Engadget Podcast 132 - 02.06.2009
By Trent Wolbe 
posted February 6th 2009 4:20PM
posted February 6th 2009 4:20PM
Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Paul Miller, Nilay Patel
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Song: 4 Minutes
00:01:09 - Engadget's recession antidote
00:04:35 - Buy this book: Chris Ziegler's 'T-Mobile G1 For Dummies'
00:06:23 - BlackBerry Blowout: Storm vs. Bold vs. Curve 8900
00:16:45 - Windows 7 SKUs announced: your worst nightmare has come to pass
00:35:10 - Windows 7 multitouch: it's a gimmick (for now)
00:47:08 - Toshiba TG01 GUI, video playback demoed on film
00:53:45 - Garmin, ASUS form partnership for phones, nuvifone G60 first model
01:03:54 - Reader questions
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Glad to see Paul's back. I was very sad he was missing last week. Well, not very sad (everyone gets a cold or whatever), but I did note the void Chris tried to fill.
Wow, i got real sick and had lots of bed time, downloaded all of your podcasts starting from CES and started listening to all of them in a row, its great. Feel like i know you guys personally. Thanks for these podcasts greatly appreciate it. I hope you guys come up with something that involved your readers/listeners/viewers what ever you call us, to get more involved with engadget. I'd love to help,participate, anything. Would be fun, keep it up! Coming at ya from Canada - Pars
Haha yeah. I like the fact that they know their tech, and they make their podcasts funny and entertaining.
4:20PM
Great podcast as usual guys. I'm still not sold on capacitive being on capacitive being better 100% of the time. Implementation on resistive screens have been somewhat poor, but I'm not sure if that's all the tech's fault of the OS on it. The way you're talking makes it sound like typing on the iPhone is a better experience than any resistive, and I don't agree. Regardless, love the cast, and keep it up.
Haha I could sense a lot of anger in the podcast, directed at Microsoft particularly.
I'm hoping that we won't see as much of Windows Starter Edition due to the hardware limitations that you all talked about.
As far as resistive vs capacitive, we're able to fabricate capacitors at much smaller sizes than resistors reliably (IC design does its best to leave resistors out.). As such, you would be able to make a more responsive touchscreen with capacitors. At least, this is what my undergraduate education in Electrical Engineering has taught me.
I have a question for the editors: The Kindle 2 might be a cool device, but are e-readers really compelling yet? If so, why haven't they gotten more popular? If not, where do they need to improve before we start using them? We've seen devices like netbooks explode, with everyone and their mothers manufacturing one, but as far as I know, the only consumer e-readers that have any kind of marketing or buzz are the Sony reader and the Kindle (2). What gives?