Mobile Nations Podcast 007: Beta 9
by Tim Stiffler-Dean Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:36 am EDT
Phil, Kevin, and Rene beta test a new video rig, survive technical problems, and talk RIM results, BlackBerry striking back, next generation Android phones, Windows 8 tablets, and a tale of two iPhones. This is Mobile Nations!
Agenda
- Research In Motion Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2012 Results
- Thoughts from RIM's Q2 Financial Results Conference Call
- Samsung Galaxy S II Sprint Epic 4G Touch now available online from Sprint
- Motorola Droid Bionic review
- Windows 8 Developer Preview now available
- Two new iPhones to be announced this month, iPhone 5 may be in short supply
Feedback
Got something to say? Agree or disagree with something we said? Have something you want us to discuss on a future show? Don't just sit there yelling at the screen, dammit, let us know!
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Credits
Our music is pROgraM vs. Us3R by by morgantj. Introduction by Joseph Holder.
Thanks to the Smartphone Experts network of store for sponsoring this podcast, and to our fantastic live chat members for keeping us honest and making us smart!
9 Comments
So no Derek and not even talk about webOS? Might as well not even post this here.
I think they are looking into licensing webOS.
Get used to it - what passes for news on this site isn't relevant to the mobile technology world any longer. webOS is irrelevant at this point. If they find a buyer or a big-name licensee then there will be something to talk about. That fact that someone isn't interested in buying webOS is'nt of interest to anyone outside of this site.
Sadly this is true. I have strong doubts HP will find someone willing to license webOS for phones and tablets. If they would have subcontracted the hardware in the first place perhaps this would have played out better.
I'm going to keep my TouchPad but I will be replacing my Pre soon. Mango looks nice and it would be a nice addition to my laptop and Xbox.
I just picked up the Samsung Galaxy S2 last night.
It's going to take some getting used to.
Few things i miss about webOS already; Gestures, Synergy, the notification LED. Other than that the Samsung GS2 is a great phone. the screen is amazing, the speech to text is incredibly accurate. I've been on WebOS for about the past 28 months. I'm overwhelmed with all the apps on the Android market.
Thank you pre central for everything. You've kept me going on my orginal palm pre when everyone else abandoned ship. You guys are amazing. I wish HP made better decisions with WebOS, but after waiting so long for a new webOS phone on Sprint. I'm happy with Android 2.3 on the Samsung Galaxy S2.
knowing that HP was dropping touch pad. apps are open source codes,which means plenty will be developed for free.my only problem is HP has the rights to review your use of the touch pad you can loose your rights to use the touch pad. As I understand it!
No, nothing you just said made any sense at all.
HP cannot make it so that you can't use your Touchpad. Apple could do that, though you could jailbreak your device and you'd be okay. Google could try to do that, and the various Android groups would have a hacked version working eventually. But with the existence of Homebrew effectively refutes any fud about HP "shutting down your TouchPad". You could remedy that problem immediately via webOSInternals. Anyone who says that is either lying (really, for no good reason at all) or is ignorant.
You know, if Derek and the Precentral team (and some of the other webOS podcasters from webOSRoundup/et al) want to take this time to mope around instead of reporting on how Incredible! and a whole bunch of other great apps and patches have been getting released for webOS (both in the App Catalog and Homebrew), not to mention several official reports (worth easily enough for a show)...maybe someone else should step up and do it.
There may not be much going on HARDWAREWISE, but there has been plenty to talk about SOFTWAREWISE. Plus, there have been webOS meetups getting scheduled all over the place. I scheduled one, and I'm getting people registering.
The platform is still pretty awesome, and the software seems to still be under development...to call webOS "dead" at this point seems to be premature. And all you commenters realize...in literally SECONDS, when TouchPads show up in stores, they're gone. Poof. That shows there are a lot of people using these things, and those people, given a few weeks, will end up on Precentral and maybe even look for a podcast. Then they'll find the last few whinefests and feel like they wasted their money. OR, they could hear a podcast that actually helps them make use of their new toy.
Every day we write about at least one new application that has been released. An example: we announced the release of Incredible! the day before it happened, and posted a full review of it once it hit the catalog.
No one has moped around here that I know of.