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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On the Podcast:

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 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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• JKK from JKKmobile – @jkkmobile on Twitter
• 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 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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JKK from JKKmobile – @jkkmobile on Twitter

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 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 51 is now available. Recorded on 7th  2010.

In this show, number 51 on the 7th May 2010 Chippy, Sascha and guest Joanna Stern from Engadget talk about their netbook and tablet experiences at Computex 2010

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On the podcast:

JKK – JKKMobile.com

Chippy – Carrypad.com

Sascha Pallenberg – Netbooknews.com

Guest: Joanna Stern – Engadget

Show Notes used in the podcast:
Netbooks:

Intel Canoe Lake ref-design
Eee PC 1015N with N550 and Ion2 plus Optmus Technology
Eee PC 1015T with AMD V105
MeeGo on Asus and Acer. No Dell, HP etc at this stage.
Eee Appstore

Tablets

Asus eee pad 10 and 12″, eee tablet, epad (10″ Intel booth)
Huawei S7
Moblin tablet on Oaktrail.
Viliv X10, Windows and Android
ARM tablets. When? Tegra2 – Fall. No word on Android marketplace.

Technology
Oaktrail, Moorestown
Microsoft strategy! Windows 7?! Windows 7 CE
ARM Eagle, Nvidia Tegra2, 1.2Ghz dual-core Snapdragon

Best tablets seen?

Meet:Mobility Podcast 49 is now available. Recorded on 7th May 2010.

JKK, Chippy and guests, Nicole Scott (Netbook News) and Jose Ortiz (The Digital Lifestyle) talk about netbook growth, the threat and opportunity of the smartbook, HP’s Palm buyout and Intels Moorestown handheld platform. We also talk about our experiences with some of the top Android smartphones. We tried to keep it to 60 minutes but as usual, there was too much great discussion taking place. The podcast comes in at 99 minutes. Phew!

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Meet:Mobility Podcast 45 is now available. Streamed live (meetmobility.com/live) on 12th March 2010 with special guest Charbax (Twitter) 

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On the podcast:

Sascha Pallenberg – Netbooknews.com

JKK – JKKMobile.com

Chippy – Carrypad.com

Guest: Charbax – ARMDevices.net

Netbooks:

• Intel lanuched the N470. 1.83Ghz
• http://twitpic.com/160qhb The new ASUS Eee PC 1018P will feature new Intel Atom CPUs: Intel Atom N455 and N475 (DDR3 – capable) Sascha quote: “1018p Best eeepc ever”
• Gigabyte T1000 S103T Viliv S10. Asus T101. Acer 1820 PTZ (12″ for simialar price)
• Nvidia ION 2 / 2010 launched. Two versions (actually three in total)
• New Classmate PC announced. More rugged.

MIDs, consumer stuff.

• Archos 7
• Archos 8
• Dell mini ( streak )  amazon etc
• joojoo

Ultra Mobile PCs
Hanvon TouchPad BC10C and BA10E tablets at CeBIT 201
Announcement: Sasha will be at Netbook Summit – San Francisco, May 24-25th

Podcast 35 is now up. Recorded on Nov 25th 2009. (Show details below)

Listen to the podcast by clicking on the small play icon or download it here. (70 mins mins, 63MB )

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Show notes: Total running time: 70mins (not in running order)

Sascha (@sascha_p) – Netbooknews.com

JKK  (@jkkmobile) – JKKMobile.com

Chippy (@chippy) – UMPCPortal.com

Smartbooks

Where are they?
Operating System?
Google Chrome OS.
List of smartbooks:
Lenovo, Pegatron, quanta

UMPC

Kohjinsha PA
Eking S515. Quick overview.
EviGroup Pad
Many tablets. Trend. Sizing. Battery OS.
What will be the best combination?
Sponsorship-supported Crunchpad is alive. ‘Steamrolling’ says Arrington.
Camangi Webstation
Wits A61
Archos 9
Moblin 2.1

Good News for Linux/Menlow Netbooks, UMPCs and MIDs

GMA500 support

Jolicloud How Jolicloud is adding support for GMA 500 graphics

Netbooks

State of the market
ION. PineTRail. Market waiting for hardware
Pinetetrail GMA 3150, GMA500?
ION2. 2x GPU performance? Switching between internal and descreet graphics.
ASUS android Eee PC.
When was the last sub 10″ tablet.
Sub 12″ PC Screen Size Analysis. November 2009