Phandroid Weekly Wrap Up 8-19-11 [Video]

• Chris Chavez
• 13 years ago

• Google buys Motorola Mobility for $12.5 BILLION – (Googorola, Moogle)
• Nokia CEO warns Android manufacturers.
• Does this mean Motorola is a shoe in for the next Nexus? Not according to Google.
• LG was originally chosen to build the first Android device but backed out.
• Google celebrates Motorola purchase with a game of ping-pong.
• All Android OEM’s approve of Google and Motorola’s deal.
• HP is out of the PC, phone and tablet business. WebOS could end up opened sourced.
• Samsung Epic Touch 4G (NOT Epic 4G Touch) first Galaxy S II device to launch in the U.S. Expected September 9th. (FIRSTIES!)
• Sprint could buy Clear (Clearwire) for $600 million.
• HTC Sensation and Evo 3D both have received Android 2.3.4 updates this week and bootloader unlock support from HTCdev site.
  More pics of the the Samsung Hercules (Galaxy S II) were revealed with benchmarks but this time on Telus (Cananada).
• Motorola DROID Bionic is almost here! $299 with 2-year agreement and $587 full price.Motorola Droid HD leaked pics. Stealing the Bionic’s thunder?
• Both Samsung and HTC throwing big events in Berlin, Germany for IFA on September 1st. What will be revealed?
• Ruby is now known as the T-Mobile Amaze 4G.
• HTC Ruby and Samsung Hercules leaked launch dates for Oct 26th.
• HTC Vigor leaked pic from Dutch retailer site.
• Leaked pics of the HTC Holiday show up on Craiglist post.
• Samsung roadmap leaks TWICE. This time revealing a 720p device dropping in late October with Ice Cream Sammie.
• New Asus Transformer sequel with Nvidia’s quad-core Kal-El processor expected very soon
• Warez version of the DogFighting app targets illegal app downloaders with funny malware.
• Minecraft Pocket available on Android! Yay! But only for the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. Boo!
• Verizon’s Galaxy S II leaked pics. Will be known as the Samsung Celox and packing 4G LTE.