This week’s Engadget Podcast is a Q&A focused episode, so many of the topics are touched on fairly briefly. To keep up with all of them, see the short list at the end of this post.
One of the bigger questions broadly asks what the guys are looking most forward to for the rest of the year. Josh starts things off with a primarily mobile-centric list, highlighting the possibilities of HP/Palm and Windows Phone 7. Nilay’s anticipating Google’s possibly catalog, which might bring Chrome OS to relevance or put a wholehearted foot into the door of the tablet space. Paul comes from a completely different angle, hoping that the Kindle 4 might have something to offer over what earlier models have thus far.
The failure of the Microsoft Kin has been big tech news for the last week or so and the Engadget crew welcomes Michael Gartenburg back onto the show to defend an opinion he declared on an earlier episode. Michael has a lot to defend and bases a lot of his argument on how more vertical markets are going to be vital to companies like Microsoft when companies like Apple can hook onto such mainstream targets. The guys then go on to talk about how the mistakes of Kin might teach some lessons about how Windows Phone 7 should be executed.
Covered technology and topics: Fring on iPhone 4, most anticipated tech late 2010, Windows Phone 7 – does it fit somewhere between Apple and Google?, Microsoft Kin, iPhone 4 on Verizon, why does Engadget <3 Macs, why hasn’t anyone made a MacBook Pro competitor in terms of build quality
Find out what happens when consumer electronics news stops being polite and starts getting real: the Engadget Podcasters take your questions. Find out the real story behind Kin‘s failure (hint: it was Josh’s fault), why the Engadget staff is Mac-based (hint: it has to do with nested stock options), and why Paul Miller is still playing Chrono Trigger.
Runtime – 1:27:24
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