AT&T is joining T-Mobile in shutting down their 2G network over the course of 2016. The announcement came from AT&T CFO John Stevens in an article in Wireless Weekly. According to the report, AT&T has already started the process of re-purposing their 2G spectrum for faster LTE service in areas where 2G usage has dropped off. The plan is to have this complete by the end of the year.
After being available only from Nextbit directly, the Nextbit Robin has finally come to Amazon. The phone is available for the same price of $399 and it is available in both colors, Midnight Blue and Mint and has the full US warranty as well. Basically this will give you the option to buy it on Amazon if you do a lot of shopping with the online retailer and want to get it fast thanks to it being Prime eligible.
After teasing the update last month, Nextbit has released the big update to the Nextbit Robin that brings a slew of improvements and updates. The update is rolling out now as an OTA update and should hit all devices out there over the course of the next few days. The banner part of the update is, of course, Android Marshmallow 6.0.1 and the update includes the April security update as well so you are getting the latest-and-greatest version of Android on the device.
Google Calendar has an update rolling out today that will make finding common meeting times with your co-workers much easier and faster. The update brings a new feature, Find a time, that will look at your calendar and the calendar of others you are inviting to a meeting to find an open time that works for everyone. The feature will only be available for those who use Google Apps for Work and Education which makes sense given that everyone would be in the same domain and calendars would be readable by the app.
Readers will know that I don’t post a lot about rumors because they are, well, rumors. But this one was just too good not share. It looks like we are going to see not one but two new Nexus devices coming from HTC, possibly as soon as next month at I/O. The rumor and support for it comes from Android Police and that team has a great track record for getting these types of rumors right. They did it 2014 and 2015 with the Nexus 6, 6P and 5X.