0G: A History of Forgotten Phones
8 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA limited-run podcast about how weird and wonderful smartphones were back in the day. Hosted by Christie Pitts of Backstage Capital and Peter Rojas of Betaworks Ventures.
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Bonus Tablets Episode!
April 19, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 160 MBHi everyone, welcome to what is likely the final episode of 0G, A History of Forgotten Phones! We are wrapping up our limited-run podcast with a special bonus episode on tablets. Yes, there were plenty of weird and wonderful tablets from produced in the years before (and even after) the iPad! For this episode we take a look back at Intel's Web Tablet, Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and Windows Smart Display, the Nokia 770, the Pepper Pad 3, the ill-fated Crunchpad/Joojoo, the ori...
Episode 7: 2009 - Pre-empted
March 25, 2019 12:00 - 54 minutes - 101 MBWelcome to Episode 7 of 0G, A History of Forgotten Phones! 0G is a limited-run podcast where we look back at how weird and wonderful smartphones were back in the days before iOS and Android took over and your only option became a rectangular slab running one or the other. 0G is hosted by two people who were there: Christie Pitts (now at Backstage Capital), who started her career selling phones at a Verizon store, and Peter Rojas (now at Betaworks Ventures), founder of Gizmodo, Engadget, and...
Episode 6: 2008 - The Storm Arrives
March 11, 2019 14:00 - 37 minutes - 68.6 MBWelcome to Episode 3 of 0G, A History of Forgotten Phones! 0G is a limited-run podcast where we look back at how weird and wonderful smartphones were back in the days before iOS and Android took over and your only option became a rectangular slab running one or the other. 0G is hosted by two people who were there: Christie Pitts (now at Backstage Capital), who started her career selling phones at a Verizon store, and Peter Rojas (now at Betaworks Ventures), founder of Gizmodo, Engadget, and...
Episode 5: 2007 - The Last Year of Blissful Ignorance
March 04, 2019 19:16 - 50 minutes - 93.1 MBWelcome to Episode 3 of 0G, A History of Forgotten Phones! 0G is a limited-run podcast where we look back at how weird and wonderful smartphones were back in the days before iOS and Android took over and your only option became a rectangular slab running one or the other. 0G is hosted by two people who were there: Christie Pitts (now at Backstage Capital), who started her career selling phones at a Verizon store, and Peter Rojas (now at Betaworks Ventures), founder of Gizmodo, Engadget, and...
Episode 4 - Special Guest: Jason Gordon (Handspring, Microsoft, Motorola, HTC)
February 25, 2019 13:00 - 52 minutes - 121 MBWelcome to Episode 4 of 0G, A History of Forgotten Phones! On this episode, we have a special guest, Jason Gordon, who worked at Handspring, Microsoft, Motorola and HTC and was on the front lines as smartphones went from barely usable to indispensable. We chat with Jason about what goes into phone development and launches, including the history of devices at Handspring, Windows Mobile, Mobius, the Motorola Q, the Motorola MPX, the HTC G1, the HTC Diamond, the HTC Incredible and the HTC Thund...
Episode 3: 2006 - The Year Palm Wanted to Arrest Peter
February 09, 2019 17:09 - 43 minutes - 80.1 MBWelcome to Episode 3 of 0G, A History of Forgotten Phones! 0G is a limited-run podcast where we look back at how weird and wonderful smartphones were back in the days before iOS and Android took over and your only option became a rectangular slab running one or the other. 0G is hosted by two people who were there: Christie Pitts (now at Backstage Capital), who started her career selling phones at a Verizon store, and Peter Rojas (now at Betaworks Ventures), founder of Gizmodo, Engadget, and...
Episode 2: 2005 - Before the Fyre Festival, Ja Rule was Really Into Phones
February 09, 2019 01:06 - 50 minutes - 91.6 MBWelcome to the Episode 2 of 0G, A History of Forgotten Phones! 0G is a limited-run podcast where we look back at how weird and wonderful smartphones were back in the days before iOS and Android took over and your only option became a rectangular slab running one or the other. 0G is hosted by two people who were there: Christie Pitts (now at Backstage Capital), who started her career selling phones at a Verizon store, and Peter Rojas (now at Betaworks Ventures), founder of Gizmodo, Engadget, ...
Episode 1: 2002-2004 - The Misty Dawn of the Smartphone Era
February 09, 2019 01:05 - 47 minutes - 87.9 MBWelcome to the very first episode of 0G, A History of Forgotten Phones! 0G is a limited-run podcast where we look back at how weird and wonderful smartphones were back in the days before iOS and Android took over and your only option became a rectangular slab running one or the other. 0G is hosted by two people who were there: Christie Pitts (now at Backstage Capital), who started her career selling phones at a Verizon store, and Peter Rojas (now at Betaworks Ventures), founder of Gizmodo, E...