The Signal Podcast #30: Prodigal Sons and iWear Giveaway
By Simon Sage on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 11:07 AM PST In Podcast, The Signal
Well, well, well. Look who came crawlin’ back.
Well, not really crawling; it’s awesome having Stefan back. This week we’ve managed to wrestle time zone issues down and got the prodigal son, Stefan Constantinescu, to get on the weekly podcast. Considering his time at Nokia (NYSE: NOK), we go over the N97 a fair bit in preparation for our head-to-head review with the Touch Pro 2. The Android-powered Hero gets sufficiently gushed over, as well as the introduction of HTC’s Sense user interface.
We’ve got a fresh giveaway this week – you might have seen Ben writing about Vuzix here, there and everywhere, and now we’ve got a pair to give away! These glasses work with iPhones, computers with S-Video and any mobile phone with video out to provide an immersive multimedia experience. This particular model, the AV310, usually retails for $249.95, so it’s well worth your while to drop a comment for a chance to win ‘em.
Music by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, as featured on Tap Tap Revenge for the iPhone.
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Headlines
Sprint BlackBerry Tour Launch Date and Price Gets Official: July 12, $199
Palm Pre Sales Top 300,000 in June
HTC Hero: Android, 3.2 inch screen, 5 megapixel camera, Teflon coating, coming out late summer
HTC Sense UI – Taking Android to the next level
Rumors
BlackBerry 8520 Curve (Gemini) Passes FCC
Blurry Video: Nokia 6790, the Surge, assultued with multiple branchs from the ugly tree
TerreStar’s Windows Mobile Satellite Phone Counting Down to Launch
Bell BlackBerry Tour 9630 Arriving July 17th
BlackBerry Tour 9630 Coming to Alltel
LTE-Ready LG Device Passes FCC
HTC Firestone Release Bumped up to August?
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Nokia 3720 leaks: Espoo’s first water and dust proof mobile, due in September
Video: Sony Ericsson Satio hands on, will cost less than €600, and come out in October
Android-Toting Motorola Morrison Spotted?
Releases
US Census survey to use Sprint’s wireless network for census-ing
Verizon BlackBerry Tour 9630 Coming July 12th for $199
Sprint launches the Motorola Clutch i465 as first QWERTY iDEN messaging phone
Four Low-End Samsung Phones Revealed
Businessy Samsung C6625 Hits Vodafone UK
Nokia 7510 Comes to Rogers, offers TalkSpot Support
Virgin Mobile Canada Release Samsung Vice & LG Rumour 2
TELUS Launches Samsung M220 Flip Phone
HTC Ozone Announced by Verizon
Samsung i7500 Galaxy available from O2 Germany for 69.99 EUR
Sony Ericsson T715: 3.2 megapixels and not much else
Dual-Sliding Samsung Exclaim Available on Sprint
Rogers Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 and C510a Now Available
HD Video: Tour of the new AT&T Motorola Karma QA1, the hockey puck that makes calls
T-Mobile myTouch 3G Available for Pre-Orders July 8th… Launching in August!
Rogers Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Now Available!
US Cellular launches Samsung Axle
the Vuzix is a great idea for personal viewing
I want the VUZIX please!!!!!!!!!!
YOU GUYS POSTED THE WRONG PODCAST (DUH!)… THE LINK IS TO PODCAST #29 FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 15TH… doh!… PLEASE FIX IT OTHERWISE NO ONE WILL BE ABLE TO HEAR YOUR LOVELY PODCAST!… AND GIVE ME A VUZIX WHILE YOU’RE AT IT(!)…
I’d be honored to be the recipient of the giveaway prize!
Pick me to win the Vuzix!!! Intomobile is my bible!!! =D
Thanks for the heads-up, download link is fixed.
You’re welcome… NOW can I get a Vuzix?…
I need a pair of these multi-media experience facilitating devices. Don’t I?
Ohhhh, If I win the Vuzix AV310 my wife can’t say no!! Please let this be the time I win, please!!
Thom
Please can I have a Vuzix? I’d love to win this!
w00t! Nice podcast guys, loved it.
Widescreen, very nice.
Palm is known in Europe and it’s the webOS that will be the deciding factor. Apple’s phone (1st gen in form factor) is compelling but certainly not for everybody and Palm Pre is experiencing the same thing. Either you like it or really dislike it.
HTC seems to be an roll with respect to hardware. Teflon coating, Touch Pro 2 – they all look really, really nice. You just have to wonder what it would be like if HTC would enter the netbook market – kind of like the one Always Innovating?? Next gen HTC shift?
I would love the Vuzix. It would make all those long haul flights a lot more tolerable.
It’s okay to have a prodigal son return even if he’s a hippie.
Better still to have one return productive.
Intomobile is one of my goto sites and despite his habit of trimming in public, all the better for his input.
Please enter me in the draw for the magic specs. They would be a highly enjoyable addition and be of interest for a handful of projects currently kicking around.
However, should I be so fortunate as to score a pair, this beggar would ask an additional favor;
May I please have a pair that has not been worn by Stefan?
Specs that smell like patchouli would cause flashbacks to my ill spent yoot.
Thanks,
Brian
Man these’d be sweet!
Finally, what I see on my screen will be for my eyes only. Not for everybody beside me…
Thanks IntoMobile
I’ll definately want to win these glasses because otherwise I probably won’t buy them soon.
Indeed it would be nice to experiment with this device … Geordi LaForge here i come!
Can I have one?
I want to win the Vuzix, please pick me.
it is great to have Stefan back in serious business! I’d give Vuzix to him.
I like this podcast serie, thanks for doing it.
Winning a Vuzix would be great. Thanks!
I’d love to have a Vuzix!
Nice Vuzix, hope that they will make it to other high end smartphones, for viewing videos and doing 3g calls eheheh that would be awesome!
When that time comes most of the people will look like cyclops eheh!
Sweet. As a true geek, the Vuzix would be awesome to have!
Similar to the Iphone’s step with Compass and GPS technology, head position determining technologies’ proper integration with those such as the upcoming Vuzix Wrap 920AV will spurn progression towards the actuality of augmented reality.
ooh, the Vuzix looks sweet:) consider this post my entry:)
These Vuzix look awesome and I hope to win them!
This would go great with my new iPhone!