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this episode of the TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by Squarespace oh hello there cameraman that I asked to stand there and film me I didn't see you there let's go ahead and do another episode of ask to Buffalo this is the show where you can ask me John Rhett injure any question you have from the wide world of Technology this Thanksgiving episode's gonna be a bit of a tour TechnoBuffalo office and that's just wandering around asking your questions if you want to ask questions you can send them in in one of two ways on Tuesday you can go to TechnoBuffalo comm well the posts up there asking people to submit their questions you can go ahead and ask your question in the comments or if you're more social network ly inclined you could send your question to twitter using the hashtag ask the bee on this episode of TechnoBuffalo we're gonna talk xbox next rubric to be xbox 720 we're gonna talk cellphones we're gonna talk about what your next device should be I'm going to talk a little bit about tablets let's go ahead and get started all right so welcome to the TechnoBuffalo offices we're gonna be doing a full more in-depth tour that goes through everything but for right now let's just unlock the door come on in mr. cameraman all right so our first question comes from Twitter and user froggie tech who wants to talk the next-generation Xbox he's asking do you think the xbox 720 will be released and if so when so yeah of course the Xbox 720 is going to be released it might not be called the Xbox 720 it might be called the Xbox 4 or even though it's not technically the fourth console but definitely we're gonna see a next generation Xbox there have been rumors though that we might see this next generation console as early as e3 2012 although Microsoft and Sony have actually both said that their current generation consoles the Xbox 360 and the ps3 we're gonna have a 10 year lifespan so we're still about two years away from that 10 year lifespan so do I think we're gonna see it this year probably not I think III 2013 we'll probably see it with them maybe late 2013 early 2014 launched at least that would be my guess the next question comes from user logically tech who wants to talk about carriers camping your data he asks John where do you see the future of cloud computing moving as carriers been to restrict users with more and more limiting data caps that's a great question so as data caps data caps get lower and lower we go from unlimited 5 10 gigabytes 5 gigabytes and lower it's getting harder and harder to get your information and cloud computing is a great example cloud computing while not taking local storage does use a ton of data look at things like iTunes Match or Google Music yeah you can stream all your stuff you don't have to have a giant phone or a giant tablet with you know 100 gigs or 120 gigs of storage but you do need a huge amount of data in order to get that string to come down so it's gonna be tough I think what we might see in 18 t may have laid the foundation for this his carrier is actually starting to put out their own Wi-Fi networks not only will the end users get the same data experience that they've get if they had Wi-Fi or if they had 3G or 4G connection Dolph's can get access to all the same stuff they can do before so you could stream ken's are you consume it faster than you could on your 3G connection in the past so the answer I think is unfortunately going to have to be Wi-Fi or care you're going to invest billions and billions and billions of dollars to upgrade to network support which is the massive amounts of data hungry devices better outfit our next question comes from Clinton Bishop and he wants to talk holidays he asks John should I get the iPad 2 for Christmas or hold out see if I see an iPad 3 in March hashtag ask the bee ah that's a great question and if I knew the answer to that if I could pin down the exact date that Apple is gonna release the iPad 3 I would be a jillion air with a capital G but unfortunately we don't know so we could only go by past history past release dates and alleged supply orders that we've seen and we are starting to hear rumors now of iPad 3 Retina displays of being ordered by Apple we keep hearing March and keep hearing March for a release date and generally where there's a little bit of smoke with Apple there's always a little bit of fire so do I think you should get the iPad 2 or wait for the iPad 3 well as this is the case with most Apple products there's always something new coming out and that's really true with technology if you don't like the current generation Android phone wait for days there'll be a new flagship there's always something new coming out there's always something around the corner if the iPad 2 right now suits your needs or will suit your needs next month for the holidays then get it you're gonna get a great tablet if you're the kind of person though and you know yourself has to have the latest and greatest than yet wait and get the product right at release but who knows what it's going to be feels what the price is going to be what carriers might have it the general rule that I tell people is if you're happy with the current device then go ahead and get it when you need it because you just never know what might be coming out refreshing our next question comes from user amp to 206 who also wants a sort of talk iPad he asked John what do you feel is the best alternative to the iPad well what I feel is the best alternative to the iPad it's been a very little bit depending on your price tolerance you asked me a few months ago what is a bit $99 touch pad for sure is not only a great alternative but in a lot of ways better than the iPad and nowadays your products are released it would be the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 or the a suti Pad Transformer if you want to wait a few weeks probably a few months or so we're gonna have Tegra 3 coming out with quad cores actually have v core in the transformer prime so it's really going to depend on how long you can wait to get the tablet of your choice if you want quad core you want that awesome performance and you want the better battery life for that fifth core companion core is going to give you then you're gonna want to wait until December we're also on the dawn of Ice Cream Sandwich coming out for tablets which we've heard rumors we'll be seeing you know sometime in the December January time frame so you know that might be something worth waiting for if you have to get something now the Asus Transformer or the Galaxy Tab 10.1 are the best truest competitors to the iPad especially if you need mobile flash and get mobile flash while you still can you're not gonna be able to get it for that much longer I want to take a minute to thank our friends and sponsors at Squarespace as we wander through these halls you might be wandering through the virtual halls of creating your own website if you are Squarespace is going to be for you it's a fully hosted platform 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talk about he says I'm getting a new smartphone that is 4G or 4G LTE capabilities on AT&T at Christmas time what phone should I get that's a very good question and by coincidence look what I have in front of me I've got the Samsung Galaxy s2 skyrocket for AT&T that happens to be 4G LTE this was a phone that we reviewed actually earlier on in the week it's a larger variants of Samsung's very popular galaxy s2 using a little bit of different chipset than most galaxy s2 SR it's like Qualcomm device so it's not gonna be as fast but you're still getting ready performance and you're getting a really great phone the only downside of this guy it certainly it's not running Ice Cream Sandwich screen resolutions the same as its 4.3 inch brother at 480 by 800 but you're still getting a ton of stuff packed into one device so if we can let the Box tell us anything here you're getting 4G LTE speeds you're also gonna get HSPA+ for 4G fallback if you're not in one of the very limited 4G LTE areas right now but the lights on here you're also gonna get that 1.5 gigahertz dual-core Snapdragon processor we discussed and gig of ram of course it's got the Wi-Fi as Android is Gingerbread and dual cameras and the rest of that exciting stuff you'd expect from a modern device if you're on AT&T a 1 LTE and you want it today this is gonna be the phone for you to pick up so if you guys enjoyed this episode of ask the buffalo it's a bit of a random walk through and tour of the TechnoBuffalo offices if you want to see more we'll have a full walkthrough and tour coming up very very very soon for all your tech news be sure to check us out at TechnoBuffalo compher unboxing reviews rumors and random videos like this I'm your host John Rhett enger' and I'll see you the next video refreshing