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you may continue using your electronic devices but please be sure your seat belt is securely fastened I'm Richard Carey and this is your cnet update there may be a time where you don't have to turn off your phone or tablet before flight takes off the Federal Aviation Administration has formed a committee to reconsider its policy on when electronics can be turned on during a flight now this doesn't include allowing calls from cell phones during flights so no worries about noisy neighbors this group will look into what technology truly could interfere with communication and instruments and perhaps future electronics could have some new certification standard that marks it safe for use during a flight Android users could experience an unexpected perk from the Apple Samsung trial since older Android operating system versions were found to infringe upon Apple's patents that means Android phones could be motivated to quickly update to the newest operating system to avoid future legal troubles that means phones with 2.3 Gingerbread could jump to four-point-oh ice cream sandwich or 4.1 jelly bean one of the biggest complaints for Android users is that they just have to wait forever to get an operating system update the market is so fragmented with so many carriers and models that when an update is created not every phone can get that update right away tech blogs like 925 google hi proposed this could be a cool consequence of that trial so keep an eye out for those notification bars Microsoft's surface tablet won't be the only hot Windows tablet in town sources say Sony will be showing off a sleek tablet convertible this week called the vaio duo 11 which has a slideout backlit keyboard in addition a leaked image from pocket now shows it working with a stylus pen twitter is hiding the names of apps that are used to send a tweet for example you may have seen a tweet say it was sent from the web or sent via tweetdeck but Twitter is removing that info there's a new google TV box hitting the market a small set-top box is called pulse it's made by chinese hardware maker hisense it'll be a hundred dollars and should be available in november today's apt to watch is one for all use snoozers out there you've seen clockey the rolling alarm clock that you have to chase after that's about 40 bucks but there's one Android app that will give you a wake-up challenge for free it's called sleep if you can the app forces you to take a photo of a certain place in your home to turn off the alarm the photo has to match up with what you preset so you could make yourself take a photo of the kitchen coffee pot or the bathroom sink there is a snooze function so it's not completely evil that your tech news roundup for today you can find more details about today's stories at the blog sina com / update from our studios in New York and Bridget Carey