| Amazon backtracks, Chromecast orders will arrive before October Aug 9th 2013, 17:13, by Cory Gunther The Google Chromecast media streaming dongle is in strong demand at the moment. It is currently selling out anywhere and stores can’t keep it on the shelves. At least that’s what we keep hearing. Yesterday like us, many of you received depressing shipping “estimates” from Amazon stating a late October delivery, which is too long, but today they’ve backtracked on that statement. 
It appears that for those who ordered the Chromecast from Amazon before August 7th, you’ll be getting it in the coming weeks. Which is certainly better than the October 17-30th timeline they were quoting yesterday. Someone apparently made a mistake, or they’ve received more because Amazon is backtracking on that statement today with another email. Amazon has confirmed that was an incorrect estimate date, but it still looks like those purchasing one today or this weekend will have a long wait. The orders before yesterday are on track, but anything else might have you waiting a while. Here’s the official email right from Amazon themselves. “Thank you for your recent Chromecast purchase. Earlier today, you received an email indicating an incorrect estimated order delivery of late October. We are actively fulfilling orders weekly based on customer order date and all customers who placed orders prior to August 7 should receive their orders in the coming weeks and into mid-September. We will notify you as soon as your item ships and apologize for the confusion.
“Coming weeks and into mid-September” is key here. It sounds like most of you will be getting your orders for the Chromecast in late August, so in 2-3 weeks, and then another large batch will go out sometime in September, but they don’t have an exact idea of when. If you still haven’t purchased one yet, Google’s Play Store is quoting 2-3 week ship times, so that might be an idea. Personally I’d just check your local Best Buy a few times. |  | Nexus 7 user reports bring talk of GPS issues Aug 9th 2013, 16:45, by Robert Nelson The new Nexus 7 seems to be having trouble with the GPS. At the moment the discussion seems to be growing on the Google support forums as well as over on the xda-developers forums. Regardless of the location of those discussions though, it seems the issues are similar for many users. Basically, the GPS will be working and tracking as expected and then suddenly stop. 
Once stopped it goes into the “Searching” mode and apparently has a hard time coming back out. Some users report that a simple reboot will temporarily fix the issue, but that seems to be more a temporary fix than an actual solution. Other users have tried restoring the tablet back to original configuration and some have even gone as far as exchanging the tablet for new. Both of those paths seems to bring back the original issue of a faulty GPS. We have yet to see an official statement from Google on the issue, however according to several reports in those forums — they are aware and are working on a fix. The catch is that as of this time there is no estimate as to when that will arrive. While we wait on a fix from Google, which hopefully will come sooner rather than later, another user seems to have good results using an app called GPS Test. This is a free app available by way of the Play Store. That all being said, while GPS related issues are cause for a fix, there is probably some advantage to this happening on a tablet as opposed to smartphone. At least this way it likely caused problems or fewer users. VIA: phoneArena SOURCE: Google | | Amazon Kindle Fire expected with 1280 x 800 display and TI OMAP4 4470 processor Aug 9th 2013, 16:01, by Robert Nelson Amazon has yet to say anything in terms of when we can expect a Kindle Fire refresh, but judging from how the rumors seem to be picking up traction — it looks like that may be coming sooner rather than later. Aside from the recent spec related rumors we have also seen Amazon lower the prices on the current line of Kindle Fire HD tablets. The focus today is on the non-HD version of the Kindle Fire and it looks like a rather complete set of specs have leaked. 
This round of details have come by way of BGR, who are reporting that the entry-level Kindle Fire line will arrive with a display resolution of 1280 x 800 and powered by a dual-core 1.5GHz Texas Instruments OMAP4 4470 processor paired with PowerVR SGX544 graphics and 1GB of RAM. This is the same processor currently found in the first-generation Kindle Fire HD and will also serve as a nice bump from the 1.2GHz OMAP4 4430 processor current used in the entry-level Kindle Fire. This entry-level Kindle Fire refresh is also expected to be based on Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. This same report also touched on the storage and pricing. It was said the Kindle Fire will be selling for $159 with 8GB of storage. There was also mention of a model with 16GB and 32GB of storage, however the price for those remains a mystery. All said and done, it is looking like Amazon will take the next-generation of the Kindle Fire to a point where the current-generation of the Kindle Fire HD stands at this time. A release date has yet to be revealed, however it was said they are expected to arrive something in the fall. Of course, a fall refresh would fit in with previous patterns. Looking towards some of those Kindle Fire HD rumors and we have seen talk of the tablet arriving with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, 2GB of RAM and a display resolution of 2560 x 1600 for the 8.9-inch model. | |
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