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hey what's going on with us do some door from technobuffalo calm and you know you don't need me to tell you today was ipad2 announcement day today was also uh netflix come to nintendo 3ds day although that didn't get quite as much coverage um but today was ipad 2 announcement day Apple made the announcement in San Francisco and you know John's already done a bunch of coverage here in the video channel and then also over in TechnoBuffalo com we've got a whole whole bunch of coverage for you written words and images and all kinds of stuff a little round up article with a just a short little take from each of the editors and what we think of what went down today in San Francisco but I Johnson a message saying hey I want you to do a video you know get on camera tell us what you think of the the tablet world now that ipad 2 has been announced so here you go and you know for everybody who's like dude this is the John for lakers channel what's this guy Noah doing on it um fair warning it's going to be me for the rest of the video so you know what to do what you know what to do if you want to and I certainly will not hold it against you if you do I get it trust me I get it I'm just don't happy to be here anyway original iPad been out for about a year ipad 2 announced today basically what you get is a thinner lighter faster and cameras on the front and the back motorola xoom the first android 30 tablet the first honeycomb tablet to actually start shipping and what you get here is a screen that is bigger and higher resolution than ipad you get dual cameras that are higher res than ipad 2 you get a android 30 obviously a very different platform you get dual-core chip that i don't know if it's faster or not but it's a dual-core chip Tegra 2 inside here and you get 4g upgradability which is something you will not get on ipad 2 i'm going to throw this one out here even though i know i might be playing to the wrong audience with this one but i truly believe it's worth mentioning barnes & noble nook color what you get here is a smaller device a 7-inch display its android-based it's easily hackable you can very easily put a custom rom on micro SD card / in the slot and you can boot up to Froyo or a honeycomb I've done it and I did it with honeycomb sure it's not there but the most recent built there actually worked pretty well there's to mess around on uh but without that what you get is you get a very very cool ereader that's great for books great for magazines and then has a pretty decent web browser built in and not the best touch screen in the world but not too bad and you can get this right now for two hundred bucks Wi-Fi only no contract no cellular data why do I mention this because the tablet oral basically right now you know it's just it's exploding like smartphones did last year a lot of it has to do with Android but also we're going to see the HP TouchPad with webos 2 first first webos tablet coming as sometime hopefully not too long HP and then the blackberry playbook our rumors kicking around that that'll be out as soon as mid-april so uh you know hopefully that will be the case and then you know I like we said there's the t-mobile g slate the optimus pad as it's known in Europe which is um an LG honeycomb tab that's a honeycomb tablet rather that's smaller than the zoom has a 3d camera speaking to tab the samsung galaxy tab 10.1 which is a similar size shape and specs as the zoom also android three I know you've got a sous with a couple of different variations on Android 30 tablets with keyboards you've got I mean you've got you Sonic you've got a ton of companies coming out with Android tablets you got the HTC Flyer which i think is very interesting it's two dot for it's not three but a lot of customization I was looking for the right word anyone say a ton again a lot of customization went to that one with HTC sense now with a tablet version of sense with an active stylus and a lot of interesting all right interesting user experience stuff not just the stock android you've got rumors about Sony working on an Android tablet based on 30 that would have a lot of custom Sony content on it related to entertainment possibly PlayStation Certified I go along with the Xperia Play smartphone that's android-based but PlayStation Certified for gaming rumors saru murs about that Italian descent is curiosity platform rumors about that coming line so to get back to ipad 2 for a second and this is all sort of in relation to what's going on with all the tablets I think what today is I think you know not that many people were surprised although people were underwhelmed perhaps disappointed that it wasn't a bigger change people were looking for iOS 5 people were looking for a higher res display you know people were looking for 4G connectivity that kind of thing um not really surprising that wouldn't do it people think of you know people who aren't even calling me crazy for this one and I may have a better to with some of the some of my colleagues a TechnoBuffalo about this happening because they all think I'm nuts I think we're going to see an ipad 3 might not be called that but another iPad released before the end of 2011 ah two reasons why one I talked about this earlier on CNBC so if you're still watching but you saw that clip you know you can tune out now if you want to say the same thing but two reasons basically one I think Apple wants to shift this isn't my theory but i think it's a good theory something to run with it I think what Apple wants to shift the focus of their fall event which has always been an ipod event I think they want to shift that two iPads with ipod still thrown in there ipod is not you know it's not the flagship thing that it was a few years ago iPad an iPhone have become apples you know big selling high-profile products because they have ipod functionality and you know and then some ipod touch is still a big product but yeah i don't know i just i get the feeling that for the Christmas season the big shopping season all that kind of stuff you know Apple would love to have the ipad as their kind of anchor product or brand new product going into the holidays second reason is 4G with all the competition going on again you know the zoom even though it apparently is gonna be some crazy process where you have to mail it in and you get it back six days later and it's upgraded the zune will be 4g upgradable in the next couple of months and then they'll start selling zooms with a 4g built in right now it's 3g and Wi-Fi verizon's LTE network and at least out here in the San Francisco Bay Area verizon LG LTE network just kicks but it's incredibly fast it's it's fast when I'm you know moving around i was actually down in Southern California in San Diego last week and I was using it in a car I go in from the airport to the meetings I was going to and I was getting ridiculous like I got I think 21 down on it wall in the back of a moving car so LG the network's great we'll see how it holds up once more people are using it but so far it's really good and you know I don't think Apple wants to get Bob too far behind when you've got you know tablets like this one on 4G you've got you know the G slate coming out on tmobile their version of 4G you're going to see a lot of you know 4G tablets coming out in the US this year so I don't think Apple wants to wait a full year to do that Apple likes to wait until technologies are a little more mature you know obviously the iphone they'd have a 3g iphone at first what other smartphones were 3g and who knows what the backroom dealings are with the carriers know an AT&T probably doesn't want to get left behind with a non 4G I've had a verizon has one but right now their network probably can't handle it in hspa+ really you know it's really not pushed out that far just yet so um that's what I think I think we're going to see another iPad in the fall I kind of think it's going to be a little more of a maybe not a radical physical redesign because they made the ipad to read it really thin and light but I think we'll see your higher res display I definitely think we'll see 4G I could be crazy I've been wrong most of time to make these predictions and wrong so it's fine but I think we'll see that in the meantime ipad 2 I think you know video chat is FaceTime as a killer feature that a lot of people you know thought was missing from the first one and certainly video chat via via gtalk on the zoom it's not perfect but you know it's great to have it and i really think that video calling and the tablet form factor were made for each other big enough easier to see you know the video chat going on that on a smartphone so you know for some people especially older people you know grandparents who want to communicate with their grandkids across the country you know business people stuff like that the larger form factor the tablet is just perfect for video chatting so I you know that was the big thing that Apple needed to do with ipad 2 is get the cameras on there for face time otherwise the dual core processor from what i have read hands on you know people saying it's incredibly fast which is great I'm really psyched personally for iMovie on ipad just cuz I think it would be fun to play around with and then garage band is well they introduced but you know understand what why people are underwhelmed I really think it speaks more to what Apple is trying to do with their long-term future for computing I think iOS 5 and mac OS x lion are going to be huge they're not they're not the kinds of things that get a lot of play you know like a new piece of hardware and specs and that kind of stuff but I think that's when you're going to really see this kind of merging of you know apples sort of old way of desktop computing and the new way of touch based computing really coming together and I think we'll start to see that at WWDC in a couple of months here that the Developer Preview beta of lions are already out but I think we'll see at wwc a lot more on lion and possibly iOS 5 iPhone 5 and iOS 5 I would imagine we'll come together and then I really think we'll see a new iPad in the fall but in the meantime we've got the original iPad now marked down to 3 99 so that's a great deal if you want an ipad don't have one don't care about the cameras otherwise starting at 499 you get the new iPad with the cameras the dual core processor the thinner design and I can get those crazy magnetic smart cover if you're into it or you know if you're on Android you're an Android fan the zoom I've really been enjoying it i think the 1610 form factor i think i said nine and in a video before with 1610 the form factor is great the wide screen for watching the video I think it's a better form factor for a tablet than the ipad kind of hard to fit this in camera here just because you get the native widescreen mode for watching video and then for typing I find it easier to hold this way in type with two thumbs then trying to touch type on this and it's certainly easier to hold the narrower zoom than it is the wider iPad when you're talking about portrait mode but then the best deal on the market if you're not a hardcore power user it might be this two-hundred-dollar nut color it's just I mean I'm gonna do a full review on it but you know it's for ereading it's great at lunch today i went i started reading this book Born to Run which I've been psyched to read and you have to you know in reading it is my first time really reading a book on an ereader and I very quickly forgot I was on her knee reader and I was just reading and then you know it's thin and light so everybody loves Kindles and nooks because they're so thin and light and easy to carry you know a whole bunch of books around but then being a color device you know you also get you can have magazines on here which you know it's just uh it's just great and you've got you know you can go full color it's easy to scan through and flip through you can do your magazine subscriptions and everything but you see I'm holding it one-handed right now which i think is a really nice size for people who don't necessarily want to do a ton of video or gaming stuff and just want something a little bit smaller I don't know I'm a big fan of the new color very quickly it's also got a pretty good web browser built in I kind of wish it at an email client but the App Store is supposedly coming because it is android based and then like i said if you want to tinker around with it you know for 200 bucks you've got a device that you can very easily load custom roms on to froyo honeycomb who knows what else so I don't know I'm a fan of it of color although it can't do as much as the the other tablets and then beyond that you know like i said at the top the playbook coming soon it looks great but I'm worried about the whole tethering thing but I'm also not a hardcore blackberry user and I know that there are reasons for that the idea of Android apps running on the play book is very intriguing that could be a little bit of a monkey wrench to kind of change game up a little bit I still think the webos touchpad looks fantastic i think was kind of like I have to say that I was having you know some debates with some android fans on on Twitter today and it all asked you to be totally fair honeycomb on zoom is a lot better so far than I thought it would be and zoom in general I'm really I'm really enjoying it at a lot of ways and and the changes to the app market the android market have been great i just downloaded a couple of tegra to optimize games i'm psyched to check out HD gaming on this thing so that should be very cool obviously Tegra the next version integral quad-core already demo'd already announced tablets will be shipping in august and i saw a demo that a moment real congress and it was it was amazing i mean a lot of a lot of horsepower a lot of graphic horsepower in that new quad-core tegra chip set so that should be very cool builds very well for Android 30 in the future of the honeycomb platform but touchpad and why boys I think makes webos look great but I just I don't know if there's developer support there and then you know windows we're hand things about some previews coming maybe of Windows OS for tablets and the whole microsoft nokia relationship very interesting but that's down the line and then of course Netflix on 3ds maybe that's it maybe it's all over I don't think so all right anyway there you go that's enough out of me but fun to get in front of the camera just kind of let fly with my thoughts on the day's events in the world of tablets for a little while and again you know we'll try to do our best to make it clear because I'm not trying to intrude on all the long time John for lakers fans believe me I get it that's why I'm psyched to be part of technobuffalo because I've been a fan of John's for a while and it's great to work with him that said though you know we're opening things up new voices in the mix the nice thing about a nice thing about the Internet is you can choose what you want to watch you don't want to watch right so there you go till next time my name is Noah thanks for watching much much for on ipad to all the tablets everything else over on technobuffalo com we'll see you later