just such a night. If you've been waiting to get a taste of Lollipop on your Nexus 7 2012, you're in luck. We just happen to have signed factory images for Google's original 7" tablet. The build is LRX21P, which lines up with builds we've seen on the Nexus 9 and Nexus Player (LRX21L and LRX21M respectively).
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Here are the new features coming to Android Wear
The Android Wear app should be getting a pretty hefty update very soon. The app will obviously be transformed into Material Design, but a lot of goodies are in store.
Google is bringing the same battery information page for phones and tablets to Android Wear. You will be able to see what apps are affecting the battery as well as an estimated amount of remaining life. You will also be able to see how much of your storage is used.
The Android Wear app will now let you change your watch faces from within it. Of course the anticipated watch face API will release around the same time. With it brings the ability to add weather notifications to the faces. Here are the icons.
The ability to recover a mistakenly dismissed card has been requested by a lot of users, and Google will deliver. If you mistakenly swipe away a card, you can swipe up to get an option to undo.
A quicker way to adjust screen brightness has also been a big request. Other apps like Wear Mini Launcher take care of that, but Google is looking to give us some quick options natively. They are adding Theater Mode and Sunlight Mode. We presume Theater Mode will bring it down to a brightness level of 1, which probably isn’t dim enough for the movie theater. We also presume that Sunlight Mode will adjust the brightness to a level of 6. These options will be found in the swipe down gesture on your watch face. Right now, you get battery information and the ability to silence notifications, but a new menu will be added.
Those of you with vision impairment will be happy to know that Google is adding new features such as large text, color inversion, and magnification gestures. All of these features will be in the Settings menu.
Currently, taking a screenshot from your Android Wear watch is an absolute chore since you have to connect it to your computer and ADB it. It will now be a lot easier with the new update as you will be able to capture them from the Android Wear app.
Last but not least, the OK Google menu will now be sorted based on your most used functions.
How do these new features sound to you? Is there anything else you were hoping for that didn’t make the cut? I would like to see the ability to adjust the brightness of the “Always On” display, but hopefully that will come at a later date.
source: Phandroid
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YouTube music service said to be weeks away
I know it’s starting to sound like a broken record, but it’s being reported yet again that the YouTube music service is very close. According to the Financial Times, YouTube had been trying to close a deal with Merlin, a group that represents 20,000 indie music labels. After making offers as far back as June, YouTube finally sealed the deal.
It’s still very unclear what YouTube is going to offer as far as a music service goes. How does it fit in with Play Music? Hopefully we will find out soon enough.
source: Financial Times
via: Engadget
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TellTale’s Game of Thrones series is coming to Android soon
It’s been nearly a year since we last heard about TellTale’s Game of Thrones game coming to Android. It seems we’re getting very close to a release now. TellTale tweeted that episode one of six will be released very soon. Since this game was announced way back in 2013 we hope to see it before another year ends.
The Game of Thrones game will be similar to TellTale’s previous Walking Dead and Back to the Future series. It will be released in episodes like a TV show. Decisions you make will determine outcomes and future choices in the game. There still aren’t a lot of details on the actual story, but since the game is in partnership with HBO we know it will be based on the show and not the books.
Do we have any big Game of Thrones or TellTale fans? Will you be buying this game when it gets released? Have you played TellTale’s previous Android games?
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LG’s new “Aka” phones are really weird
LG has aways been a company that pushes the boundaries of what smartphones can do. In the past they’ve made nearly square devices and devices with curved displays, but now they are going to a new level of weird. LG has introduced a new line of mid-range phones in Korea dubbed “Aka.” The line consists of four “characters” with unique personalities.
The four characters include Eggy, Wooky, Soul, and YoYo. Eggy falls in love easily, Wooky talks in sland, Soul loves beer, and YoYo gains and loses weight a lot. We’re not making this up. The idea is that user will gravitate towards a personality instead of specs. When the Aka devices are idle you can see big eyes that blink and stair at you.
We can see these devices selling very well in Korea, which is where they will most likely stay. It’s an interesting tactic to sell mid-range devices. If the specs alone can’t tempt buyers give them something unique to use. Would you ever be interested in these devices? What do you think about phones having “personalities?”
[via verge]
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Nexus 9 vs. iPad Air 2: A [Mostly] Subjective Comparison
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HTC BlinkFeed Updated With Recommendations, Easier Subscribing, And More
Those of you with phones not made by HTC can feel free to continue on to the next post. I'm sorry to have wasted your time... I assume if you are still reading at this point, you own an HTC device device. Good, those other phones suck, right? Let's say nasty things about people who own those phones behind their backs. Before that, there's an update to BlinkFeed in the Play Store.
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Motorola's Soak Test For Lollipop On The Moto G (2nd Gen) Appears To Be Next
Less than a week ago, we received word that Motorola had already started its soak test for an over-the-air update bringing Lollipop to the Moto X 2014 Pure Edition. With this news, there's a good chance the phone will get Android 5.0 before Nexus devices (not counting the Nexus 6 and Nexus 9, which ship with the software). Now a tipster has come to user saying that the company has begun a test for this year's Moto G as well.
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