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Gadget Lab Podcast: Droid 2, Voice Search and Carrier-Humping Surrender Monkeys

For a quick download on the top tech stories of the week, check out the latest Gadget Lab podcast — just 12 minutes long this week, yet packed with everything you need to know.

In this week’s podcast, we give you a hands-on look at the BlackBerry Torch that was introduced last week. We finally got our hands on one, posted our review of the Torch, and show you how it looks in the podcast video.

Also this week, Motorola announced its new Droid 2, which looks a lot like the old Droid. We’ve got one of these, too, and we show off its main differences in the video.

In other Android news, Google announced enhancements to Android Voice Search, so you can now use it to compose e-mail messages, text messages, search for music and more.

Special guest Ryan Singel, from Wired.com’s Epicenter and Threat Level blogs, joins us to explain the biggest tech story of the week: How Google turned into a carrier-humping net neutrality surrender monkey.

And finally, we take a quick look at the $80 Looftlighter. I was excited to test this out because the publicist said it was a “flamethrower.” In fact, it’s more like an outsized curling iron. We haven’t tested it for its intended purpose yet (starting charcoal grills and fireplace fires) but we do apply it to a business card in the studio, with disappointing results.

If anyone wants to send me a real flamethrower to test out, I’d be eager to hear from you.

Like the show? You can also get the Gadget Lab video podcast via iTunes, or if you don’t want to be distracted by our smiling faces, check out the Gadget Lab audio podcast. Prefer RSS? You can subscribe to the Gadget Lab video or audio podcast feeds.

Or listen to it here:

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See Also:

• Gadget Lab Podcast: BlackBerry Torch, Universal Chargers, and More
• Wired Gadget Lab Podcast: 3-D Phones, iPhone Flaws and More
• Gadget Lab Podcast: Dell's New Tablet, Sluggish iPhone Uploads and More
• Gadget Lab Podcast: The Death of Kin and Other Wireless Drama
• Gadget Lab Podcast: Droid X, iPhone 4, Android 2.2
• Gadget Lab Podcast Returns: E3 Gadgets, Dolby 7.1 and More

Follow us for real-time tech news: Dylan Tweney and Gadget Lab on Twitter.

Engadget Podcast 168 – 10.25.2009: The Engadget Show 002 with Steve Ballmer

For this week’s installment of the Engadget Podcast, we present the audio stream from our recent Engadget Show, featuring a one-on-one with Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer! We encourage you to go and check out the actual show if you haven’t seen it, but for those of you on the move who can’t be looking at a screen, here’s the next best thing. Of course, Josh, Paul, and Nilay still tear through the week in news (and what a week!), and as a bonus, you get to hear some tunes from the ever so talented Bit Shifter. So what are you waiting for? Sit back, crank the PMP, and prepare to enter nerd heaven.

Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Paul Miller, Nilay Patel
Special guest: Steve Ballmer
Produced by: Chad Mumm
Directed by: Michael Slavens
Music by: Bit Shifter

Hear the podcast

00:01:22 – Steve Ballmer hasn’t seen the Courier video, promises Zune integration in next WinMo release
00:38:40 – Bit Shifter
00:41:37 – Windows 7 Launches
00:46:45 – Apple’s Magic Mouse: one button, multitouch gestures, Bluetooth, four-month battery life
00:47:50 – Unibody MacBook (late 2009) review
00:52:50 – iMac line updated with 16:9 displays, quad-core Core i5 / i7 model
00:52:48 – Barnes & Noble Nook dual-screen reader officially announced… for real
00:59:00 – Spring Design Alex: dual-screen Android-based e-reader (Update: not for Barnes & Noble)
01:00:05 – Motorola Droid

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Contact the podcast

1-888-ENGADGET or podcast (at) engadget (dot) com.

Twitter: @joshuatopolsky @futurepaul @reckless @engadget

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Engadget Podcast 168 – 10.25.2009: The Engadget Show 002 with Steve Ballmer originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Engadget Podcast 167 – 10.16.2009

Everyone all strapped in? Okay, take a deep breath. Now exhale….slowly. It’s the Engadget Podcast. Just what you need after a tense week of work, school, and being extremely worried about a boy who was not actually trapped in a killer spaceship balloon. Instead, join Josh, Paul and Nilay as they break down the week in news, starting with the Sidekick situation and cruising past the Motorola CLIQ, the BlackBerry Storm 2, Walt Mossberg’s disregard for anything not the iPhone, and wrapping up with the rumored Barnes and Noble ebook reader and the runup to Windows 7. There — don’t you feel better?

Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Song: Raulever – Chips Don’t Lie

Hear the podcast

00:01:29 – Microsoft recovers ‘most, if not all’ Sidekick customer data
00:18:22 – Motorola CLIQ review
00:37:50 – Vodafone puts BlackBerry Storm2 up for 26 October preorder
00:38:34 – Walt Mossberg leaks the BlackBerry Storm 2
00:46:53 – Barnes & Noble twin-screen e-reader revealed early?
00:47:49 – Plastic Logic deflates dreams, denies Spring 2010 release for color e-reader
00:53:27 – Barnes & Noble hosting event on October 20: ebook a lock?
00:54:30 – New Adamo XPS image takes a stand
00:59:30 – Windows 7-branded ‘Family Guy’ special to air November 8th
01:00:51 – Acer Aspire 5738PG wants you to reach out and touch its screen
01:01:00 – HP TouchSmart 300 and 600 bump the software to the next level, tx2 comes along for the ride


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Contact the podcast

1-888-ENGADGET or podcast (at) engadget (dot) com.

Twitter: @joshuatopolsky @futurepaul @reckless @engadget

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Engadget Podcast 167 – 10.16.2009 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Engadget Podcast, live…now!

It’s that time again — join Josh, Paul, and Nilay as they break down the week in news during the Live Engadget Podcast. We’ll be starting at 6:30PM EST, but the chat room below is open, so settle on in!

Update: Annnnd — that’s it! As always, it was a rockin’ good time — thanks for hanging out, and we’ll have the regular podcast post up tomorrow if you missed it.

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The Engadget Podcast, live…now! originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Engadget Podcast 166 – 10.09.2009

With the crazy week of news we’ve had, never has the ever-insightful, industry-encompassing commentary of the Engadget Podcast been so necessary, so vital, so… vigorous. Sure, you could try to make your way through the launch of Windows Mobile 6.5 and an onslaught of Android news all by yourself, but then you’d just be alone and sad. And who would be there to comfort and hold you and tell you how terribly overpriced the VAIO X is and how little Dell revealed about its new Adamo this week? Nobody, that’s who. Don’t be another statistic, slip on some relatively comfortable earbuds and come on over to the Podcast side.

Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Song: Cyberdelic – Such Great Heights

Hear the podcast

00:02:30 – HTC HD2 hands-on and impressions… on video!
00:03:02 – Entelligence: The HTC HD2 and the future of Windows Mobile
00:05:00 – HTC HD2 to arrive Stateside in early 2010 — huzzah!
00:08:00 – Windows Mobile 6.5 review
00:15:00 – Robbie Bach sits down for a roundtable discussion, Engadget is there
00:31:40 – Windows Mobile 6.5: a family portrait
00:40:00 – Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.5 update guide: no, no, maybe
00:43:05 – Verizon plans to support Google Voice, will launch two ‘game-changing’ Android devices in coming weeks
00:45:08 – Second Verizon Android phone to be an HTC, Motorola Sholes makes an appearance
00:45:35 – Verizon Motorola Sholes not running MOTOBLUR?
00:47:00 – Motorola Sholes to launch by holidays, along with the BlackBerry Storm 2 and Nokia Booklet 3G
00:49:31 – Samsung Behold II marries Android, TouchWiz for T-Mobile
00:50:30 – Samsung Behold II caught behind glass
00:52:05 – Samsung Moment for Sprint first hands-on!
00:55:00 – Samsung Moment slider coming to Sprint, packing Android (update: official, $179)
00:59:29 – AT&T now allowing iPhone VoIP calls over 3G
00:59:35 – VAIO X spotted in champagne, propped up by extended battery, ripped apart
01:00:00 – Sony VAIO X announced, starts at $1,299
01:03:33 – HP Mini 311 reviewed with earnest, ION-enhanced affection
01:06:45 – Dell reveals new Adamo XPS, gives no details
01:19:50 – The next Engadget Show tapes live October 22nd — with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer!

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[RSS MP3] Add the Engadget Podcast feed (in MP3) to your RSS aggregator and have the show delivered automatically.
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[Zune] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in the Zune Marketplace

Download the podcast

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Contact the podcast

1-888-ENGADGET or podcast (at) engadget (dot) com.

Twitter: @joshuatopolsky @futurepaul @reckless @engadget

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Engadget Podcast 166 – 10.09.2009 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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