Android Central Podcast Episode 42

Android 2.3 Gingerbread

• Gingerbread SDK is released! Update: Video
• Minimum CPU speed for Gingerbread? Googlers say no
• Previewing Gingerbread with the 2.3 SDK [how-to]
• Gingerbread developers have new toys to play with
• Gingerbread SDK ROMs everywhere
• Gingerbread keyboard code includes Playstation buttons
• Oops! Bug found (and fixed) in the Android 2.3 SDK Eclipse plugin
• Someone at Google got a little artistic in the Gingerbread SDK
• Gingerbread gets Arabic, slew of other new languages
• Android 2.3 User Guide now available for your viewing pleasure
• Get the Gingerbread launcher now

Which phones will be updated?

• 'Will my phone get Gingerbread?' Here's our official unofficial upgrade list
• Nexus One's Gingerbread update 'coming in a few weeks'
• LG says Optimus One line will get Gingerbread, now quit asking

Nexus S is announced

• Nexus S available Dec. 16 at Best Buy, Dec. 20 at Carphone Warehouse (Update: Pricing announced)
• Nexus S landing page now live: T-Mobile, Gingerbread, 1GHz processor
• Nexus S and Gingerbread video gallery
• Google and NXP integrate NFC in Android 2.3, starting with the Nexus S
• The Nexus S backstory: Pure Google

Other OS updates

• How to manually apply Android 2.2.1 for the Droid X
• Bell Mobility rolling out Froyo to its Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant users

Honeycomb

• Andy Rubin demos Honeycomb on prototype Motorola tablet, coming in 2011
• Video: Andy Rubin with the Motorola tablet and Honeycomb

Hardware news

• Android activations now number over 300,000 daily, Andy Rubin tweets
• Notion Ink Adam tablet -- all six variants -- available for preorder later today
• PlayStation Phone runs Neocore -- poorly -- on video

Software news

• Goobye, tiles: Google Maps to get update with vector graphics [Updated]
• Gmail app updated with better reply, priority inbox features
• YouTube, Voice Search apps updated
• Android Quick App: Madden NFL 2011
• Google's eBooks go live, available on Android, iOS, and the web
• Google Books vs. Amazon Kindle