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Android Summer continues as we prepare for the Fourth of July here in the U.S. and Jason Howell, Huyen Tue Dao and Ron Richards are pondering their T-Mobile bill and impossibly thin phones with huge batteries while trying to stay coolNote: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor00:05:14 - NEWSHot off the heels of last week's news of T-Mobile being the best carrier in the U.S., the news breaks that T-Mobile is forcing millions of customers on legacy plans to current, more expensive plans. Not cool.Android phones alerted millions of people ahead of the earthquake in Venezuela - exactly how did it all work?Massive upgrade to 50W wireless charging may be in Qi2's future for Googe Pixel phonesPATRON PICK: How can the Tecno Camon Slim be 6.39mm thick and have a 5,600mAh Battery??00:39:21 - HARDWARENothing officially revealed the Nothing 4(b) design and it's pretty good!Samsung unveils the Samsung Galaxy A27 5G and they really want you to think it's awesomeCould the Samsung Rollable be coming sooner than we think?The Clicks Communicator is real and it's fantastic! A First Look video shows off the device.00:57:41 - APPS 'n SOFTWARE 'n STUFFAndroid 17 making foldables fun for gaming is no joke!Hey! Google made an app for Finance!And Google is giving you more controls over backups!But Google is taking away a loophole for FitBit users to avoid Google HealthYou can now watch Instagram Reels on TVs with Google Cast.01:09:42 - COMMUNITY FEEDBACKBecky B. from New Jersey has a use for an old Razr plus tales of selling Meta Ray BansJordan "Sassquatch" from Montana has a throwback use for an old phoneAndrew LeRoy reports from flyover country about why T-Mobile isn't so hot and why AT&T is still king

We're kicking off summer...no, we're kicking off ANDROID Summer as Jason Howell, Huyen Tue Dao and Ron Richards get ready for a wild, green summer of new phones and operating systems with bumpy rollouts!PATREON SPECIAL: We're celebrating our 3rd Anniversary all month and you can get 20% off a membership at Patreon with code AF3 at https://www.patreon.com/c/AndroidFaithfulNote: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor00:05:43 - NEWSThis just in! T-Mobile is the best mobile carrier in the U.S. Can you believe it?Drama update for the timeline on the Google Developer verification processLooking for something to do with your old smartphone? Have you thought about turning it into a data center?PATRON PICK: If not a data center, here's 5 other things you can do with your old Android phone00:38:48 - HARDWAREJason reviews the Motorola Edge 2026Lots of Nothing news as the CMF Phone is dead due to RAM Prices, the 4(B) Phone gets teased, and they're back dreaming up phones that will never get builtFinally, the Google Home Speaker gets an on-sale date and a price! June 25th and $99!The OnePlus 16 might go bezel-less - where have we heard this before?01:04:49 - APPS 'n SOFTWARE 'n STUFFAndroid 17's rollout has been...not so smooth as some users have lost 5G support, and other users lost touch input, and some other users lost their widgets.But hey, it's not all bad news with Android 17. They quietly added support for LHDC Audio!Looks like Google is also working on something called "Audio Memory" which likely will improve music recognition but could also listen to your conversations...but you know, in a good way. Maybe? We hopeSo you like to sideload apps, but how do you handle updates. Well, here's a solution!

The show starts with a bang as Jason, Huyen, and Flo consider what you might call Android smartphone reviewers obsession with carrying around multiple smartphones at any given time. Plus, the crew tries really REALLY hard to catch the attention of Coca-Cola. Oh, and there's plenty of chat about actual Android news as well.PATREON SPECIAL: We're celebrating our 3rd Anniversary all month and you can get 20% off a membership at Patreon with code AF3 at https://www.patreon.com/c/AndroidFaithfulNote: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor00:09:35 - NEWSBig Day for Android: Android 17 Released! WearOS 7 Released! June Pixel Drop!Android 17 Is Now Live for Anyone With a Pixel SmartphoneCheck out what's new in Android 17Wear OS 7 helps your smartwatch keep up with youJune Pixel Drop: New features for creators, Gemini upgrades and moreVerizon sent man a refurbished phone with MDM, then deleted his data remotelyQualcomm Announces Snapdragon Reality Elite, Its New Flagship XR ChipsetXREAL’s Android XR glasses will cost under $1,500, which isn’t as expensive as it soundsRelated: Snap is finally about to ship AR glasses — and they cost a fortunePATRON PICK: /e/OS 4.0 is here: Murena's Android fork makes it even easier to escape Google's clutches00:44:12 - HARDWAREExclusive: Nothing headphones and smartphones are now available at Best Buy in the USThis budget phone has a dot-matrix camera lens.Lenovo’s new rugged Android tablet has a removable battery, now on sale for $49900:56:43 - APPS 'n SOFTWARE 'n STUFFWaze now shows traffic lights on your route, but it’s rolling out slowlyTelegram brings back its Wear OS app after five years with chats, voice messages, more01:05:04 - COMMUNITYTharanga from Australia agrees with Huyen from last week's AI tirade.

We're still recovering from last week's After Hours Ulefone insanity, luckily Huyen Tue Dao returns to the show to ground Jason Howell and Ron Richards as things get real about AI and Development.PATREON SPECIAL: We're celebrating our 3rd Anniversary all month and you can get 20% off a membership at Patreon with code AF3 at https://www.patreon.com/c/AndroidFaithfulNote: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor00:08:43 - NEWSCheck your Spam folder! You might have money from the Google Assistant settlement waiting for you to claim!Looks like Google has quietly been buying code from developers to train AI. Is that a bad thing? Why does it feel icky?And here we thought we were getting along with Apple? Apple's newest commercial really tries hard to make Android look bad.PATRON PICK: The old Google Nest Mini and Audio and heading off the shelves ahead of the new devices finally coming out00:42:12 - HARDWARELooks like there's going to be a lot of Googlebooks to choose fromTablets are in again! ASUS is back in the game with the new ASUS Pad!Unboxing the Motorola Edge 202600:56:48 - APPS 'n SOFTWARE 'n STUFFThere's a ton of new cool stuff in the Android June Canary Release! Like how Screen Reactions work!Check out how Magic Cue works in third party apps!Google is creating the stuff of nightmares thanks to Gemini Personal Intelligence with DreambeansGoodbye Pixel Studio, we had fun with you while it lastedNewPipe and other open source apps are preparing for the Sideloading apocalypse01:17:13 - COMMUNITYGeorge writes in to share that he uses ProtonMail by emailing us with ProtonMail for Android

We're thrilled to welcome Robb Dunewood from Daily Tech News Show and The Tech Jawn to the show and it's weird and wild week! Jason Howell and Ron Richards weren't quite prepared for how weird it would get.PATREON SPECIAL: We're celebrating our 3rd Anniversary all month and you can get 20% off a membership at Patreon with code AF3 at https://www.patreon.com/c/AndroidFaithfulNote: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor00:08:30 - NEWSMicrosoft is getting in on the Agentic AI game on Android as well with Project SolaraThe next Google Store is opening in Tokyo!We've got market data! The US Smartphone market declined by 3% in Q1 and the Foldable market was down as well.PATRON PICK: Proton Mail is making it easy for you to switch from GMail to Proton Mail00:36:20 - HARDWAREA big leaked view of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 is shocking! And perhaps the crease will be better?Looking for the perfect high-end foldable? Look no further than the the Vertu Alphafold priced at $6,800We're not kidding with this one: a scuba diver found the Pixel Watch 5 in the ocean. You can't make this up. Or maybe you can?The Google Home Speaker with Gemini may be finally going on sale...in Canada.01:00:29 - APPS 'n SOFTWARE 'n STUFFThe Android Feature Drop for June is here and it's packed with safety and fashion!Google Gemini Spark is now available and Jason has been hands-on with itThe next generation of document scanning is here with Google Drive and it's pretty darn impressive

Hey hey the gang's all here for the Google I/O Post Mortem. Huyen Tue Dao returns from KotlinConf to join Florence Ion, Jason Howell and Ron Richards to put a bow on Google I/O and wrap things up and make sense of all the AI plus the news of the week in Android.Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor00:06:51 - NEWSIn case you missed it, there was A LOT of things announced at Google I/O. 100 things in fact...Google managed to sneak in some Android news at Google I/O, including a sneak peek at the upcoming "Continue On" featureOver in Apple land, iOS27 may support Google Cast natively, but with a catchPATRON PICK: Details on the phones that will work with Gemini Intelligence may be disappointing for people with older phones00:41:05 - HARDWAREWas there a Pixel 11/Pixel Glow tease at Google I/O? Calm down, no there wasn't.Rollable phones are the next big thing and it looks like Samsung will be leading the way againFlo is hands-on with the Fitbit Air and has opinions about the new Google Health app01:07:08 - APPS 'n SOFTWARE 'n STUFFAnother bit of Android at Google I/O was Android Halo and we found out what it is!Jumping on the trend...Android icons go Disco!Google Play will soon start letting you know when you have a "dead" app on your phone01:15:50 - COMMUNITYHoward from San Diego was at the opening of the new Google Store and shared photosCCOMario found a Samsung gesture for screenshots that they never knew existed!

The day has finally arrived! With the world of developers and Google enthusiasts descending on Mountain View, CA for the annual Google I/O conference! Jason Howell and Ron Richards braved the sun and brutal heat to bring you all the I/O experience from the keynote to hands-on demos and more!Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor00:01:58 - GEMINIIn case you haven't noticed, Gemini is kind of a big deal at Google and was the backbone for the announcements and updates from the Google Keynote address. From the latest and greatest Gemini 3.5 Flash to updates to the Gemini App and everything in-between.00:19:21 - SEARCHThis year's I/O Keynote brought about some pretty dramatic updates and changes to the search engine experience, mainly drive by the past year's success of AI Overviews and more advances in, you guessed it...Gemini00:33:50 - ANDROIDWhile the Keynote was light on Android, there was an entire section dedicated to Android XR and we got to check out some of the new glassesWe also got to experience the new Android Auto and yes, the new updates are impactful!While all this happened, Google announced WearOS 7 and some developer updates for Google TV

Google I/O season officially kicks off as The Android Show: I/O Edition unveils what Google has been up to when it comes to Android, with a shift from "Operating System" to "Intelligence System." We're excited to welcome Sameer Samat, President, Android Ecosystem at Google back to the show to break down what it all means and discuss the details of today's announcements along with a broad range of topics from Gemini and AI to the new Googlebooks to the controversial sideloading apps topic and what it means to steward an operating system used by billions of people globally.Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor00:00:40 - NEWSGoogle unveiled The Android Show: I/O Edition and rolled out a ton of new features aimed at evolving Android into an "Intelligence System" along with introducing the new line of laptops called Googlebooks, updates to Android Auto and much more!00:09:27 - INTERVIEWAn in-depth discussion with Sameer Samat, President, Android Ecosystem at Google about the news coming out of The Android Show: I/O Edition00:57:15 - HARDWAREGoogle also launched the new line of fitness trackers, the Fitbit AirAnd in doing so, killed the Fitbit Premium app and rebranded it to Google Health and a lot of people are unhappy about that01:05:21 - APPS 'n SOFTWARE 'n STUFFAhead of Google I/O, Android 17 QPR 1 Beta 2 rolled out with bug fixes and a little bit of new stuffPhotography fans rejoiced as Google finally released Snapseed 4.0!

An exciting time for Android is on the horizon and Huyen Tue Dao, Jason Howell and Ron Richards are very much here for it!Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor00:04:04 - NEWSWell, it happened - The Android Show - Google I/O Edition was announced for next week on May 12! Also Google is looking for vibe coded contributions to the Countdown to Google I/O.The OnePlus downward spiral continues as reports emerge that OnePlus is being merged with RealMeAfter years of leaks, Evan Blass aka EvLeaks is calling it quits, again.PATRON PICK: More leaks and sneak peeks at what Pixel Glow might be, this time on a laptop!00:38:28 - HARDWAREThe new line of Motorola Razr Foldables for 2026 are here!A leak of the Pixel 11 reveals more about the camera, the Tensor G6 and the specsA timeline emerges for the Clicks Communicator00:55:36 - APPS 'n SOFTWARE 'n STUFFGoogle is making Cars smarter with GeminiA new AI Assistant app was released by Google...and then disappearedNow you can make custom Multi-view screens on YouTube TV!01:09:32 - COMMUNITYMike from GA shares his take on people's reaction to smart glasses