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A year after its debut, Google TV is finally getting a fresh UI, its first taste of Market apps, and all-new Honeycomb underpinnings, so naturally that gets most of our attention this week. Of course, it seems like everyone is doing what they can to shake up the TV industry, putting Sony, Roku, Plex, Microsoft, DirecTV, and Redbox in the news as well. The one common thread joining these companies is that they can’t do it without content, and it appears Warner Bros. and other studios may be locking the windowing gates tighter than ever. After all of that, we’ll dig into what we have been and will be watching, so press play and see if you agree with our choices this week.

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Hosts: Ben Drawbaugh (@bjdraw), Richard Lawler (@rjcc)

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07:20 – Google TV, take two, arrives next week with Honeycomb, Android Market
18:43 – Sony to divide TV division into three-headed monster, looks to bounce back
29:28 – Roku adds more games, cleans up the PQ on its latest streamers
30:34 – myPlex makes streaming your media simple, gives you one queue to rule them all
33:20 – Xbox Companion app for WP7 shown off at Nokia World, leaks Vudu integration (video)
41:22 – DirecTV’s iPad app updated with live TV streaming, as long as you stay at home
44:08 – Redbox’s $1 per night DVD rentals jump to $1.20 October 31st, Blu-ray and games stay the same
47:08 – Warner pushes 28-day new release delay on Blockbuster, matches Redbox and Netflix
58:55 – Must See HDTV (October 31st – November 6th)

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Engadget HD Podcast 272 – 11.01.2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nokia World: it’s like Disney World with a funny accent and with higher pixel density. And we’ve got the whole scoop, with help of the mobi-omniscient Myriam Joire. The Engadget Podcast: dial it up!

Hosts: Tim Stevens, Brian Heater
Guest: Myriam Joire
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Try It Out

01:30 – The Nokia World 2011 keynote liveblog!
02:00 – Nokia announces the Lumia 800, the ‘first real Windows Phone’ (video)
02:30 – Nokia Lumia 800 vs. Nokia N9: the tale of the tape
05:00 – Nokia Lumia 800 unboxed: we shed some light on what’s inside
14:40 – Nokia’s Lumia 710 Windows Phone announced alongside the 800, hitting select markets by end of year
23:30 – Nokia Asha 200, Asha 300 and Asha 303 hands-on (video)
32:00 – Nokia’s kinetic future: flexible screens and a twisted interface (video)
36:30 – Future Nokia phones repellent, says water (video)
41:05 – Richard Kerris moves from HP to Nokia, becomes Global Head of Developer Relations
42:00 – HP will keep PC division, hope alive
45:50 – Mythical snow-white N9 spotted at Nokia World
50:05 – Sony to buy out Ericsson’s stake in joint venture, call it quits after ten years
50:39 – Motorola Atrix 2 review
53:02 – Porsche Design P’9981 BlackBerry provides a long-awaited design jolt, compensates for a lot
55:05 – Amazon focusing on ‘lifetime’ Kindle revenue, anticipating record device sales for Q4
01:01:30 – HTC Rhyme review
01:03:00 – Listener questions

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Engadget Podcast 262 – 10.28.2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’re not gonna lie: we’re on one. One heck of a crazy week, that is! Two big phone launches kept our feet close to the fire, and a couple of odds n’ ends rounded out the week in the way that only odds and ends can — oddly. It’s the Engadget Podcasters, live in a room together, at last, and with devastatingly informative consequences.

Hosts: Tim Stevens, Brian Heater
Guest: Dana Wollman
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Devil’s Haircut

02:30 – Samsung and Google’s Ice Cream Sandwich event liveblog!
03:30 – Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus gets official: Android 4.0, 4.65-inch HD Super AMOLED display (video)
06:22 – Samsung Galaxy Nexus with Ice Cream Sandwich hands-on (video)
07:57 – Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus launches in November on NTT Docomo, Verizon, and more
08:18 – Android Beam takes us to the future of close-proximity data exchange (video)
18:00 – Motorola Droid RAZR unveiled: LTE, 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED display, available November for $299
27:00 – Motorola Droid RAZR hands-on (video)
29:15 – Motorola RAZR to get updated to Ice Cream Sandwich in early 2012
34:45 – Samsung’s Won-Pyo Hong: Galaxy Nexus wasn’t designed just to skirt Apple patents
38:37 – Motorola Motoactv hands-on (update: video with Dean Karnazes!)
41:45 – Research in Motion announces BBX, ‘combines the best of BlackBerry and QNX’
43:36 – Lytro camera hands-on (video)
46:45 – ASUS’ Jonney Shih: Padfone will ship in Q1 2012 with Ice Cream Sandwich
46:55 – Microsoft’s Andy Lees: Nokia will announce ‘its Windows Phones’ at Nokia World
51:36 – The Engadget Show
56:04 – Listener questions

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Engadget Podcast 261 – 10.21.2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Things are happening in the air around us: our tabazine is beaming its way to iPads around the globe, iThings are being shuffled to and from various parts of the stratosphere, and there was a frightening dearth of airborne activity in the BlackBerry-based community. Tangible inventions have also made their usual marks on the week in tech news: newly-minted iOS 5 guru Dante Cesa joins Tim and Brian this to bring it all down to earth and straight to your ears in this, the 260th episode of the Engadget Podcast.

Hosts: Tim Stevens, Brian Heater
Guest: Dante Cesa
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: I Can’t Go For That

00:01:30 – Engadget Distro is ready for download!
00:03:45 – Photoshop contest: send us your best / most terrifying Frankengadget
00:05:00 – iOS 5 review
00:13:30 – iCloud opens to the masses, iOS 5 lurks near
00:23:45 – BlackBerry services offline for some in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Again. (update: RIM confirms India, South America, too)
00:25:13 – BlackBerry outage spreads to US and Canada, continues in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia, South America (update: RIM confirms)
00:26:00 – Mike Lazaridis apologizes for BlackBerry outage: ‘We’ve let many of you down’ (video) (Update: full services restored)
00:38:40 – Motorola Atrix 2 hands-on at CTIA E&A 2011 (video)
00:41:18 – Archos 80 G9 review
00:46:11 – T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II review
00:52:15 – HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio review
00:56:51 – ASUS Zenbook UX21 and UX31 headed to the US October 12, starting at $999
00:59:02 – Samsung crashes iPhone 4S block party, lures Aussies with $2 Galaxy S IIs
00:59:29 – Dennis Ritchie, pioneer of C programming language and Unix, reported dead at age 70
01:00:12 – Listener questions

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Engadget Podcast 260 – 10.14.2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Live (er…pre-recorded!) from a single microphone in a San Diego Hotel room at an ungodly sleepless hour are your hosts, Myriam and Brad, fresh off the CTIA floor with heads full of hear and gossip, tied together here on the Engadget Mobile Podcast. Don’t sleep, because they haven’t.

Host: Myriam Joire (tnkgrl), Brad Molen
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Daestro – Light Powered (Ghostly International)

00:01:43 – Engadget Distro is ready for download!
00:04:05 – iOS 5 review
00:07:39 – Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, has passed away at 56
00:10:55 – Samsung and Google postpone Ice Cream Sandwich and Galaxy Nexus
00:16:30 – T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II review
00:28:14 – Sprint converts its network to LTE, plans ‘aggressive rollout’ to be completed by 2013
00:35:05 – HTC Radar review
00:37:38 – HTC announces the Sensation XL with Beats Audio, we go hands-on
00:40:14 – CITA 2011
00:43:09 – T-Mobile Springboard hands-on at CTIA E&A 2011 (video)
00:45:20 – Motorola Atrix 2 hands-on at CTIA E&A 2011 (video)
00:50:28 – AT&T starts CTIA off right by introducing five new smartphones to its Android lineup
00:59:23 – Pantech Pocket for AT&T hands-on at CTIA E&A 2011 (video)
01:03:54 – Samsung Transfix on Cricket at CTIA E&A 2011 (hands-on video)
01:05:05 – LG Optimus Slider on Virgin Mobile at CTIA E&A 2011, we go hands-on (video)
01:07:00 – Motorola Spyder to be introduced on October 18, keeps its clothes on in video tease
01:10:22 – Mike Lazaridis apologizes for BlackBerry outage: ‘We’ve let many of you down’ (video) (Update: full services restored)

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Engadget Mobile Podcast 108 – 10.13.2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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