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this episode of technobuffalo is brought to you by audible and Hendrick my imaginary friend this week on technobuffalo we're going to talk tablets we're going to talk about the kindle fire we're going to talk about the Nook Tablet we're going to decide whether or not it's a good time for you to get a laptop we're going to talk about the console wars whether or not xbox or 360 is the right one for you of course we're going to talk cell phones iOS and Android this that's the Buffalo welcome back everyone to another episode of ask the Buffalo i'm your host jon rettinger and this is a chance to ask me anything that you want to know from the wide world of technology if you want to know why your mom won't let you have a TV in your room you want to know which tab what's best for you you don't know whether or not you should wait before you get your next laptop this is the place to be and where you can get your questions answered this is asked the Buffalo let's go ahead and get started our first question has to do with the mobile side of the world and this comes from tad hemin tell he wants to know is the Galaxy Nexus phone that will be coming out be outdated by quad cores or is this phone safe from being outdated for a while it seems like every few days there's a new flagship Android device coming out and quad core is coming NVIDIA has announced their Tegra 3 processor which is not going to have just four chords actually could have five chords which is going to result in better battery life so we're gonna see them presumably in December first min tablet world and then it'll start transitioning out two phones there's always something new coming out anything you have that's new and shiny today soon as you take it off the lot if I can use a car analogy it's going to be outdated so the best thing I can say is to get something that's good for you right now that you think is going to last you for the next few years and a few things that you need to know when you do that LTE is becoming standard if you're buying a new phone right now whether you are on AT&T or they're not you're on verizon you want a phone that has LTE even if you don't have LTE service where you live you might have it throughout the next two years and if you're on t-mobile you want to get a phone that has support for their 4g network hopefully they're 42.4 hspa+ 4g network and sprint your kind of left in a limbo they're not really going to have wimax around for the next two years but it's still kind of here as they transition to LTE so for sprint you want to get a phone that's going to be good for you now and hopefully we'll have fast enough data speeds over the next two years so to answer your question yes the Galaxy Nexus is going to be a tremendous phone and yes it's going to be outdated in the spec department but specs don't make the phone the user experience does an Ice Cream Sandwich the version of android running on the Galaxy Nexus was made just for that device you're gonna get a tremendous user experience so even though phones may have better specs they may not outperform your shiny new phone our next question comes from user Eric the flash who asks such I would try and say with an accent if I could do accents I John when do you think the next Ice Cream Sandwich device comes out and is a Galaxy Nexus going to come out and other carriers b-side verizon so we'll see ice cream sandwich first come out on the Galaxy Nexus then we should see it on several of the devices going into 2012 for the first few months so the second part of your question there will be a Galaxy Nexus available for other carriers but not necessarily released by other carriers and if I could explain there's going to be a version using LTE for verizon but there's also going to be a Penta band unlocked gsm version and that's sort of fancy tech jargon what that means is that if you are on AT&T you're on t-mobile or you're not really any network that uses a sim card you could pop your sim card in there you can get 3G speeds so what you might not be able to walk into an AT&T store at least not yet and pick up a Galaxy Nexus you'll be able to buy one unlocked from a ton of retailers pop in your sim card and be good to go our next question comes from breast and Franco and he wants to talk about something that we did a little while back called the console wars he's asking is there going to be a new episode of the console wars case you want to know what that is it was an epic 12 round battle between the xbox 360 and the ps3 as they clashed head-to-head as we declared a winner and a winner was declared in season 1 and season 2 it was the dawn of motion controls and we compared the Kinect and the PS move and a winner was also declared since that has ended there hasn't been a reason to bring back season 3 of the console wars quite yet we don't want to do them just for the sake of doing them we want to make sure there's something interesting to discuss so as we head into III in 2012 and presumably we start seeing new consoles get announced released like the Wii U and hopefully the next generation xbox 360 and ps4 the console wars will come back much like a mighty bear it's hibernating but it will eventually wake up again so hopefully that helps answer your question our next question comes one of my friends who actually I met at the London meet up that we had just a few months back this is luis hollis who asks do you think apple will bring out a 7 inch iPad to compete with the kindle fire so if you guys are tech fiends or you just like to keep up in the tech world you'll know that amazon released a fire on the world today this is not the BlackBerry PlayBook this is in faculty kindle fire that came out to this week depending on what day you're watching this video it is a 7-inch tablet that uses amazon's obviously really robust digital distribution system to bring content to your device for TV video and of course for books but they're not the only 7-inch competitor on the market barnes and noble not want to be left out announced and released their Nook Tablet 2 very nicely say with the Nook Simple Touch and the nook color there have been rumors of apple releasing and iPad Mini or iPad micro ever they might want to call it of the 7-inch variety and actually that was claims that we heard get validated in the Steve Jobs autobiography Jonathan I of one of apple's lead designer so they laid out a ton of different screen sizes and Steve Jobs picked this size that he liked eventually ended up being a 9.7 inch screen so other sizes do exist you've heard rumors and grumblings Apple is thinking about releasing another model the answer that I have to say to you is I think if anything the ipad screen going to get bigger not smaller I think we're going to see a widescreen format iPad probably a 10 inch screen coming out zoom bleep with the ipad 3 I do not think we're getting smaller in a 7-inch space I don't think that's a really a niche that Apple wants to 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certainly appreciate it and you're getting a really cool product in return so audible.com our next question comes from users splat he asks Apple's MacBook Air received an update recently and with news of the upcoming 15 inch super thin laptops coming next year do you think the macbook pros will receive a major facelift soon I you may be referring to the ultra books that are coming out now they are super thin pcs that are sort of reminiscent of the macbook air the 15-inch model 8 referring to may very well end up being a macbook air line and may perhaps drop the macbook pro moniker from the line so presumably we're going to see thinner sleeker probably wedge-shaped 15-inch MacBook Pros if you want to get a macbook pro as a disk drive now is the time to do it so I'm just guessing that we are no longer going to see those disk drives be present we saw them leave in the macbook air lime and I think we're going sounds like a like an airline MacBook Air Lines if you imagine flying on MacBook Air Lines I bet it would look super modern be like flying in a giant IKEA but I digress I think we're going to see a 15-inch model very reminiscent of the 11 and 13 inch macbook air models that we have right now just larger so hopefully that helps answer your question thank you guys for tuning in and watching another episode of ask the Buffalo i'm your host jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo your one-stop source for unboxing reviews news and bad jokes and everything from the world of technology I will see you guys in the next video pana tamp down band announced down animated a donator now go out that's not funny