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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by full sail university welcome back to another episode of ask the buffalo i'm your host jon rettinger this the show where you could ask me any question you've gone from the world of technology up this week on ask the Buffalo we're going to talk iOS 6 and what happened to all those Google applications or to talk about what's going on with mobile gaming in or eventually handheld phones going to take away from all the mobile consoles in the world Sony and Microsoft should they be shaking a little space boots this is asked to Buffalo let's go and get start Mike phone junkie asked hey John we think about Apple deciding to drop Google and iOS 6 you think the new maps app is better than the google maps that we all have grown to know and love so i've only used iOS 6 and apples Maps in beta and certainly beta implies that if not yet ready for prime time so take all this with a giant grain of salt the maps application has not been overly awesome points of interest said he's always checking google maps aren't there some routes i like to use aren't always showing up in there some new streets aren't showing up and they're at a hard time with maps loading maps loaded slowly and those are all things that hopefully could be fixed it's really will be fixed over generations of software maybe even be fixed by the time it makes its world debut what I do like though is a turn by turn navigation that's actually worked pretty flawlessly the voice doesn't sound super robotic actually sounds pretty good so if you need turn-by-turn navigation you can be very happy if you use google maps for a lot of points of interest and phone numbers all that kind of stuff you might be a little bit disappointed Lucas søndergaard asked hey John should get a nexus 7 galaxy note 10 1 or wit for the ipad mini if its shell come out you all commended on the use of the word shall I don't know visually for that ipad mini because we don't know the iPad Mini is going to have if rumors are true it's gonna have a 7.8 5-inch screen i'll be powered by an a5x chip and pretty much be an ipad shrunk down or an ipod touch shrunk up set this over and over again and i'll shout it from the rooftops the nexus 7 is an awesome tablet it is fast it works it's running jellybean galaxy note 10-1 if you want a larger form factor your enjoy android one take advantage of some of the s-pen technology is really another great option as well then if you're in apples ecosystem you might want to wait for an iPad Mini or if it never comes and you want to spend through be a lower price than what the ipad 3 years or new ipad i might want to look at picking up a ipad 2 perhaps used hopefully that helped answer your tablet quandary user james s hey john i'm just wondering on your new video intro has the buffalo gone are you getting rid of the Buffalo image completely personally I like the new video intro so we've got a brand new video enter up on TechnoBuffalo we debuted about two ish months ago sort of a sneak preview of the look and feel that the TechnoBuffalo redesign hopefully coming october novemberish yes the buffalo is gone however if you watch the new intro the buffalo does make a very quick cameo in there you're gonna have to do frame by frame to find him we're trying to brand a buffalo image it's sort of difficult to do buffalo use everywhere and there isn't a lot of brand value and brand equity behind just a buffalo so we've tried to do is actually advantage of the be actually see the be behind me that be is what we're trying to make the face of techno Buffalo increase of brand identity behind that I love the Buffalo the Buffalo so the special place in my heart you might remember that we first launched TechnoBuffalo we did a contest to name the Buffalo and for 500 points anybody who's around then can guess the name of the Buffalo I will commend you I'll give you two seconds to guess and type it in comments where you read it ready go the winning 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able to get those games streamed over the air certainly not kind of a phone that can you know pop a cartridge in or whatever weird formats Sony decides to use in the future so you gotta be able to get 500 Meg's gig whatever it might be onto your phone so assuming that infrastructure for downloading Wi-Fi and perhaps LTE can handle it yes I absolutely see those devices converging and perhaps seeing the official xperia vita thank you guys are tuning in to another episode of ask the Buffalo be sure to check us out at TechnoBuffalo com for latest tech news reviews opinions hands-on and bad jokes I'm drown render view TechnoBuffalo see you next video all right now with that sucked of the black clip where you go as a man clap