I swear there’s a stereo unit in that picture somewhere. Anyways, Clarion has unveiled the first Android-based OEM grade car stereo and is in talks with a few major automakers to have them come standard in select models. These Froyo (yea, I know) packing AVN style double-DIN players will have all the features you crave in a car stereo.

Samsung has announced this evening that they’ve shipped a surprising five million Galaxy Notes in only five month’s time. The 5.3-inch phablet has received a lot of attention from Samsung, ever since it was launched overseas in October. Samsung touted the larger screen and stylus, and even showed it off during the Super Bowl.

Ever wonder who exactly Samsung hired to test out the Galaxy Note before shipping it out to retailers across the globe? It was no easy task finding a quality assurance team that measured up to the pure magnitude of the Galaxy Note, but after interviewing nearly a dozen teams, Samsung went with lead QA Engineer Peter the elephant and his expert team of mixed mammals.

The LG Lucid will be coming to Verizon in a couple days and packs some decent specs at an affordable price. For $79.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate, you can have yourself a dual-core 1.2GHz 4G LTE device. Unfortunately is will launch with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) but Verizon is promising an Android 4.0 update at some point. Other specs of the LG Lucid include:

If the lack of a quad-core processor had you balking at the idea of purchasing a stateside HTC One X, you might want to take a look at the following benchmarks because the results of the Snapdragon S4 version show that quad-core isn’t everything. A forum member over at Android Central was able to give us a look at some early benchmarks using an AT&T HTC One X and Vellamo and Quadrant benchmark tools. The results are astonishing and have the S4 destroying quad-core powerhouses such as the ASUS Transformer Prime.