Microsoft’s Kin announcement takes center stage at the beginning of this week’s episode. No one is too excited about the new feature phones, but Chris does come on and has some positive things to say about the potential they have for the tween market. His argument is that parents don’t won’t to worry about data plans and the possibility that their children will download a lot of expensive apps.
HTC has revealed the now dubbed Droid Incredible. It is very reminiscent of the Nexus One, except it offers an optical tracking area instead of a track ball, and it features an 8 Megapixel camera in place of the One’s 5 megapixel offering. The guys also cover the news that Palm may be up for sale. HTC continues to seem like one of the best companies to go after Palm, but Apple comes up as well.
Apple’s refresh of the MacBook Pro line finishes the show along with some reader questions.
The Engadget Podcasters invade the hearts and minds of the Upload Generation and succeed in uncovering Rosa‘s home telephone number and Friendster profile whilst waxing poetic on the fates of their favorite and most generous corporate sponsors.
00:03:25 - Live from Microsoft’s ‘It’s Time To Share’ event!
00:03:51 - Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two announced: Windows Phone roots with a social slant (updated with video)
00:10:00 - Microsoft Kin: everything you ever wanted to know
00:11:28 - Editorial: Engadget on Microsoft Kin
00:17:25 - Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two first hands-on !
00:25:00 - Microsoft: Kin and Windows Phone 7 will share more technology over time
00:42:44 - HTC Droid Incredible officially official for Verizon, April 29 for $200 (updated with a live shot!)
00:48:50 - Bloomberg: Palm is up for sale
00:56:39 - Who should buy Palm?
00:51:00 - Palm also looking at licensing webOS and / or finding new investors
00:53:00 - HTC ‘continues to assess’ developing its own smartphone OS, Palm says ‘hey, assess this’
00:58:54 - Apple refreshes MacBook Pro family with Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors… at long last!
01:00:00 - MacBook Pro Core i7 unboxing and preview
01:02:05 - MacBook Pro Core i7 review
01:12:45 – Listener questions
Runtime – 1:24:36
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