Customized Androids, Prepaid Cellphone Plans, and Refurbished Laptops

The Upgrade by Lifehacker

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Tech News, News, How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.6 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2013

⏱️ 83 minutes

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This week on the podcast we're talking about how manufacturers cheat on smartphone benchmarks, creating your own customized version of Android, and awesome URL tricks for YouTube. We're also answering your questions about prepaid cellphone plans, buying refurbished laptops, and syncing your podcast feeds between Android and iOS. Looking for the show notes? You can find this episode at http://lifehacker.com/1440865980 (after 5:00 PM PT the day of the show) and all episodes at http://lifehacker.com/theshow (anytime). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this week's episode of the LifeHacker podcast.
0:03.7	It is...
0:04.1	Welcome to this week's episode of the Lifehacker podcast.
0:07.4	It is October 3rd, and this week we are talking about smartphone benchmarks and whether they actually mean anything,
0:12.7	creating your own customized version of Android, and awesome URL tricks for YouTube.
0:16.8	We're also answering your questions about prepaid cell phone plans, buying refurbished laptops,
0:21.6	and syncing your podcast feeds between Android and iOS.
0:24.6	And as always, we'll be going through our favorite tips and downloads of the week, and welcome to the show.
0:54.9	I am Whitson Gordon.
0:56.0	I'm Adam Dodgers.
0:56.9	And with us, we have Alan Henry joining us via Google Hangouts.
0:59.7	What's up, Alan?
1:01.1	Not much.
1:01.6	How are you guys?
1:02.3	We are good.
1:03.3	Well, I'm good.
1:03.9	I don't know about Dodgers.
1:04.9	I'm still eating those expired vegetables.
1:06.2	No, I'm much better this week. I realized that I may have overstated the problem because we had a, well,
1:15.1	who wrote an article about this?
1:17.0	Someone wrote a blog post about don't make Adam Dottius' mistakes with Explared vegetables,
1:22.1	and it gave me a hearty laugh this morning. Yeah, where it discussed how I was passing out, which I may have
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