Engadget Podcast 166 - 10.09.2009

With the crazy week of news we've had, never has the ever-insightful, industry-encompassing commentary of the Engadget Podcast been so necessary, so vital, so... vigorous. Sure, you could try to make your way through the launch of Windows Mobile 6.5 and an onslaught of Android news all by yourself, but then you'd just be alone and sad. And who would be there to comfort and hold you and tell you how terribly overpriced the VAIO X is and how little Dell revealed about its new Adamo this week? Nobody, that's who. Don't be another statistic, slip on some relatively comfortable earbuds and come on over to the Podcast side.

Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Song: Cyberdelic - Such Great Heights

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00:02:30 - HTC HD2 hands-on and impressions... on video!
00:03:02 - Entelligence: The HTC HD2 and the future of Windows Mobile
00:05:00 - HTC HD2 to arrive Stateside in early 2010 -- huzzah!
00:08:00 - Windows Mobile 6.5 review
00:15:00 - Robbie Bach sits down for a roundtable discussion, Engadget is there
00:31:40 - Windows Mobile 6.5: a family portrait
00:40:00 - Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 update guide: no, no, maybe
00:43:05 - Verizon plans to support Google Voice, will launch two 'game-changing' Android devices in coming weeks
00:45:08 - Second Verizon Android phone to be an HTC, Motorola Sholes makes an appearance
00:45:35 - Verizon Motorola Sholes not running MOTOBLUR?
00:47:00 - Motorola Sholes to launch by holidays, along with the BlackBerry Storm 2 and Nokia Booklet 3G
00:49:31 - Samsung Behold II marries Android, TouchWiz for T-Mobile
00:50:30 - Samsung Behold II caught behind glass
00:52:05 - Samsung Moment for Sprint first hands-on!
00:55:00 - Samsung Moment slider coming to Sprint, packing Android (update: official, $179)
00:59:29 - AT&T now allowing iPhone VoIP calls over 3G
00:59:35 - VAIO X spotted in champagne, propped up by extended battery, ripped apart
01:00:00 - Sony VAIO X announced, starts at $1,299
01:03:33 - HP Mini 311 reviewed with earnest, ION-enhanced affection
01:06:45 - Dell reveals new Adamo XPS, gives no details
01:19:50 - The next Engadget Show tapes live October 22nd -- with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer!

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[(Unverified) Posted Oct 9th 2009 2:28PM]

I feel like dell is trying to get some apple-esque hype by holding it's cards to it's chest, but it's really going the other way, it's just annoying. That thing is freaking thin though, kudos.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 9th 2009 2:38PM]

WOOOOHHOOOO!
a windows podcast!
ok, i`ll download this one :)

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 9th 2009 2:45PM]

Yay! An hour of mobile talk before we get to the good stuff! Well, since the rest is about laptops, maybe we could say its totally mobile. Good thing I've got a mobile device to download it to and listen at my leisure.

[Eli superflush Posted Oct 9th 2009 3:08PM]

I like the tidbit about Chris Ziegler worried about his MyFi roaming in Mexico when being in San Diego.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 9th 2009 4:04PM]

I just want to develop for Windows Mobile 7. Good podcast.

I personally hope HTC doesn't touch the UI for Windows Mobile 7 (hopefully it is a 100% revamp).

[mattman6 Posted Oct 9th 2009 5:00PM]

No mention of the Pre news?

[Pies Posted Oct 10th 2009 12:30AM]

Apple doesn't do mass markets and they won't licence their operating system to people who would, so they're not really a threat to Microsoft. Think about what Balmer said in his interview not long ago, where he was talking about small markets and big markets. Basically it's Linux (under the name of Android) threatening Windows (Mobile) business model yet again.

Microsoft favorite business is selling software _wholesale_ to hardware manufacturers. Manufacturers would rather not pay the "Microsoft tax" but Windows is what people expect of the computers they buy, because they're used to it. But when you look at the mobile space, most people have no preference and are willing to use something other than Windows.

Microsoft doesn't sell smartphones, and Apple doesn't provide a mobile OS wholesale to manufacturers.