Pocketnow Weekly 146: Microsoft Build, Apple Watch, Xperia Z3+?

For those of you with more refined entertainment tastes, you know what I’m talking about. You go to the theater, the usher shows you your seats, you open your playbill and find a hastily enclosed slip of paper saying “The part of Michael Fisher tonight will be played by understudy, Adam Doud”. You go through a range of emotions – anger, confusion, curiosity??? And then quickly back to anger.

Michael will return next week, but seeing as how this is the first in 145 weeks that he was not able to host the show, he wanted to leave it in the most reliable and experienced hands he knew. They didn’t answer the phone, so he called me.

All jokes aside, LG has a new phone. If you haven’t listened to the last podcast yet, Michael and company spent the better part of an hour on the high seas discussing this very topic. But there was more happening around the tech scene, from a mass of movement at Microsoft Build, Siri getting brain surgery and Sony's flow and ebb. Google Now also gets a rush of new blood and apparently, Jaime Rivera is all amped up about Tag Heuer's new Android Wear watch.

We'll dig into all that and more on episode 146 of the Pocketnow Weekly right here! Our video Hangout was recorded at 6pm on April 30 (click here for your local time). You can also check out the high-quality audio version available below! Shoot your questions to podcast [AT] pocketnow [DOT] com for a shot at getting your question read aloud on the air. See you next week!

Pocketnow Weekly 146Recording Date

April 30, 2015

Hosts

Adam Doud

Stephen Schenck

Hayato Huseman

Producer

Jules Wang

Podcast Rundown

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News

(00:05:33)

Microsoft Build

Windows 10 will support Android, iOS app codebases

Project Spartan becomes Microsoft Edge browser

Microsoft Continuum brings enhanced phone-to-desktop experience

Microsoft HoloLens returns, lets you pin apps to walls

Microsoft going cross-platform with Office add-ins

Apple

Apple Watch might not be so nice on the iPhone’s battery

Apple Watch taptic engine fault slows down roll-out process

Siri gets investment with a new back-end

Android

Sony may ship fewer phones / Xperia Z4 might get known as Z3+ globally / Imaging division profits off of other phones' sales

Note 5 picks up code name, new GS6 variant likely

Galaxy S6 reportedly on overkill when managing its RAM

Google Now support spreads to additional apps

Tag Heuer’s Android Wear smartwatch is shaping up to be awesome

Listener Mail

(00:56:47)

E-mailed submissions from Tim Kujat, Greg Vogt and Paul Stevenson.

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Thanks for watching. See you next week!

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For those of you with more refined entertainment tastes, you know what I’m talking about. You go to the theater, the usher shows you your seats, you open your playbill and find a hastily enclosed slip of paper saying “The part of Michael Fisher tonight will be played by understudy, Adam Doud”. You go through a range of emotions – anger, confusion, curiosity??? And then quickly back to anger.

Michael will return next week, but seeing as how this is the first in 145 weeks that he was not able to host the show, he wanted to leave it in the most reliable and experienced hands he knew. They didn’t answer the phone, so he called me.

All jokes aside, LG has a new phone. If you haven’t listened to the last podcast yet, Michael and company spent the better part of an hour on the high seas discussing this very topic. But there was more happening around the tech scene, from a mass of movement at Microsoft Build, Siri getting brain surgery and Sony's flow and ebb. Google Now also gets a rush of new blood and apparently, Jaime Rivera is all amped up about Tag Heuer's new Android Wear watch.

We'll dig into all that and more on episode 146 of the Pocketnow Weekly right here! Our video Hangout was recorded at 6pm on April 30 (click here for your local time). You can also check out the high-quality audio version available below! Shoot your questions to podcast [AT] pocketnow [DOT] com for a shot at getting your question read aloud on the air. See you next week!

 

Pocketnow Weekly 146Recording Date

April 30, 2015

 

Hosts

Adam Doud

Stephen Schenck

Hayato Huseman

 

Producer

Jules Wang

 

Podcast Rundown

 

Sponsor

(00:03:56)

Challenge yourself to learn something new with a free 10-day trial to lynda.com! It’s is used by millions of people around the world and has over 3,000 courses on topics like web development, photography, visual design and business, as well as software training like Excel, WordPress, and Photoshop.  All of their courses are taught by experts and new courses are added to the site every week.  Whether you want to invest in a new hobby, ask your boss for a raise, find a new job or improve upon your current job skills in 2015; lynda.com has something for everyone!

 

News

(00:05:33)
 

Microsoft Build

Windows 10 will support Android, iOS app codebases

Project Spartan becomes Microsoft Edge browser

Microsoft Continuum brings enhanced phone-to-desktop experience

Microsoft HoloLens returns, lets you pin apps to walls

Microsoft going cross-platform with Office add-ins

Apple

Apple Watch might not be so nice on the iPhone’s battery

Apple Watch taptic engine fault slows down roll-out process

Siri gets investment with a new back-end

Android

Sony may ship fewer phones / Xperia Z4 might get known as Z3+ globally / Imaging division profits off of other phones' sales

Note 5 picks up code name, new GS6 variant likely

Galaxy S6 reportedly on overkill when managing its RAM

Google Now support spreads to additional apps

Tag Heuer’s Android Wear smartwatch is shaping up to be awesome

 

Listener Mail

(00:56:47)

E-mailed submissions from Tim Kujat, Greg Vogt and Paul Stevenson.

•

Thanks for watching. See you next week!

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.