MobileTechRoundup show #217; Kindle, Froyo, and RIM
By Matthew Miller | August 1, 2010, 8:48pm PDT
Summary: The MoTR gang enjoyed talking about the latest in mobile tech, including the iPhone 4, new Kindle, EVO 4G update, Microsoft’s tablet plans, and more.
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Kevin, James, and I started off MobileTechRoundup show #217 answering a reader email about why we do not have iPhone 4 devices. The new Amazon Kindle was released and the Froyo Android 2.2 update is coming to the HTC EVO 4G. We talked about Ballmer’s incoherent tablet comments and thoughts on what RIM might announce next week.
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Matthew Miller started using a Pilot 1000 in 1997 and has been writing news, reviews, and opinion pieces ever since.
Disclosure
Matthew Miller
Matthew is a professional naval architect by day and a mobile gadget freak at all other times. He purchases his own devices and then sells them on eBay or Craigslist to buy more. Many other devices are sent for review on a 30-day loaner basis and then returned to the carrier or manufacturer. If any are provided as “long term loaner units” this will be clearly disclosed in his reviews.
Biography
Matthew Miller
Matthew Miller started using a mobile devices in 1997 and has been writing news, reviews, and opinion pieces ever since. He is a co-host with GigaOM's Kevin Tofel on the MobileTechRoundup podcast and an author of three Wiley Companion series books. Matthew started using mobile devices with a US Robotics Pilot 1000 and has owned over 125 different devices running Palm, Linux, Symbian, Newton, BlackBerry, iOS, Android, webOS, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phone operating systems. His current collection includes an HTC Radar 4G, Dell Venue Pro, Apple iPad 2, HTC Flyer, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Nokia N9, Apple iPhone 4S, MacBook Pro, and many more, along with tons of accessories and classic devices like the Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 and Sony CLIE UX50. Matthew can be found on various discussion forums under the user name of "palmsolo".
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Listening to the show and regarding the notes about Microsoft and its arguable success with the XBox, one advantage the XBox team had is that I don't think their work threatened the Office and Windows teams and so they had the freedom to follow the logic of the product.
We all remember that at the outset they used PowerPC and development was done on Macs.
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