Author Archive: Sam Cater - android.appstorm

Mysterious New Google Media Player Visits the FCC, Nexus Q Replacement?

  The Nexus Q, Google’s take on a standalone media streamer, never really took off. While many raved over its interesting design, it never really took off. The obvious culprit was its $300 price tag. Even if a steaming device is made in the USA, it needs a little more functionality to deserve such a [...]

Did Google I/O 2013 Solve The Android Fragmentation Problems?

Many people were expecting the a new version of Android to be released at this years I/O developer conference at The Moscone Centre in San Francisco; either an incremental update to Jelly Bean (Android 4.3), or a completely new version of Android (Android 5.0). As we all start to take stock of everything that happened [...]

Google Announces Monthly Glass Over-the-Air Updates

So Google I/O just passed and the company did a lot of talking up for a lot of their new products and projects, except for one that did not receive as much review as the others. Google Glass was introduced online a few years ago, but did not receive much attention during the company’s keynote [...]

Droid Daily 5/17/13: WebP, Google+, Galaxy S3 and More

Galaxy S4 Video Recording Stabilization The Galaxy S4 has been tested yet again, this time its video recording stabilization in offroad conditions got tested. You can check out the video above to see how well it did. BBM To Be For Phones Only Looks like there are some drawbacks to Blackberry Messenger finally coming to [...]

Verizon Changes their Prepaid Plans, Adds More Data

Lately, Prepaid carriers and MVNO’s have been pretty popular. Especially with phones like the Nexus 4 selling for $300-350 unlocked. We’ve also seen AT&T start their own new Prepaid carrier, along with T-Mobile all but going Prepaid only. When T-Mobile first announced their new UNcarrier plans, we said that it would have a trickle effect [...]