The Vergecast

The Vergecast 019 - 02.24.2012

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:02:43 PST

The Vergecast: using the freshest, hottest tech to reach out and touch a topless, peanut-butter-covered Chris Ziegler and his Playbook since 2012.

00:06:18 - Vox Games enters alpha at The Verge!
00:11:40 - Research, no motion: How the BlackBerry CEOs lost an empire
00:19:05 - BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0 review
00:35:00 - MWC 2012: The Verge Preview
01:32:40 - Microsoft readies final Windows 8 Consumer Preview build 8250
01:34:10 - Microsoft says truth about Office on iPad will be clear 'in the coming weeks'

(Full video now available above!)

The Vergecast 018 - 02.17.2012

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:45:08 PST

Siri, what if The Vergecasters spent an entire Vergecast talking about TurboGrafx 16, rave fliers, notifications in OS X, and how to pronounce Paul's name?

Frankly, I've wondered that myself. I don't know. I would ask that you address your spiritual questions to someone more qualified to comment.

00:01:49 - Sony PlayStation Vita review
00:24:30 - Apple OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion preview: Notification Center, iMessage, AirPlay and more
01:07:00 - 5 Minutes on The Verge: Growl's Christopher Forsythe
01:09:30 - Microsoft announces new Metro style logo for Windows 8
01:17:00 - Congress sends Apple letter filled with questions about iOS address book privacy
01:21:15 - Somebody's watching: how a simple exploit lets strangers tap into private security cameras

The Vergecast 017 - 02.10.2012

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:55:04 PST

This edition of the Vergecast was written in longhand in a spiral-bound notebook, mimeograph'd into our thermostat (with the help of a very expensive proprietary mimeograph -> Nest conversion cable we've developed at PARC in conjunction with Honeywell) and can be yours at the low, low bandwidth of eighty kilobits per second. You're welcome!

The Vergecast 016 - 02.03.2012

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:04:21 PST

We promise to let you listen to this Vergecast if you promise to not tell anyone about the Social Media Devolution we're storyboarding in conjunction with DARPA, Richard Branson, and the foreign guy who makes the sandwiches taste good at the God Bless Deli right by Josh's house. Our Pinky Swear script is still in beta though so just know that we (i.e. all above mentioned parties and their corresponding security forces) are watching you (when we're not watching VH1 Soul [so we're actually never watching you]).

The Vergecast 015 - 01.28.2012

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:00:28 PST

This edition of the Vergecast is coming at you straight from Margaritaville Shenzen, where the sun is always setting, the tequila flows like labor, and the State of the Union is always required to be full of perfect surf reports. You can follow Margaritaville Shenzen on Twitter and visit us inside Secondlife -- check in on SecondFoursquare to get your free-range Parrothead-edition Tamagotchi app to your ePhone for free!

The Vergecast 014 - 01.20.2012

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:33:31 PST

As an unwashed horde of jarring, neon-shattered Las Vegan vignettes wanes from the tides of our memories, life at the intersection of technology and culture slams us with another dissertation-inducing week of progress, sparring, and confusion. All we can do is sit here and Vergecast about it.

00:06:09 - Apple's January 2012 education event: reinventing the textbook
00:36:05 - Why The Verge and Vox Media are opposed to SOPA
00:55:35 - MegaUpload's legal battle with labels and the DOJ: the full story

The Vergecast at CES: Day Four

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:22:11 PST

Boom. We are out of here, but not before we deliver one last hard-hitting Las Vegas-style Vergecast. We hope you enjoyed our Vergecasts this week because we really enjoyed doing them even though we could barely even focus on the cameras in front of our faces for lack of sleep, vitamin D, and food that didn't come out of a can or a cup. See you next week! Boom.

03:30 - Behringer's iNuke Boom is the essence of Vegas
05:00 - Apple audits reveal additional cases of underage and involuntary labor, joins FLA
17:00 - FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on SOPA, Reddit, and the future of the internet
26:16 - Lumia 900 to be released in March, says Nokia developer newsletter
29:00 - Vizio at CES 2012: laptops, all-in-ones, and a new tablet
33:35 - Sony still working on OLED display tech, developing Crystal LED 'in parallel'
52:40 - Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga: a Windows 8 laptop that bends backwards into a tablet (hands-on video)
01:04:20 - The Verge logo gets Cubified

The Vergecast at CES: Day Three

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:29:15 PST

As Consumer Electronics Show exhibitors begin ripping all the TVs off the walls, un-docking all the iPods from their cradles, and having their robot butlers fold their screen-wiping cloths, let's take a few hours to go over every single staff member's best and worst of the show, in Vergecast form. It's a love it or leave it kind of show.

P.S. Paul would like to apologize about hurtful things he said to Raymond about a certain pastime and Raymond's relative skillset at that pastime. "Raymond is the best, I suck," is how he put it.

00:01:00 - Matias Duarte interview: Android Design guidelines announcement
00:15:00 - FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on SOPA, Reddit, and the future of the internet
00:24:37 - Fujifilm X-S1 hands-on pictures
00:26:00 - Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx for Verizon announced
00:27:30 - Parrot Zik
00:29:30 - ViewSonic ViewPad 10pi
00:32:20 - Lytro plenoptic light-field camera pre-orders begin at $399, devices ship in 2012 (video)
00:33:55 - TOSY mRobo revealed by Justin Bieber
00:37:50 - Fisher-Price Kid-Tough Portable DVR records shows and withstands abuse (hands-on)
00:50:29 - Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera with Android: hands-on
00:53:17 - Kopin and Motorola's Golden-i head-mounted PC (hands-on video)
00:56:08 - Porsche Design BlackBerry P'9981: the inside story (hands-on video)
00:58:00 - Panasonic's 2012 Smart Viera plasma HDTVs offer improved panels, expand app ecosystem
00:59:00 - Amazon's new UltraViolet deal: UV rights to be included in purchases from one unnamed studio
01:02:28 - Haier Transparent OLED TV hands-on
01:06:31 - SteelSeries announces Ion iOS and Android gamepad, selection of headsets and mice
01:08:10 - Canon PowerShot G1 X hands-on pictures and video
01:10:14 - Behringer's iNuke Boom is the essence of Vegas
01:12:37 - Razer Project Fiona gaming tablet hands-on video and pictures
01:21:05 - OnLive Cloud Desktop app now available for download on the iTunes App Store
01:29:00 - PlayStation Vita 3G for AT&T hands-on demo with Unit 13 (video)
01:29:55 - Vizio thin-and-light laptops first hands-on!
01:31:51 - Live from Microsoft's final CES keynote
01:35:10 - Cubify.com builds your digital designs in five inches cubed of nylon
01:38:35 - Kyocera's prototype Speaker-less Smartphone (hands-on video)
01:39:44 - Rockchip Android 4.0-ready chip hands-on
01:41:20 - Sensics Smart Goggles put your head in the game (hands-on pictures and video)
01:42:00 - Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera with Android: hands-on
01:45:08 - Sony Crystal LED Display prototype pictures, videos, and impressions
01:51:30 - Canon's other surprise: EOS DSLR prototype with 4K video recording

The Vergecast at CES: Day Two

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:00:57 PST

LIVE from New Vegas, it's the first-ever PICKLERCAST! With your hosts, The Unimpressed Josh Meme, and Joanna Stern's baby, a Macbook Air, in a robotic stroller, with musical guests Justin Bieber and Kelly Pickler.

00:06:00 - Justin Bieber. A dancing robot. CES 2012.
00:18:50 - Interview: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop
00:19:00 - Joe Belfiore interview: Windows Phone will compete on quality, not specs
00:19:05 - Microsoft's Aaron Woodman on Windows Phone: 'We feel really good about the trajectory'
00:19:10 - Lytro's Eric Cheng on a video Lytro: 'there's no reason we can't'
00:29:00 - Motorola working on next-generation Webtop with Chrome support
00:34:38 - Twitter and Google battle over Google+ results in search
00:47:44 - SOPA: the public debate

The Vergecast at CES: Day One

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:12:00 PST

The tenth-ever Vergecast (and the second-ever CES 2012 Vergecast) was recorded in a post-post-modern Sony-branded production turret amidst a small army of zambonis, pregnant women, and Verge editors. That's pretty much all we can do for you, so we hope you like it.

00:04:50 - Lenovo K800 hands-on: first Intel-powered phone, with Android 4.0 and 720p display
00:09:23 - Motorola to make Intel-powered phones and tablets, first phone coming in the second half of 2012
00:18:30 - XPS 13: Dell launches its first ultrabook for $999 (hands-on pictures)
00:31:49 - Samsung Series 5 notebooks stretch to 15 and 17 inches (hands-on)
00:33:29 - HP Envy 14 Spectre
00:34:04 - Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga: a Windows 8 laptop that bends backwards into a tablet (hands-on video)
00:40:40 - Motorola's Sanjay Jha: 'Verizon and AT&T don't want seven stock Android devices on their shelves'
00:58:00 - Nokia CEO Stephen Elop at CES 2012: The Verge interview
01:09:41 - Google TV product manager Rishi Chandra: 'Android is going to be a successful operating system on TVs'
01:12:53 - Amazon is UltraViolet's first retail partner; Samsung offering disc-to-digital on 2012 Blu-Ray players
01:15:52 - Razer Project Fiona gaming tablet hands-on video and pictures
01:17:09 - Intel gets caught simulating Ivy Bridge gaming demo at CES 2012
01:18:10 - Movl SwipeIt streams content from iOS and Android to Samsung Smart TVs, but is it an official Samsung app?
01:20:00 - Acer Aspire S5
01:22:50 - PlayStation Vita: review, release dates, games, video, and more

The Vergecast at CES: Day Zero

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:35:20 PST

Yes yes, y'all. It's time.

00:04:13 - LIVE FROM MICROSOFT'S FINAL CES KEYNOTE
00:13:00 - Sony Xperia S first hands-on
00:19:20 - Nokia Lumia 900 LTE Windows Phone, exclusive for AT&T
00:20:30 - HTC Titan II for AT&T first hands-on
00:24:00 - Samsung Galaxy Note announced for AT&T (hands-on pictures and video)
00:30:30 - Intel Nikiski laptop prototype with see-through touchpad hands-on pictures and video
00:33:10 - Vizio M-Series tablet first hands-on!
00:40:30 - Envy 14 Spectre: HP's Gorilla Glass covered, $1,399 ultrabook (hands-on video / pictures)
00:41:00 - Sony PlayStation Vita review (Japan)
00:47:15 - Vizio Google TV first hands-on!
00:48:00 - Lenovo K91 brings Android 4.0 to the world's most advanced 55-inch TV
00:52:00 - LG, Sony, Vizio announcing Google TV devices at CES, Samsung later in the year
01:21:30 - Samsung announces AllShare Control washing machine you can control from your smartphone

The Vergecast 008 - 01.03.2012

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:49:12 PST

Did you miss us? Probably not. But if you did, don't worry: our holiday absence will be so enormously offset by our omnipresence in your media consumption patterns during CES next week that you will never want to see / hear from us ever again - we guarantee it. Happy new year!

Song: Standby Ghost - Can U Dance

00:01:45 - CES 2012
00:07:55 - The Verge Year in Review
00:43:15 - Kindle Fire remains Amazon's best-selling item, million Kindle per week sales continue
00:57:50 - LG reveals world's largest OLED TV: 55-inches, 4-mm thick, natural colors, and lower price
01:23:30 - Intel to show off LG Android phone running Medfield at CES, says Korean Times
01:26:30 - Apple planning a non-TV media-related event in New York this month, says All Things D

The Vergecast 007 - 12.23.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:50:03 PST

We might be On The Verge of having a conniption fit from the excitement of pondering how many items from the 27-page wishlist PDF we submitted will slip through the recently-swept Vox Media chimney. We might be only halfway through designing calls from Santa for all five people on our contacts list. We might be busy pasteurizing the neighborhood cow's last TGIF bucket of milk and borrowing just one last cup of sugar from the neighbor to create the warmest, most well-rounded cookie plate this side of the North Pole. But that doesn't mean we don't have time to Vergecast.

P.S. But we were too busy to do video.

Song: Standby Ghost - Ground Force

00:02:35 - Microsoft says this CES is its 'last major appearance' at the show
00:03:40 - The truth about Microsoft and CES
00:21:24 - AT&T kills T-Mobile merger plans, will pay Deutsche Telekom $4b breakup fee
00:31:39 - Deutsche Telekom on failure of AT&T / T-Mobile deal: 'There's no Plan B'
00:54:28 - Amazon considered buying RIM this summer
00:55:11 - WSJ: Microsoft and Nokia also casually considered jointly buying RIM
01:04:37 - What is SOPA and how does it work? The Stop Online Piracy Act explained
01:06:50 - SOPA vote delayed until January
01:28:15 - Sony PlayStation Vita review (Japan)
01:41:47 - Eric Schmidt says improved Google tablet coming within six months
01:43:35 - Introducing user reviews and more!

The Vergecast 006 - 12.16.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:39:01 PST

It is Friday. You have had a week. One of those of weeks that hits you between the eyes like a bad Ash Wednesday joke, drives an 18-wheeler through your carpal tunnels into the next dimension, finds you left out of the silliest "women drivers" image-enhanced forward everyone else in the cube farm and your extended family has received, you found out how many calories are in french fries, and the FedEx guy left your triple-180gm virgin vinyl edition of J. Bieber's "Under the Mistletoe" on your front porch in the freezing rain. What do you do? RELAX... with the Vergecast. Strap on a cold one and leave the italics to the dudes who are both on the verge and behind the microphones at the same time.

Song: Standby Ghost - Fall Into the Light

The Vergecast 005 - 12.10.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:05:13 PST

We did this podcast in Paintbrush.

Song: Solvent - Product of the Process (Ghostly International)

The Vergecast 004 - 12.02.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:56:02 PST

The Vergecasters are a lot like that commercial: sometimes they feel like a nut, sometimes they don't. This Vergecast is all Almond Joy: 4000 calories, 0% recommended daily value of Paul Miller, 100% RDV / Stern, and a bagful of Yellow 5. Just throw it in the bag.

Song: Ben Benjamin - Oblivious Athlete (Ghostly International)

The Vergecast 003 - 11.18.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:48:07 PST

You know what they say about third times, and this edition of the Vergecast is certainly no exception: it's a reeeeeeeal charmer, with conversation topics veering so wildly from the links listed below that you might think you're listening to Car Talk for a good portion of the show. There's also a pretty cool American Idol section easter egg in here somewhere. Tune in and let your freak flag fly.

Note: If you've previously subscribed to the This Is My Next Podcast feed, you should be all set!

Song: Mux Mool - Jen and Soda (Ghostly International)

00:03:06 - Galaxy Nexus review
00:22:50 - HTC Rezound review
00:37:08 - Google Music launching with EMI, Sony Music, and others; offering free, exclusive music
00:52:25 - Google Music store official: artist hubs, Google+ integration, and more
00:55:48 - BlackBerry London: is this the first RIM phone with the BBX OS?
00:59:00 - RIM's design head says new BlackBerrys will be 'charming, whimsical, and fun'
01:06:15 - Inside the Nest: iPod creator Tony Fadell wants to reinvent the thermostat
01:22:50 - Kindle Fire review
01:26:15 - Nook Tablet limits internal storage for non-Barnes & Noble files to 1GB
01:33:00 - Caio - Modern Warfare 3 Multiplayer Review
01:36:28 - Boxee Box Live TV adapter announced, adds network TV for $49
01:39:13 - On The Verge, Episode 001: Matias Duarte

Vergecast 002 - 11.11.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:50:07 PST

Oops! We did it again. Well, we kind of did it again: we're not even sure you can call it a Vergecast if it clocks in under two hours. We are sorry, but we hope you enjoy the meager hour-and-twenty-some-odd minutes of audiovisual thrills fueled by red wine and party mix that we managed to sling together this time around. At least Joanna was here this time. For a few minutes.

Note: If you've previously subscribed to the This Is My Next Podcast feed, you should be all set!

Song: Solvent - Life-Size Image (Ghostly International)

00:03:25 - Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet: pictures, video, and hands-on impressions
00:12:14 - Nook Color price drops to $199.99
00:14:37 - Nook Tablet features deep Netflix integration, bundles Hulu and Pandora
00:24:45 - Lenovo IdeaPad U300s ultrabook review
00:37:04 - Motorola Droid RAZR review
00:52:53 - Walking as Jazz: Virginia Tech takes on the biggest challenge in robotics
01:05:59 - Exclusive: HP to hold all-hands meeting tonight, fate of webOS likely to be decided
01:10:00 - Exclusive: HP's Meg Whitman on webOS 'it's not obvious exactly what to do here'
01:18:45 - Adobe ends Flash development for Android and PlayBook, will focus on HTML5
01:25:12 - Nvidia Tegra 3 official: a 1.3GHz quad-core chip with five times the performance of Tegra 2
01:26:15 - 'On The Verge' arrives on Monday, November 14th with Matias Duarte

The Vergecast 001 - 11.05.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:36:26 PDT

Check out our next podcast Writers On The Verge Of a Content Breakthrough! Naw, just foolin', y'all: it's the very first Vergecast! You know what it is, probably, but if you don't, grab an energy drink and strap yourself in for the wildest two-plus hours of tech talk this side of the Mason-Dixon, replete with morality plays, wildly unfounded assessments of monetary figures, and dangerously wacky levels of Sound Effects. We are very very excited to be here with you.

Note: If you've previously subscribed to the This Is My Next Podcast feed, you should be all set!

Song: Broker/Dealer - Satin Jacket (Asphodel)

00:01:29 - Welcome to The Verge
00:17:45 - The Future Passed: Jetpack edition
00:22:15 - Nokia Lumia 800 review
00:31:18 - Gmail app for iPhone and iPad now available
00:39:00 - Siri servers currently unresponsive (update: back!)
00:50:00 - The Verge Forums
00:59:19 - Did Bill Gates kill Courier?
01:08:00 - Slate 2: HP tries tablets again with Windows, Swype, and a stylus for $699
01:13:06 - Motorola Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media edition: announcement, release dates, and hands-on
01:23:55 - HTC Rezound official: 4.3-inch 720p HD screen, Beats Audio, Verizon LTE for $299.99
01:38:50 - Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet leaks out: thinner, lighter, faster, and $249
01:44:50 - HBO Go now available on all Roku devices

This is my next Podcast 030 – 10.30.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:33:00 PDT

This is my last Podcast...or is it?

Song: Junkie XL - Made For Each Other (Nettwerk)

02:55 - Nokia Lumia 800 pictures, video, and hands-on preview
06:30 - Nokia Lumia 710 headed stateside, according to Nokia US website
15:00 - Interview: Nokia’s Kevin Shields and Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore talk Windows Phone, N9, and more
39:55 - HP to keep PC division
01:04:48 - Google TV updated to Android 3.1, adds apps and Market (update)
01:11:17 - The Verge

This is my next Podcast 029 - 10.21.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:26:40 PDT

Have you ever heard our Halloween broadcast? You haven't, but imagine it, then imagine the opposite of it. This is it. This is my next Podcast.

Song: Harold Faltmeyer - Axel F

00:06:06 - Galaxy Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich news roundup
00:42:00 - Asus Padfone coming in early 2012 with Ice Cream Sandwich
00:46:10 - Motorola Droid RAZR first hands-on pictures and video!
00:49:05 - Motorola MotoACTV fitness computer announced, available November 6th
00:57:40 - RIM announces BlackBerry BBX, PlayBook OS 2.0 developer beta
01:14:34 - Nokia N9 review
01:26:40 - Andy Lees: Windows Phone to get NFC and ‘wider hardware choice’ next year

This is my next Podcast 028 - 10.14.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:34:59 PDT

We know This is my next Podcast is not Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. There are no lights, no cameras. But there is a lot of action, and about 18x more Topolsky, 1000x more Patel-Miller, and an unquantifiable amount more Stern and Siri. Let's leave it at that.

Song: Metronomy - My Heart Rate Rapid (Because Music)

00:01:51 - iPhone 4S review
00:07:30 - iOS 5 now available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
00:15:00 - Siri says some weird things
00:32:35 - Samsung, Google regroup for October 19th Ice Cream Sandwich event in Hong Kong
00:36:35 - AT&T announces Samsung Captivate Glide and DoubleTime, Motorola Atrix 2, Pantech Pocket, and AT&T Avail
00:46:41 - Asus Zenbook UX21 and UX31 arrive on October 12th, start at $999
01:06:04 - Microsoft confirms Zune HD is dead
01:13:00 - Sprint planning ‘aggressive LTE rollout’ by 2013
01:19:25 - Facebook iPad app finally available today, iPhone app updated with new features
01:22:00 - The Verge

This is my next Podcast 027 - 10.07.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:50:58 PDT

It's not a normal This is my next Podcast, but then, it wasn't a normal week. We took an hour and a half to grapple with with the present and the past that came before it, and we'll get back to the future next week.

Song: Joxaren - Log Lady (Poisonous Gases)

00:50:00 - Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
00:38:45 - iPhone 4S announced, available October 14th starting at $199
00:45:30 - iOS 5 includes Siri ‘intelligent assistant’ voice-control, dictation — for iPhone 4S only

This is my next Podcast 026 - 10.02.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:38:04 PDT

We made a rap song about all of the technology products that were announced this week!

Song: Wagon Christ - Toomorrow (Ninja Tune)

This is my next Podcast 025 - 09.23.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:00:12 PDT

It's alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll about finding new ways to express who you are and all of us out here at This is my next Podcast want to let you know that it's not just that you listen to This is my next Podcast but how you listen to This is my next Podcast and this week we'd like to encourage you to post a short film of yourself listening to the podcast -- it could be anywhere! maybe you listen in the shower? bring your underwater camera? -- to your Timeline, where, if enough people do this, we'll form a devastatingly clarifying tautology of what it means to be alive in This is my Next Right Now.

Song: Atom Heart - Tarzan Boy (Rather Interesting)

This is my next Podcast 024 - 09.17.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:10:36 PDT

Sometimes after This is my next Office closes at five o'clock every afternoon Josh locks the door, draws the shades, and brings out a ceramic urn of the good stuff. The good, good old stuff that he needs a telescoping ladder to get to. The urn has an ancient The Verge logo on it. He gently sets three Swarovski snifters on his great-grandfather's red oak inlay card table, hacks three formidable chunks from This is my next Ice Block, and uses his great-great-grandfather's iTongs to clink the chunks deliberately into the snifters. Paul and Nilay glance at each other knowingly. The tape recorder clicks on. Then, a knock at the door: a feminine outline, with three laptops under each arm. Suddenly, Friday has become a little more interesting.

Song: London Elecktricity - U Gotta B Crazy (Hospital Records)

This is my next Podcast 023 - 09.09.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:34:11 PDT

Y'all ever seen that Youtube link about Shoes? This podcast is like that video.

Song: Towa Tei - Ruffles (With Natural Calamity) (Nipponophone)

00:04:41 - Droid Bionic review
00:16:54 - Eric Schmidt: Ice Cream Sandwich to be released in October / November
00:30:00 - HTC sues Apple for patent infringement… using patents purchased by Google
00:48:10 - Samsung quad-core Windows 8 tablet ready for BUILD giveaway?
01:00:11 - Nvidia CEO: mobile chips to be a $20b business by 2015, new processor coming for Windows 8
01:09:52 - Sprint files lawsuit to block AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile USA (updated with AT&T’s response)
01:19:41 - Nike Air Mag officially announced, don’t actually lace themselves

This is my next Podcast 022 - 09.03.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:39:16 PDT

Nilay's on vacation, or plotting a coordinated takeover of a couple dozen multinational corporations, or busy finding his roots in his home country, wherever that is, so we've decided to stretch our legs for nearly two hours with two of our favorite staffers (actually...they're just our two favorite staffers, who are we kidding), Joanna and Vlad, and we thought it all came together pretty nicely, and with way less litigious bickering, don't you think? Click the link to find out.

Song: Ceephax Acid Crew - Cedric's Sonnet (Planet Mu)

This is my next Podcast 021 - 08.25.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:47:21 PDT

We're all over the map, and you know that. So it's nice when some news breaks that we can dig deep on, for more than an hour, to make sure we've covered all possible iterations of what might happen with that news, including an exhaustive exploration of exactly who is best suited to play Steve Jobs in Pirates Of Silicon Valley Part Deux: On Stranger iTides. The moral of the story is it's probably Johnny Depp.

Song: Jet Airliner

This is my next Podcast 020 - 08.19.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:28:16 PDT

If This is my next Podcast were a camera, it would be zoomed alllllllllllll the way out, keeping an omniscient yet still very high-resolution watch over every square inch of Technology Town. It's a week that demands a microscope under one eye and a fisheye over the other, so please enjoy this podcast or we'll be destroying our depth of field perception for naught.

Song: I Wanna Go

00:03:00 - Why HP killed its webOS devices
00:05:44 - HP kills TouchPad and webOS phones, looks to unload PC business
00:07:03 - HP webOS devices (TouchPad, Veer, and Pre series) to be killed in Q4 2011
00:30:30 - HP failed webOS; what’s next for the platform?
00:54:26 - BlackBerry Bold 9930 review
01:06:37 - Google to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion
01:10:15 - Google and Motorola: Independence Day or Doomsday?
01:48:45 - Grid 10: pictures, video, and hands-on preview

This is my next Podcast 019 - 08.12.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:27:14 PDT

If you were around for the first-ever This is my next Live Videocast yesterday, you know that the This is my next Podcasters had quite a time all being together in the same room with a bunch of new equipment, rappin' about tech stuff. We're not sure if we'd call if The Time Of Our Lives, but it certainly was a time, and what lies within this post is the audio that managed to escape from that time. Josh. Paul. Nilay. Joanna. Ziegler. Bohn. Vlad. Hollister. Mumm. Ricker. Houston. Flatley. Some interns. It's big, it's weird, get used to it.

Song: Bittersweet Symphony

00:03:12 - HTC ‘major announcement’ tomorrow; our live blog starts at 11:30AM ET
00:06:24 - HTC striking $300M deal for Beats Audio in phones
00:15:41 - TouchPad Go, HP’s 7-inch webOS tablet, hits FCC
00:16:00 - HP TouchPad gets permanent $100 price cut: $399 for 16GB, effective now
00:22:00 - TouchPad Go, HP’s 7-inch webOS tablet, hits FCC
00:35:30 - Nintendo 3DS price slashed to $169.99 on lower than expected sales
00:49:30 - BlackBerry ‘Colt’ rumored to be RIM’s first QNX phone, targeted for Q1 2012
01:02:41 - Nokia plots Windows Phone future for US: ‘no plans’ to offer N9, Symbian, or feature phones stateside
01:18:00 - The patent system isn’t broken — we are
01:19:30 - Announcing The Verge in The Washington Post

This is my next Podcast 018 - 08.05.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 07:27:32 PDT

Have you ever seen an old Daguerrotype of your great-grandparents and regular-grandparents hanging out in the living room staring at a beautiful olden-times refrigerator-sized radio? The radio is glowing softly with vacuum tubes and the fireside demeanor of an ancient This is my next President and all is well in the universe in the photo. OK, so here's the deal: you have to find one of those radios, have children if you haven't already procreated, and then recreate that picture but instead of FDR in the radio you have J,P,N via your 1/8" -> vacuum tubes cable or regular Airplay / DLNA-capable olden-time radio. Send negatives of the photo to This is the Verge Of My Next Office, The Big City, USA, 12345, and we'll pick a winner. That's the deal.

Song: Paint it Black

00:05:20 - BlackBerry Torch 9810 confirmed, launching in August (updated)
00:09:20 - BlackBerry Torch 9850/9860 is ‘all-touch,’ coming this year
00:20:20 - Skype for iPad released with video calling on WiFi and 3G
00:35:00 - iCloud Beta goes live for a lucky, random few
00:50:00 - Patel's Patent Corner™
01:16:44 - TouchPad update brings speed, stability, and questions about that early July release
01:38:25 - Natural user interface is a red herring, what we really need is a Dyson sphere
01:39:30 - Nokia N9 countdown begins, points to September 23rd release date

This is my next Podcast 017 - 07.30.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:54:57 PDT

It's hard to think of a better way to spend your Saturday than sitting inside alone listening to Josh, Nilay, Joanna, and Sean in your headphones, playing Nintendo, eating your next cereal. Maybe you're watching cartoons on mute on the other TV — hey, don't let us tell you how to do things. You sit there and enjoy This is my next Podcast any way you want. It's just that we've done a lot of research and we'd be negligent to not tell you the optimal place to absorb This is my next Podcast is in a tub full of body-temperature water in a very dark acoustically sealed room somewhere in the Southern hemisphere. Something to do with alpha waves.

Song: More than a Feeling

00:04:00 - Apple MacBook Air review (13-inch, mid 2011)
00:19:45 - Mac Mini review (mid 2011)
00:25:15 - Photon 4G review
00:39:18 - Samsung TouchWiz UX update for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 available on August 3rd, but only in NYC
00:41:27 - Toshiba Thrive review
00:49:05 - Google TV update: more Logitech Revue boxes returned than sold in Q1, price dropping to $99
00:57:50 - Nintendo 3DS price slashed to $169.99 on lower than expected sales
01:06:35 - EVO 4G, Epic 4G rumored EOL in October; Sprint’s next blockbuster MIA
01:08:20 - RIM to lay off 2,000 employees, shuffle executives
01:12:28 - Fusion Garage Grid 10: the JooJoo lives on

This is my next Podcast 016 - 07.22.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:38:00 PDT

Joshua Topolsky only has a few more seconds left before Nilay Patel is exposed for blackboxing Paul Miller's cordless phone, so all we're saying is listen to this episode of This Is The Verge Of My Next Podcast before we're all in the slammer except Paul, who will be too exposed-embarrassed-scandalized-phreak3d 0ut to leave his apartment or even podcast from it.

Song: RoccoW - Hello

This is my next Podcast 015 - 07.15.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:33:43 PDT

You know that song the girl sings about Friday and how much fun it is and how many cool plans she has, and then compares it to other fun days? No, not that one. That one. That's what This is my next Podcast is like, but more like if they sacrificed Ronald Weasley right in the middle of the song, cooked his magic little eyeballs on a hot plate app, and then all the girls who sang the Friday songs somehow appeared in the same chat room and shared them snackwise from a magic wand-shaped skewer online together.

Song: Robyn - Hang With Me (Zalza Chiptune Cover)

This is my next Podcast 014 - 07.09.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 15:08:45 PDT

It's the This is my Next Podcast Podcast! A silly, crazy, and fun/funny world where Paul and Nilay deep-dive on the hard tech issues of the week while Josh sips his vodka-soda, makes sweeping generalizations about life every 15 - 20 minutes, and then moves on to the next topic, all with alarming/disarming aplomb. It's like a big LARPing forum for your BBS...but better.

[The Podcast Producer would sincerely love to blame Sprint and the internet service providers at LaGuardia and Reagan airports for the delay in posting the podcast, but he is a self-flagellating podcast producer so he'll just say, sincerely, "I'm sorry." - ed.]

Song: Rio

00:03:00 - Announcing some new hires!
00:07:05 - iPhone 5 redesign likely says WSJ, but have you met the iPad HD?
00:21:21 - How Sony accidentally did the right thing with Light Peak
00:32:20 - Does Senate Bill 978 make YouTube and video game run-through videos illegal? Not really.
00:42:10 - Facebook announces Skype video calling integration, Group Chat
00:50:40 - Who would win in a fight between Facebook and Google+?
01:12:43 - Motorola Droid 3 officially hits Verizon, coming July 14th for $199.99
01:13:55 - Exclusive: redesigned Motorola Droid Bionic looks confirmed in Best Buy leak

This is my next Podcast 013 - 07.01.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 05:45:49 PDT

Don't even mess around like you're not already cruising around town with the top down and your 1/8-inch -> tape adapter in the deck, jamming hard to this week's super-unlucky This is my next Podcast podcast. We know you're messing around because there's just no way you'd ever put off listening to the classic three-piece lineup we're dealing with here: JT, NP, and PM: just the bare-bones dudes, crankin' out the real and raw tech chat you crave and rely upon to reference while impressing your industry analyst buddies at the water cooler, your grandpa with the iStuff at the nursing home, and your grand-tween with the 2.0'd version of carpal tunnel s/he got from playing too much FaceVille Plus outside the movie. We know you're messing around because you need us to help you impress all of them with the absolutely singular tech knowledge we drop on your right here, each and every week, on the This is my next Podcast Podcast. Just do everyone a favor and don't even mess around like that, allright?

Song: Take Me Home

00:02:47 - HP TouchPad review
00:27:15 - HP offers Pre and Pixi owners $50 mail-in rebate on the $599 TouchPad, but is that enough?
00:29:45 - HP ‘talking to a number of companies’ about potential webOS licensing, Jon Rubinstein gives us the lowdown
00:44:03 - RIM staves off shareholder revolt, forms ‘independent committee’ to examine executive structure
01:00:10 - Google launches social layer Google+
01:11:03 - Apple lays out MobileMe transition, iCloud web apps coming this fall
01:29:30 - Supreme Court says video games are protected free speech, California can’t regulate sales of violent games: a complete analysis
01:36:10 - The Ashton Kutcher News Hour
01:39:30 - HTC ChaCha officially the Status for AT&T and Telus

This is my next Podcast 012 - 06.24.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:00:55 PDT

You'd think that when the big boss skips a This is my next Podcast things would go a little haywire and everyone would be bouncing off the walls, but whaddya know! Nilay, Paul, Chris and Dieter keep it real, smooth, and real smooth in this Topolskyphobic edition of TIMNP. They'll peel your mango, burn your platform, and comb your honey in a concise and comprehensive conversation about the week in techno-news the only way they know how: nextly.

Song: The Final Countdown

This is my next Podcast 011 - 06.18.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:58:05 PDT

Oh, you thought we were done adding more This is my next Podcasters? Wrong again, homeboy/girl. Actually, that was the first time you were wrong that we can remember, but in any case: Dieter Bohn is here, he's cool, get used to it. Now let's chat about some tech, shall we?

Song: Friday

00:01:10 - Say hello to Dieter Bohn!
00:02:37 - Nokia and Apple settle patent disputes; Apple to pay one-time fee and ongoing license fees
00:11:15 - Nintendo Wii U preview: specs, games, and everything in-between
00:29:00 - iCloud and Apple’s truth: can you win if you don’t play?
00:39:10 - RIM’s latest earnings call: 500K PlayBooks shipped, layoffs coming
00:40:00 - RIM doth protest too much: the earnings call breakdown
00:51:25 - Motorola Xoom 4G for Verizon in the works?
01:02:30 - HTC Desire won’t get Gingerbread update
01:04:09 - HTC backtracks, says the Desire will get Gingerbread after all
01:06:55 - New LG Android slider spotted for T-Mobile with second screen, split keyboard
01:10:37 - HTC EVO 3D review
01:15:14 - Sony Ericsson Xperia Play review
01:20:38 - Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 review
01:22:20 - Sprint EVO View 4G review
01:22:48 - Samsung Chromebook Series 5 review

This is my next Podcast 010 - 06.10.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:46:10 PDT

Now that we're ten, we feel really grown-up. To prove how grown-up we are, here's ten million hours of super-loose banter about the ten billion super-tight things that happened this week. This is my next Podcast? Yes, I think it is my next Podcast.

Song: Rolling in the Deep

This is my next Podcast 009 - 06.03.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 06:32:16 PDT

Here at http://thisismynext.com, we take what we do seriously! Look. This is my next Windows. This is my next Honeycomb Tablet. This is my next Flagship Android Phone. This is my next Nook. This is my next iOS. Truly, madly, deeply; crazily, sexily, coolly: it's all just plain next. This is my next Podcast.

Song: Enola Gay

00:02:10 - Windows 8 shown at D9
00:25:48 - Intel renames ultraportables ‘ultrabooks,’ shows off a Medfield-powered Honeycomb tablet
00:38:40 - HP's Leo Apotheker, live from D9
00:57:29 - Asus Padfone, Eee Pad MeMO 3D, UX Series, and Eee PC X101 announced at Computex
01:05:07 - Did a Google employee just leak the next flagship Android phone?
01:12:15 - Barnes & Noble Nook review (2011)
01:15:05 - Steve Jobs to announce iCloud and iOS 5 at WWDC

This is my next Podcast 008 - 05.27.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 27 May 2011 17:18:00 PDT

Hello and welcome to This is my Next's weekly audio journal, This is my next Podcast. Today's episode is brought to you by the letter G, the number 9, and a sincere passion for debating the ins and outs of the history of Microsoft's corporate strategy. Sound like a plan? We thought so. See you in your headphones.

Song: Better Off Alone

00:02:20 - Microsoft's Windows Phone "Mango" preview event
00:49:15 - Barnes & Noble’s new Nook goes back to basics
01:05:30 - HTC Flyer review
01:12:15 - Google Wallet and Google Offers announced
01:31:40 - Sprint / Motorola event next month could be for Photon 4G: global roaming, WiMAX, and Tegra 2
01:35:29 - Dell XPS 15z official: Core 2011 processors, NVIDIA graphics, and USB 3.0 in an ultrathin package

This is my next Podcast 007 - 05.20.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 20 May 2011 07:04:13 PDT

Hello!, and welcome to the last-ever This is my next Podcast podcast. Just kidding, it's totally not the last one, but since it's number seven it got us thinking about superstition / astrology and we were trying to make a what-are-you-making-for-your-apocalypse-potluck joke, but then the whole thing just devolved into Josh waxing poetic about his Huffy and Nilay waxing Night Court on copyright law for the last 300 hours of the newest edition of the This is my next Podcast podcast while Paul, Chris, Joanna, and all of the people in the chat room / bingo hall fell asleep. Other than that, it's really good like usual.

Song: Losing My Religion

This is my next Podcast 006 - 05.13.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 13 May 2011 13:25:04 PDT

How many "GOOD GOOGLEY MOOGLEY!" jokes does it take to make a two-hour This is my next Podcast? We lost track after the first hour, but knowing you we bet you'll be able to keep track of all of them and tell us how many there were in comments.

Song: Close to Me

00:02:00 - Live coverage of the Google I/O day two keynote starts Wednesday, 9:30AM PT / 12:30PM ET!
00:21:42 - Android Ice Cream Sandwich unveiled, ‘one OS that works everywhere’
00:36:54 - Google Music Beta hands-on (video)
00:50:18 - Movie rentals hit Android Market: available now for the browser, coming soon for phones and tablet
01:01:50 - Google announces Accessory Development Kit and Android @ Home
01:15:37 - Chrome OS gets a big update, adds improved file management and new media player
01:16:45 - Google Chromebooks coming this June from Samsung and Acer
01:31:03 - Google adding Chromebox mini-desktop to the Chrome OS mix
01:37:43 - ASUS Eee Pad Transformer TF101 review
01:44:48 - How Google controls Android: digging deep into the Skyhook filings
01:56:03 - Microsoft and Skype flesh out the details, answer the burning questions

This is my next Podcast 005 - 05.06.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 06 May 2011 12:09:04 PDT

Drama, the kind of stuff you normally watch daytime television for, is now available in a crisp, vacuum-sealed, 55mb, technology chat-flavored podcast. We won't be doing any paternity tests or neutralizing any jealous lovers this time around (we don't think) but we do promise to wax intense on post-3G network speeds, Research in Slow Motion, and notions of good and evil as they apply to wireless spectra. This is my next Podcast.

Song: DJVu - Want You Gone

00:03:38 - HP Veer 4G launching on AT&T May 15th for $99.99
00:21:15 - High-speed half-truth: AT&T, T-Mobile are dipping below HSPA+ for ’4G’ plans and branding
00:41:33 - HTC Bliss: a Verizon Android phone for women?
01:01:09 - Apple releases iOS 4.3.3 for iPhone, fixes location-tracking bugs
01:06:06 - Google plays ball with carriers to kill tethering apps, violates spirit of the ‘open access’ it bid $4.6B to protect
01:19:52 - BlackBerry World: Now Wait for Last Year

This is my next Podcast 004 - 04.29.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:21:11 PDT

We're BACK, again, and bigger than ever in all sorts of dimensions. The first dimension we're bigger in is length. At a mind-bending 1:43:47, we're a good 4:52 longer than episode 2, which previously held the record for longest-ever This is my next Podcast Podcast. The second dimension we're bigger in is personality, or personnel (you be the judge). Five full-sized humans inhabit the co-host space here on #004, and they all have so many thoughts about the week in tech that it leads to the third and final dimension in which we're bigger this week: the informational dimension. Roll with us.

Song: Look At Me Now

This is my next Podcast 003 - 04.22.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:26:43 PDT

You know what they say about third times, right? Well, it's true. Sit back, click the download / listen / whatever link, and let the sound of Nilay jousting at the renaissance faire from the year 4000, where people dress like they are from the year 3000, wash over you.

Song: Song 2

This is my next Podcast 002 - 04.15.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:42:16 PDT

We're back. We did it again. This is it -- this is the next This is my next Podcast podcast, just like you needed. It feels a lot like last week's This is my next Podcast podcast, but longer, about different stuff, and with Chris Ziegler on it (he turns into a robot at the end, so that's one more aural reason to listen.) You know the drill.

Song: Holiday in Cambodia

This is my next Podcast 001 - 04.05.2011

joshua@theverge.com (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller) — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:49:11 PDT

Hey. This is my next podcast. It's right here, inside, ready to rock. It's got Josh, Paul, and Nilay in it, rapping just like you're used to. If you're not used to it, welcome! What lies within is three guys using the week in technology news as an excuse to talk about Zardoz, Sesame Street, and a tiny bit of technology news. We think you'll like it a lot.