Here’s Why Google Is Selling A Bumper With the Nexus 4

Front and back made of glass, like iPhone 4 and 4S. When Apple did it it was a gross oversight and the internet could not rest. Google does it and no one cares.

Here’s Why Google Is Selling A Bumper With the Nexus 4

Ubuntu gets a Nexus 7 installer

Phone Arena:

The point of this project is designed specifically to optimize the base system of Ubuntu including CPU, memory, and power issues. Canonical will not be working on changes to the Ubuntu UI or Unity with 13.04, those changes are tentatively scheduled for 14.04 which is due in April 2014. 

Now that is a real Open Source OS on a tablet.

Ubuntu gets a Nexus 7 installer

Google Nexus 10 leaks: Android 4.2, Exynos 5250 (1.7GHz), 2,560 x 1,600 resolution

Ugly as hell.

Google Nexus 10 leaks: Android 4.2, Exynos 5250 (1.7GHz), 2,560 x 1,600 resolution

NASA builds Android-based satellite

iDownloadBlog:

NASA will launch the Android-powered Nexus One smartphone this fall as the brains of a tiny nano-satellite. The Android phone will be at the heart of PhoneSat, a 4-inch cube space agency engineers are building using off-the-shelf parts with a $3,500 budget.

And of course, if there is an update, they will have to wait for the carrier to approve.

NASA builds Android-based satellite

Nexus Q Made in America? Not Quite, Teardown Finds

PCMag:

The company’s cheeky 21-step teardown revealed that Google’s claims that the product was “designed and manufactured in the U.S.” may not be 100 percent true; much of the device’s innards were created in Asia, then put together in America.

Though iFixit couldn’t place every piece’s origin, the company places them as likely being manufactured in areas that include France, Germany, China, the U.K., the Netherlands, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, India, or the Philippines.

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Truth in advertising.

Nexus Q Made in America? Not Quite, Teardown Finds

Anandtech: Google Nexus 7 and Android 4.1 – Mini Review

The ball is on Amazon’s court now, for the small affordable tablet market.

EFF: Apple devices are Beautiful Crystal Prisons.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says:

Apple’s recent products, especially their mobile iOS devices, are like beautiful crystal prisons, with a wide range of restrictions imposed by the OS, the hardware, and Apple’s contracts with carriers as well as contracts with developers. Only users who can hack or “jailbreak” their devices can escape these limitations.

And I love my little glass and aluminum jails. I presume the alternatives are using Android devices that are so “open”, that in most cases to really use the device as intended by Google, you either have to buy a Google approved device (Nexus), or root your equipment (the equivalent to jail breaking on iOS), because carriers and manufacturers put crap and restrictions on them.

Nobody is forcing anyone to buy an Apple device, if you don’t like it, there are alternatives.