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MobileViews Editor Todd Ogasawara discusses mobile technology hardware and software
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Monday Feb 19, 2024
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall are joined by frequent guest panelists Sven Johannsen and Don Sorcenelli.
Key takeaways: (generated by Google Gemini from our podcast shownotes)
- Apple Vision Pro facing early returns for various reasons.
- OpenAI's Sora text-to-video model raises ethical questions.
- Artists fight back against AI appropriation with data poisoning.
- New Apple iPad and Pencil rumors surface.
- Anker charging station has limitations with Apple Watch.
Monday Feb 12, 2024
Monday Feb 12, 2024
In this podcast, Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss:
- Google Gemini
- MSFT PC Manager?
- Apple Vision Pro
- Use AI to create products to sell
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Todd Ogasawara is joined by guest panelists Steven Hughes, Sven Johannsen, and Frank McPherson for this podcast. They discuss:
- Google Bard's new image generator
- Revive a useless Microsoft Surface RT by installing Raspberry Pi OS
- Comments on initial reactions from Apple Vision Pro adopters
- Rumors of a folding iPad mini
- SODI SMS300 Vertical Gravity Auto-Locked Laptop Stand
- Hacks using ambient light sensors for spying even when camera is covered?
- Time to replace your home router? Older routers targeted by hackers
- Boox Note Air3 C color e-ink Android based tablet
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall are joined by frequent guest panelist Sven Johannsen for this podcast. They discuss:
- Another Microsoft Teams outage
- Todd's Cable TV provider swapped out a traditional coax cable box for a a cloud-only streaming box and broke Netflix in the process
- Fossil leaves the smart watch market after 20 years
- Chrome is getting experimental AI features - including writing assistance
- Google Art Selfie 2 is fun but doesn't like pets
- Sven's tech picks: Twelve South Hi Rise 3 Deluxe iPhone/iPods/Watch charging stand & Alapaka Elements Tech Case Max - Eco RX30
Sunday Jan 21, 2024
Sunday Jan 21, 2024
Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall are joined by guest panelists Steve Hughes and Don Sorcinelli. They discuss the price of Apple Vision Pro accessories/spares; the price of Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 consumer accounts; Copilot apps for Android and iOS; Passkeys?; Is your laundry machine hacked?
Saturday Jan 20, 2024
Saturday Jan 20, 2024
In this mini-podcast, guest co-host Jared Kuroiwa and I bought lunch from Drip Studio HNL. in downtown Honolulu.
Jared demoed what seemed like every augmented, virtual, and audio smart glasses except the Apple Vision Pro. We discussed the pros and cons of these much more affordable smart glasses (compared to the Vision Pro).
We also discussed some of the announcements from CES 2024.
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall are joined by frequent guest panelists Steve Hughes and Don Sorcinelli to discuss some of the product announcements made during CES 2024.
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall are joined by frequent guest panelist Sven Johannsen for this podcast. They discuss whether consumers (like them) will pay for "pro" LLM/GenAI tools. They also discuss the Zeiss Holocam that turns any glass window into a camera. Sven highlighted a report about Calendar Spam. They spend most of the rest of the podcast discussing water bottles and bags for techies.
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
Todd Ogasawara is joined by guest co-host Paul Lawler to test three microphones to record an in-person podcast in a busy and noisy restaurant.
- iPhone 15 Pro Max built-in microphone
- Richchip Bluetooth wireless microphone connected to an iPhone 15 Pro Max
- Nearstream wireless lavalier pair of microphones connected to a Google Pixel 7a
During this mini-podcast, they also discuss Paul's 3D printing and Adobe Podcast Enhance.
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
In this final podcast of 2023, Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall look back at 2023 and forward to 2024.
Todd’s 2023 tech picks
- Google Pixel Tablet
- Adobe Podcast Enhance
- GenAI/LLM
- Thermal label printers - Thanks to Jon for recommending this tech
- Various wireless lav mics tested for recording in-person, in-the-field, podcasts
Jon’s 2023 tech picks
- Apple Watch Ultra 2: Great battery life, doesn't look too crazy big, and fast.
- Ai
- rpods Pro 2 with iOS 17: Adaptive noise cancellation and conversational awareness is amazing.
- Withings BodyScan Smart Scale
Looking to 2024: Good & bad
- Streaming services consolidating and adding fees
- Apple
- Jon’s planned iPad Mini Experiment
- iPad mini 7?
- Vision Pro alternatives that work with iPhone 15 Pro spatial videos?
Dedicated to Pepper...