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LG prada kate's who along with other leaks from Samsung HTC and LG make the scene skype 2.1 brings video calls to more smartphones and gingerbread updates haven't been fun for everyone all this and more coming up right now hello everyone I'm home it'll be better with pocketnow.com and welcome to android Revolution the shore will we tell you what's hot and what's not inside of Google's Android project let's start this week off with what's hot all right so this week was full of leaks so sit back relax and let's go through them the LG product cave2 made the scene and it seems gorgeous with a design that's only nine millimeters thick though it's interesting that it has a 4.3 Nova display that's supposed to be bright as hell though we're not really sure what to make of it it's got 16 gigabytes of built-in storage and it's hspa+ and since it's got gingerbread built in it shouldn't take long for it to be released though we're not sure how Google's going to handle this the verizon roadmap was also leaked and well we mentioned an HTC vigor which had no specs revealed the motorola droid bionic was also mentioned but you already know about this phone but what's interesting is that it made it to the FCC and it seems to be a world phone which is really cool aside from that well this leaked roadmap also included the LG revolution which we already reviewed so it should take log for this devices to be released also now on the tmobile side there was also mentions of a samsung hercules which we got the exclusive leaked photos which seems to be t-mobile's variant of the galaxy s2 aside from that it's weird to see that the phone won't bring the Samsung Exynos processor and instead bring the Qualcomm chip that we're used to seeing on just about every other phone so not really sure what to make of it also we see an HTC Ruby which looks a lot like the current HTC Sensation though it's interesting to see that it has a white back or could it be a metallic back not really sure but the HTC Sensation is already being sold on t-mobile so not really sure what to make of that but aside from that yeah we also caught images of the LG flip to which is a you know that other device that has a dual screen and a keyboard it may be cool for some people it may be cool for others I don't really like the thing it couldn't be uglier but if you're out there for a dual screen device and don't want to get the bulk of the kyocera echo stay tuned for that device when it gets released not really sure when though alright so speaking of phones what would the season be without some really good back to school deals amazonwireless just published a really good deal for selling Verizon phones in this case you get the HTC Thunderbolt for 50 bucks after signing your kidney offered to your contract and aside from that you also get the samsung droid charge which is another really good 4G phone that will cost you a hundred bucks after the same kidney contract really good phones really good deals both phones got really good numbers in our reviews so stick around if you're interested for a good device hit on Amazon aside from that wall of Amazon's app store is not really treating you well with just one application free a day you should have a look at the service called getjar which will offer a lot of really good applications for free though you'd ask what the catch but the catch is that if you have to get these applications you'll be stuck to one version meaning if you get version one point no love an application there are apparently no updates you'll only get that version and that's pretty much it not really sure if getjar is going to update this to offer more options but as of now it's a really cool way for you to try out an application before you buy if you like and you keep it and you buy from the you know android market or you just stick around with what you got and just deal with version 1 point 0 most applications are good from the start anyways out of the smartphone releases for the week spin is just announce that they'll be releasing their conquer 4g from samsung which will bring you why max out of august twenty-first for 100 bucks after two year contract sadly it looks like a cheap device though it'll bring you why max so you might want to consider it because it does look budget aside from that thinking about our reviews for the week our HTC evo 3d review is already live which got 4.5 out of 5 stars which is really good almost made our editors choice so you might want to consider that and aside from that our mytouch slide 4g also made our review being robbed though sadly got 3.5 out of 5 stars not really good and build quality and video quality so might want to consider reading Adams review before you continue and well deke Adams review on the droid 3 is already live in videos so you might want to stick around before considering buying any of these three devices because we always have your back on reviews on the software update side of things skype just released version 2.1 of their android application to bring video calling to more gingerbread compliant devices brandon and tony recently filmed the video demo showing how it works and it seems to work quite fine might want to hit the because it's currently free aside from that and speaking of those devices that require gingerbread the htc inspire 4G finally got the update though it's not really good to be smiling about these gingerbread updates because it's already a year old it should have been released a long time ago aside from that the HTC EVO shift 4G which is a mouthful to pronounce just got an update that allows you to fix the mms issues if anybody's still using mms i'm not really sure if they are and aside from that the Samsung continuum is finally getting froyo I can't believe I'm Iraq chua ly saying this froyo that should have been last year I mean I'm not really sure what these carriers and device manufacturers are taking so long to bring these updates along but actually they're at least there I mean anyways and for all of you living on that XDA developer edge you remember that HTC announced back in June that they'll be offering a portal to allow developers to create more integrated apps and experiences for HTC devices which is a load or unlock that everybody's looking for and that'll do a lot more than just that well ACC just offered a website called HTC dev com which is this portal that allows you to download these updates but sadly it currently has nothing it's just there to crash but remember you can always count on us on pocketnow.com to offer whatever these updates are available aside from that the famous signage in mod has just been ported to the lg optimus 3d at least tease that's really not there available to everybody just yet but it worked buttery smooth and 3d was also working which is really great not really sure what we're gonna get it but it's actually being tested so that's really good and well finally the sbf file for the motorola photon 4g and also the droid x2 is now available you know that SPF file in Ethernet whenever you mess up in using custom roms well it's already updated and it's already available you should be getting it just in case you want to really play around with custom roms okay so that does it for what's hot let's continue on with what's not spread has just pulled their gingerbread update to their bulky kyocera echo after customers were complaining of brick devices in their hands and also for those of them that were able to actually pull through the update they ended up with performance issues and you think that these manufacturers and these carriers would test their units and their updates before releasing after they take ages to release them but it seems that something went wrong right they're not really sure what the update will be rolled back to customers but you know just beware before you update and continuing on with sad gingerbread news HTC Thunderbolts update that was supposed to come out in June is now being mentioned to be pushed back to october and well not really sure what to make of it not really sure when we're going to get it but if it doesn't disappoint you enough i mean gingerbread is almost a year old it was released in december of last year and devices are barely getting it and those that are are having issues not really cool all right so dual-core processors are barely making the scene to a small handful of devices and many of us went crazy when nvidia recently announced their Tegra 3 kal-el quad-core processor recently and thought yeah that'll be cool because nvidia said that we're going to be releasing these processes are on tablets as of this month and on smartphones as a december but sadly not everything went well that proposal was too ambitious and vide just pulled back their announcement and said that no we're not going to get it this year we'll probably get it sometime in 2012 though sadly didn't offer specific dates or quarters I really sure what to make of it savvy Nvidia I mean again hey I mean it was ambitious we know we are barely getting dual core so we'll cut you some slack on that but don't play with our minds man don't go on 2013 or 2014 just 2012 early on make it happen that's it for today's show thank you very much for watching I'm high matter iveta remember to give us a thumbs up if you liked what you saw that's it for now