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MobileTechRoundup show #218; Epic 4G, BB Torch, netbooks & more

By | August 20, 2010, 9:46pm PDT

Summary: It has been a couple of weeks since Kevin, James, and I were able to get together so we went for almost a full hour with MobileTechRoundup show #218 talking about the Epic 4G, RIM BlackBerry Torch, Droid 2, and rise of Android.

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It has been a couple of weeks since Kevin, James, and I were able to get together so we went for almost a full hour with MobileTechRoundup show #218 talking about the Epic 4G, RIM BlackBerry Torch, Droid 2, and rise of Android. Plastic Logic also killed off the Que ProReader, but we are used to reading on our phones anyways. It looks like Palm/HP is bringing out a webOS tablet in 2011 and we wondered if netbooks are past their prime.

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Matthew Miller started using a Pilot 1000 in 1997 and has been writing news, reviews, and opinion pieces ever since.

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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.

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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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RE: MobileTechRoundup show #218; Epic 4G, BB Torch, netbooks & more
DannyO_0x98 21st Aug 2010
@Economister
But you do have a choice. These are all writers and what they say in the podcast, they write in their various blogs over the week. You could read.

You could even run the mp3 through the speech-to-text software while doing something else and scan the transcript.

But as far as a free-wheeling discussion among various people in different locations, the podcast is better than, what, a transcript of a chat?

They are doing what they do. If you want to give the audience a choice, get a mike, some friends, voip, audio editor, transcriber, and do the show you want to do.
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RE: MobileTechRoundup show #218; Epic 4G, BB Torch, netbooks & more
coolkams03@... 20th Aug 2010
even am buying an epic this month end. .it will be my first smart.. even am confused which to buy. . evo or epic. how did u feel performance wise? pls do let me know which you feel better. . it will help me choose. thanks .
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Pod casts are not for me
Economister 21st Aug 2010
I simply do not get pod casts only publishing. I have listened to a couple, but find it tedious to sit through the entire pod cast. With text I can skim and read the parts that interest me. I would think that with powerful speech to text SW, a text version would be trivial.

What is the point of not giving your audience a choice?
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RE: MobileTechRoundup show #218; Epic 4G, BB Torch, netbooks & more
DannyO_0x98 21st Aug 2010
@Economister
But you do have a choice. These are all writers and what they say in the podcast, they write in their various blogs over the week. You could read.

You could even run the mp3 through the speech-to-text software while doing something else and scan the transcript.

But as far as a free-wheeling discussion among various people in different locations, the podcast is better than, what, a transcript of a chat?

They are doing what they do. If you want to give the audience a choice, get a mike, some friends, voip, audio editor, transcriber, and do the show you want to do.

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