Thing 1: 2011 Android Central Awards

• The 2011 Android Central Awards Readers-Choice Picks
• The 2011 Android Central Awards Editors' Picks

Thing 2: A look ahead at 2012

Hope everybody had a good one!

Google Currents is finally live, 10 days of 10-cent apps celebrate 10 billion downloads, and we throw a massive Samsung Galaxy Nexus Q&A. Listen in!

Thing 1: Google Currents

• Google announces Currents, its finger-friendly, Flipboard-esque news reader
• Android Central on Google Currents 

Thing 2: 10-cent app extravaganza

• Google's 10-cent app sale part of 10 billion downloads promo
• Day 3 of Google's 10-day, 10-cent, 10 billion app download celebration
• Day 2 of Google's 10-day, 10-cent, 10 billion app download celebration 

Thing 3: Your Samsung Galaxy Nexus questions

• Lots and lots of questions

Thing 1: The ASUS Transformer Prime

• ASUS Transformer Prime review
• Hands-on with the ASUS Transformer Prime
• Look for the Transformer Prime around the week of Dec. 19, ASUS says
• How-To: Root the Asus Transformer Prime

Thing 2: State of the Galaxy Nexus

• GSM Galaxy Nexus factory images now available
• Best Buy seems to think the Galaxy Nexus is in stock Dec. 11
• Samsung Galaxy Nexus battery life -- some updated impressions
• How-To: Manually flash the OTA to your Galaxy Nexus
• Galaxy Nexus press photos extracted from Verizon website

Thing 3: The Carrier IQ saga

• Carrier IQ withdraws 'misguided' cease-and-desist letter, apologizes to security advocate TrevE
• Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) wants answers
• UK networks insist they don't use Carrier IQ software
• Editorial: Carrier IQ -- the 'evil' we agree to and hate that we did it