Engadget Podcast 134 - 02.20.2009
By Trent Wolbe 
posted February 20th 2009 2:30PM
posted February 20th 2009 2:30PM
Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Special guest host: Chris Ziegler
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Song: Don't Stop Believin'
00:01:19 - Editorial: Ten reasons why Windows Mobile 6.5 misses the mark
00:18:37 - First hands-on with the HTC Touch Diamond2 (with video!)
00:19:40 - First hands-on with the HTC Touch Pro2 (with video!)
00:28:30 - Toshiba TG01 hands-on and video walkthrough
00:39:08 - Texas Instruments and Wind River do up Android right
00:45:53 - HTC Magic in-depth hands-on, with video!
00:53:05 - General Mobile's DSTL1 Android phone eyes-on
00:55:15 - Samsung OmniaHD hands-on, now with more TouchWiz
01:06:45 - Sony Ericsson Idou hands-on and video walkthrough
01:17:03 - Nokia N86 hands-on with video!
01:19:04 - Nokia E55 hands-on
01:23:15 - Sonar hopes to power social featurephones, we get a demo
01:36:48 - Hulu asks Boxee to pull content, it complies
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00:01:19 - Editorial: Ten reasons why Windows Mobile 6.5 misses the mark**
ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY OMNIAHD!
8-bit MIDI Journey is incredible!
Paul Miller sounds like this guy: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1442113/
More capacitive talk! I get it, WinMo should have the option for it, but I hate the notion that it's automatically better. I understand it can be difficult to type on sometimes, but you act like the iPhone's keyboard is the bee's knees.
WOOOOOOOOOOO SE W810!!!!
I love the W810, it tethered itself like a champion, it ran opera mini, it is now my alarm because my iPhone steals its place... but it is still the first phone I ever loved!
Why don't you guys have just an audio podcast that I can put on my iPhone. I listen the podcast as I walk to class, and I need to have my screen locked so I don't change anything while its in my pocket. As unlikely as that seems, it happens all the time as I walk (volume changes, random pauses, skips) Save me from myself!
When you spoke about the Sonar Services, you made me think that you are familiar with www.zyb.com, who offer the same kind of service, even though you can't control your phone from this service, you'll never loose af phone number again.
I have never understood Josh's complete hatred for online TV streaming, he seems to take the horrendous ABC ad model, where they resize the window everytime you have an ad, and use that to blanket everyone on a bad viewing experience. I have so far never seen an ad longer than 30 sec on Hulu, which never resize, which show in full screen as whatever was on. And ad watching is sometimes great for the narrative, I need a break after an intense sequence on 24. ;)
I don't hate it! I love it! I just think the model needs to be refined (and we all need way more bandwidth). Hulu does a decent job on laptop screens, but it's not super awesome on HDTVs. But just because I think ABC's service is awful doesn't mean I'm spiking the whole idea. And commercials? I never feel like I need one. Ever.
Sorry guys, but this podcast is getting longer, and increasingly boring. Let's spend 20 minutes extolling one cell; now let's spend another 20 blasting another. We get it. You love the palm pre, hate windows mobile, and aren't sure about android on anything. Does it really take an hour and three quarters to say all that. Perhaps you've forgotten: blogs are good because they're short. Longwinded conversations about minutia are boring. I want to like your podcasts, but you're really making it hard.