Let's Talk Tech
Time for our weekly tech round table discussion with Boored at Work, BWOne, Mobile Burn, and yours truly.
We have a spirited discussion each week talking out (sometimes debating) the top tech news stories. You can watch live each Saturday at 11:30am Eastern, but if you miss it it’s recorded directly to Youtube for posterity. This week we tackle XBox One, new Nokia gear, and Moto X getting KitKat!
Our first Windows tablet to hit the SomeGadgetGuy Test Bench!
We never did get our hands on the first Surface, but Surface 2 is ready to go! We’ll playback some movie and music samples to see how it stacks up to phones and bluetooth speakers! The audio level for our tablet tests is normalized to compare directly with the HTC One, so listen back to that test and you’ll be able to hear how the Surface 2 stacks up!
Previous speaker tests:
HTC One
Lumia 920
JawBone JAMBOX
LG G2
Lumia 1020
HMDX Jam Classic
Galaxy S4 Active
Nokia Play 360
HTC One Mini
LG Optimus G Pro
iPhone 5S
Pantech Discover
Over 30 million views on Youtube. CharstarleneTV has certainly tapped into a fear many of us tech-heads have contemplated.
We’re already living in a dystopian future.
At once tongue in cheek and instantly maudlin, because it’s completely recognizable.
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It’s not like he built his career on trying to be a wordsmith or anything…
Like something out of a bad CSI re-run:
“Zoom into that flower. Enhance. See if you can clean up that focus.”
It’s a trip that we can now do things kinda like that. Refocus turns your Lumia into a Lytro style camera. Hold your camera steady for a couple seconds as the camera scans a scene, and then you can choose what to focus on later. We’re now officially living in the future.
Let’s take a look!
Refocus on the Windows App Store.
Here’s an example of how Refocus works. The flower pic I showed in the video can be embedded, allowing you to play with the focus points in a web browser.
It’s finally here!
Always the ultimate tech irony, the best smartphone cameras in the world had no official native app to upload pics to the world’s most popular social photo service.
No longer. Instagram is finally officially on Windows Phone as an open BETA. Let’s see how it compares to the popular third party solution 6Tag, and what features the Android version might have that IG will have to catch up on!
I’m stoked to see more gadgets like this.
Getting files on and off our tablets and phones can be painful. As much as these devices claim autonomy, often we still need to resort to plugging them into proper computers. Wireless drives afford us more flexibility in handling our mobile data, allowing us to build portable clouds, and providing us easier solutions for sharing media with other people.
Let’s take a look at RAVPower’s entry into this gadget class with the RP-WD01.
More info on RAVPower devices.
The RAVPower Wireless Card reader on Amazon.