MobileTechRoundup
Summary: MoTR comes to you twice a week for 30 minutes, every Tuesday and Friday. Join David Ciccone, James Kendrick and Kevin C. Tofel as they provide a round-up of mobile gear to help you live the mobile life.
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Podcasts:
Matt shares impressions of the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event along with his hands-on time with the Galaxy S10+, while we discuss the two folding phone options for customers from Samsung and Huawei.
Matt is packing for the Samsung Unpacked event, wearing a Huawei Watch GT for testing. Maybe he'll get a look at the new Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e? Kevin shares details of Chrome OS 72, including the trick to get Android media on external storage.
Matt reviews the Huawei MateBook 13 Windows laptop while Kevin notes that the first 4K Chromebook is here and we go through all of the latest folding (and non-folding) phone leaks prior to MWC.
Matt takes the WearOS Ticwatch S2 for a spin while Kevin is all on for coding on his Pixel Slate. Plus there could be a new iPod Touch coming. Why?
Kevin is back from CES with no new gadgets but with a cold. Plus he saw the Asus Chromebook Flip 434, the Royole folding phone, a new Withings watch with ECG and Android tablets from Lenovo that act as an Echo Show with the included dock. Matt is heading to Samsung Unpacked for the Galaxy Note 10 and who knows what else Samsung will debut.
Kevin is packing for CES and ready for Pandora music on the Apple Watch while Matt is testing the Stryd running pod. He also returned his Pixel Slate - find out why.
After considering a Galaxy Watch, Matt went back to the Apple Watch 4 with LTE and traded up from an iPhone XR to XS. Meanwhile, Kevin got his Moment lenses and Kindle Oasis and both hosts chat about fake 5G and the Pixel Slate configurations.
Matt tested both the One Plus 6T McLaren Edition phone and the G-Type keyboard for the Pixel Slate, while Kevin is debating on an Amazon Kindle upgrade. Chrome OS 71 arrives as do new Samsung Pen Windows PCs.
Matt and Kevin spent a second week with the Pixel Slate and have more thoughts to share on the Chrome tablet. Matt also went back to the Galaxy Watch; find out why. And it looks like Google Hangouts users will get migrated to Hangouts Meet, so all is not lost.
Matt and Kevin have used both the Pixel Slate and Pixel Slate Keyboard for a week: How does it stack up? Pretty well although it's not perfect.
Google's Night Sight got Matt to buy the Pixel 3 again, plus he has a new Thunder Purple One Plus 6T. Kevin didn't get his Pixel Slate yet but did get some good Black Friday deals.
Matt is back from his cruise where he tested the Huawei Mate 20 and ordered a One Plus 6T. Kevin ordered some Moment lenses for his iPhone XR and found that the latest Chrome OS build brings Android 9 and USB support to Linux on Chromebooks.
We start this week by remembering our friend and former co-host, James Kendrick. Next, we turn to hands-on impressions of the iPhone XR, LG V40 and Surface Pro 6 followed by some upcoming Apple hardware expectations and a Pixel Slate buyers guide.
This week, we recap the #MadeByGoogle event with very first impressions of the Pixel Slate and week's worth of using the Pixel 3XL. Matt also took the new Sony Xperia XZ3 for a test drive through 8 states in 9 days!
Matt takes the Fitbit Charge 3 for a spin on the wrist, Microsoft outs new hardware and Kevin is excited by the Pixel Slate we'll see launch on Tuesday.