Engadget Mobile Podcast 050 - 08.14.2010

It just wouldn't be Saturday without the Engadget Mobile Podcast. And -- from the special features department -- we do talk about zombies in this episode, and Chris does become the victim of a Newton bodysnatch about an hour and twenty-four minutes in.

Hosts: Chris Ziegler, Myriam Joire (tnkgrl)
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: O Canada

01:58 - BlackBerry Torch
13:15 - Droid 2 review
31:15 - Dell Streak on sale August 13 for $300 on AT&T contract, $550 without
33:50 - Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 officially debuts on AT&T: $130 on contract
37:08 - Epic 4G coming August 31st for $249.99 on contract (updated)
39:00 - CDMA iPhone in engineering tests, may arrive in January, says John Gruber
42:43 - Exclusive: Sony Ericsson to introduce Android 3.0 gaming platform and PSP Go-like smartphone
50:35 - Motorola's 9mm MOTOFONE
54:05 - HTC Schubert Windows Phone 7 handset spied again -- or is it the Mozart?
59:20 - Listener questions



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[legendary1022 Posted Aug 14th 2010 6:59PM]

Um still not showing up in the RSS after a few hours.

[MikeWard1701 Posted Aug 14th 2010 11:57PM]

Not showing in iTunes either.

[LOVEoo Posted Aug 15th 2010 12:24AM]

Not showing on Zune.
Come Engadget every every other week there's an issue with the podcasts.

[RonPaulGuy Posted Aug 15th 2010 8:15AM]

Thank you Engadget. I love all your Classic and Mobile Podcasts.

Cheers!

[andysexton Posted Aug 15th 2010 8:26AM]

I've decided they post all the Engadget podcasts days before things show up in feeds to annoy obsessive compulsives who want to make sure things happen as they should with their feed readers.

[arunsabhapathi Posted Aug 15th 2010 10:24AM]

My reader shows two 50 episodes,what the hell is wrong??!!!

[LOVEoo Posted Aug 16th 2010 3:15AM]

Two days and STILL no update come on...

[Chris Ziegler Posted Aug 16th 2010 5:04PM]

@LOVEoo Sorry! What's not working for you? Should've been fixed up on Sunday.

[mmaestro Posted Aug 16th 2010 5:41PM]

@Chris Ziegler The aac feed's been updated, but the vanilla mp3 feed still only has episode 49 as the most recent one.

[andysexton Posted Aug 16th 2010 5:55PM]

@Chris Ziegler The mp3 RSS feed is still broken.

[Chris Ziegler Posted Aug 16th 2010 5:59PM]

@mmaestro Ahh. Fixed!

[mmaestro Posted Aug 16th 2010 7:01PM]

@Chris Ziegler Thanks muchly. Was driving home from work today and ran out of podcasts on my phone. Was very frustrating to know there was one waiting but not auto-downloaded. Won't happen tomorrow.

[andysexton Posted Aug 16th 2010 7:29PM]

@Chris Ziegler Thanks!

[LOVEoo Posted Aug 17th 2010 12:07AM]

@Chris Ziegler
Zune feed wasn't working but 9pm PST its up now probably a few hours ago.

[mordac Posted Aug 16th 2010 9:39PM]

In reply to the question about AMOLED degradation:

It's very true, but I think calling it "degradation" is a little drastic, it's more like a form of burn in. I've had my nexus one since june, and there is now a barely noticeable afterimage of the notification bar on the top of the screen... as long as there's something bright white and you're looking for it. It's exactly like with plasmas, where the phosphors wear unevenly when there's something bright and white, like the notification bar.

Also to fix the robot voice unplug and plug in your mic. If it's the same kind of mic they have on TWIT they had problems with that too.

[csoren Posted Aug 19th 2010 5:59AM]

I am listening to the podcast as I type this. Coincidentally I just noticed burn-in on my Nexus One's screen last night.

You can only see it under certain circumstances - I have to use low backlight and then rotate the phone when using the browser (for instance), so that the status bar moves. Then you can see a burned in signal strength icon and the (normal) top of the display is slightly darker than the rest of the screen.

I think I'll be avoiding (AM)OLED the next time. Still though, you can't see the burn-in under normal circumstances, so it doesn't bother me too much.

I'd be happy to provide pictures.

[MGDdrinker Posted Aug 25th 2010 12:51AM]

@csoren I'd like to see pics

[csoren Posted Aug 25th 2010 3:48AM]

@MGDdrinker I had already put some up, but forgot to update the comments here. Here they are http://picasaweb.google.com/csoren/NexusOneDisplayBurnIn#