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what's up everyone jon rettinger here with the series i like to call ask the buffalo where you can ask me anything you want from the world to tech and even my personal life these questions are not screened before hand so they are coming right from my mind out my face hole and on to your screen you can ask questions one of two ways we put up a post on technobuffalo calm and you can ask your question there in the comments otherwise you can send the message to at TechnoBuffalo with the hashtag ask the bee and you can ask whatever you like these are going to be a weekly segment so we're going to answer you know eight to ten questions appending on the answer so if you see me good answer right words because I got the questions over there let's go ahead and get started the first question comes from the website and is from user Lambo 6 do you think the iphone five will come out in june or july should i wait to get the iphone four i can't wait out of all the questions that I get this is probably one of the most popular should i buy the iphone should I not buy the iphone and it seems to be true with every single Apple product they generally have about a year release cycle so if you don't get it in that first three months back your mind if you're a nerd you're probably thinking a new ones coming out traditionally apples release cycle has been every June we've seen a new iphone announced since 2007 at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference however if rumors are to be believed it looks like we might finally be breaking that tradition and we might actually see the iphone 5 announced in September for release in the late September early November timeframe certainly before the holidays come around in the US so should you wait if you have to have a new phone if your phone is shattered into a million tiny foam pieces then don't wait if you have a phone that works you just want one could spun shiny new and now comes in white then your best bet is going to be to wait until launch day get in line and get one of the new iphone 5 or the iphone 4s who knows what they're going to call it alright so the next question comes also from the website this is matt Kersey ski hey John with all the different phone unboxing you do with the majority being Android is there really anything dramatically distinguishing between them or do they all seem to run together after a while that's a very good question so TechnoBuffalo we get our hands on almost every Android phone out and oftentimes I can do those unboxing with my eyes closed so check it out we've got a 4.3 inch screen with a wvga resolution of 800 x 400 for capacitive buttons at the bottom we've got your menu button your home button your back button your search button on the left hand side you've got a volume rocker on the right hand side I've got your power and lock switch top 3.5 millimeter headset jacket on the top and bottom we've got dual news canoes cancelling microphones on the back of gotten 8 megapixel shooter that can shoot video and 720p and a front-facing camera that can shoot pictures in 1.3 megapixels the fact is a lot of these phones look exactly the same to have exactly the same specs with very little distinguishing factors to them so they do tend to blend together when you see so many of them that doesn't mean that I don't enjoy doing them I'm a huge phone nerd before I started doing these videos I used to go out and try and buy every phone that I could and then I've used them for a couple months and I'd sell them on eBay or Craigslist and I lose about a hundred dollars that buy something new I love these phones and even though they all do kind of blend together doesn't take away from the excitement of trying something new however I do love when there is phone that tries to break from that traditional form factor something like a kyocera echo might not be a phone that I would want to use on everyday basis but I love the fact that it exists and it's new the HPV rats something tiny and small we haven't seen before at something unique so I love when these phone companies innovate the sony ericsson xperia play is another example it's cool to have a gamepad there especially if you want to get your emulator on you can rock some super nintendo a lot of fun so I they do blend together but I like when things are a little bit different as well spices up the phone flava if you will that was my spicy hands alright let's go to the next question this one comes from Dahlia what kind of kid were you in high school nerdy I've always been on the nerdy side of things I played sports all over report early on high school you are talking to a third string quarterback right here who got in i believe two games so I played a little bit of football I'm not the tallest guy in the world i'm like i like the same 5 10 but i'm really like 59 ish I don't weigh that much maybe a buck 65 it's always never giant I'm from Southern California and there were some big big kids I remember I think was probably the first game ever got in i went back to throw a pass and i got sacked by a guy that looked like a house but that's more information than you they asked for I was nerdy I tried to be nice sometimes you know certainly in high school you're not always as nice as you want to be if I could go back I would try and be much nicer to everyone high schools aren't realize how hard high school can be for a lot of people so try and be nicer there's my general bit of advice alright so the next question comes from patrol Ian how do you get to naming technobuffalo I think he's asking how did I name technobuffalo the answer that I like to say is I did my undergraduate went to university if you're outside of the US from the university of rochester in upstate new york right near Buffalo but the real answer is it was an available URL I wanted to have techno in the name and I wanted a strong identity of strong iconography and the Buffalo kind of liked strong you know what it was and eventually I want to branch out the TechnoBuffalo name so we don't want it to just be consumer electronic I like to have a tablet focus site I like to even have a car focus site at some point and I want to use that same Buffalo name spend so long sort of branding it I wanted at something that would be identifiable so that is your loan answer to your question I tend to do that the next question comes from magic geek magic how would I be able to get a job like yours I am the I had I've said this many times I wake up with a huge smile on my face every day because I get to live my dream I get a talking about technology for a living now there's some things that are hard and I don't always enjoy it every day but the fact that I get to do this for a job the fact that you guys in the audience support me enough to give me the opportunity to do this for a job means more to me then I could ever ever communicate what any giveaway could ever show it you guys are just let me live my dream I got to do this about ninety percent because of luck I'd good timing I was one of the first tech guys on YouTube that we're doing this there were a few that sort of paved the way guys like Chris Pirillo for example sort of doing the tech TV thing beforehand and they really sort of paved the way but I was one of the early guys at least on YouTube right now it's a very crowded field and it's hard to sort of get in and get noticed we've done a whole series of advice videos on TechnoBuffalo on advice for aspiring youtubers and how to get noticed and how to get products the best advice that I can give is find your own voice be unique show your personality brand yourself you didn't have to go out and spend all the money for products you can talk about trends you can take advantage of youtube search functionality and tagging to get your videos to come up really the best advice that I can give though again is just to be yourself and let your personality try and come through in your videos like you watch my videos and you know that guy's nerd and a true alright so the next question comes from Carlos Baba John what are your thoughts on the next Android Ice Cream Sandwich from what you know about it will it be a key upgrade for users if you saw my android ramped i ranted about android being fragmented ice cream sandwich is going to bring the tablet world the phone world together in harmony there you go synergy finally hopefully we're going to see a unified platform hopefully they'll be carrier support they claim that there would be so yes Ice Cream Sandwich should unify the platform that should greatly reduce fragmentation which should be awesome for developers put better apps on your phones and should make it a little bit easier for some of the other software developers so let's go ahead and move on to the next one this one comes from twitter from gavin let's then what what do you think mobile phones can do by 2020 hashtag I asked to the be well if you look a trend for mobile phones right now they're kind of a couple cool things going on first I think we're going to see pico projectors and everything tiny mini projectors that you can show hopefully at that point it'll be full 1080p video on a bigger screen as you want turn your phone into a full 55 inch flat screen I guess it'd be super flat if your wall is display I think that's something we're definitely going to see 3d is really becoming more and more popular by then hopefully we'll have some sort of glasses free non headache-inducing 3d technology certainly will see faster and faster processors was a quad-core octa-core whatever 16 oak or what comes after that 30 20 core chips just gonna be faster and faster and more RAM and more ram but I hope that we see though is better battery technology battery hasn't always caught up to the phone business so hopefully that will change and bigger screens will have 10 inch phones 20 inch phones you'll have to have a briefcase to carry around your phones like you're Zack Morris again the next question this is the last one comes from punky pong zeor this one's also on Twitter I didn't extra head nod for emphasis do you think android OS would be less laggy with future updates had a thunderbolt and had some issues with it for easing android OS I don't think is very laggy I think oftentimes what you see with Android because it's not vertically integrated and meeting Google doesn't make all the hardware and the software is oftentimes the software is not optimized take advantage of the hardware and your particular Thunderbolt might have been one of those cases I know that HTC has issued a few updates you know with verizon service speed up that process I don't think android is very lucky I think oftentimes you have to do a bit of application and resource management to get the fastest experience possible some people route their devices and put on custom roms but if you just want to deal with a stock phone i think android can generally be pretty quick sometimes people think it can be laggy in the browser and oftentimes that's because flash is on but with flash 10.3 now that should reduce it just turn flash off oftentimes that will really improve the lag enos pinch-to-zoom especially with your browsers so if you guys enjoyed this was a long waited the Buffalo where i answer any kind of questions so we talked about phones we talked a little bit about tablets touched on them talked about how big a nerd I was in high school we got a lot more fun stuff coming up so stay tuned be sure to ask your questions anything you want some of them I might not answer but these all these answers come barreling out of my head i am jon rettinger from technobuffalo and I'm pointing again for emphasis I'll see you in the next video bye bye