TalkAndroid Daily Dose for July 30, 2014

July 30, 2014

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With hectic schedules, it can be hard to keep track of everything in your news feed. That's why we created the TalkAndroid Daily Dose. This is where we recap the day's hottest stories so you can get yourself up to speed in quick fashion. Happy reading!!

Apps

Yahoo Finance gets redesigned with new interactive graphs and real-time quotes

Carriers

U.S. Senate reports that companies are cramming customer bills with obscene charges

FreedomPop to offer LTE-enabled tablets with free voice, text and data

Samsung launches budget-friendly Galaxy Avant on T-Mobile

The FCC isn’t pleased with Verizon’s new policy to throttle unlimited data customers

Chrome

64-bit support for Chrome now in beta for Windows users

Google

Grab coffee with Eric Schmidt, Google’s chairman, for winning a charitable auction

Google to show off self-driving cars at Maker Camp this Friday

Google Hangouts made more business-friendly with latest changes

Phones

HTC holding press event on August 19, likely a One (M8) with Windows Phone

Huawei Ascend Mate 3 spotted in benchmarks packing powerful specs

Huawei teases new phone to be announced at IFA in September

Analysts predict LG G3 to be twice as popular as the G2 despite imminent iPhone 6 launch

Meizu MX4 may claim title of thinnest bezels

Trademarked “Moto Maxx” hints at potential Motorola handset

Samsung launches budget-friendly Galaxy Avant on T-Mobile

Samsung Galaxy Alpha to be officially unveiled on August 4th

Sony Xperia Z3 Compact gets photographed again

Tablets

FreedomPop to offer LTE-enabled tablets with free voice, text and data

Miscellaneous

Samsung is still the king of smartphones but continues to lose market share

Motorola announces change of leadership

Robert Nazarian Author

Robert lives in upstate New York where he was born and raised. Technology was always his passion. His first computer was a Radio Shack TRS80 Color that used a cassette tape to save programs, and his first laptop was a Toshiba T1200FB that sported a CGA greyscale screen and two 720kb floppy drives (no hardrive). From the early 90’s through late 2011, he only owned Motorola phones starting with the MircroTAC all the way through to the Droid X. He broke that streak when he bought the Galaxy Nexus. Now he's sporting a Galaxy Note 4, and absolutely loves it. He has a wonderful wife and a 6 year old son. In his free time he enjoys sports, movies, TV, working out, and trying to keep up with the rapid fast world of technology.