Engadget Podcast 171 - 11.13.2009

Hey there, web surfer. What's cracking? Us? Oh, not much, just listening to this side-splitting episode of the Engadget Podcast on our portable listening device. Yeah, it's the episode where Josh, Nilay and Paul find a purse on the sidewalk with $500 in it and debate whether or not to take it to the police or spend the money on pizza and arcade games. Or maybe they talk about gadgets. You should check it out! Alright, later on cool dude.

Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Song: Plush

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00:04:00 - Zune HD Marketplace now loaded with free 3D games
00:05:18 - Zune HD 3D games video hands-on
00:23:22 - Dell's Inspiron Zino HD on sale now in America: starts at $229, doubles as an HTPC
00:30:46 - Palm Pixi review
00:35:08 - Walmart's $30 deal vaults Pixi from 'meh' to 'sure, I'll take three'
00:46:44 - Ricoh GXR camera system swaps out the sensor along with the lens
00:47:17 - NVIDIA tablet mystery solved: an ODM Tegra prototype
00:52:10 - Psystar founders claim they cracked OS X, hackintosh scene is 'all wrong'
00:59:00 - Mac OS X 10.6.2 update out on the prowl (update: Atom support is gone)
01:04:43 - Listener questions

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[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2009 4:57PM]

Biggie Smalls, Biggie Smalls, Biggie Smalls.

[glenskey Posted Nov 13th 2009 5:20PM]

what the F*CK did you do that for?!!

[ch3burashka Posted Nov 13th 2009 7:09PM]

"Butters! I thought I told you to go to bed!"

"But dad, Biggie Smalls is gonna pop a cap in my ass!"

"Well, do you want to be shot or do you want to be grounded?!"

"AAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

[patboy2008 Posted Nov 13th 2009 4:59PM]

Haha nice picture.

[Slick Posted Nov 13th 2009 8:28PM]

That picture made my day

[Dew Posted Nov 13th 2009 5:02PM]

Engadget is losing its edge, there should have been 5-6 stories with Jason placed somehow. For shame!

[Joshua Topolsky Posted Nov 13th 2009 5:15PM]

@Dew I guess you haven't been reading the site today.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2009 5:22PM]

josh why can't you be + or - but nilay can?

[glenskey Posted Nov 13th 2009 5:27PM]

all the jasons have been really subtle this year...

[Chris Ziegler Posted Nov 13th 2009 6:00PM]

Or are we getting... TOO edgy? Think about it.

[Heywatchitbuddy Posted Nov 13th 2009 6:32PM]

Can someone explain the jason reference for me please?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2009 6:58PM]

mushroom mushroom

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2009 7:04PM]

@Badger

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=jason+friday+the+13th

[Uncontrol Posted Nov 13th 2009 7:37PM]

Wow, I seriously missed all those Jasons today. Just went back and found them all. Clever girl!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2009 11:27PM]

Badger, it's Friday the 13th today, hence the Jasons on the articles.

And btw, I like how the pics are sans-Jason at first read but are modified to Jason later on throughout the day. Love FT13 on Engadget...

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 14th 2009 12:14AM]

The whole Jason joke isn't really funny. I love Engadget, but they do this every Friday the 13th and I'm kinda bored of it ...

[RioRyan Posted Nov 13th 2009 5:05PM]

"It had a calculator app that took 5 minutes to load and showed you an ad before it came on"

It's ironic that in trying to bash the ads in the apps you chose one of only two apps that DOESN'T have an ad while it loads.

And 5 minutes? Really? Because it takes about 8 seconds here.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2009 5:10PM]

Interesting that you missed the 25 minutes of gushing about the Zune HD in favor of one joke.

[MowDownJoe Posted Nov 13th 2009 5:19PM]

Wait, how come Josh can't be +1'd or -1'd anymore, but Nilay can? Is he not that important?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2009 5:21PM]

@nilay so you're admitting you're a fanboy?

[RioRyan Posted Nov 13th 2009 5:30PM]

Still listening, quite enjoying the comments on the Skate game.

I guess what I really wanted to say about the whole deal with the ads... It seems that every time the word "app" is mentioned around the Zune, somebody's gotta bring up the ads. There's this whole big argument going on where half the time people complain about them, and then the other half they say well, it's a free game, and it's only there for a couple seconds, while the game is loading. Sure, it would be nice to have ad-free apps, but at least they aren't like YouTube or others, where they rudely interrupt whatever you're trying to do.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2009 7:04PM]

Why can't we rate Joshua's comments?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2009 7:41PM]

Chris's comments can't be edited either. Might be an opt-in thing but regardless, I think it's a crappy thing to do. Some writers here weren't too pleased with their comments being down-ranked and have now made themselves immune to that. How about accepting if your comments are down-ranked to oblivion there might be something to it? The ratings so far generally seem to make sense. :-/

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2009 5:20PM]

whyd you do it at 3:30? I couldn't listen live

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2009 5:48PM]

Maybe Engadget should setup and Xbox 360 with media center AND a dell mini with mediacenter and give PRO's and CON's !! I would really like it!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2009 7:26PM]

Guys.. thanks a TON for getting this up before sat morning!! This is huge for me as your podcast is a great way for me to start my 18 mile run (which starts at 5am) ;) Thanks again!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2009 10:11PM]

I think that they are slowly moving xbox into the zune space. I don't think they want to hurt the xbox name by putting it into a zune and it fails. But i think that they are slowly moving the zune into xbox. Testing the grounds! But to integrate all of zune and xbox together live wise at on time would just be to hard to just slap together.

Personally i want a zune I want to get into it. But I don't want to move music and videos weekly I WANT MORE SPACE!

The video of the games look amazing I think they can make it an xbox portable.

[Hotrod Posted Nov 13th 2009 10:20PM]

Great podcast as usual guys. I also agree smart phones over the years have become the ultimate gadget. Web browsing, music playing, video watching, navigation, taking photos and phone calls all in one small device that fits in your pocket.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 14th 2009 1:26AM]

hey guys loving the podcasts just listened to last weeks one. becuase i live in a country with download limits i have to bugdet my downloads so could you guys please put the file size of the podcast next to the download link?
That would be great

[Wwhat Posted Nov 14th 2009 9:32PM]

42.8MB for the MP3

[iCello Posted Nov 14th 2009 2:27AM]

Great podcast as always guys but quit bashing accelerometer racing games! You don't have to tilt the screen to where you don't see it. It works great.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 14th 2009 4:12AM]

Sprint has Any Mobile Any Time in the $69 plan. AKA unlimited calling to all regular humans plus 450 minutes to talk to grandma and 800 numbers...

[chintas Posted Nov 20th 2009 3:04AM]

Is anyone else having issues with the AAC feed?

[TheHoldSteady Posted Nov 21st 2009 1:00PM]

WTF are all these xml files in my RSS podcatcher?? I subscribed for PODCASTS, not every story you post to your standard RSS feeds!! Why, why, why??