Android Overload: Sony Xperia ZL headed to US sans contract, Twitter is killing off TweetDeck on everything, and more [VIDEO]

• Chris Chavez
• 12 years ago

The Android Overload is where we feature the biggest news stories from throughout the day (see above video), as well as stash all of the stories/articles/news bits that didn’t make it onto our front page. But just because they weren’t featured doesn’t mean they aren’t worth taking a look at. In fact, there’s almost always a little something here for everyone. So, take a look around and let us know if you find anything of interest.

• LG Intuition to receive VS95011B update courtesy of Verizon. [VerizonWireless]
• Samsung Galaxy Stellar to receive Android 4.1 Jelly Bean courtesy of Verizon. [VerizonWireless]
• HTC talks about “redefining HTC Sense” in their latest blog post. [HTCBlog]
• LG Optimus F5 coming to Verizon Wireless as the LG Lucid 2. [UnwiredView]
• TweetDeck is killing off AIR, Android and iOS apps thanks to Twitter. [TweetDeck]
• Facebook Messenger for Android adds free VoIP calling…. in Canada. [TechCrunch]
• Open Garden unleashes the full force of its crowdsourced mobile mesh app. [GigaOM]
• Samsung adds security layer to Android in an effort to help gain enterprise credibility. [AppleInsider]
• Chrome for Android updated in the Play Store, touted as fastest yet. Here’s some benchmarks putting it to the test. [ArsTechnica]
• Amazon’s Jeff Bezo’s beats Google execs in Forbe’s top billionaires ranking. [Wired]
• Sony Xperia ZL heading to the US sans contract, direct from the Sony Store. [XperiaBlog]
• Google puts its data-crunching powers to use mapping white spaces spectrum. [GigaOM]
• Handful of Android games currently on sale. [DroidGamers]
• LG makes Optimus G “Quick Cover” cases officially official. [LG]