Gadgetory

hey what is going on everybody after a week away we're back we're ready we're good to go I'm Noah Kravitz from TechnoBuffalo and I'm James kinder from ZDNet mobile news and I didn't go anywhere you didn't go anywhere it was all on me I was on the road last week so we took took the week off and you know what there are a couple people out there who said hey what's up we missed you you coming back this week so yeah I heard it to the dealer looking for good stuff did you uh did you get the mass flood of gadgets over the past week or so that I for John deal with on his own I probably I've been flooded I've had both the ups and the FedEx guy here repeatedly in the last week so I so lots to talk about I am this is I feel I feel like I'm left out this is all I have I haven't even had time to open it up yet today the droid incredible 2 ah you'll like it what I so there's that this is a very nice phone it really is there's what else there's the droid charge the the playbooks have been out for a little while after a chore pick pick one tell me tell me about something what are you what are you hot on well the doy droid charge I mean this this arrived here yesterday right in the middle of the big verizon 4g outage right so this was basically a paperweight yesterday because there was no network could connect to and it didn't it didn't automatically down great couldn't pick up 3g right well that's some testing I've done with four different verizon 4g devices on finding very few if any of them will do that properly i I don't know verizon needs to really step up and either owned up to what was going on if it was more serious than they said right because nothing was downgrading reliably yeah I had the same thing I was trying to use I was at a conference all day yesterday I was trying to use the 4g modem with my laptop and it could not it sort of weary us we USU a modem you have the pantech see that's the first one that I heard of that was non-wireless that had that problem so I'm thinking something about their networks horn identifying themselves properly yea networks because I heard a lot of people say you know I've got 3g equipment out the wazoo and if some of it said I see it but I can't get there that's what I always have any other so I can't see it either right yeah yeah but anyway detroit charged what would made this such a a nice phone is because you know it's the second phone from verizon for the 4g for the 4g for the 4g network but what was more impressive about it to me is because i like the 4.3 inch screen the big displays and phones and this is the first one from Samsung right right and it's the super amo LED plus display right I tell you this is probably the best screen on any phone I've ever seen young the iphone 4i I would believe it I believe it I I got to see the galaxy s2 in ya bein and then I remember being really impressive display and that I actually saw yesterday's samsung had a little simple mobile head a little stand it at this app nation conference I was that he and when I went by they had an s2 but it wasn't charged it was first thing in the morning but they had the galaxy players to four and five and I was looking at the five and that one's not even the super amoled plus it's just it's an LCD display but even that they're making some really nice displays though all their screens are nice but this display this is the first super amo LED plus display I've seen this big 4.3 yeah it's like brilliant I mean it's it's really awesome and what I'm finding so far I mean I've only had it for about a day and a half now is that the display doesn't hit the battery that hard see that's a that's a big that is that's it I think that's a big deal for somebody on it and then of course the 4g we already know each batteries for lunch this one's actually doing pretty good in my testing so far today so we'll just have to see it this phone is so you know some people don't like the the galaxy the same some phones because they're plastic he dado you're right and granted it doesn't feel anywhere near as solid as the droid incredible 2 uh-huh it's but because of that plastic construction it is much much like let even on this smaller phone yep yep so I'm not particularly hard on my phone I mean I don't run around bashing them in like right like I'm red white my wife you can tear a phone up quicker than anybody I know yeah but I I'm impressed with this phone yeah yeah as this phone is sweet I would say but it's expensive you know this one is the 2009 with a contract geez that's a hundred dollars more than any other smartphone with a with a contract I'm not sure why that is how much but how library is on it this thing has got well that may have something to do with it the way it it's verizon is including a 32 gigabyte microSD card card oh ok ok so that's that's i mean that's that's i stumble what what everybody else has the right and that's that's iphone 32 gig pricing right 299 yeah yeah so and we i should also point out this was actually supposed to go live or be released today right right verizon is actually confirmed to me that they delayed the launch this and they won't admit it but it's because the 4g network was down I mean they were right now like I said yesterday while when the network was down I couldn't even get 3g connection so it's like right right how are you gonna sell somebody a three-hundred-dollar with a contract in Ekta connect to anything you know I can hear that the AT&T iPhone jokes lining up in the back of my head already yeah but I'll tell you what I was wrong making the high spot that's the punchline James yeah that's right i should point out that verizon did confirm to me also that when this does go why that mobile hotspot is going to be free for a while like it was on oh no a thunder Brett Rae and so I actually used that because I mean 4g is we know we talked out on past shows is just an incredible yeah way into it when it's working apparently well they only yesterday was the only time you know it since they want right right right for me I mean yeah I actually have a mobile hotspot of my own and I use it all the time and this was great i was seeing 22 megabytes per second down and over 6 megabytes per second up Wow yeah as a hotspot right ready running other laptops out ain't great wow that's awesome you had you happen to connect blackberry playbook to it over tell ya ya ya so what sure I have not actually you know John has John has our playbook loner yeah amidst a ton of other tablets III got the g slate and then i hit the road and i FedExed end the g slate and he was just in tablet heaven last week but yeah yeah when I was playbook well I'll tell you I didn't like it before it cain't at all I thought this thing was probably the one of the biggest follies we were going to see in a long time right but I have to admit I really impressed with a hardware I mean rim has made a solid piece of kit here and i'm also very impressed with the user interface you know we talked on past show now critical that is on a tablet yep and i think they've done a really good job fast i mean they borrowed some of the best parts of webos they just found out stole it it's it's in here and so I mean more power to them i mean that's makes what makes the interface so good I right right right drum of course no apps yeah so they're like a lot of negative reviews you know saying it's just it's not finished its it and those are all apps pretty much I'll tell you I enjoy this and find this to be this is going to create a big flap I find this to be a much better tablet than the motorola xoom honeycomb just didn't float my boat at all and this if this had any apps at all this thing would be killer I really I really believe that right I so that's a 7 inch screen right seven ice cream it's that I like 7-inch tablets I used to galaxy tab yeah I do too I am I updated the nookcolor this week to it sort of i'm still real high on that but as a consumer product you know more than that's a nice tablet and they just got an update yeah you bite it I have yeah how does it work with that ah it allows me to be just as bad at angry birds as I am on any other platform so you know that's that's that's just you know it works pretty well it's um a little little peek at james's blog there the i think the webcam couldn't deal with the present browser is awesome is it they nailed the browser is probably the best mobile browser I've used really yeah why because it anals virtually every site right doesn't matter what kind of you know whether what kind of JavaScript it's God or what kind of flash it's got this thing is just like a desktop browser right right and and that's one thing that I kind of took took you know a lot of the reviewers have said well with no native email app you can't do email on it that's not true i mean i do right you desktop gmail right fine right oops whoa oh no it's at the rim CEO oh man he's ticked again bae anyway that's i am pretty impressed with the hardware i just would like to see some better software yeah it affect yeah the yet answer real quick the the nut color update is uh you know it's not what i really like about it is the user interface is still very clean very simple to use the email app is you know it's basically a slaw it looks a lot like you know on and it's not the native android app but it looks a lot like it but in again a very sort of clean mannered does HTML email and whatnot and the browser you know it's it's fine and and for the audience that you know for 250 tablet for an e-reader that can now do some extra stuff you know the browser works well enough it supports flash it'll handle flash it's not you know up playing playing low bandwidth games at my friend Doug's website perfect watching videos on espn.com the ones that weren't optimized for mobile you know look like stuttery slideshows but that's kind of you know that that's not limited to just that that device but but what I like about it I actually really like that they are ah barnes and nobles app store for nook you have to follow their guidelines to optimize the app for the device I think that's very smart on their part and you know that the audience the consumer is looking at that tablet and people who have it are not to generalize but I don't think they're the kind of people who are going to even bat an eyelash eyelash thinking about what version of Android do I have what are the specs of my device can this support it or not they just want things that are made what custom rom can I lashawn right yeah but I think yeah I think you you hit it very appropriately it is an e-reader that does tablet stuff right and that makes I think it's very good at that ya know you too and and same year that 7 inch size I really like yeah well I'm guessing we are here at time running over already but they go we missed a week we had to make up some ground I guess exactly so droid charge big thumbs up incredible two thumbs up no no 4g on that one but it's a world phone no but that's important a lot of people because they're not in 4G areas so right i would highly recommend this for those guys and playbook sounds like playbook it's a qualified guns up i would buy one now but I'm gonna really seriously watch them down the room got you all right well next week who knows I who knows what good is the fedex and UPS folks will bring us to talk about but hopefully nothing need to catch up i'm still buried well when you do catch up where can people find you catching up what's the URL i'm at zdnet com / blog / mobile dash news alright ZDNet mobile news James Kendrick always a pleasure in my week to take 10-15 minutes out and just talk mobile tech with you yeah it's fun time same with you Noah all right well enjoy the rest of your week here i hope you get caught up enough to enjoy the weekend in a day and a half down there in texas i will do it again next Thursday all right we'll see you all right see James buh-bye you