Author: todd

1. The Verge: Google keeps failing to understand tablets
2. TORRAS Cell Phone Holder for Car, Auto-Clamping Air Vent Car Mount Holder Cradle
   $10 during Black Friday sale. Currently $16.
3. Google is starting to roll out Call Screen transcripts to Pixel owners.
4. Google “Project Fi” is now “Google Fi” and works with iPhones
5. Google Assistant weather data from Weather.com. Still wonky
6. Ref: Thurrot.com Corel to Acquire Parallels
7. Jon’s Black Friday Deals: $45/yr 1TB VPS for backups, and a $10/yr 2GB Ram VPS for cross-country redundancy. LowEndBox.com
8. Something to check out: Calibre-web via Docker. And for audiobooks – Plex now supports them!
9. And Jon has a Comixology account. Disney/Marvel Figment

Available via Google Music Podcasts and Apple iTunes.

I was joined by guest co-hosts Paul Lawler and Ricky Li for this podcast. We discussed:

1. Nexus 6’s case cover power button pusher broke! Lasted a bit over two years (27 months).
   While I enjoyed the armored protection the Unicorn Beetle case, I forgot how responsive the Nexus 6’s display is when it does not have the built-in screen protector over it. It is also much brighter without the case’s screen protector.
2. Finally got Facebook iPhone Portrait photos to 3D feature
3. Free VPN Apps: Chinese Ownership, Secretive Companies & Weak Privacy
4. NordVPN
5. Google adds indoor positioning to Android’s Find My Device
6. Google’s Duplex is rolling out to Pixel owners — here’s how it works
7. No Apple AirPod, Mac Mini, or new Macbook Air “sale” (gift card with purchase) on Black Friday
8. Amazon Prime Black Friday/Cyber Monday week+ sales
9. Ricky: Anova Sous vide
10. Ricky: How I got the google home hub for $50
    Todd: Lenovo Smart Display at Costco for $150 (I paid $230 at Sams)
11. Coinbase now allows PayPal withdrawal

Available via Google Music Podcasts and Apple iTunes.

1. Where is Jon?
2. What do I use in place of Levelator?
3. Finally received the Google Pixel USB-C earbuds a month after ordering it!
4. Google Android Camera Night Sight feature

   See the light with Night Sight

5. Google Fi VPN
6. YouTube streaming free ad-supported classic movies
7. Did Paul buy anything announced by Apple, Google, or Microsoft in the past two months? If not, why not?

   Mac Pro 15″ with touchbar. 32GB RAM. 1TB SSD

8. Kickstarter: Evercam Eufy battery powered wireless security camera $179.

Available via Google Music Podcasts and Apple iTunes.

The MobileViews Podcast is a few weeks from its 10th anniversary. So, Jon Westfall and I (Todd Ogasawara) are joined by frequent guest panelist Frank McPherson (who was on podcast #2) for a retrospective tech discussion.

1. The first MobileViews podcast was pushed out on Nov. 26, 2008
2. Android ten year anniversary
3. Chrome OS: 2011
   Crostini (Google’s answer to the app chasm?)
   Fuschia
4. From Voice Command (Pocket PC) to Alexa, Cortana, Google Assistant, and Siri
   Invention of the hardware assistant / ambient computing
   From capacitive styluses to Apple Pencil
   Consumer adoption of tablets: iPad. But, not Android tablets
5. Disney’s new Netflix rival will be called Disney+ and launch late 2019
   Will include new Marvel and Star Wars content.

Available via Google Music Podcasts and Apple iTunes.

In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I discuss:

1. Happy 4th birthday to the Amazon Echo
2. Google Docs document creation URLs (heard on TWIG)
   Doc.new
   Sheet.new
3. No AirPod 2
4. No iPad mini 5 or iPad mini Pro
5. iPad Pro refresh starts at $800
   USB-C
   New Apple Pencil 2 only works with the new iPad Pro
6. Mac mini refresh starts at $800
7. Macbook Air refresh starts at $1200
   Macbook comparison page

Available via Google Music Podcasts and Apple iTunes.