Engadget Mobile Podcast 166 - 1.16.2013
Yeah, we had two podcasts during CES, but that doesn't mean we're done with it just yet. Still sleep-deprived and filled with excitement from the show floor, it's time to catch up on the tech we didn't get a chance to discuss -- and the stuff we couldn't get enough of. Is octa-core really CPU related or a villain from the world of Batman? Is Samsung's Youm a new dessert or some exciting flexible display technology? Is T-Mobile poised to conquer the mobile realm this year? Most importantly, is everything that happened prior to CES officially a blur for Myriam and Brad? You'll just have to tune in to find out!
Hosts: Myriam Joire (tnkgrl), Brad Molen
Producer: Joe Pollicino
Music: Tycho - Coastal Brake (Ghostly International)
Hear the podcast
00:08:43 - Intel Lexington-based phones
00:16:51 - Samsung Youm flexible display tech
00:20:17 - Tactus morphing touchscreen keyboard
00:23:29 - Wysips solar-cell display hands-on
00:27:02 - Samsung ATIV Odyssey for Verizon
00:29:11 - Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 for Verizon
00:29:28 - Engadget CES interview with Verizon's Praveen Atreya
00:42:24 - T-Mobile's Las Vegas LTE launch
00:42:24 - HTC One SV for Cricket hands-on
00:46:05 - HTC design: Hits & misses
00:52:29 - iPhone on T-Mobile, maybe, soon?
00:52:51 - T-mobile HD Voice launch
00:53:13 - T-mobile contract-free unlimited data plans
00:54:53 - T-Mobile Tap Tag NFC app for Android hands-on
00:56:30 - A4WP wireless charging
01:01:55 - CES 2013 smartphone roundup
01:08:15 - Pebble smartwatch hands-on
01:26:37 - Twitter question: Motorola Droid M vs. Verizon Nexus?
01:30:18 - Extended thoughts on octa-core
Subscribe to the podcast
[iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes
[RSS MP3] Add the Engadget Mobile Podcast feed (in MP3) to your RSS aggregator and have the show delivered automatically
[RSS AAC] Add the Engadget Mobile Podcast feed (in enhanced AAC) to your RSS aggregator
[Zune] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in the Zune Marketplace
Download the podcast
LISTEN (MP3)
LISTEN (AAC)
Contact the podcast
podcast (at) engadgetmobile (dot) com.
Follow us on Twitter
@tnkgrl @phonewisdom @engadgetmobile
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/VH36XehtTDw/
IRON MOUNTAIN INORATED IOMEGA INTUIT INTERSECTIONS INTERNATIONAL RECTIFIER







Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Evul Todai: A Relaxation Lighthouse Lamp For The Living Room Nike Apologizes For Nike+ Issues, Promises Fixes, New Platform Soon Terrahawk?s M.U.S.T. Is A Mobile Guard Tower In A Shady-Looking Van Video: ?Der Kritzler,? An Automatic Scribbling Machine Amazon?s Kindle Tablet Is Very Real. I?ve Seen It, Played With It.
Google Handwrite, a small but helpful tool that the search team introduced last year, has gotten a bit of an upgrade today. The tool allows you to turn on a mode when you’re on your mobile device to “write” your search. A part of the update is the ability for Google Handwrite to understand overlapping characters and write more than one Chinese character at a time if that’s your search language of choice. From Google’s mobile search page on your device, just go into settings and enable “Handwrite” mode to give it a try. If you have sloppy handwriting, then you will be extremely happy to learn more about the update. Here’s what Google Product Manager, Lawrence Chang, had to say about the changes today: If you?ve tried Handwrite before, you may have had some trouble entering a lowercase ?L?, the number ?1?, or a capital ?I?. Now, we provide alternate interpretations of your characters that you can select above the space bar. Similarly, in Japanese the characters ??? and ??? look nearly identical but are different characters and produce different search results. If Google interprets your handwriting one way and you meant the other, you can now more easily make a correction. While this tool might seem like no big deal, the technology behind it is quite complex, especially the above-mentioned understanding of handwriting from millions of potential users. We don’t all write things the same way, and some of us have worse handwriting than others. Ahem. As far as overlapping letters, Chang explains a bit more on how in-depth Google goes to solve these issues: Compared with tablets, mobile phone screens are smaller and are a little more difficult to write on. Now, instead of squeezing in your letters across the width of the small screen or writing one letter at a time, you can write letters on top of one another. Say you?re in the grocery store and you want to look up a recipe for quiche on your phone. When you write the letters ?q?, ?u?, ?i?, ?c?, ?h?, and ?e?, it?s okay if they overlap and are garbled a bit. If Google wants to try and learn how to read your handwriting when nobody else in the world, including you, can, then more power to them. By learning how to read a multitude of handwriting samples, the company can then release functionality to scan documents of any