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Engadget Podcast 214 – 09.30.2010

by Jon Cole in Tech593 days ago

With the release of the Apple TV, the spread of Hulu Plus to more devices, and Engadget’s review of the Roku XDS, the future of television is clearly on the minds of the Engadget crew. The Apple TV is most disappointing in its lack of access to quality content, failing on its promise of streaming rentals by discluding popular TV shows like Modern Family and popular new films like Iron Man 2. Roku’s newest line of products like the XDS and revised HD present a slightly stronger argument as far as set-top boxes go, with Nilay making the...

Engadget Podcast 213 – 09.18.2010

by Jon Cole in Tech607 days ago

The Nokia saga continues this week on the Engadget Podcast, starting things off with news from Nokia World. While the Finnish phonemaker seems to have some well engineered phones at the conference, the company seems to still be in the shadow of Symbian and refuses to move forward quickly with their newest MeeGo operating system. Almost equally boring was HTC’s London event, where they presented the “status quo”-serving Desire Z and Desire HD phones. The mobile-heavy first third of the show wraps up with some information on the...

Engadget Podcast 212 – 09.11.2010

by Jon Cole in Tech613 days ago

Josh, Paul, and Nilay start off this week’s podcast with the somewhat morbid state of Nokia. Stephen Elop of Microsoft’s Business Division usurped OPK as the Finnish company’s CEO, which doesn’t inspire much optimism given the fact that Nokia needs more of a Steve Jobs than a Steve Ballmer. In other depressing mobile news, the guys talk a little bit about the bastardization of Android OS on various recent handsets, most specifically the Samsung Fascinate. For some reason, Verizon decided to force Bing search as the default...

Engadget Podcast 211 – 09.04.2010

by Jon Cole in Tech621 days ago

The Engadget Podcast is pretty chunky this week with plenty of tech news and the return of Nilay Patel. Much of the beginning of the show is devoted to Apple’s announcements earlier in the week, starting off with the Apple TV. After much back-patting due to some great rumor reporting, the guys talk about how AirPlay and rentals have the potential to change the marketplace when put into a device with this much attention. They then proceed to the watch-like nature of the revised Nano and how Apple totally rebooted after the previous lack of...

Engadget Podcast 210 – 08.27.2010

by Jon Cole in Tech629 days ago

This week’s Engadget Podcast is very similar to last week’s, covering mostly mobile devices and cameras, but lacks one Nilay Patel. The Samsung Galaxy Tab opens things up, though there’s not too much to say about it. The 7-inch Android tablet doesn’t seem to have anything particularly innovative, though does have a Hummingbird processor and a high pixel-density screen. A handful of Android and Windows Phone 7 phones have been leaked or revealed in the past week, probably the most notable and interesting being the T-Mobile...

Engadget Podcast 209 – 08.20.2010

by Jon Cole in Games, Tech634 days ago

Myriam Joire joins the Engadget Podcast this week, delivering some Engadget Mobile goodness early in the show with her glowing impressions of the Sprint Epic 4G. The guys aren’t completely convinced by Myriam’s claim that the Epic is probably better than the EVO 4G but agree with her assertion that the Epic might set a new standard for the baseline offerings of an Android phone. In other mobile news, the crew briefly hits on Josh’s dreamphone, the Motorola Charm. While the idea of the Charm running the Moto Blur Android UI skin isn’t too...

Engadget Podcast 208 – 08.13.2010

by Jon Cole in Games, Tech644 days ago

With the Engadget Show pushing back the Engadget Podcast to this week, the crew has a lot of ground to cover in one episode. They start off by hammering the Blackberry Torch, which makes some minor advances while losing ground in terms of speed and hardware. Luckily, they don’t take long to transition to some great mobile news, namely the rumor that Sony Ericsson would be teaming up with Google to make what is ostensibly a PSP Phone. Josh has an incredible amount of faith in his sources for this one, stating that the device will run Android...

The Engadget Show – 011: Peter Molyneux, Fable III, Milo, BlackBerry Torch, Windows Phone 7

by Jonathan Downin in Games, Tech651 days ago

This month’s episode of The Engadget Show is another video game cross-over. Legendary designer Peter Molyneux sits down with Joshua Topolsky to discuss some of his history, Kinect and Fable III. As always, Peter keeps has a lot of insightful comments and is entertaining throughout. He also drops the bombshell that Fable III will not include Kinect support upon release. The segment ends with an on-stage demo of Fable III. The roundtable segment start with the regular Engadget Podcast crew discussing the new Blackberry Torch. While it isn’t...

Engadget Podcast 207 – 07.31.2010

by Jon Cole in Tech656 days ago

Amazon has finally pushed out the next big update to the Kindle, with the biggest change being the drop in price to $189 and the introduction of a Wi-Fi model at $139. This brings up the whole e-reader debate once again and Josh is unwavering in his insistence than the iPad will present a better value proposition to most people, as a dedicated reading device isn’t universally desired. Bloomberg has rumored that RIM is working on a Blackberry-inspired tablet called the BlackPad… yes, you read that terrible name right. Much of...

Engadget Podcast 206 – 07.24.2010

by Jon Cole in Games, Tech663 days ago

Panasonic’s new line of Lumix cameras stirs up the micro four thirds conversation once again and Josh puts out the general view on them, namely that they don’t nearly offer the results of a DSLR but the portability makes them well worth their use. The guys also talk about the strange point-and-shoot megapixel arms race that still seems to go on, especially with Panasonic’s inexplicable offering of $500 consumer P&S’s with 14.1 megapixel lenses with poor sensors. After briefly hitting on the announcement of Microsoft’s...

TWiT 256: The Shirtless Page Turn

by Jon Cole in Tech674 days ago

As is standard practice for TWiT at this point, Apple talk starts things off, talking about some of the experiences the guys had with the iPhone 4. The high pixel density “retina display” clearly impressed Dwight, who goes as far as to say that the iPad feels old in comparison even for the sake of reading text. Conversation then turns to the iPad, which revolves around the issue that Microsoft has patented the page turn feature employed in iBooks. Leo oddly holds some vendetta against the feature, while Josh admires the sense of...

Engadget Podcast 204: Q&A Bonanza – 07.09.2010

by Jon Cole in Tech678 days ago

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...

Engadget Podcast 203 – 07.02.2010

by Jon Cole in Tech686 days ago

After several weeks of mobile-centric podcasts, Chris Ziegler finally joins the podcast for yet another phone show. Starting things off is the Droid X, which got a 7 on the new Engadget scorecard scale. From a hardware perspective, Chris was clearly blown away with the performance of the processor and the quality of the camera, though not really impressed by the industrial design. In other Android handset news, Samsung has recently announced their suite of Galaxy S phones on all carriers, which are practically the same phone reskinned several...

Engadget Podcast 202 – 06.26.2010

by Jon Cole in Games, Tech689 days ago

In the wake of the latest Engadget Show, the Engadget Podcast remains surprisingly dense with tech talk. The iPhone 4 continues to be the biggest news in the industry, but the technical issues with the antenna and screen have kicked up a little bit of dust. Not to be forgotten, some of the more positive points of the phone are discussed as well, with Nilay heaping praise on the “future of mobile gaming” with the device’s gyroscope. The Droid X fills out a mobile-heavy week of news, delivering a phone that just about everyone...

The Engadget Show – 010: Jimmy Fallon, Kudo Tsunoda, Microsoft Kinect, iPhone 4, Samsung Captivate, Droid X

by Jonathan Downin in Games, Tech692 days ago

The Engadget Show is back with special guest Jimmy Fallon. It is clear that Jimmy is into technology as he affords it a lot of coverage on his late night talk show. He and Josh discuss the iPhone 4 and Jimmy’s frustration with dropped calls on his 3GS. The interview is fun, if not a little light an actual tech talk. One of the main men behind Microsoft’s Kinec, Kudo Tsunoda, is also on this week and he lets the group get some hands-off time with some titles coming for the device this fall. The group seems to enjoy their experience, but...

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