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what's up everyone i'm jon rettinger and welcome to another edition of ask the buffalo where you can ask me anything you want from the world a tech from mobile phones computers tablets laptops anything that plugs in or uses rechargeable batteries go ahead and ask you can submit your questions two ways the first one is either on the website technobuffalo calm will have a post up there you can leave your questions in the comments or you can send it out replied to me on twitter with the hashtag ask the be to either the official TechnoBuffalo twitter handle which is at technobuffalo or my personal one which is at john for lakers so without further ado let's go ahead and get started the first question comes to us from twitter and user I are beast John what is your favorite verizon phone that's an excellent question there are two phones that I think are absolutely outstanding on verizon they've got a ton of great devices out there first if you are in an LTE area the one that you need to pick up in my opinion out of all their LTE devices which currently just to the charge and the Thunderbolt is the Samsung built Droid Charge LTE speeds are absolutely amazing I've been getting between five and ten megabits down and about 3 megabits per second up which is almost on par with standard comb connections absolutely great device and the best thing about this has been the battery life I'm able to get through a full day which is not something I can say about the Thunderbolt it doesn't have a dual core processor but it is extremely fast rocking the latest and greatest updated hummingbird so if you are looking for an LTE phone even if you're signing a two-year contract and you're not in LTE area now you might be an LTE area in the future if you live in the maps the middle of nowhere you don't think you're going to be getting LTE in the next few years and you want to go android the new x 24 verizon is a fantastic device if you are looking for something that's perhaps less future-proof the iphone 4 on verizon is always a solid choice i happen to have one right here if you ever see someone using an iphone 4 and you want to tell whether or not it's for verizon or not sort of a handy little trick i won't have the FCC business on the bottom here if it is a verizon iphone cut interesting so those would be my top two choices for verizon phones all right the next question comes to us again from twitter this is FSU for Asti who is asking John why did you choose the macbook pros one of your first videos shows you that might have been following me on youtube John for lakers you know that my first video was an unboxing of a macbook pro hello everybody my name is John I'm a recent max switcher it was an extremely unprofessional in boxing I was really really nervous is about four and a half years ago I had been watching a ton of YouTube videos at the time it was really before there were a lot of tech reviewers out there and I knew that I wanted to try it I had never used him act before I had pcs in my whole life and I figured if I made some videos on a new computer it would force me to learn it was annual operating system OS 10 at the time I didn't know anything about it or how to use it i figured videos would be a nice way to do it I was also excuse me to buy a video camera which being a tech guy all I needed was a reason to justify it in my head so that was why I picked the macbook pro as my first video the next question comes to us once again from Twitter this is user blue 42 rich man who asked how do you balance hands-on time with three you device with the speed required for SEO to videos and reviews so I think what he's asked me is how do i do ton of phone reviews I'm be able to give each phone the time it deserves oh really at any given time I'm reviewing about two phones are coming out and I'm really glad you asked this question I know a lot of you guys out there looking and get into the phone reviewing world but it's tough to sort of balance time to make sure the phone is getting a review you can give your audience the most honest review possible if you just use phone for a day you're not going to know enough about it sometimes our reviews come a little bit later than other sites because I'm spending a lot of time with these phones and I really want to know all the nuances so to answer your question the first thing I will do is I will sit with the phone for one hour I will even if it's a familiar poem that I've used and I've used android before for example I will sit with the phone I'll go through all the widgets I'll try everything I'll trying to speed of the phone i'll compare it to a few other devices that I with me and the next thing I do is I hop in the car I've got a loop sort of around my neighborhood I'm in Southern California it's about a five mile loop and i will make 20 test calls and that sometimes can take a while you're gonna take about an hour and a half two hours usually I just keep calling my wife I'd see if I have any drop calls or how the call quality is how their speakerphone is how it connects the bluetooth now that's certain the only representative of where I am in Southern California's first call quality but it will give me a sense of whether or not it drops a lot of calls and oftentimes that's representative of a bad antenna I'm sort of a long winded cancer to say that I really make sure that each phone gets the time it deserves and this is my job so I can spend you know as much time as I need from eight in the morning until 12 in the afternoon just with one phone on i can do that for three four five you know six days even to make sure i can give you guys the most honest opinion as possible alright let's go to the next one which comes once again from twitter this is aj Goran one what do you use most often tablets phones pcs that include maps I use my computer's up quite a bit so first one you can see behind me connected to bird it's right there behind me let's connect it to a 27-inch imac I do all of my video editing on a Mac I you know use final cut express or iMovie depending on the difficulty of video editing that needs to be done so most of my time to spend right here in this chair staring at that's great doing all of my video editing when I feel I need to get some direct Sun trend i might go work across the street and I will bring my macbook air with me and I can do some light video editing in my movie but it's on that fast generally if I'm you know interested in bed they're sitting on the couch I've got my smartphone with me I'm checking Twitter or YouTube and that really depends on what phone I am testing or using at the time currently I am using the Samsung Infuse 4G is by daily phone so that's what I've got with me sitting on the couch sometimes if you're for bed I will watch youtube videos on a tablet from testing a new tablets what i'll be using but generally i've got the ipad 2 with me so hopefully that answers your question alright let's go to the next one this comes from jamie benn hughes at john for lakers have tablets killed off the netbook industry if not and when the netbook industry really boomed up the past few years with the advent of the intel atom chip low-powered low power consumption and you're able to use it as a standard computer I said this time and time again tablets are fantastic for media consumption great for watching video great for browsing the web not so good for media consumption I'm not going to create spreadsheets where documents whatever PowerPoint whatever you're doing it's very difficult to do on the tablet for that demographic I think netbooks are really going to always have a place that is until tablets become a tool for media creation I look at advice like the epad transformer which has a keyboard and it's got a trackpad tell me sir cross that boundary a little bit where tablets can be used for easy media creation I with Android allowing now nice so you can actually have a cursor it's becoming a lot more prevalent to use tablets for media consumption I don't think that the tablet os's are where they need to be for it's going to kill the network industry but i would say we're heading that direction very quickly perhaps in iOS 5 or even in Android Ice Cream Sandwich hopefully that helps answer your question ah the next question comes from the website this is from quince hubs do you think there will be a smart cover for the iphone 5 because you guys don't know this is a smart cover on the ipad 2 it is a polyurethane or leather little magnetic case hooks on the side that protects your ipad 2 and can prop it up and do all kinds of business with it I definitely do not think we'll see a smart cover for the iphone 5 first of all who's going to really prop up their phone generally you're holding it in your hand imagine pulling a magnetic latch and your pocket it's going to fall off just not going to happen I would say very strongly no we're not going to see a smart cover for the iphone 5 pratts will see an evolution of the bumper that we've got for a case for the iphone 4 speaking of mobile operating systems all right let's go ahead and jump into the next question which comes from max Kissel I believe sighs knows it hey John what do you think about the new mango update coming to Windows Phone 7 you think it will put the OS compared to the iOS and such LOL thoughts on the pre 3 i'm a huge fan of Windows Phone 7 i'm got the samsung focus here but the new mango update which is the new software update coming to Windows Phone 7 I think that we're finally going to see OS parody I again really like Windows Phone 7 I think I could use it as my daily OS but there are some things that's really missing a unified inbox for one if you're like me and I've got a work email address got a business email address work and business or actually two separate emails and I've got a personal one so that three emails going when you're looking at the smart titles on a windows phone 7 operating system can be a bit tough when your whole screen is filled up with a few in boxes so I would love to see a unified inbox we're finally going to see multitasking actually doing a process called tombstoning which sounds sort of violent brawl it does essentially kills the app right where you are and lets you go back to it there's a ton of other security features that are going in we now have cut copy and paste we saw with the node 0 update so the answer to your question is yes I think we'll see OS parity and I think windows phone 7 will be as viable and option as iOS is android is and as hopefully webos will be on the pre three which is another device I am really looking forward to getting my hands on I was able to see one and test it very quickly and the touchpad conference in san francisco which was fine i believe in that februari at this point I'm really excited hopefully that's going to come very soon although I do wish it had an on-screen keyboard the next question and last question comes from Twitter and this is user Ross Jamison I'm giving a lot of head Bob's ask the bee what are your thoughts on the apple store two point oh those you guys don't know it's the 10 year anniversary of the apple retail store and they've redone and revamped slowly at least all the alcohol stores across the country in the world if they haven't done yours yet they will be very soon oh if they've done and now they're using iPads it's sort of smart tags you can go through if you're looking at a macbook pro next to the macbook pro display there'll be an ipad at all different information you can even page a sales associate to come over to you if you don't want to just raise your hand or go up and say excuse me you'll now have the option to just page someone which is great when the stores get really busy they can actually come and answer your question should help a bit with staffing a bit of a redesign in there as well I think it looks nice certainly a modernization of the apple store is very clean its iconic and it's become sort of a beacon for consumer electronic retails that's really become a model that a lot of companies have tried to imitate so if you guys enjoyed this edition of ask the Buffalo I am jon rettinger and if you have any other questions that come up be sure to check out the website or the twitter feed and we'll let you know what we're filming another ask the bee and we'll get your question answered i'll see you guys in the next video