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welcome back to another edition of ask the Buffalo where you can ask any questions from the world of technology in this episode we are going to talk iphone 5 and iphone 4s possibly when it's coming what carriers it might be coming to the new sprint EVO 3d whether or not it's worthy of the hype or deserves to have the evo name on it on what the best phone and Sprint's lineup is we are going to talk tablets whether or not the HTC Flyer is a worthy investment if the galaxy tab 10.1 is the best android tablet on the market how the eee pad transformer holds up we're going to talk about my dream list of features for my most ideal phone when a good time for you to get your new phone is and we're going to mix in a little bit of more geeky tech all in one sort of small package so stay tuned for another episode of ask the Buffalo welcome back to another episode of ask the Buffalo where you can ask me sort of a buffalo anything that you want to know from the wide wide world of technology from cell phones video games laptops tablets or anything in between you could ask your questions one of two ways first you can check out TechnoBuffalo calm we put up calls for questions all the time and you can leave your questions in the comments or if you prefer you can send a message to my personal Twitter account at at John for lakers or at technobuffalo asking whatever question you'd like any time of day any day of the week just use the hashtag ask the be alright so let's go ahead and get the party started the first question comes from user jason d and Jason asks do you recommend the evo 3d over the evo 4g also what's the best smartphone on sprint at this time well that's actually a very timely question we just got the evo 40 in of the testing it for the past two days and thus far I'm very impressed the 3d as I found most stereoscopic 3d which just means glass is free actually if you remember when you were a kid or maybe when your dad was kid the baseball cards that you'd move around and as you move it and look like the guy was swinging the bat that's sort of the same idea behind the stereoscopic 3d you have to sort of hold it right at the right spot and then you can kind of see the 3d if you take out the 3d part of this phone you're left with a beastly easily 1.2 gigahertz dual-core machine which is extremely capable on just from that aspect alone the 3d completely put aside it's a worthy successor to the evo name if you're considering one or the other death would go with the 3d it's going to be a bit more future proof hopefully that helps answer your question I also think that this guy's currently the king of the sprint smartphone lineup you might also want to look if you're not stuck with sprint a very comparable phone minus the 3d both an improved a megapixel camera the HTC Sensation for t-mobile offers similar specs minus the 3d if that's not important to you hopefully that helped to answer your question our next question comes from William Duckworth William asks what would your ultimate phone be if you could create one with any features ? ? ? fracture emphasis my first thing on my list would be battery life I want a phone that can please get me through a full day of heavy use I've got to exchange accounts that are always pulling that information one to two hours of talk time sometimes pickett to bluetooth I do a ton internet browsing obviously like being on video and I watch a lot of videos so there's a lot of YouTube going on like to watch their movies and TV so I just need a battery life that's going to work I don't get that caught up and specs I don't care if it's a 1.2 gigahertz dual-core 1.5 or just a single core 1.5 I think it's fast not any slowdown I'm pretty happy so I'd look for at least a qHD resolution so a quarter HD would probably be just right I love the Super AMOLED screens that Samsung has on their newest line of phones the galaxy s2 a particular those things all gorgeous if you haven't seen them definitely check them out but colors pop you don't have that sort of color q tints that other phones had I love the 4.3 inch screen size I think it's absolutely perfect Logan 8 megapixel camera with LED flash that just works and takes nice pictures if possible I love a full qwerty keyboard but I'm not picky so even an on-screen keyboard that works would be just about perfect for me I'm a simple man with simple own tastes so hopefully that helped answer your question the next question comes to us from user monito rock and he asks do you think the original galaxy s device is still good now that the galaxy s2 is out well the original Galaxy S line devices that we had out on Sprint t-mobile eighteen t Verizon other carriers around the world are still awesome phones are rocking that very very capable one gear it's hummingbird chip in a beautiful screen but the galaxy s2 who is just so much better stop to say if those devices are bad but the galaxy s2 is just so so awesome so the answer and I hate to say that phone is bad because certainly the Galaxy S line of phones is still a great high quality phone but you're looking to get one right now you want to get one that's going to be a bit future-proof chances are you're getting new phone are going to be locked into two years so you want to make sure whatever you're going to be using is going to be you know spect up for those two years so the galaxy s2 would definitely be my choice I think it should be your choice when it comes to a carrier near you alright the next question comes from user Tokyo Drift a cosh 8 you asked John my contract ends in November I'm seeking an iphone forward you think they'll be an iphone 4s / iPhone 5 well if there are some things in the world that are certain its death taxes and a new iphone probably is just a few months away it seems to always be the case so yeah there will be an iphone 5 iphone 4s iPhone 17,000 whatever yeah we're going to see a new iphone and with Apple it's especially bad because you don't if you don't get the phone one right when it comes out there's always a new one coming and there's always rumors that are the new one coming certainly I probably don't help put those to rest but the rumors are adhering that we're going to have a new iphone whether it's a for ass or a five in September so your contracts up in November chances are you be able to get that new phone I know there are a lot of you that are in that same boat alright so the next question comes from an easy to pronounce name user ramon and remote asks which tablet do you recommend the samsung galaxy tab 10.1 acer iconia tab a500 the asus eee pad transformer or the motorola xoom that was a lot of questions and the one tablet i think that perhaps you didn't mention is the HTC Flyer is also a fantastic tablet did you guys read or saw my review on the asus eee pad transformer you'll know that I thought it was probably the best android tablet out there well there's a new tablet in town that I he's even better than that one it seems like every week much like cell phone sony tablet coming out but the galaxy tab 10.1 is an amazing tablet it is extremely thin it does the nvidia dual-core processor good and justice with a beautiful screen this screen is probably one of the best most responsive screens that I've ever seen in tablets and it doesn't a very thin package so my first choice would definitely be the galaxy tab 10.1 followed very closely by the asus eee pad transformer then anything else and then the motorola xoom would be last I was extremely disappointed in motorola xoom galaxy tab 10.1 asus eee pad transformer if android tablets are your thing those are definitely two of the best on the market they are screaming fast I can't believe how thin actually Samsung is able to make the galaxy tab 10.1 really got a poet in your hands that hold it you'll be impressed with the engineering of it alright so let's go to the next question this question comes from Twitter user Ricky Garrett and Ricky asks what does your ideal iphone 5 look like oh right so my deal iphone 5 would for sure have LTE please LTE I'm an AT&T users so please AT&T give me LTE at the very least hspa+ faster data I would ideally love a 4.3 inch screen left to keep the retina display resolution they're swimming upping it a little bit sometimes people get caught up and what's the resolution of the display is but the higher the resolution the smaller things are going to look so even if the resolutions say the same but the screen size got a bit bigger I still think the screen will look nice and beautiful so 4.3 inches certainly a little bit thinner is always preferred better battery life I talked about is a must and I'm hoping for a secret super secret updates iOS 5 the new notifications are certainly welcome I messages a welcome addition the home screen notifications are a welcome addition but in my mind iOS still a little bit on the stale side I'll we're very much left with the same functionality the same look and feel that we had since 2007 so something that could spice that up would always be appreciated so that would be my ideal iphone 5 above it to be available on all carriers so Sprint t-mobile I whatever carrier in the world you might be on I'm sure you love to have the option so iphone prevalence everywhere iphone 5 perhaps coming to a carrier near you at least if Apple is listening to me which I doubt they'd our next question comes to us from twitter is 61 gabster and you asked the Apple back to school promo gives you a hundred dollar app credit instead of an ipod touch like it or no um good question totally subjective I think it's nice to have one hundred dollar credit certainly I know people would have liked about the discount towards the ipod touch however if you look at the life of your your computer if you're getting a new computer got the mac app store on there forgetting you want to get an ipod touch or have an ipod touch for an ipad or iphone with chances are at some point you're going to spend a hundred bucks on the app store just it's a very expensive ecosystem and there's so much out there so Apple pretty much saying here save the hundo certainly quite nice you can download the newest version of OS 10 lion coming out soon I can shave off you know 30 bucks there you can download pages numbers or keynote and you sure to have all those choices there to use I books for example you can download maybe some of your text books if your students so I like it it's 100 bucks back that you wouldn't have had otherwise it's hard to look a gift horse in the mouth certainly 200 bucks would have been better and give you a free laptop even better pay your mortgage even better prevented NBA NFL lockout lockout would be even more better work but 100 bucks is still 100 bucks alright so let's go to our last question this also comes from Twitter and this is user tuba nerd 88 anyone with nerd or geek in your name you are a friend of mine you asked have you noticed any slowdown in performance with iOS 5 on your iPhone 4 well I've got iOS 5 and I've got it on my iphone 4 and I have not noticed any slowdown or performance hits at all the one thing that I have though is a huge decrease in battery life what could a twenty to thirty percent now less than I had on the most recent build of iOS four hopefully that will be fixed with subsequent beta builds as of this filming we're still on beta 1 but I haven't had any slowdown a performance the only bug or hiccup of notice is a camera application sometimes opens a little bit slowly I'm photos might crash on occasion but that's about it the first beta build has been extremely stable stable enough to use as a daily driver so if you guys enjoyed this episode of ask the Buffalo we will be back here in this seat on your computer tablet or phone however you're watching this every mondays to be sure to come back ask your questions i am your host jon rettinger and i will see you in the next video it's my sprinkler phone then I see you 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