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MobileTechRoundup show #220; New Apple gear, Samsung Tab, Swype

By | September 5, 2010, 9:42am PDT

Summary: Apple announced a refreshed iPod lineup, iOS 4 update, and the Apple TV this week. Samsung also revealed their Android tablet device as the fall tech releases kick up.

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There were several announcements from Apple this past week and the MoTR gang started off MobileTechRoundup show #220 discussing the iPod touch, shuffle, nano, and Apple TV. iOS 4 details were revealed with updates coming soon. Samsung officially announced their Galaxy Tab Android tablet device. Microsoft reached a major milestone with their Windows Phone 7 release to manufacturers (RTM) goal reached. James, Kevin, and I enjoy using Swype on our Android devices and now we see it available for Symbian S60 and on the Samsung Tab.

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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.

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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