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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...

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...

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...

Engadget Podcast 201 – 06.19.2010

by Jon Cole in Games, Tech698 days ago

The Engadget Podcast opens up with… you guessed it, E3 talk. The guys don’t really try particularly hard to stick to the tech side of things, so you might feel a fair amount of retread if you listen to several video game podcasts a week. Things get back to normal around the one hour mark, inviting Joanna Stern on to talk about the Droid X. She thought the device ran pretty quickly, despite not having the proliferated Snapdragon and instead having a 1GHz OMAP chip. Josh tends to be the keyboard stickler and asks Joanna about the multitouch,...

Engadget Podcast 200 – 06.11.2010

by Jonathan Downin in Tech707 days ago

It’s all about the iPhone 4 this week. The guys start by providing an overview of what is new and some overall impressions, then delve into the new “retina display.” Paul hasn’t been shy about his love for devices with good pixel density, and he is all over this. He is even dubbed “Paul the Pixel Density Expert.” He argues that sharper text is preferred over leverage of the resolution to display more information, but Josh isn’t happy at this prospect. Josh is the only one who actually got his hands on the...

Engadget Podcast 199 – 06.04.2010

by Jonathan Downin in Tech713 days ago

It’s a double feature this week. The first half of the show focuses on Computex in Taipei with Joanna and Darren calling in to give some impressions on the abundance of OEM tablets on display. It sounds like Microsoft is pushing full Windows 7 as their tablet OS, and everyone thinks this is a mistake– and Joanna mistakenly says she ate “fish legs.” The second half of the show focuses on the D8 conference. There were a lot of big interviews, including notable ones with Steve Jobs and Steve Ballmer. The guys go in-depth...

Engadget Podcast 198 – 05.29.2010

by Jon Cole in Tech717 days ago

Microsoft has been big in tech news this week with two major stories. The first is Robbie Bach and J Allard’s simultaneous departures from the company, under the notion that Steve Ballmer is going to take the their management reigns. This double departure may be slightly due to the fact that Apple has just passed the big M in market cap, meaning their outstanding shares have a greater cumulative value. Both pieces of news hopefully center around a new push to straighten up a couple struggling spokes of Microsoft’s big wheel of...

Engadget Podcast 197 – 05.22.2010

by Jon Cole in Tech727 days ago

This week’s big topic is clearly Google, as the Engadget crew is quick to establish on their latest podcast. Before diving into news from Google I/O, Chris Ziegler joins the normal cast of wacky characters to throw in his two cents on the Sprint HTC EVO 4G. It’s made obvious that Chris is romantically involved with the latest Android phone, labeling it the best Android phone on the market, though not leaps and bounds better than the HTC Incredible. After two fantastic segues, Nilay sets the stage for the focus of Google’s developer...

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