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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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,...
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...
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...
Android news essentially dominates the first half of this week’s Engadget show, for several good reasons. Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’ details have slowly leaked out through sites like TechCrunch, revealing both tethering and wi-fi hotspot features. These features sound great, but their true implementation may not be as peachy as expected, with Sprint saying they’ll charge extra for similar features on their upcoming HTC EVO 4G. Nilay insists that these price hikes don’t spell well for the EVO, while Josh and Paul argue...
Michael Gartenberg joins the Engadget podcast once again, stepping in for the usually present Paul Miller. As the primary contributer to the “Entelligence” column on Engadget and father of a couple teenagers, Michael is able to offer a little bit of insight into the Kin One and Kin Two phones that were recently released by Microsoft. Michael ultimately ends up offering a defense of the device, forgiving some of the smaller details in favor of the broad concept of the phone. Josh and Nilay won’t have it, though, criticizing the...
Apple announced their foray in the burgeoning tablet market on Wednesday with the iPad. After years of speculation it is safe to say that the Engadget guys are a little underwhelmed and somewhat skeptical. Their biggest point here is that the use case for this kind of device has still not been made.
The lack of multitasking is the biggest miss discussed here. They ague that with the iPad positioned as a productivity computing device, it simply fails without the ability to multitask, which Joshua points out as the cornerstone to productivity. The...
This week’s discussion starts with talk of Dell’s Adamo inspired Vostro V13. It takes most of the style of the Adamo and brings into a palatable price range. Joshua’s Nook review is up, and he liked it, but the consensus here is that e-ink just has too many limitations and won’t be around long.
There are more rumors flying around about a potential Apple tablet, but the source is dubious at best. The guys have gotten their hands on a Joojoo and Joshua is fairly positive on it. The hardware is solid, and the software seems...
