Strap in, folks. This one's gonna be a doozy. We were in Seattle this week for the launch of the Amazon Fire Phone and T-Mobile's latest "Uncarrier" events, and they both were big ones. Plus we give some last-minute thoughts on Google I/O before next week's developer conference. Join us!
Thing 1: Amazon Fire Phone Amazon Fire Phone hands-on Amazon Fire Phone specs The Amazon Fire Phone hands-on video! Pre-order the Amazon Fire Phone direct from Amazon, starting at $199 Fire Phone will be AT&T exclusive, ships late July Fire Phone landing at AT&T in 32GB for $199 and 64GB for $299 Amazon Fire Phone runs latest Fire OS, looks a lot like a smaller Kindle Fire Amazon announces Firefly, visual search on steroids Fire Phone comes rich in content Amazon's Fire Phone features a 13MP f2.0 camera and unlimited cloud storage Amazon Prime has 'tens of millions' of happy customers Amazon licensing Android Appstore to BlackBerry Amazon Appstore triples selection in a year to 240,000 apps Win a 64GB Amazon Fire Phone from Android Central! Thing 2: More T-Mobile Uncarrier craziness T-Mobile announces two massive network expansions Uncarrier 6: T-Mobile frees music from your data limits T-Mobile says it's open to adding more music services to Music Freedom T-Mobile teams up with Rhapsody for streaming music app Samsung Galaxy S5 joins T-Mobile's VOLTE ranks Here's your list of T-Mobile's Wideband LTE and VoLTE markets Thing 3: Google I/O preview Things we think we think. Thing 4: Other stuff Samsung announces Galaxy S5 LTE-A with QHD display, Snapdragon 805 CPU in South Korea Samsung: No plans to launch Galaxy S5 LTE-A globally [Update!] Nokia launches a predictive Android launcher HTC sells 50,000 HTC One E8 phones in China - in just 15 minutes Twitter adds native support for animated GIFs Nest Protect is back on sale for $99, gesture control not included This week's sponsors Squarespace.com (Use offer code ANDROID at checkout; view Jonathan Mann's jingle here!) ShopAndroid.com (use code AC10 at checkout)