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MobileViews Editor Todd Ogasawara discusses mobile technology hardware and software
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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...
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discussed:
- Amazon YOur Books (beta)
- Microsoft Office Insider
- Viewing Apple Spatial Video without a Vision Pro?
- Netflix What We Watched spreadsheet
- Smartphone deals
- Apple settles Family Sharing subscriptions lawsuit
- Integrating Google Gemini with R
- Jon's new Anker 633 Power Bank experience
- Jon's 10th year co-hosting the MobileViews podcast!
Monday Dec 11, 2023
Monday Dec 11, 2023
Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss:
- iPhone 15 Pro Max "dead" display scare
- Trying a vertical mouse for the first time
- Google Gemini in Google Bard
- Google NotebookLM with Gemini generally available
- Who can affort Microsoft 365 Copilot at $30 per month?
- Biopic about singer Edith iaf will use AI to recreate her speaking voice
- Todd's musing of the day: Will people stop using question marks when writing because AI chatbots do not require them?
- Jon's tip: Cast Apple Preview edit to an iPad or iPhone for touch editing
Thursday Dec 07, 2023
Thursday Dec 07, 2023
In this podcast Todd Ogasawara speaks with Google Customer Engineering Manager Steve Lujan and Google Enterprise Architect Daniel Liu about real-world applications of Google's various established AI products/services such as Document AI, Vision AI, and Contact Center AI. They also discuss the Google Gemini general model AI that launched just a day before this podcast was recorded (launch date = Dec. 6, 2023).
Note: During the podcast I (Todd) said that Google Bard was reporting that Gemini was not available for me yet. However, after post-processing the audio for this podcast, I tried again and was told:
Google Gemini is already available for Google Bard!
As of December 7, 2023, you can access a specifically tuned version of Gemini Pro within Bard.