Hosts: David McVay & Josh Philpott
This is the official tech podcast of geekactually.com. The tech show by geeks for geeks and non-geeks. Accessible tech for everyone is the motto we live by. This week on Tech Actually we take a look at two events: The Nokia N8 launch and the October Apple announcement. Josh and I had the opportunity to go to the Nokia event and we have an N8 to talk about. So sit back and enjoy the show. You show links follow:
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This Week
Event 1 – The Nokia N8 Launch
This week Josh and I had the opportunity to to go to the launch event for the new Nokia N8, we have also had the phone to play with for a week, were are our thoughts:
Key Features: 12 megapixel camera, 720p HD video record and playback, Symbian^3, HDMI out, USB to Go, AMOLED screen, Ovi Store
Find out more about the handset here:
http://www.nokia.com.au/find-products/all-phones/nokia-n8
Event 2 – Apple’s Back to the Mac Announcement
Apple holds a small event to announce the new iLife ’11
http://www.apple.com/au/ilife/
Facetime beta for the Mac
http://www.apple.com/au/mac/facetime/
A preview of the App Store for Mac and OS X Lion due in in Summer 2011
http://www.apple.com/au/macosx/lion/
and two new Macbook Airs
http://www.apple.com/au/macbookair/
Apps of the Week
Our pick of the week in iPhone/iPad apps. David picked ‘Tesla Toy’ (for the iPhone/iPad – free) by PDJ and ‘Super Puzzle’ (for iPad) by Mictel for $5.99. Josh picked ‘Good Reader’ (iPad) by Good.iWare Ltd. for $2.49, ‘Private Journal’ (iPad) by Yoobee for free, ‘Puzzle Quest HD’ (iPad) by TransGaming for $5.99 and ‘Cartoon Wars 2’ (iPhone) by Blue GNC for $1.19.
As always this episode carries an explicit tag due to some bad language.
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