The Engadget Show - 005: Google's Erick Tseng, CES wrap-up, WiDi, AR.Drone, and more!

Well it's been a wild couple of weeks here at Engadget. Between CES 2010 (our biggest show ever), the Nexus One launch, forthcoming Apple announcements (and loads of Apple rumors), it's unlikely we'll forget the start of our new decade anytime soon. Still, amidst all the craziness we had time to sit down for another Engadget Show -- and what a show it was. Grab a loved one and a tasty beverage of your choosing and settle in to watch our in-depth interview with Erick Tseng, a wrap-up of all things CES, plus fascinating demos of Intel's new Wireless Display, Parrot's crazy AR.Drone, the Plastic Logic QUE, Alienware's M11X, and so much more. Tune in now -- you'll kick yourself if you miss this.

Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Paul Miller, Nilay Patel
Special guest: Erick Tseng
Produced and Directed by: Chad Mumm
Executive Producer: Joshua Fruhlinger
Edited by: Michael Slavens
Music by: Glomag
Visuals by: Dan Winckler
Opening titles by: Julien Nantiec

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[Brent2475 Posted Jan 19th 2010 12:12PM]

Yes, its finally here!

[Eugene Action Posted Jan 19th 2010 3:21PM]

@Brent2475 wish there were "chapters"

[One Love Posted Jan 19th 2010 5:35PM]

button down collar with a suit, just no.

[FORDY Posted Jan 25th 2010 3:07PM]

@Brent2475
Josh comes in a google hat ready to fix your 3G connection:
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7792/77483496.jpg

Excuse my poor rendering in paint on a netbook..

[HammerT Posted Jan 19th 2010 12:15PM]

srlsy, this was recorded on saturday, why does it take so long to come online?

[Nilay Patel Posted Jan 19th 2010 12:17PM]

@(Unverified) It has to be edited and encoded -- that takes time!

[MishkaGreen Posted Jan 19th 2010 12:20PM]

@(Unverified) Dude, they don't have to upload it at all. It is free content

[JeremyBenthem Posted Jan 19th 2010 12:25PM]

@Nilay Patel
if you ask me, it should be live, it's not like there's commercial breaks and the show goes pretty smoothly as is

on a side note, why can't we rate editor comments anymore, hardly seems fair

[HardToBelieve Posted Jan 19th 2010 1:24PM]

@JeremyBenthem

We can. Just not on Engadget. Meaning that we can't

[Martin C Posted Jan 19th 2010 12:17PM]

Here's hoping the music doesn't suck. I'm apprehensive after going to their website.

[trevr Posted Jan 19th 2010 12:21PM]

i'ma file my complaint/nag here too. you guys gave google grief for calling the nexus one a superphone...but you've been using the term yourselves for quite some time... even on phones with weaker specs:

http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/01/16/sony-ericsson-superphone-to-be-called-xperia/

http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/11/14/sony-ericsson-releasing-p5i-superphone-mid-2008/

http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/28/asus-p565-superphone-canned-due-to-garmin-partnership/

.......just saying

[AndroidRokz Posted Jan 19th 2010 12:36PM]

Sprint fanboys. And you admit getting money from them.

[HardToBelieve Posted Jan 19th 2010 1:24PM]

@AndroidRokz

Oh well, durr. The show is sponsored by Sprint.

[7egend Posted Jan 19th 2010 1:46PM]

@AndroidRokz

You would be a fanboy too if they were sponsoring your show.

[lbhlbhlbh Posted Jan 23rd 2010 12:04PM]

@AndroidRokz
they'll be your fanboy if you sponsor their show

[NaterGator Posted Jan 19th 2010 12:37PM]

LOL, released at 12:05.

Nice homage...

[IceNio Posted Jan 19th 2010 12:43PM]

At last.

[Luffy Posted Jan 19th 2010 12:49PM]

Damn, I made a comment on this posting about Topolskys review of the Nexus One where his browser comparo vs the iphone showed the nexus one loading a web page way slower than the iphone, where just about every other review in existence the nexus one renders pages faster than the iphone, and now my comment is gone. How often do Engadget editors delete legitimate inquiries, I wasn't trying to troll or slander

[ZachZ Posted Jan 19th 2010 1:02PM]

And finally! The Engadget Show should get on Hulu, so I don't have to download it again and again every time I want to watch it on different computers.

[Nitesh Posted Jan 19th 2010 1:14PM]

I'd like to see something that lets you skip to certain topics in the video.

[SarnGate Posted Jan 19th 2010 1:22PM]

I love the new setting guys, the old venue was way too dark. Nice job :D

[hit9ent Posted Jan 19th 2010 2:09PM]

please stop saying UMMMMM

[Carman Posted Jan 19th 2010 2:12PM]

The reflection of the red lights in Josh's glasses makes him look evil..

[dystroglycan Posted Jan 19th 2010 9:25PM]

@Carman
he is evil, you did not know?

[ai4281 Posted Jan 19th 2010 2:29PM]

who said "goatse" when asked about suggestions for Android code names starting with G? LOL

[Lubing The Tube Posted Jan 19th 2010 2:45PM]

@ai4281
Knowing Google, I can see them using it now simply because of this :)

[AckbarsFist Posted Jan 19th 2010 4:13PM]

@ai4281 I don't know, but I think it should be called Gummy bear.

[Chinpo Posted Jan 19th 2010 6:14PM]

@ai4281 lol I couldn't help myself =P

[NIMBUS Posted Jan 20th 2010 9:25AM]

@ai4281
lol i thought the guy said 'goat seed'

[beerbelly Posted Jan 19th 2010 2:37PM]

first off: great show, nice setup! the lighting of the faces is so much better then in 004!
BUT, next time you should think about some changes in the setup. the position of the led cubes aren't chosen smartly. as mentioned before, the reflection in Josh's glasses are disturbing / disadvantageous.
the backdrops are moving because of the air condition?! maybe you should fix them to the ground. the movement is also disturbing for the concentration of the viewer.
and for me (as an tv technitian / light engineer) the last disturbing thing are the visible cables to the pixeltracks / striplights in the background.

and one more thing: sorry josh, but you should think of either a different position to the camera or a different chair, so you can be more relaxed in your body carriage.
anyways, your show rocks :)

[DestrictoEnse Posted Jan 19th 2010 7:15PM]

@beerbelly
Josh's close-up camera angle was also out of focus for the entire segment that Paul and Nilay were on. It made my eyes hurt watching it in 720P.

Josh _really_ needs to get a different chair, maybe one with lower lower arm-rests. He looks very uncomfortable and awkwardly hunched up, which isn't really the body language the host should be carrying.

[esper256 Posted Jan 19th 2010 2:56PM]

Wow. Absolutely nothing out of Erick Tseng. Couldn't have asked some interesting questions he might have actually answered?

[dansus Posted Jan 19th 2010 3:36PM]

@esper256

He didnt want to push the difficult questions, it might make the guest feel uncomfortable, and we wouldnt want that would we..

[vibhorgoyal Posted Jan 19th 2010 3:00PM]

One of the things I don't understand is: What does "with Google" actually mean? Google at CES said that with Google phones are something that we collaborate with manufacturers to build, but then here they say that we don't anything about Milestone, even though Milestone is also a With Google phone.

[beerbelly Posted Jan 19th 2010 3:52PM]

@vibhorgoyal afaik the milestone has no 'with google' branding. meaning that this phone will receive it's updates via motorola, not via google.
the milestone also has the motoblur ui for instance which isn't directly supported by google ...

[vibhorgoyal Posted Jan 19th 2010 3:56PM]

@beerbelly Thanks for that info, that explains the thing. My bad.

[One Love Posted Jan 19th 2010 5:39PM]

That's incorrect, because my sprint hero has "with google" on the back and I am still waiting for android 2.1 from sprint and/or HTC.

[beerbelly Posted Jan 19th 2010 7:39PM]

@One Love hmm that's new to me, since the german hero is without any google branding / experience ...
again, as far as i know (!) the android licensing i pretty much divided in 3 options:
1.) the manufacture has no commitments. he takes android and puts it onto his handset and can do what ever he wants. BUT he has no access to the google apps at all.
2.) the manufacture has some commitments towards google and the used apps but he is still allowed to change android to his own approval. don't ask me what kind of commitments there are, but this option is likely used with the european droid (milestone).
3.) it's google's dictator ship ;) - meaning no censorship, free access to all google features and pure android / google experiance. -> used with the g1, magic, droid, etc.

again i'm not 100% sure if my above statement is correct! and i can't find the source for my info, so please feel free to correct me :)

[ChrisEngr Posted Jan 19th 2010 3:07PM]

Great job Engadget, Erick Tseng seems like a cool guy, props for him for not being scared to answer your questions. Also I would like to see the giveaways. And have like a giveaway for the people that watch this and can't make it to the show. Some sort of question that the viewers at home can answer. Thanks

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 19th 2010 4:16PM]

I don't understand why it's a 450mb download for the smallest version.

Can't you put up something that's 30-40mb (Youtube-sized)? What's the damn point of downloading almost half a gig of data when I'm going to fast forward through lots of it?

I can't even skip to the middle of the show with the streaming video link. If anyone should be able to do this it's you. It's kind of embarrassing.

[ryanlerch Posted Jan 20th 2010 3:30PM]

@(Unverified)

+1, Down in Australia, most of us have download limits. And i usually just watch this one on my iPhone anyway, making the extra res a bit of a waste...

[abecfive Posted Jan 19th 2010 5:16PM]

Some 'G' sweets I'd like to see become the next codename, for my personal amusement:

Goober - "Look at the goober on his phone!" (http://www.nestleusa.com/PubOurBrands/BrandDetails.aspx?lbid=712F4661-4176-41A6-860B-1447E55D680E)
Gobstopper - Gob = butt. (http://onlinedictionary.datasegment.com/word/butt)
G-String - (http://www.blavish.com/candy-g-string-panties/)

Delicious treats :)

[boe Posted Jan 19th 2010 5:31PM]

WOW - I get that you want multitouch on the android - I would too but there were many other questions that I would have liked answered like why it doesn't natively sync calendar on MS Exchange. After 5 minutes when a guest doesn't answer why they don't have multitouch as part of the US interface, it is pretty clear they won't answer that. It seems like a wast of a webcast when most of the informational part of the interview was devoted to multitouch which was already pretty well shutdown as an answer platform right off the bat.

[Johnny Rockets Posted Jan 19th 2010 6:56PM]

I'm currently downloading the show at 30 kbps.

And it's 1 GB.

Is there a mirror for this download?

Or a torrent?

[tybert7 Posted Jan 19th 2010 7:06PM]

Wow did you see the inside of their trailer at CES ?!?!?!??!?!??!?!??!??!?!?

It looked like Apple Headquarters. I need to go look through that again to see if I could find a non apple notebook.

[patboy2008 Posted Jan 19th 2010 8:05PM]

@tybert7

I think there were two. http://i47.tinypic.com/295bmyu.jpg

I knew they were huge Apple fanboys, but geez...

[TareG Posted Jan 19th 2010 7:38PM]

I'd like to see Paul Miller once host the show...

[TareG Posted Jan 19th 2010 8:44PM]

Just listened to Josh try to squeeze laughs out of the audience for 30 minutes. He didn't ask about the direction Android is heading towards with its UI, new features they are working on, how 2.1 was considered the "real" Android.... Their plans for Fruyo.... The stagnant media player.... Nothing. Please, next time let an Engadget editor who's interested in Android do the interview.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 19th 2010 9:36PM]

Goatse, sounds delicious.

[5olo Posted Jan 19th 2010 10:06PM]

Congratulations, The Engadget Show gets better and better.
For the next level of improvement you three have to work on your speaking techique and verbal expression. Finish your sentences and stop interrupting each other.
Continue to insist on Answers to your Questions! :-D