In Other News: 15/03/2013.

• Google's Larry Page has confirmed that 'Android is the most used mobile operating system in the world: we have a global partnership of over 60 manufacturers; more than 750 million devices have been activated globally; and 25 billion apps have now been downloaded from Google Play.' The LittleGreenRobot is still on to hit 1 billion device activations by the end of this year!
  Via AndroidCentral.

• Microsoft had a big Outlook and Hotmail outage yesterday which knocked SkyDrive, Hotmail, and Outlook offline temporarily. Microsoft tried to update its data centre firmware and the regular process "resulted in a rapid and substantial temperature spike in the data centre" for some unspecified reason! That is why your email was down for 16 hours yesterday!
  Via TheVerge.

• MoDaCo are reporting that HTC's brand new HTC One handset will have some trouble if you unlock your bootloader. There are apps like the Calculator, Flashlight, Ringtone Trimmer and Sound Recorder, all of which are installed after a factory reset from a pre-loaded directory. But, when when the bootloader is unlocked this directory gets wiped so these apps are permanently vanished! Just take that into account until HTC fix the issues!
  Via MoDaCo.

• Nintendo have been found guilty of infringing a 3D patent which lets you experience 3D without glasses, which is owned by Seijiro Tomita. The federal jury in New York fined Nintendo $30.2 million in compensatory damages.
  Via Reuters.

• Samsung announced a new 'GamePad' accessory yesterday for their smartphones which can support phones which have screens from 4 - 6.3". Many people have taken this specific 6.3" maximum to mean that the Galaxy Note III will be that size! Seems plausible to us!
  Via UnwiredView.

• Samsung is now also China's biggest smartphone manufacturer with 17.7% of the market, about 4% better off than Lenovo!
  Via Cellular-News.

• Nokia have confirmed updates will be rolling out to each of the Lumia 920's, 820's and the 620's. Theupdates are basically bug fixes and optimisations for everything from camera image quality through to touchscreen responsiveness! For more details check out Nokia's site here!
  Via UnwiredView.

• Verizon has approved update 9.16.6 for the Motorola Droid Razr HD and the Razr Maxx HD! The update fixes lots of bugs and you can find more details over on Android Police here!

And finally, if you're a UK resident and you're looking to stand out in the smartphone crowd then Asus' Padfone 2 is now available from CarphoneWarehouse. To be fair the deals aren't too unreasonable; for example you can snag a free Padfone and the tablet dock for as little as £33 a month, otherwise you can reduce the monthly outlay by paying upfront for the dockable device! Check out the website here for full details!
Via Eurodroid.

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30/11/2012: EE to sign a naming deal with Wembley Stadium? $99 Nexus 7? Jelly Bean for the Razr HD's and much more!

Wembley Stadium to sign a naming deal with phone network EE!

   England's most iconic sporting arena may be on the verge of getting a little name change! The mobile brand EE is on the verge of becoming a "naming partner of Wembley Stadium," according to John Reynolds of Marketing Magazine. 

   It's been reported that The FA has been on the look our for a commercial partner for the stadium for quite a while. If the rumours are correct it looks like this deal could be worth somewhere in the region of £8M per year, which translates into 12.8M US Dollars. 

   Thankfully the agreement will not mean that the Wembley name will be changed to the EE Arena, or whatever else EE's marketing guys could come up with! The FA realised that that would have been an alienating decision, but EE will likely be incorporated into the stadium name in one way or another, probably along the lines of 'Wembley in association with EE.'

   This would be EE's first move into the football advertising world but T-Mobile and Orange have sponsored Bayern Munich and the French football league already.

Via CampaignLive.

In other news:

• Android Community think they may have proof of a $99 Nexus 7. What do you think? Check out the sourcelink here!

• Sony has overtaken HTC in the amount of Android based mobile phones sold during Q3 in the UK! HTC, who were previously second, sold 440,000 handsets during the autumn, whereas Sony pushed ahead selling 500,000!
  
  Unsurprisingly it was Samsung who were out in front but it's good news for Sony, who put their success down to the greater confidence in its name since they dropped the Ericsson branding, but Sony has released so many different handsets to cover every budget and every need that that must have had something to do with their success!
  Mobile Today via Eurodroid.

• The Xbox SmartGlass app for Android has been updated to have compatibility with 7" tablets as well as phones! Unfortunately there's no news on if or when 10" tablets will have compatibility, but we'll let you know if we hear any more. You can get the update here!
  Via AndroidCommunity.

• A study from analytics group called App Annie has been released today. The research looked into the revenues generated from both Google Play and the App Store. This first report suggests that Google Play revenue is up 311%! Revenue for the App Store was up a much smaller 12.9% to 2012. Revenue for the App Store was up too, but the growth wasn't quite as spectacular with revenues up 12.9%, but on the whole iDevices are still more profitable. Is this finally the growth of developer profit on Android? Have you got an app and noticed a big difference lately? Let us know!
  Via Slashgear.

• For those of you without an Xbox Live Gold subscription you will be able to play online for free this weekend because it's a free Gold weekend! Get online guys!
  Via Slashgear.

And finally, if you're the proud owner of a Droid Razr HD or a Droid Razr Maxx HD then it seems that all your Jelly Bean dreams are set to come true next week as Verizon has promised that an OTA is going to arrive "in phases starting next week"! The update will include both Google Now and ISIS compatibility!

Via Engadget.

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