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CES is crazy but we're willing to brave the crazy to bring you some of the best coverage on the internet after filling over 30 videos we wanted to give you an inside look at what really happened this year at CES to make all of this possible for you this is pocketnow insider the biggest consumer electronic show happens in Las Vegas every year and is attended by thousands of exhibitors and literally hundreds of thousands of pressed analysts and other attendees the show is spread out not only across the massive multi-building Las Vegas Convention Center but also throughout various hotels and casinos in Las Vegas getting a round requires a tremendous amount of walking and waiting in taxi and shuttle lines in fact on the peak day Tuesday we probably walked about 20 miles each that's right this year we rented a car which gave us back many hours that would be typically spent waiting in long lines for CES 2013 we have three people from the pocket now staff a tent it was me Michael Fisher and Jaime Rivera three is the perfect number because while to like me and Michael could be a filming video the other hi mate could be back at the press room rendering and uploading video speaking of rendering and uploading video the right tools do the job right this year we were equipped with a 15-inch macbook pro with retina display an elgato hardware accelerator and internet tethering on all four carriers but unfortunately the tethering didn't work because all carriers throttle bandwidth our only option was to rely on the ethernet connection found in the press rooms which are found in each Convention Center building and are often packed with literally hundreds of members of the press for us CBS took place over three days we all arrived in vegas on sunday we stayed at the logs or which is relatively close to the convention center nothing much happened on sunday but it was a good time for me and jaime and michael to hang out a little bit before the wave of work hit us then monday was Preston the day we're all companies made their big announcements we had to be choosy about which events we wanted to attend since there were only three of us we started off with the AT&T developer event in the morning then we went to Samsung in Halawa in the afternoon the Samsung event had a massive attendance with a line forming outside of the door for hours before the event in fact I waited in line to keep our place while Jaime and Michael went to hawawa but all samsung had to announce were some televisions and a washer dryer that lets you look at your twitter feed seriously later that day we went to the Sony event where we finally got to see some new hardware with the Xperia Z and the Xperia ZL then Tuesday was the real day of work we set a goal of recording 30 to 40 videos and Tuesday was the day to do it we started off the day by going to proofs of major companies like Samsung verizon an Intel to see what they had the show then we hit the second-tier companies like ZTE and Huawei finally we hit third tier players of which there were tons that had a product to show but a smaller stand to show it in we found some really cool diamonds in the rough like a company called noite working on some truly innovative Android hardware and a company called Open Mobile which is working on getting android apps to run on non Android platforms pretty cool for all these new platforms that are coming around we also had a meeting at the Chi booth where we got a look at the future of wireless charging cool stuff and of course interspersed with several meetings with various hardware companies a handful of booths tours and even some time to do an on-location podcast from the hotel room which was a lot of fun so CES is fun it's interesting but it's a hell of a lot of work but we enjoy it and most of all we love bringing it to you so we really hope you enjoyed our coverage if you want to see all of our CVS videos handy-dandy playlist that you can enter by clicking up here you can see all of the stuff we recorded be sure to subscribe to find out first when new videos hit the pocket now video youtube channel and of course thanks for watching we do this for you guys that's it for now