Engadget Mobile Podcast 166 - 1.16.2013

Engadget Mobile Podcast 166

Yeah, we had two podcasts during CES, but that doesn't mean we're done with it just yet. Still sleep-deprived and filled with excitement from the show floor, it's time to catch up on the tech we didn't get a chance to discuss -- and the stuff we couldn't get enough of. Is octa-core really CPU related or a villain from the world of Batman? Is Samsung's Youm a new dessert or some exciting flexible display technology? Is T-Mobile poised to conquer the mobile realm this year? Most importantly, is everything that happened prior to CES officially a blur for Myriam and Brad? You'll just have to tune in to find out!

Hosts: Myriam Joire (tnkgrl), Brad Molen

Producer: Joe Pollicino

Music: Tycho - Coastal Brake (Ghostly International)

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00:08:43 - Intel Lexington-based phones
00:16:51 - Samsung Youm flexible display tech
00:20:17 - Tactus morphing touchscreen keyboard
00:23:29 - Wysips solar-cell display hands-on
00:27:02 - Samsung ATIV Odyssey for Verizon
00:29:11 - Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 for Verizon
00:29:28 - Engadget CES interview with Verizon's Praveen Atreya
00:42:24 - T-Mobile's Las Vegas LTE launch
00:42:24 - HTC One SV for Cricket hands-on
00:46:05 - HTC design: Hits & misses
00:52:29 - iPhone on T-Mobile, maybe, soon?
00:52:51 - T-mobile HD Voice launch
00:53:13 - T-mobile contract-free unlimited data plans
00:54:53 - T-Mobile Tap Tag NFC app for Android hands-on
00:56:30 - A4WP wireless charging
01:01:55 - CES 2013 smartphone roundup
01:08:15 - Pebble smartwatch hands-on
01:26:37 - Twitter question: Motorola Droid M vs. Verizon Nexus?
01:30:18 - Extended thoughts on octa-core


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Xperia S Jelly Bean firmware to bring display mirroring, phone finder and new lock screen

Android Central

We got our first look at Sony's new Jelly Bean-based Android firmware last week on the Xperia Z. While visually similar to earlier Sony software, there were new features waiting to be discovered beneath the surface. These included new power management options, a re-vamped lock screen and a new phone locator feature.

Fortunately for owners of earlier Xperias, it seems Sony is hard at work porting many of these new features back to its high-end 2012 phones. A leaked Jelly Bean ROM for the Xperia S that's emerged over on XDA shows features display mirroring, "Find My Xperia," the new "shutter"-based lock screen and "extended standby mode" for enhanced power saving. (For the technically-minded, the Linux kernel version has also been bumped from 3.08 up to 3.4.)

The "Find My Xperia" feature references MyXperia.com, a site which currently appears to be in private beta. It's likely this is a "Find My iPhone" style service designed to track lost and stolen devices.

This means that when the Jelly Bean update arrives for Xperia S owners, they'll be able to enjoy many of the new features of the newer Xperia Z. The same should also apply to the Xperia T, which being a more recent handset is scheduled to get Jelly Bean before the Xperia S.

The Xperia S is due to get its Jelly Bean update around April, following the Xperia T in late Q1.

Source: XDA; via: XperiaBlog

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Oracle's Java Fix Fizzles

Oracle released a fix over the weekend for two serious vulnerabilities in Java, but this doesn't seem to have improved matters much. The vulnerabilities, which affect Web browsers using Java 7 plugins, let attackers remotely exploit target systems without needing a username or password.

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Tips And Tricks For Your iPad

Apple have designed the iPad to be easy to use, in fact even a two year old can use this device without any problems whatsoever. This makes it a very attractive option for people who are used to using an iPhone or for those who are not. However, there are still a few things about the device that do need a little bit of explaining. Soft Reset Explained: Although the iPad is pretty robust in so far as there are [...]

Source: http://tabletbuzzblog.com/tips-and-tricks-for-your-ipad/

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Amazon MP3 Store Comes to iOS ? Without the In-App Purchase Tax

Amazon MP3 Store Comes to iOS — Without the In-App Purchase Tax
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Leaks suggest LG 'Optimus G Pro' coming with faster CPU, bigger battery, 1080p screen

Android Central

The Optimus G might be just a few months old, but LG may already have a successor in the works, if the latest round of leaked information is to be believed. The image above was sent to Engadget by an anonymous tipster, and it appears to show an "Optimus G Pro"  device headed to Japanese carrier NTT Docomo. Adding weight to those reports is a list of specs on Japanese site Blog of Mobile, one that matches the details shown in this image.

If all of this is accurate, we're looking at a slightly upgraded Optimus G with a 5-inch, 1920x1080 (full HD) screen, a 1.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro CPU (up from 1.5GHz), 2GB of RAM, 32GB of internal storage and a massive 3000mAh battery. And with measurements of 139.0x70.0x10.0mm and a weight of 160 grams, we're looking at a lot of smartphone here. On the software side, an Android 4.1-based OS is rumored.

Big-screen, high resolution devices look set to become commonplace at the high end of the Android smartphone spectrum in 2013. We've already seen Verizon's Droid DNA, Sony's Xperia Z and Huawei's Ascend D2, and HTC and Samsung are rumored to have new designs based on "full HD" panels in the works.

The Optimus G Pro is reportedly fitted with a 13MP rear camera and 2.4MP front-facer, and it appears the position of the camera assembly's been changed a bit too. One small shot of the phone's rear shows it placed centrally, as opposed to in the top left corner. Also significant is the change back to a physical home button, similar to the Optimus L series (and the Samsung Galaxy S2 before that.) You'll recall the original Optimus G featured all-capacitive keys.

If LG does have a refreshed "Optimus G Pro" in the works, Mobile World Congress would be the likely announcement venue. The company announced more than half a dozen phones there last year, What's more, its French wing has already confirmed a European Optimus G launch for March, so it's possible we might see the G Pro launching alongside the original in these new territories. Whatever happens, we'll be on the ground in Barcelona in just over five weeks to bring you full coverage of the show.

Source: Engadget, Blog of Mobile

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Digital Natives And Doctors Rejoice, Google Handwrite Gets Faster And Smarter

4394008146_bee50357c1_zGoogle Handwrite, a small but helpful tool that the search team introduced last year, has gotten a bit of an upgrade today. The tool allows you to turn on a mode when you’re on your mobile device to “write” your search. A part of the update is the ability for Google Handwrite to understand overlapping characters and write more than one Chinese character at a time if that’s your search language of choice. From Google’s mobile search page on your device, just go into settings and enable “Handwrite” mode to give it a try. If you have sloppy handwriting, then you will be extremely happy to learn more about the update. Here’s what Google Product Manager, Lawrence Chang, had to say about the changes today: If you?ve tried Handwrite before, you may have had some trouble entering a lowercase ?L?, the number ?1?, or a capital ?I?. Now, we provide alternate interpretations of your characters that you can select above the space bar. Similarly, in Japanese the characters ??? and ??? look nearly identical but are different characters and produce different search results. If Google interprets your handwriting one way and you meant the other, you can now more easily make a correction. While this tool might seem like no big deal, the technology behind it is quite complex, especially the above-mentioned understanding of handwriting from millions of potential users. We don’t all write things the same way, and some of us have worse handwriting than others. Ahem. As far as overlapping letters, Chang explains a bit more on how in-depth Google goes to solve these issues: Compared with tablets, mobile phone screens are smaller and are a little more difficult to write on. Now, instead of squeezing in your letters across the width of the small screen or writing one letter at a time, you can write letters on top of one another. Say you?re in the grocery store and you want to look up a recipe for quiche on your phone. When you write the letters ?q?, ?u?, ?i?, ?c?, ?h?, and ?e?, it?s okay if they overlap and are garbled a bit. If Google wants to try and learn how to read your handwriting when nobody else in the world, including you, can, then more power to them. By learning how to read a multitude of handwriting samples, the company can then release functionality to scan documents of any

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SpareOnePlus adds new features to the world?s only cellphone powered by a single AA battery

Last January, we told you about the SpareOne cellphone (see related links) that runs on a single AA battery and provides up to 10 hours talk time and 15 years standby time.  This year, the SpareOnePlus phone launches with even more features.  The Plus model adds “include a location-based service which identifies the exact location [...]

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