Gadgetory

hey everyone I'm Molly wood and welcome to the bus report the show about the tech news that everyone is talking about this week the English language takes a nosedive google gets motorola mobility and radio reception in a can but first the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the samsung galaxy note it's like a phone tablet hybrid it's a phablet i'm actually not making this up people are actually calling this thing a phablet like it's some sort of new category of device called phablet anyway the Galaxy Note has a 5.3 inch screen so it's just about as big as a tablet it also comes with a stylus so you can take notes and draw and stuff but mainly it's a phone a phone as big as my face it's also lte-capable it has an 8 megapixel camera and like every new android phone that should be running ice cream sandwich but isn't it's expected to get an upgrade sometime around someday it's actually pretty good as a phone but only for people who carry purses or man purses Merces and who can say phablet with a straight face phablet phablet what is this world coming to and now for the news back to the good old days when tablets were tablets and phones were phones the world is awash with ipad 3 rumors and those rumors say it's coming soon the latest batch of unnamed sources say the newest iPad could debut March seventh which would be right on time considering the ipad 2 came out just about exactly a year ago in fact ipad 2 prices down to four hundred twenty nine bucks by the way rumors suggest the new ipad could have a Retina Display a faster maybe even quad-core processor and support for 4G LTE data and some reports say that Apple's been testing a new smaller version of the ipad closer to about 8 inches which if that also came with 4G LTE networking built-in I mean you could use that as a phone too and then it could be the world's first I phablet okay last time I promised the US and the European Union have approved Google's bid to buy motorola mobility which means the deal is very close to done the purchase gives google access to its own phone hardware plus a treasure trove of crucial phone related + + Motorola's entire TV set-top box business and its relationships with cable companies who license those boxes the EU and the DOJ approved the deal with no strings attached saying hey yeah I mean sure Google could combine its search services and operating system businesses with hardware to create a technological juggernaut that would control and distribute most of the world's information music TV video and books on its own branded platforms crushing all other competition existing and nascent but let's be honest this is google we're talking about they're not really that organized anyway we'll all soon forget all of our troubles because the two great opiates of the masses Angry Birds and Facebook have just joined forces with angry birds for facebook the wildly popular physics and puzzle game now gets new features new powers like a burn quake and social gamification features like the ability to compare scores there are daily rewards for playing all the time you know that kind of crack type stuff so in order to save society let's just make a new rule okay no Facebook angry birds at work none no whiskey at lunch no angry birds at work the fate of the world is at stake here google recently held a conference called solve for x it's part of their new project to encourage people to come up with crazy texts Aleutians two huge problems and the big hit at the first conference this week spray on antenna startup cam text as you can actually spray the antenna in a can on almost any surface and improve your various radio receptions including cell phone reception they showed it off by spraying it on a tree and it worked hey oh maybe if you mix this with the spray-on hair stuff then pretty soon all the tall balding guys in the world could be like walking femtocells I love solve for x and that's it for this week everyone I'm Mollywood and thank you for watching you