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hey what is going on everybody and welcome to another edition of good to go I'm Noah Kravitz from technobuffalo calm when I James Kendrick from ZDNet mobile news we're going to try to get this one in under the wire because the storm clouds apparently our gathering down in Texas where James is so I we want it we want to get get through talking about Google i/o so you can batten down your hatches down there lights have flickered once already since we stored it so I'm gonna talk fast if I and if I disappear you lost me and you're not getting me back all right anybody watching from the Texas area if James screen goes blank send out the rescue dogs the st. Bernard just a little lot the little lie barrels of and medicine on their collars so uh google i/o big news this week here it is here's oh my goodness is the i/o edition tab 10-1 some of that loot that you brought back with you actually you don't have it all yet I don't have it all yet the the Chromebooks they're not shipping until June and they actually when they gave out the the tab they give it a little card saying come back tomorrow for a verizon mobile hotspot right and they didn't have them in I left the show before it was over and I didn't have them in yet so oh really yeah yep so that's the Samsung like i have actually in here somewhere yes Samsung Samsung was like the official unofficial official sponsor oh like they put up some stuff that's for sure they've been they've been going hard this month they had the event earlier this month in New York they have another one the 24th where it was like they're going to officially launch launch this thing that the Samsung version with the TouchWiz panel on it which this is not how I talk about right again yeah a lot lots going on there but well let me ask you because I was you know when you're at these conferences you tend to sort of get really deep into whatever it is you're focused on but then there's so much else going on you know I sort of wound up relying on the media as much as anything to find out you know what else is going on what was your takeaway from you know from not being at the event but reporting on it and covering it from afar well they're really good about streaming it live and I mean I admit I I was watching it as much as possible I mean android is the hot platform right now in anybody's reckoning and whether you like it or not it's it's the hot one and then we knew they were going to really tell us some more about Chrome OS and now the Chromebook which we know so that's kind of the second timely platform you know in the news and repo but really all of the news was coming out of Google i/o this week so it must have been fun to be there with all those other geeks it was the at the press room at rest rooms that these things are like you know like a real-life version of the usual suspects you're kind of sitting there all locked in and I'll come up for air take the earphones out if I've been editing video look around and like Oh him and him and her and him and you know so it's fun to see those things fun to uh to get people's take on it but then this show in particular just walking around the floor you know for all I get grief about being an apple fanboy sometimes online a lot of a lot of attendees that the show came up to say hi and we're very nice and didn't didn't call me a fanboy so you know that that was every every picture of the crowd at Google i/o I saw had nothing but max yeah yeah I mean that was it yeah I think I saw one when I don't even know what it was I'm it was a windows machine of some kind but that was it yep yep a lot of max max on stage you know during the keynotes that they had a couple couple powerbooks up there running things what was very interesting is that on day one especially at the beginning I saw a lot of people now at the keynotes out they had a press section so I was in the press section but there were a bunch of people using iPads you notice to blog the show or whatever they were doing but by day two of the show because the hand of these things out on day one well I'll tell you what there's the craziness of live TV I guess James I hope you are right i'm guessing the you said the lights were flickering i'm guessing the storms rolled in and we lost you there so if he comes back oh wait just as i said that i'm seeing them back on skype so let's see if we can get James back here all right we got them back James the the power the lights seem to be on what's going on down down there in Texas you know my internet connectivity went dead so right now I'm on LTE using my samsung mobile hotspot that you are just sharing you haven't picked up yet we met her do that I i actually bought one from verizon as soon as they came in and great great backup connectivity for me we we clearly we clearly there's a certain sponsor who should be sponsoring this program i just got a little warning on my end on skype call recorder saying that the frame rate is going to be lowered so for those of you watching this at home later you know at least we've got James at least we've gotta yeah that's probably the LTE although it's pretty darn quick I mean as a rule but I mean like I said lights flickering it's it's pitch black outside well we need to fit in drought conditions for like three months right so it's good it's good well a lot well we'll get this in real quick I'd started to ramble about walk fast lots of max lots of iPads but them by day to everybody's walking around with these things because I had a great app you know for for just dealing with the show with scheduling and locations of war different sessions were and everything and this thing is so light that walking around with it and this is this is you know my thing about the tab 10 1 samsung I don't know how much it cost them when I have had to came out they went back to the drawing board and we're like we need to make ours better I don't know how much it cost him but but they did they did good cuz my big complaint about the Moto zoom was just kind of too bulky too heavy you know I don't I I like the smaller tablets the G slate we've talked about but this thing is so light that even with and so thin that even with the 10 inch display it's really no problem to hold it one-handed I actually when after I Oh Moscone Center where it were they held it is just a few blocks from an apple store and downtown San Francisco and right by the drain that I was hopin integra so I went into the apple store and we're uh yeah right down there exactly exactly um and when they're I know how that still you get you can picture me walking in going to the right to the ipad to display and picking one up and thinking yeah you know I like the hardware better on the on the tab not talking about performance wise because I haven't had it long enough to know and not talking about ecosystem and apps and all that but just form factor and the way it feels this is you know they did they did well so I've never seen as many unboxing videos for one device at one particular location rare I must have seen ten of them yep Anna and a bunch of them had zooms the so I I see what you mean right rare yep yo they were they were comparing them up there and that was a big problem i had when i was testing the zoom I didn't like it was too heavy and people yeah there were I'll tell you I talked about this on Twitter a little bit but you know getting in the spirit of the show I had a nexus s 4g with me the whole time since that's the most recent review unit I've received Android and I put Google Music beta on it and I was using that and that's interesting it works really well except and this is a sprint 4g device and when i would go from a 4g the 3g area when the handoff happened in the music the music would pause and it does some local caching and this is the first time i'd use it i was commuting in from you know leaving my house walking to the train taking the train into san francisco walking to the show so there were some handoffs and whatnot and i'm sure to improve as more stuff gets cash that was the one hiccup on the network end otherwise the beta service works really well they're not selling anything lots of talk that this is not the service google wanted to launch they wanted to launch with with you know music companies on boards etc but for what it is it works really well so far the stereo speakers on this thing are actually quite good for how thin this thing is so yeah I find the sound on my seven inch Galaxy Tab the original one is quit really good too they know how to do that I know how to do it yep Ice Cream Sandwich you know interesting to to hear about it kind of like a you know hurry up and wait thing I guess q4 this year so you know possibly setting up a little ice cream sandwich I've os5 battle for your holiday dollars of course q4 that starts the meter of everybody with devices say am I gonna get it or not rights right same old thing you know you have any thoughts on what they announced it to that end the I forget the term they use but the priority partners getting all the latest updates I think it's a good step but it was clear from all of the executive q and A's afterwards when people really started grilling them they admitted it's all in the talking stage jaynen so what does that mean I mean we really need to see finite rules on these people and and I hope Google is not naive enough to think that these other big companies they're playing with carriers and OEMs are going to say oh sure will we volunteer to do what's best right now I want to see an actual you know procedure outlined in writing I yeah we need to know like if you walk into a store and you're looking at buying a particular android phone you deserve to know how long am I gonna have updates available to be right right and yes I will have them available to yep and especially if your sign in a two-year contra you deserve it period on top of that if you're signing it to your contract that's got early termination penalties and and you know upgrade costs and everything yeah you know is your is your phone going to basically be left for dead before you can upgrade it without penalty let's yeah well but we'll see at least are doing something they're not yet and to be fair they're not the only ones as soon as I close my mouth I thought well you know Apple you know you don't know when you buy the iphone for right now before to you have a history though yeah you do yeah so that's that's the problem we we have a consistent history with Apple at least and unfortunately we have a consistent history with Android to it it's not good right right and that's that's why they're in this whoa well what was I can't think off the top of my head you know with the last round of iOS updates that the older models won't support well only the 3g I mean and is that it's a marker here we're at it for years yeah but if the hardware won't support it it won't support no right right right right you know but that doesn't mean you should just be out of luck I mean there is no such thing as an android phone with hardware so outdated that it can't do all of us right it's to do do you want the g one can run a puppet you one's toast it's like a doorstop yeah I but pretty much everything after that has been Snapdragon getting it yeah let's face it i mean my evo is not a dual-core whiz-bang latest thing and it's is plenty fast enough to do every right so i actually got my hands on an EVO 3d for the first time at the show and yeah you know the whole 3d thing is whatever it is it you know it works fine what is it's a gimmick the phone's a little bulkier than i was expecting that extra dimension yeah instead extra dimension exactly also saw the new sony ericsson's the xperia mini and mini pro which you know i like seeing a those look pretty good on ya yeah they have snapdragons in and 1 gigahertz single core but snapdragons they both at it's the later generation later generate a lot faster than the original one gigger yep and with the smaller screen it's not pushing as many pixels so you know it seems to be plenty fast they have kind of an update gingerbread version of that four corners UI which I thought was very clever makes it easy for one-handed use having shortcuts in the four corners that you know I'm doing this because my thumb can reach the shortcuts and front-facing cameras so you can do the video chat or you know whatever the kids are doing these days with the with the cameras so just like Furness faceplant there you go real quick because I you have you have storms to deal with and we also want to wrap it up yo NE wrap up its my lights are flickering any quick quick thoughts on the Chromebooks you know they look cool they look what we expected aii i was i like the enterprise subscription plan I think they're actually going to hit the enterprise big time because that's basically a maintenance agreement yeah and yep and I think that's very costly car cost effective one for the enterprise education could be too i don't know if there's enough budgets in the school yeah i have for it but I I think there's a there's a plan i do think they'll have all time in the consumer space I agree I yeah they're gonna have to do a hard sell somehow yeah and 350 bucks it up is not gonna do it right I'm fully active better than that fully agree I consumer wise you know I think there's going to be a sort of geek novelty factor people interested in them and you know that I'm excited to get one a play that we'll see how they perform but I think like you said energized and an education I actually a free one I'll take a free way to go exactly that reminds me I remember you saying that you were gonna give that galaxy tab to me haha don't I remember was that we're gonna happen I think it was on a past show i'm pretty sure send me the URL some of the you're off we can verify that will uh yeah oh that's on the internet it must be true must be true it's on the internet but yeah i used to be a teacher and do tech stuff in schools teaching at tech support and you hit it on the head of maintenance you know if they're really virus free fully supported or close to it anyway that's that's costly costly stuff in a school in a business where ever so we're just having a fixed monthly cost is but they could budget that yep yep that's their problem now they have a they have breakdowns uh yep we don't have money to fix that right now right right this month free next month 20 grand you know yeah your aunt Fran can't have it this month you've got away anyway it's pretty cool yes see how it shakes out all right well let's wrap her up both for a four-year steak with the weather and the viewers sake and you know keeping it to a decent length we're taking next week off uh yeah that's right because we vote we both have some stuff going on that's going to preempt us but we'll be back the week after that which what the date is but is that the week of the big there's there's a windows phone 7 event and a samsung event in New York on May twenty-fourth so that's true and by that time I'll be able to talk about a gadget that I'm actually playing with now but like I can't even admit I have very I'm really liking I like the ti like the t's there I like the team oh I have to talk I first I hate at the you know that it's I can't even take it out in public right right right well if you want if you want more from mr. double-oh-seven here James working this budget look I am at zdnet com / blog / mobile dash news and and you're on the Twitter these days on Jay Kendrick on the Twitter excellent and TechnoBuffalo at Noah kravitz if you want to find me and you're not sick of me already that's where you can find me all right James till next time you know close the windows put your rain boots on if and we will be back in two weeks with another good to go see everybody see ya you