Engadget Podcast 175: CES 2010 Day 1 - 01.06.2010
By Trent Wolbe 
posted January 6th 2010 11:30AM
posted January 6th 2010 11:30AM
Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Song: Note! - Poker Face (Blurp Remix)
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01:31 - Nexus One review
01:53 - Verizon getting Google's Nexus One in Spring 2010
17:00 - Microsoft to reveal HP built Courier slate tomorrow?
20:20 - Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid hands-on and impressions
24:30 - Lenovo Skylight hands-on and impressions (video)
35:25 - Live from ASUS's CES press event
35:36 - ASUS gets official with Eee PC 1008P Seashell: available in hot pink and coffee brown (updated: with video!)
35:40 - ASUS announces U series Bamboo Collection laptops, gives little detail
36:23 - ASUS ROG G73jh launches with Core i7, Radeon HD 5870, bragging rights
36:55 - ASUS NX90Jq hands-on: dual touchpads unite! (update: video)
43:53 - Skiff Reader is largest yet, will be hitting a Sprint Store near you
45:00 - Spring Design Alex hands-on (Update: video!)
50:25 - Michael Jackson 'This is It' PS3 bundle makes it a better place for you and me
51:10 - Hands-on with the Boxee Box
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pooookerfacee
you have way more than 1 european listener!!!
Wow, don't hold back on google - haha.
im listening to this podcast on ubuntu i feel insulted sirs
31.10 lol podcast BURN...did the idiot got kicked out????? what did he say?? total jerk LOL xD... please do more podcast's kinda get bored waiting... xD
Props to you guys, producing a podcast even after a day of CES.
Dang, what a Nexus One bitchfest! I know what you guys are up to - you're badmouthing (that's what she said) the phone because you want to squash demand so they'll be in-stock for you to buy!
Is it just me, or does it seem like it's been a long time since I've heard you guys discuss a released product with something good to say. I'm really losing my taste for this podcast, because all you do is rag on picky details. What gives?
@(Unverified)
That is why I have stopped listening these podcasts. Love certain other sites podcasts because the more neutral view points. More peaceful to listen.
@Engadget
Look up Mac OS X Introduction on youtube and watch Steve masturbate on the minimize animation for what seems like forever. And keep watching, he goes back to it a little later and cums a 2nd time.
First you blast Google for demoing the updated app tray animation, and then you say you wish they would spend as much time polishing up the core OS as they did on the Gallery App.
Make up your fraking mind.
@ECH
I think they explained it pretty clearly. The gallery app is a nice improvement, but google did not improve other key areas of the OS like the music player, lack of multi touch. They then go on to say that HTC has done a better job of improving the overall android experience with Sense.
@MGDdrinker
Whoops, Sense is for Windows Mobile I think. I can't keep up with this stuff. Their claim that HTC has done a better job of improving a phone OS with Sense than google has done with the Nexus One still holds....I think.
@MGDdrinker
The only thing they explained is their obvious bias for the iphone over android. They only thing they choose to talk about are the features of android that they feel are inferior to the iphone (and yes the iphone does do somethings better... big surprise). In a review of the phone why the hell wouldn't you mention the features that you can't get anywhere else outside of android? Have fun pinch zooming your iphone so that you can read your crap rez screen, I'll ask my phone to navigate somewhere that I don't even know the address of all without paying a cent.
In their "review" of the nexus one and their bitching of the press event they are missing the entire point of what Google is doing. This isn't THE Google phone, it's only A Google phone. The big picture is less about this singular piece of hardware and more about the begining of Google's plan to increase consumer choice. In a couple of months I bet you'll see a Motorola Google phone, then a Samsung Google phone, etc all sold through Google's new sales channel outside of the wireless carriers. Go to google.com/phone, choose a phone, then choose a carrier. This is about increasing consumer choice, which is the single largest downfall of apple's otherwise great phone (one phone to choose from on one carrier). Google is going to surround Apple on their AT&T island with a fleet of android phones which offer different things for different users. That is their plan to gain dominance in the mobile market.
Apple will continue to make a great phone that will sell well, but android will capture more of the growth in the smartphone market.
@ECH,
You bring up some great points, some I agree with, some I don't. About multitouch though, I think it's essential for a modern smartphone to have it for the on screen typing experience, the two fingured pic zoom I don't care about. From what I've read, Apple's onscreen keyboard is still unmatched. It's a mystery to me why Google and others haven't addressed this. I've never used an iPhone though, so I can only go by what I've read.
@MGDdrinker
Totally agree, multitouch is more important on the keyboard than for zooming!
But I have the Droid, so my plan is to use my physical keyboard until the lawyers figure it out and Google adds multitouch to the keyboard in one of their many software updates.
D@mn lawyers always screwing everything up. grrrrrrrrrrrr
Great to see you guys are nailing Google and Motorola for trying to market their smartphones off as game changers when they don't even have multitouch. It is an insult to their customers to offer multitouch in one market and not the other without an honest explanation.
Great Podcast guys, really entertaining.
It's not a "good" phone...
It's not a "fine" phone...
It's a "SUPERPHONE"
I really enjoyed the podcast. it was raw and sounded like you were drunk with exhaustion. and its only the first one... hope you make it till the end of the week.
Please consider making this your regular timeslot for your podcasts; hearing y'all rag on the industry's design and PR buffoonery at o-dark-am because you're too exhausted to be diplomatic ("it's a stealth fighter crossed with a chicken!") is priceless.
For the love of God, please stop talking about how good or bad your segues are. You don't hear CNN/ESPN anchors congratulating each other for a great segue. Please, be professional.
Dual track pad + Waveface action pack episode !
Long time listener from Italy here. Guys this podcast was really really fun. I laughed a lot. Thanks :)