Meet:Mobility Podcast 70 is now available. A Phone in a Pad!

It’s show number 70 on 17th June 2011.

In Podcast 70 we discuss a lot of news coming from Computex. Windows 8, Cedar Trail, new tablets, Chromebooks and Ultrabooks. Apologies for the less-than-perfect volume mix between us in this podcast.

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JKK from JKKmobile – @jkkmobile on Twitter

Chippy from Carrypad- @Chippy on Twitter

Sascha Pallenberg from Netbooknews – @sascha_p on Twitter

Computex general.

Windows 8
Punk This – Swap your hard-drive for ARM / X86 Flexibility

Netbooks:

• Cedar Trail. Asus Eee PC 1025 Series Cedar Trail netbook hands on
• Keeley Lake. Another Reference Design that Intel Should Produce
• Malata releases Canoe Lake
• ASUS Eee Pad Transformer II with Windows 8 (Rumor)

Tablets

• Is this a pad….or a phone in a pad?
• Viewpad 7x
• 3D screen on Eee Pad Memo
• HP Touchpad latest
• Toshiba Thrive pricing and dates
• iPad with 3D Display
• June 21st for Nokia Meego Device. N950?
• AMD Shows Z-Series ‘Desna’ APU at Computex, Running Android!

Other

• Oaktrail Tablets – None shipping yet. Q550 very close. Evolve III Meego battery life.
• Ultrabook Engadget hands-on with UX21 AnandTech – The Ultrabook: Meet the New Thin and Light Intel NotebookChromebook

Meet:Mobility Podcast Special – Android and Galaxy Tab 10.1 Update (from Google I/O) is now available.

This is  a special show recorded on the 16th May 2011. All Sutton and Chippy discuss Android news coming out of Google I/O including detail about the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

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Chippy from Carrypad- @Chippy on Twitter

Al Sutton from Funky Android – @alsutton on Twitter

Meet:Mobility Podcast 69 is now available.

It’s show number 69 on 6th May 2011. Back after a short break so we’ve go plenty to talk about including – Netbook CPUs. Fusion Vs Atom. What platform should you choose? Plus We’ll also also talk at length about Honeycomb tablets.

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JKK from JKKmobile – @jkkmobile on Twitter

Chippy from Carrypad- @Chippy on Twitter

Sascha Pallenberg from Netbooknews – @sascha_p on Twitter

Netbooks

• Cedar Trail – Cedar Trail Summary, Architecture, Features.
• .Cedar Trail Atom N2600 and N2800 SKUs detailed
• AMD C-60. Turbo – Turbo to 1.33Ghz – T-50 low-power.
• N570 now.
• Quiet until Q4.
• Gives AMD a chance?
• Microsoft netbook license sales down.
• Choice of platform

Tablets

• Sascha – Xoom vs Transformer vs A500 vs Transformer
• Honeycomb on 7” – Iconia Tab A100/101. Galaxy Tab 8.9
• Shortages on Asus Transformer
• Amazon tablet – Lets talk about the potential! (media delivery)
• Oaktrail. Timescales. (Viewsonic, Viliv, Fujitsu, ECS)

Events

• Meego Conf
• Computex

Meet:Mobility Podcast Special – Acer Iconia Tab A500 Pre-Launch Hands-On Report

In this special podcast Sascha from Netbooknews discusses the Acer Iconia Tab A500 that he has had for 3 days before the official launch. We discuss Honeycomb, the performance, features, build quality and Sascha tells us it’s definately a better Honeycomb tablet than the Motorola Xoom!

Podcast 68, also recorded today, is available here.

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Meet:Mobility Podcast 68 is now available.

It’s show number 68 on the 8th April 2011.

In this podcast we discuss some limitations of the AMD Fusion platform the Cedar Trail Netbook platform, attack the pricing of high-end tablets and talk about ‘High Dynamic Range Computing’ Listen in to find out more.

Note: A special podcast on the Acer Iconia Tab A500 wil follow-up in a few hours.

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• Chippy from Carrypad- @Chippy on Twitter
• Al Sutton from Funky Android – @alsutton on Twitter

Netbooks
More fusion testing Lenovo S205 (AMD FUsion limitation)

Cedar Trail launch at IDF Beijing.
Architechture thoughts. Wi-Di, low-power modes (always on)
Think Value0edd features. CPU. Raising the bar for low-cost, small-form-factor netbooks.
Unfying architechture across atom products for MeeGo, ChromeOS and Android

Tablets
Xoom quality, pricing.
Acer Iconia Tab A500 – Talk about Honeycomb + Acer work (video codecs, extra software – a better honeycomb? SD card support included?)
Galaxy Tab 8.9 – Honeycomb.
Galaxy Tab 7 Pricing – 330. Flyer 650. Acera Iconia Tab A100?. Asus Eee Memo?
2.3 For Galaxy Tab?

Flyer honeycomb 650 Euro.
A100 under 300 pounds.

What are You Looking for in The Next Ultra Mobile Personal Computer? (High Dynamic Range Computing)

Meet:Mobility Podcast 67 is now available.

It’s show number 67 on the 25th March 2011.
In this podcast we talk about the iPad2 and Xoom comparisons (Sascha has both devices) and talk about Honey-related subjects. Samsung, HTC and ASUS are in the tablet chat but we don’t forget about those netbooks. What does Intel need to show at the launch of their new Atom platform which is expected in April. Chippy also talks about a few AMD Fusion devices he’s been testing.

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Chippy from Carrypad- @Chippy on Twitter

Sascha Pallenberg from Netbooknews @sascha_p on Twitter

Netbooks
More fusion testing
522 upgrade, NB550D, Lenovo S205

Cedar Trail launch at IDF Beijing.
Architechture thoughts. Wi-Di, low-power modes (always on)
Think Value0edd features. CPU. Raising the bar for low-cost, small-form-factor netbooks.
Unfying architechture across atom products for MeeGo, ChromeOS and Android

Tablets
iPad 2 today n Europe.
Xoom testing.

Galaxy Tab 8.9 – Honeycomb.
Other Samsung Tablets
Acer Eee Pad Transformer
Viliv x7 coming soon

Nokia Tablet

Disussing our phones / smartphones.

Meet:Mobility Podcast 66 is now available.

It’s show number 66 on 11 March 2011. Back fom CeBIT where we had a fun and productive week.
In this podcast we talk about AMD Fusion, the HTC Flyer, Eee Pad Memo and talk about what ‘post-pc’ really means. JKK and Al Sutton join Chippy

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Chippy from Carrypad- @Chippy on Twitter

Al Sutton from Funky Android – @alsutton on twitter

CeBIT Highlights
Attendance
Eee Pad Memo
HTC Flyer hands-on with Vodafone. Design changes, s/w changes. Price could change
1015b 1215b and AMD Fusion Talk
Oaktrail platforms. ECS Week 14 delivery to customers  (10″ tablet)

Tablets
iPad 2 today. Reviews out Gottabemobile review roundup.
Update on Honeycomb.
‘Post-pc’
iMovie
Xoom taking a bashing

Meet:Mobility Podcast 65 is now available.

Sashca, JKK and Chippy discuss the Nokia news from Fridays announcement and how that impacts MeeGo. We cover new netbook news and discuss MWC 2011

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Chippy from Carrypad- @Chippy on Twitter

Sascha from Netbooknews – @sascha_p on Twitter

James Kendrick from ZDNet. Technology Writer for Mobile News @jkendrick on Twitter

Notes used in the podcast:

MWC

HTC – Flyer

Samsung – Tab 10.1, 5 Wifi. Xoom comparison.

Tab 7 Wifi announced Europe.

LG – Optimus Pad

Handset – UX MeeGo.

Tablets

iPad 2.

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Meet:Mobility Podcast 64 is now available.

Sashca, JKK and Chippy discuss the Nokia news from Fridays announcement and how that impacts MeeGo. We cover new netbook news and discuss MWC 2011

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On todays podcast.

• JKK from JKKmobile – @jkkmobile on Twitter
• Chippy from Carrypad- @Chippy on Twitter
• Sascha from Netbooknews - @sascha_p on Twitter

Nokia  Update
We discuss the following and more:
“MeeGo becomes an open-source, mobile operating system project. MeeGo will place increased emphasis on longer-term market exploration of next-generation devices, platforms and user experiences. Nokia still plans to ship a MeeGo-related product later this year.”
Alberto Torres steps down. (he took over from Ari Jaaksi on the open source work)
Intel need new partners for flagship devices. Nokia probably commited to release at least one Intel/Meego device?
Meego now in ‘smart devices’
one device from Nokia this year.
Qt – No Qt for Windows.

MeeGo devices weren’t happening until later in the year.

MeeGo slowed down open source strategy too much for Nokia

Smartphones are now mainstream, will we see focus on tablets, mids, smart pcs as new business?

MeeGo?  ( jkk: will stay proto as Maemo was )
“MeeGo-related open source device, which we plan to ship later this year. Though our plans for MeeGo have been adapted”

Netbooks
AMD fusion performance numbers. GPU up, CPU down, Battery life down.
Lenovo S10 199 euro, Single core now ‘budget’ category?
ASUS Eee PC R051PEM N550 for 299 Euros
Sunbook. Pixel Qi on netbook. $795 – Price for (10-20% battery life)
No Lenovo Thinkpad x120e (Fusion) for western Europe.

Smart- devices
WebOS TouchPad – Webos, apps, hardware.
Alien Dalvic
bModo 11.6-inch review (Link? Whats this?)
WeTab Rev 2.0 review

MWC

HTC – Flyer?

Samsung – Tab 2 (2 devices?)

Intel  – MeeGo, Appup

LG

RIM Playbook – Android apps
Atrix European version.

Meet:Mobility Podcast 63 is now available.

JKK, Chippy and special guest Al Sutton (Funky Android) talk in depth about Honeycomb and some of the tablet and netbook news from the last 2 weeks including Fusion, WebOS and Galaxy Tab 2

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Chippy from Carrypad- @Chippy on Twitter

Al Sutton from Funky Android – @alsutton on twitter

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Software

Honeycomb

SDK released (preview SDK – API not finished – Timescales)

Google Cloud print – Android gmail / docs / some apps / API working.

RIM Playbook to run Android apps?

Smart- devices

2 m Tabs sold in 94 countries, 200 operators. 600,00 / month ipad over 1m per month.

HP Palm Topaz (9.7′  1024 x 768 ) and Opal ( 7′ 1024 x 768 144mm wide )
Webos timescales – Q3

4:3 on tablets? u like?

7 inch Motorola tablet coming..

Galaxy tab 2, 10 inches?

Notion Ink.. first impressions, UI to Gtab, root, Market

Acer’s 7 inch Android tablet has 1280 x 800 screen

Archos 9 upgrade!