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this episode of ask the Buffaloes brought to you by netflix welcome back to another episode of ask the buffalo i'm jon rettinger and it feels good to be back in the driver's seat after Noah Kravitz filled in for me over the past few weeks on this episode we're going to talk about everything mobile we're going to talk about phones we can talk about tablets including Windows 8 tablets we're going to talk a bit about my trip to Europe and everything in between so sit down relax it's time to get our nerd on with ask the Buffalo I missed you guys I'm happy to be back hosting asked the Buffalo I am jon rettinger if you want to get your questions into the answer Don asked the Buffalo you can do it one of two ways first you can go to TechnoBuffalo calm once a week we will post an article asking for you to submit your questions now you got to do is type them in the comments otherwise if you want to send a message to me on Twitter you can send it to either my personal account at John for lakers or at TechnoBuffalo ask your question and use the hashtag ask the be so I know you want your question to be featured on ask the Buffalo obviously you can't answer all of them but I do try and get to as many as I can alright so without further ado let's go ahead and jump into the first question this one comes from a manual dab it off who asks John what do you think of the samsung galaxy note i had a chance to see the announcement of the samsung galaxy note at the ephah or IFA trade show in berlin and everybody's just kind of dropped when they saw a 5.3 inch phone being announced but those crazy specs got a 720p display that 5.3 inch display that i just mentioned it's got a 1.4 gigahertz dual-core processor in that thing and i gotta tell you i had some chance to get hands on the device and that screen is beautiful as good as you'd expect a screen of that resolution to be it looks almost twice as it you think it's going to feel really big in the hand I did try doing the pocket test on it and in normal dude jeans it actually fit okay if you sit down you're not going to snap the thing in half even though it is very thin so you actually may be able to use this as a phone it certainly felt weird up to your ear something you could definitely get used to one of the other cool things about the note which I think kind of went under the radar is actually has a style if it's funny now we're coming back to styluses this one is actually magnetic and it worked really well actually at the Samsung booth at the IFA trade show they had a caricature artist i would actually draw your picture on a samsung galaxy note using that stylus and then email to you right from there oh it's kind of neat so it works very well if you can't tell I'm excited about the Galaxy Note it means i would have to carry a tablet when i go anywhere and i don't to carry another phone i can try and carry once or a bridge device so it's a big phone or a small tablet either way it's probably have a place in my pocket our next question comes to us from technobuffalo calm from nathan cohen to who asks what tablet do you recommend ipad blackberry playbook samsung galaxy tab 10.1 etc well in my mind there are three tablets to really consider and chances are you probably know which one or which camp you're going to fall into far as things that are available right now if you're on the apple cider you're swayed by you know the beauty and luster of Apple certainly the ipad 2 is a great way to go it's the market leader for a reason you're getting a pretty powerful tablet a thin thin form factor with a ton of applications if you're more suede towards Android in the openness of the platform and what it can do is far as multitasking customizations there are two choices which are absolutely outstanding choice number one and this is the thinnest tablet that really I've ever have my hands on that's been released at least this is the samsung galaxy tab 10.1 assuming apple doesn't sue samsung again here in the US and get the sales halted that is probably my preferred tablet of choice on the android front it is an awesome tablet it works really well it's razor-thin battery solid I've got some great additions to honeycomb and with samsung's touchwiz on there it's just a great tablet overall the screen is beautiful i love the widescreen form factor of it just worked crazy well and also sort of a keyboard dock too so if you can take it to class and take notes it's going to work out well for you speaking a keyboard the tablet number three deserves to be mentioned is the asus eee pad transformer which is an awesome tablet in its own right it's got the same specs pretty close at least to the galaxy tab 10.1 it's got that beautiful TFT display course is running Android Honeycomb and videos Tegra 2 processor in there it's got that same widescreen aspect ratio and you can get again keyboard dock turns into a laptop and it's that sort of transformer a name to it and worked well those smooth he didn't have any delay both of those android tablets are awesome so whether your Apple or whether your Android I would definitely recommend one of those three or not can go wrong with any of them I'm gonna keep in mind hopefully that helped answer your question so let me take a quick second to thank our friends and sponsors at Netflix first of all guys i use netflix i use netflix probably three times a week to watch TV shows while sitting downstairs i stream them on my Apple TV right to my television sometimes I'll use the xbox instead pending how I'm feeling it's a great way to get content right to your television with more than 23 million members Netflix is the world's largest subscription service instantly streaming TV episodes and movies members can instantly watch thousands of titles on a vast ram devices streaming TV episodes and movies like I said the xbox 360 Sony's ps3 and Nintendo Wii at the netflix unlimited member you can instantly watch as many movies as you want anywhere you want 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of traveling I went to London first then I took the train to Paris and then I flew from Paris to Berlin I had been to any of those three places or even the three countries those places are in so I was really excited to go and check them out while I was in London I had a meetup we had about 30 35 people come and it was actually awesome I went to it was the Covent Garden Apple stores from the largest stores in the country just had a great time I really enjoyed it that was probably my favorite moment from the trip I was getting a chance to meet to meet fans and to meet fellow nerds and get a chance to just talk to everyone that people in London were awesome I was really happy they had things on the street though that said look left look right because I probably would have got hit by a card 17 times forget they drive on the other side of the road I'm not saying the wrong side of the road because it's right for them but you definitely can't forget while you're there so it's very happy food was awesome people were really friendly actually at some the best indian food ever in London I never been to Paris so it's really cool to see the city in the history like walking through history that was really really cool and then Berlin I never been to Germany so it was awesome to get a chance to not only meet some fans at the ephah trade show hey Tim and Jesse it was also really cool to sort of see the city in the history of Berlin I'm kind of a world war two buff so to sort of see where all these things happens and how the German people felt about what happened was really very interesting and I got a chance to know some of the German geeks out there so that even made it better and I will say this the German beer is awesome so if you're over 21 it's a go to Germany I definitely I give that a shot it was just a dull trip was awesome and I'm happy to let me be back a home that you realize so excited to go but I'm so happy to come back home as well so that was a bit of a personal story thank you for tuning in to another episode of ask the Buffalo for all your latest tech news be sure to check us out on TechnoBuffalo calm i'm jon rettinger i'll see you in the next episode I get my techno Buffalo sugar this episode of techno Buffalo is brought to you by netflix and my crazy wizard eyebrows and my bushy wizard eyebrows