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Nexus Special #66: Apple September Event 2019

Wed, 11 Sep 2019 07:40:17 GMT

News:

00:02:37 | Apple Arcade

$4.99/month
September 19

00:05:06 | Apple TV+

$4.99/month
1 year free with the purchase of a new device (iPhone, iPad, whatever!)
November 1st

00:07:23 | 7th Generation iPad

10.2” Retina Display
A10 Fusion (iPhone 7 - 2017 era)
Smart connector
Still has TouchID and a top/bottom bezel
100% recycled aluminum
$329
Comparison of iPads

00:10:27 | Apple Watch

Three new health studies
- Apple Hearing Study
- Apple Women’s Health Study
- Apple Heart & Movement Study
Series 5
- Always-On Retina display
  - LTPO (low temperature and oxide display)
  - 60 Hz to 1Hz
  - New display driver, ambient light sensor
- Compass
  - Heading in Maps
  - Compass app
    - Elevation
    - Heading
  - Compass complication
- International emergency calling (cellular models)
- 100% recycled aluminum
- Aluminum, stainless steel, Ceramic, and a new Titanium option
- New Hermes bands
- Start at $399, cellular for $499
- Available today
Series 3 for $199

00:21:17 | iPhone 11

Specs
More colors!
6.1” display (like the XR)
Spatial audio and Dolby Atmos
New wide camera
New ultra wide camera (120º)
Semantic rendering for lighting subjects
Next gen SmartHDR
- Multi-scale tone mapping
High key mono portrait mode filter
Night mode
- Comes on automatically
- Adaptive bracketing, fusing multiple frames together
4K60 on both cameras with extended dynamic range
Tap and hold the shutter button to take a video
36% better True Tone flash
New camera app
- SFCamera font
New front camera
- 12MP TrueDepth camera
- 4K30 with XDR
- 4K60
- Slow-mo “Slofies”
A13 Bionic
- Fastest CPU in a smartphone ever
- Fastest GPU in a smartphone ever
1 hour better battery life than iPhone XR
Faster FaceID
Wi-Fi 6
Water resistant 2m up to 30 minutes
$699 - September 20

iPhone 11 Pro/Pro Max

Specs
New colors
- Midnight green
- Space Gray
- Silver
- Gold
6.5” and 5.8”
New OLED panel - Super Retina XDR Display
- 2,000,000:1
- 1200 nits
- 15% more energy efficient
- Display P3
- Spacial sound - Dolby Atmos
- No 3D Touch
A13 Bionic
- New machine learning accelerators in CPU - 6x faster for matrix multiplication
- 1 trillion operations per second
- Machine Learning Controller
- 8.5 billion transistors
- Most efficient chip yet
- Hundreds of voltage domains
- Thousands of clock domains
- CPU/GPU/Neural Engine up to 20% faster and up to 40% lower power
Cameras
- Wide, Ultra Wide, Telephoto
- 4x optical zoom range
- Coming this fall, Deep Fusion
  - Nine images before taking the shutter button
  - One longer exposure photo
  - Neural Engine generated photo
  - ”Computational photography mad science” - Phil Schiller
- New editing features in the Photos app
Faster cellular
Stronger glass
U1 chip
- Tweet about chip
- The Verge on U1 Chip
Better battery life - 11 Pro lasts 4 hours longer than XS
Faster FaceID and from wider angles
$999/$1099 - September 20

iPhone XR at $599

iPhone 8 at $449 / $549 based on size

00:52:31 | Retail

Apple Watch Experience
- Pair bands and cases together
Trade in your old phone as credit towards a new one
Apple 5th Avenue reopens September 20

iOS 13 available September 19

iOS 13.1 available September 30

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Nexus Special #65: WWDC 2019

Wed, 05 Jun 2019 00:44:27 GMT

Mac Pro Introducing the new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR — Apple - YouTube

GORGEOUS 😍
Stainless steel space frame
Latticed aluminum housing

Design inspired by nature. The lattice pattern on Mac Pro is based on a naturally occurring phenomenon in molecular crystal structures. A network of three-dimensional interlocking hemispheres, it increases the surface area, optimizing airflow and structural rigidity.

Up to 28 cores
Runs continuously at maximum load
Up to 1.5 TB RAM via 12 DIMM slots (6 channels of 2933MHz (2666MHz for 8-core) ECC DDR4)
8 PCIe slots
MPX
- Mac Pro Expansion module
- Two GPUs each
- Up to 12 4K displays or 6 Pro Display XDRs with the Radeon Pro Vega II Duo

A second connector. An industry first. The MPX Module starts with an industry-standard PCI Express connector. Then, for the first time in a graphics card, additional PCIe lanes were created to integrate Thunderbolt and provide increased capability. With up to 500 watts, the MPX Module has power capacity equivalent to that of the entire previous-generation Mac Pro.

Afterburner
- ProRes and ProRes RAW
T2
Up to 4TB SSD
1.4 KW PSU
Three large fans and a blower fan near the memory to eliminate fans on individual components
Optional wheels
- 39.7 lbs.
Fall 2019

Pro Display XDR

Latticed aluminum, acts as a heatsink
20 million pixels
6K
P3
576 blue LEDs for dynamic backlight
1,000,000:1 contrast ratio
1000 nits full-screen sustained
1600 nits peak (when less than 25ºC)
Better off axis contrast
$999 stand 😂
Justin Searls on Twitter: "Just realized that Apple announced a $6K 6K monitor."

Memojis enhancements Memoji Makeup Tutorial — Patrick Starrr and Desi Perkins — Apple - YouTube

Eyeshadow
Lipstick
Piercings
Teeth (feat. Mini Grill)
Earings
Hats
Glasses
AirPods

tvOS

XBox One X and DualShock 4 controller support
New screensavers

watchOS

New watch faces
- Decibel levels
- Cellular strength
- Chance of rain
- Tap or chime on the hour, hold two fingers on the watch face to hear the time read aloud
“What song is this?” - Siri and Shazam
Previews of web results from a question to Siri
App Store on the Apple Watch
Audiobooks
Calculator
Voice Memos
Redesigned Reminders
Animoji or Memoji stickers
Activity Trends
- Walking pace
- Flights climbed
- VO2 max
- Exercise, Move, Stand Minutes, Stand, Distance
- 90 and 365 day averages
Cycle tracking
- Flow
- Symptoms such as headaches or cramps
- Cycle length or variation
- Fertile window (Apple notes that this should not be used for birth control)
Hearing health
New native UI framework
Developer things
- Independent apps
- Sign In with Apple
- Streaming audio
- Extended runtime
- Access to Neural Engine/Core ML
Apple Watch Series 1 or newer

iOS

Dark mode
Photos and Camera
- Portrait Lighting Control
- High-Key Mono
- New Photos Tab (curated view of best moments from the day/month/year)
- Redesigned editing
- Video editing (rotate, crop, auto-enhance)
Maps
- New Map that shows details around you (beaches, buildings, roads, parks, and more)
- Apple’s Street View
- Favorites
- Collections
Siri
- New voice
- More conversational with Shortcuts
- Can learn voices of family members on HomePod
- Announce messages on AirPods - read the messages
  - Also, pair two sets of AirPods to one iPhone
- Play media from named apps and add media to your library or playlist
Messages
- See Memoji section above
- Memoji are automatically added to a sticker pack and can be used in Messages, Mail, and third-party apps
- Share your name and photo
QuickPath typing
- Swipe in the stock Apple keyboard
Reminders
- Smart lists
- Siri suggestions for Reminders
- Quick toolbar
Sign In with Apple
- Every app that supports multi-provider SSO needs to support this, per app review/docs
New location controls
- Allow Location once
HomeKit
- HomeKit Secure Video
- Linux IoT HomeKit support?
CarPlay
- New CarPlay dashboard
- New Calendar app
- Apple Music app shows album artwork
Performance
- Faster unlock
  - FaceID unlocks up to 30% faster than iOS12
- Faster app launch
  - Up to 2x faster
  - Smaller download size
    - Installs up to 50% smaller
    - Updates up to 60% smaller
Apple Arcade
Voice Control
- Introducing Voice Control on Mac and iOS — Apple - YouTube
Text formatting tools in Mail
New and improved Notes app
- Gallery view
- Improved search
- Checklist option
More personalized Health app
- Cycle tracking
Improved start page in Safari
Files app
- External drives
- Servers
Font management
Handoff to HomePod
Developer things
- Add heat, weather, and buildings to maps
- Portrait segmentation API
- Location API changes
- Sign In with Apple
- Enterprise identity
- Core ML 3
- Siri follow-up questions, shortcut customization, and audio content playback
- Siri reservation support (reminders to check in, provide directions in Maps, add to Calendar, etc.)
- ARKit 3
  - OCCLUSION: this is the first step toward realistic-seeming AR
  - Conclusion? No occlusion. Taking people into account is fine, but that’s just one class of problem, and AR environments won’t be truly immersive until we make objects that can “hide behind” more real-world objects than just people
iPhone SE/6s or newer

iPadOS

Hello new name! (Will iPhoneOS come back?)

Multiple apps in Slide Over
Apps in multiple spaces
App Exposé
New homescreen
- Pinned widgets
Apple Pencil tool palette
Full-Page markup
Sidecar in macOS Catalina
Copy, paste, and undo with gestures (three finger expand, pinch, and swipe left, respectfully)
Cursor navigation
Multiselect
Intelligent text selection
Floating keyboard
More keyboard shortcuts
Files
- Multicolumn view!
- iCloud Drive folder sharing
- File servers
- External drives
Safari
- Desktop version of Safari (user agent??)
- Download manager to Downloads folder in Files
iPad Air 2, iPad mini 4, iPad (5th gen), or iPad Pro and newer

macOS Apple shares its vision for macOS 10.15 Catalina: Cross-platform apps are key | Ars Technica

macOS Catalina
iTunes is broken out into a bunch of apps

- iOS device syncing moved to Finder
- Music, Podcasts, and Apple TV are now separate apps
Project Catalyst (formerly known as Marzipan)
- Translating iPad apps (which already need to know autolayout, presumably) into macOS apps
- Music, Podcasts, and Apple TV are all implied Catalyst apps
SwiftUI: React Native and Flutter-like stuff
- SwiftUI | Apple Developer Documentation
- Lookit these beautiful tutorials Apple Developer Documentation
- This pulls in some of the best lessons from web frameworks like React while building apps that are truly native code
- Brandon digs it
Sidecar: sherlocking Luna and Duet Display
- If you’ve got Apple Pencil and a compatible iPad, you can use your pencil as a Wacom pen pad!

Reality Composer
Screen Time for the Mac (ew)
Catalina will run on a r/o system volume
- What does this imply about upgrades?
DriverKit: wrapper/replacement for kexts
Activation Lock for macOS
Approve with Apple Watch
Voice Control
Third-party file providers in finder (like iOS!)
Find My: replacement for Find My Mac/iPhone/Friends

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Nexus Special #64: Google I/O 2019

Tue, 07 May 2019 21:58:28 GMT

Episode summary

00:00 | Intro
03:09 | Podcast Indexing
05:17 | 3D AR Models in Knowledge Graph
06:18 | Google Lens
10:12 | Duplex on the Web
11:11 | Comprehensive voice commands on mobile
13:26 | Personal References
15:27 | Privacy and control over personal data
19:45 | Highlighting accessibility
24:45 | Pixel 3a
35:00 | Android 10 Q
48:10 | Stadia was absent
50:43 | Final Thoughts
51:49 | Outro

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Nexus Special #63: New Year's Eve 2018

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 13:14:08 GMT

Episode Summary

00:00:00 | Intro

00:01:56 | General

00:17:23 | Google

00:22:51 | Microsoft

00:30:31 | Apple

Mac mini — The Arrival — Apple - YouTube

00:34:21 | Phones

00:41:07 | Cellular networks

Second Opinion #13: Project Fi Review › The Nexus

00:47:52 | Space

00:55:51 | State of The Nexus

Robots Will Steal Your Job › Episode Archive › The Nexus

01:09:41 | Outro

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Nexus Special #62: Apple October Event 2018

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 23:35:41 GMT

Another month, another Apple event! Apple Events - Keynote October 2018 - Apple

New hardware

01:40 | MacBook Air

2 Thunderbolt 3
TouchID
13” Retina Display (no P3 color gamut)
No TouchBar
100% recycled aluminum
8GB RAM by default; up to 16
T2
Processor: 1.6GHz dual-core 8th-generation Intel Core i5
- An interesting note: previous versions of MacBook Airs had i7 options in BTO configs, but this standardization on i5 seems okay for the product
Thoughts:
- How odd, to have the MacBook and MacBook Air be different things The MacBook is by default, $1299 $1599 The MacBook Air is now by default $1199 $1399
- I’d have to look more into technical differences, but it seems like a timing things and a market bet that maybe didn’t pan out?

12:51 | Mac mini

- 5x faster than old one
  - 4 core i3
  - 6 core i5
  - 6 core i7
    - It’s configurable i7 8700 Intel® Core™ i7-8700 Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.60 GHz) Product Specifications
- Up to 64GB of RAM; 8 by default
Looks like user-replaceable RAM?
T2
- New Mac mini packs a huge punch - Apple
100% recycled aluminum

19:01 | iPad Pro

iPad Pro — Change — Apple - YouTube
New form factor!
- Uniform bezels
- No home button
- 2mm thinner than previous models
- Comes with a camera bump
- Another sizing change...?
- Instead the 10.5’’ model again, it’s now an 11’’ model
  - Bringing the models to 10.5, 11’’ and 12.9’
  - An interesting note, is the 11’’ model does not have a 4:3 aspect ratio’
A12X
- more powerful than 92% of available laptops on the market
- 1000x graphics improvements from the first iPad
- Same graphics performance as the Xbox One S, but 94% smaller
No more TouchID
Comes with FaceID... with No Notch!
Lost the headphone jack...
Comes with a USB-C port...!
- External display, up to 5K
- Can charge your iPhone
Apple Pencil 2
102 magnets!
100% recycled aluminum

35:28 | Other

MacBook Pros
- Available with Vega M discrete GPUs on November 14
Notably missing
- New iMacs 😭
iOS 12.1, watchOS 5.1, audioOS 5.1, tvOS 12.1, and macOS 10.14.1 out today
- New emoji
- Group FaceTime
- Bugfixes 🐛
- eSIM/dual SIM

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Nexus Special #61: Made by Google 2018

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 08:38:48 GMT

Episode Summary

00:00:00 | Intro

00:00:54 | Pixel 3

00:33:01 | Home Hub

Google Home Hub - Smart Home Controller - Google Store

00:42:03 | Pixel Slate

Google Pixel Slate, Tablet with Google Assistant - Google Store

00:55:11 | Chromecast 3

Chromecast - 3rd Generation - Google Store

00:57:55 | Final Thoughts

01:01:01 | Outro

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Nexus Special #60: Apple September Event 2018

Thu, 13 Sep 2018 05:12:09 GMT

Outline

00:00 | Intro

01:57 | Apple Watch Series 4

$399 base model, $499 base model with cellular
The watch bands from the past are compatible
The watch bands from the future are compatible with older models as well
The sizes increased
- 40mm/44mm
- Smaller bezel
- Thinner
- Rounded corners of the screen
Some watch faces have full color backgrounds because they look good now
Health
- Fall detection
- Low heart rate detection (to add to high heart rate detection)
- ECG monitor
  - First over the counter
  - FDA approved
  - US only for now?
New sensor module on the bottom
- It looks really cool HAL9000
- Symmetric now
Digital Crown ticks/scroll feedback
Microphone moved to the other side
S4 SoC
- It’s faster than ever
- Cool
- Up to 2x faster
Louder speaker
Better cellular reception with the case allowing more signals in and out

iPhones

12:19 | iPhone X🅂

Starting at $999 at 64GB for X🅂 and $1099 X🅂 Max
- The larger model is cheaper than I thought it would be
- Storage bumps are $150 still, but it’s not terrible
New chip: A12 Bionic
- It’s 2 powerful core - 4 efficient chips
- 4ish cores for the GPU, which is faster too
- It’s 7nm, for what it’s worth
Cameras
- Each phone has the same camera module, so there’s no camera differentiation
- Smart HDR
  - It’s supposed to be similar to how the Pixel processes images, we’ll see it in the field soon enough
- Dynamic bokeh, you can change the aperture after you take a photo
- IP68 (maximum depth of 2 meters up to 30 minutes)

24:02 | iPhone X🅁

Starting at $750 at 64GB
Lots of colors; Product(RED) out the door
LCD screen as expected
No 3D Touch
Single camera
IP67

30:13 | Entire iPhone Lineup

iPhone 8/8+ and 7/7+ remain in the lineup
- Price updates are
  - $449 for iPhone 7; $569 for iPhone 7 Plus
  - $599 for iPhone 8, $699 for iPhone 8 Plus
    - Reasonable pricing all around for these old models
    - My dream of having only a single phone shape to design for going forward was shattered; but it’s the Tim Cook way (and the price umbrella)
There’s a neat new iPhone Comparison page
Compare the footprints
No iPhone SE for those that like smaller phones
- Speaking of which, the iPhone SE looks like it has been removed from the Apple website broadly
  - This means the iPhone 7 is the smallest currently offered iPhone; will we see the SE2 at the next event for fun? Or in Spring?
No new iPads or Macs today
AirPower mysteriously removed

What are you buying?

Brian: thinking about iPhone X🅂 Max
Ryan: Grandpa might need an X🅁

How was this keynote overall?

45:44 | Connect With The Nexus

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Nexus Special #59: WWDC 2018

Mon, 04 Jun 2018 21:07:03 GMT

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Music New Land by ALBIS

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Nexus Special #58: Google I/O 2018

Wed, 09 May 2018 10:37:30 GMT

Episode Summary

00:00:00 | Intro

Google I/O'18: Google Keynote - YouTube

00:04:22 | AI

00:06:55 | Android P

Android Beta Program

00:32:13 | Google Assistant

00:49:49 | Google Photos

00:53:48 | Google News Revamp

01:01:27 | Material Theme

Homepage - Material Design

01:03:54 | Google Maps

01:12:30 | Google Lens

01:14:35 | Waymo

01:18:41 | Omissions

01:20:00 | Outro

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Attributions

- I/O 2018 by Terra Monk | Free Listening on SoundCloud
- Raw by Kevin MacLeod

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Nexus Special #57: New Year's Eve 2017

Sun, 07 Jan 2018 14:03:07 GMT

Episode Summary

00:00:00 | Intro

00:00:30 | News

Net Neutrality defeated again
- The Extra Dimension #22: Net Neutrality › The Nexus
Apple relents to Pros, tells us that they will make a new Mac Pro, eventually
Android apps on Chromebooks
Blockchain being used in many unconventional areas
- Turkeys
Bitcoin!
Amazon-Google feud coming to a head
Amazon buys Whole Foods
CyanogenMod became LineageOS
Project Treble in Android 8 has the potential to radically improve the update cycle of third-party devices, and make it much easier to create custom ROMs
- Second Opinion #30: Android 8.0 Oreo Review › The Nexus
Android Go
That Eclipse
- Nexus Special #54: Solar Eclipse 2017 › The Nexus
ARKit, ARCore
Apple admits that it lowers the clock speed on phones that have older batteries to avoid having them shut down under heavy load
- A Message to Our Customers - Apple
KRACK Attack
- PodKit #33: Prototypical Fun Stuff › The Nexus

00:58:52 | Products

Ryzen
- First major release from AMD since the let down of Bulldozer years ago, and the price + performance specs really shine through the lineup, and it drove reactions from Intel
- Hold The Light Still | Control Structure #127 - YouTube
Nintendo Switch
- It’s cool and fun
- It’s amazing how well Nintendo treats its fans and customers…
- Second Opinion #27: Nintendo Switch Review › The Nexus
Xbox One X & PS4 Pro
- They are bumps in performance, I guess.
Samsung Galaxy S8
- Likely the best all around phone of the year
- Second Opinion #24: Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus Review › The Nexus
Google Pixel 2/2 XL
- Best Android photos from these phones...
- The worst screen available in a premium flagship product of the year in the larger model
- Second Opinion #31: Pixel 2 Review › The Nexus
iPhone X
- The best looking iPhone
- Big week, Notch?
- Second Opinion #33: iPhone X Review › The Nexus
Apple Watch Series 3
- Second Opinion #28: Apple Watch Series 3 Review › The Nexus
Apple TV 4K
iMac Pro
- Highest end model is $14,000, entry level $5000, probably a good deal for that performance + screen
iPad Pro 10.5”
- 144 Hz display
- It’s nice, but another iPad, nothing really to write home about
New Google Homes
- A cheaper and almost just as capable product
- A mess of early hardware difficulties, but definitely swept under the rug by now
- Google Assistant on third-party smart speakers
More Amazon Echo things
- Look: a thing for fashion, I guess
- Show: a boxy echo with a huge screen, fairly large price for not much additional functionality
- Spot: a smaller screen echo, could be useful, but limited to the Amazon
- Various refreshes
Tesla Model 3
AirPods (late December 2016)
- Praise the AirPods
- Second Opinion #15: AirPods Review › The Nexus

01:45:58 | State of the Nexus

First full year of episodes being on YouTube
- The Nexus - YouTube
- Some shows (Second Opinion) do well because their metadata is searchable and have broader appeal
- The rate of converting first-time listeners who stumbled across a review into subscribers has been incredibly low
- Shows like PodKit and Control Structure that pull titles from something funny said in the episode are much less searchable
- Should You Be Publishing Your Podcast on YouTube? – Ian R Buck – Medium
The Extra Dimension and Second Opinion have consistent schedules now, which has done wonders for download numbers
The Extra Dimension is broadcast on Frogtown Community Radio, which is exciting!
- frogtownradio
Putting in timestamps for each segment of the episodes
- Difficult to know how many listeners get utility out of it
- Useful for putting YouTube ad breaks and radio reads in reasonable places
Future
- CMSv3
- Enthusiastic About Everything
- Robots Will Steal Your Job audiobook
- Short promotionals to put at the ends of episodes
- More crossovers/teamups with other podcasters

02:13:42 | Outro

02:15:08 | Post-Show

Nexus Special #56: Made by Google Event 2017

Thu, 05 Oct 2017 22:00:24 GMT

Products Announced

00:03:04 | Google Home New Features

Call with your phone number, even if you’re not a Fi subscriber or Google Voice user
Command it to ring your Android phone
More options for routines
Allowing it to more naturally accept commands, like “warm up the living room” because it knows what the current settings are
Broadcast a message to all Google Home devices in the house
Family Link account support (those accounts for kids under 13)
- Partnering with Disney and other kid-focused companies to provide content

00:06:31 | Google Home Mini

$50
Almost all fabric
Chalk color alone took 157 tries to get right

00:08:41 | Google Home Max

$400
Big, rectangular Home
Best speakers yet
They love that bass
Smart sound: adjusts audio based on its environment. Hi, HomePod!
- Learns over time: low volume in the morning, loud when the dishwasher is going
Bluetooth and aux input supported as well
Comes with 12 months of YouTube Red free

00:12:47 | Nest

Reminded us about their new products
Integrated with other Google products
- Nest cam can send its feed to Chromecast
- Nest hello can announce through Google Home who is at the door

00:14:17 | Pixelbook

Starts at $1000
10 mm
1kg
12.3” screen
10 hours battery
15 minute charging gives 2 hours
Instant tethering - can immediately choose your phone as your wifi
Google Assistant built in - first laptop
- Dedicated button
Pixel Pen
- $100
- Circle things on screen, Assistant pulls up information about them
Google Play
- Working with Snapchat to make a version for the larger screen

00:24:31 | Pixel 2 & Pixel 2 XL

Pixel 2
- $650 for 64GB
- $750 for 128GB
- Kinda blue (Verizon exclusive,) just black, clearly white
- Manufactured by HTC
- 5” 1920x1080 screen
- 2,700mAh battery
- Dimensions: 145.7mm x 69.7mm x 7.8mm
Pixel 2 XL
- $850 for 64GB
- $950 for 128GB
- Manufactured by LG
- 6” 2880x1440 screen
- Slightly curved display
- Goes right up to the sides
- 3,520mAh battery
- Dimensions: 157.9mm x 76.7mm x 7.9mm
Both
- Feature parity
- Aluminum back
- IP67
- 7 hours charge from 15 minutes
- Always on display
  - Shows what information?
  - Identifies song that is playing
- Launcher
  - Google search is now at the bottom
- Squeeze the phone to get to Google Assistant
  - Thanks, HTC!
  - Not remappable
- Dual front-facing speakers
- They DIDN’T talk about the missing headphone jack
- They didn’t talk about the missing wireless charging
- Assistant has customizable routines, such as “Let’s go home”
- Google Lens
  - Google Goggles, rebranded and integrated into many other apps
- ARCore
  - “All the fun, no LEGO pieces to step on”
  - AR stickers, exclusive to Pixel
- DXOMark score of 98 (up from 89)
- Motion Photos. Like Live Photos.
- Free Google Home Mini if you buy a Pixel 2 soon!

00:59:58 | New Daydream Viewer

Better lenses
Blocks out more light
Strap on top

01:00:36 | Google Pixel Buds

$160
Wireless earbuds
When you pair with a Pixel, you get access to Google Assistant
Real-time Google translate

01:04:18 | Google Clips

Camera that you set somewhere, and it takes photos for you
Designed with pet owners and parents in mind

01:07:09 | Moto X4

Not technically part of this event, but important for Project Fi
Android One version of X4 is the first non-Google (ie Pixel or Nexus) phone available on Project Fi
$400, which is incredibly important because without it Project Fi would be a network with only flagship-priced phones available
Trading in a Nexus 5X or 6P by October 5th would get you $50 Fi credit, on top of the normal trade-in value
- If you have a Nexus 5X, this is a great deal because your 5X could die at any moment

Nexus Special #55: Apple September 2017 Event

Wed, 13 Sep 2017 05:24:37 GMT

Keynote: Apple Events - Keynote September 2017 - Apple Short keynote: Watch Apple’s iPhone X event in 15 minutes - The Verge

00:01:18 | New Venue

Steve Jobs Theater
Apple Park
- 100% renewable energy

00:03:00 | Retail

Today at Apple

00:04:36 | Apple Watch Series 3

Number one watch in the world
LTE radio
- Cheesy demo
- 40 million songs on your wrist
Barometric altimeter
70% more CPU performance
Siri can talk! 👋
W2
- Up to 85% faster Wi-Fi
- 50% more efficient Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi (8 GB $329) and cellular models (16 GB $399)
Case is same size
Back crystal 0.25 mm thicker
New Sport Loop Band
September 22

00:10:28 | Apple TV 4K

4K
HDR
A10X Fusion
White circle on the menu button of the Siri Remote
Drops USB-C and gains gigabit ethernet
$179
September 22

00:13:17 | iPhone 8/iPhone 8 Plus

A11 Bionic
- 64-bit
- 4.3 billion transistors
- Two performance cores
  - 25% faster than A10
- Four high-efficiency cores
  - 70% faster than A10
- Second generation performance controller
  - 70% faster multithreaded workloads
- Glass and aluminum design
- Retina HD display with True Tone
- Super fast iPhone X leaked benchmarks match MacBook speeds and destroy Android

- Apple designed GPU
- Bluetooth 5
- Wireless charging
  - Qi standard
- Better stereo speakers
  - Louder
  - More bass
- Camera
  - 12 MP
  - Larger and faster sensors
  - New color filter
  - Deeper pixels
  - ƒ/1.8 and ƒ/2.8 (telephoto on iPhone 8 Plus) apertures
  - Dual OIS (iPhone 8 Plus)
  - 2x better uniformity on quad-tone LED flash
  - Slow sync flash
  - Tuned for AR
  - Apple designed ISP
  - Apple designed video encoder
  - 4K 60fps/1080p 240fps
  - Portrait lighting (iPhone 8 Plus)
- 64 GB/256 GB
- Starts at $699
- September 22

00:31:16 | iPhone X

Glass and stainless steel
Super Retina display
- 5.8”
- 2436x1125 @ 458 ppi @3x
- OLED Dom Esposito on Twitter: "iPhone X's OLED panel = 625 nits Note 8 AMOLED panel = 1,200 nits S8 AMOLED panel = 1,000 nits Just in case you're curious"
- HDR
  - Dolby Vision
  - HDR10
- True Tone
- 3D Touch
- 1,000,000 to 1 contrast
No home button
- Swipe up from bottom to go home
- Swipe up and hold to go to multitasking
  - Swipe on the bottom to go forward and back in apps
- Hold side button for Siri
- Done button for editing home screen
Notch
Larger side button
Face ID
- Face authentication
- TrueDepth Camera System
  - Infrared camera
  - Flood illuminator
  - Front camera
  - Dot projector (30,000 points)
  - Proximity sensor
  - Ambient light sensor
  - Speaker
  - Microphone
- A11 Bionic neural engine (“Specialized hardware built for a set of machine learning algorithms”)
  - Dual-core design
  - 600 billion operations per second
  - Real-time processing
- Protected by secure enclave
- On-device processing
- Requires user attention to unlock (need to look at the phone)
- Adapts over time
Animoji
- Animated emojis
- Track 50 facial muscle movements
- 12 emojis (smiling pile of poo included)
- Cheesy demo
- Joel Bernstein on Twitter: "I would have bet money on Eddy Cue being the first Apple SVP to cluck like a chicken on stage."
Camera like iPhone 8 Plus
- ƒ/1.8 and ƒ/2.4 (telephoto) apertures
A11 Bionic
Wireless charging
Space gray/silver
64 GB/256 GB
Starts at $999
iPhone X Leather Folio
- Magnetic sensor
- iPhone X Leather Folio - Taupe - Apple
November 3

00:55:35 | AirPower (Apple Juice???)

Wireless charge new iPhones, Apple Watch Series 3, AirPods with wireless charge case

01:00:45 | Recap

Lineup:
- iPhone SE from $349
- iPhone 6s from $449
- iPhone 7 from $549
- iPhone 8 from $699
- iPhone X from $999
iOS 11 on September 19
watchOS 4 on September 19
macOS High Sierra on September 25

Nexus Special #54: Solar Eclipse 2017

Sat, 26 Aug 2017 21:29:26 GMT

Episode Summary

00:00 | Intro

00:51 | Why this eclipse is a big deal

07:14 | Traveling to the eclipse

So, you’re not seeing the eclipse today … | Ars Technica

13:22 | The huge crowds

Eclipse Crowds at the Dwyer Junction Rest Area - YouTube

19:48 | Our pictures

22:50 | Our live reactions to the eclipse

30:46 | Post-eclipse debrief

35:54 | Planning for future eclipses

41:25 | Outro

Attributions

Free Music Archive: Dissolved - The Minor Influence Of A Partial Eclipse

Nexus Special #53: E3 2017

Thu, 15 Jun 2017 09:21:14 GMT

Nexus Special #52: WWDC 2017

Wed, 07 Jun 2017 23:10:40 GMT

Nexus Special #51: Google I/O 2017

Fri, 19 May 2017 17:17:54 GMT

Notes

Google I/O Keynote (Google I/O '17) - YouTube
Google I/O 2017 keynote in 10 minutes - YouTube
01:45 | Google Lens
- So, like Google Goggles?
- So, like, Bixby?
- So, like, Amazon Fire Phone?
04:03 | Google.ai
- Build and train machine learning models on our new Google Cloud TPUs
- Making AI tools available to more people
- Save time with Smart Reply in Gmail
06:48 | Your Google Assistant is getting better across devices, from Google Home to your phone
- Introducing typing support, rather than just talking. Finally.
- Lens integration (think Google Now style)
- Now on iPhone (probably crippled)
- Google Assistant SDK
  - “Google Assistant Built In”
- Italian, Korean, and Spanish later this year
11:30 | Actions on Google
- Supporting transactions: payments, identity, notifications, etc all pulled from your Google account What’s next for Google payment and loyalty experiences
- “I was in control of what I shared every step of the way”
- Supporting smart home devices
13:22 | Google Home
- Coming to new countries: Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Japan
- Proactive assistance, notifications
- Hands free calling on Google Home
  - Any landline or mobile number in NA, for free
  - Uses your actual number, somehow
- Adding a bunch of new music and video services to the Assistant
- Adding Bluetooth support
- Enhanced sharing to screens
  - Better integration with Chromecast by person’s voice
  - Starting actions on the Home, then bringing them to another screen like your phone
21:35 | 500 million people using Google Photos, and three new ways to share
- Suggested sharing - prompts you to send good photos to the people who are in them
- Shared libraries - if there is someone you already share pretty much everything with, Photos can share everything with them automatically
  - Can set it to only share photos of specific people or after a specific date
  - Can set some to go into your main view, others only go into your library.
- Photo Books
  - Literally a physical book
  - You can select a whole bunch of pictures, and Google Photos will suggest the best ones to put in the book.
  - You can tweak the book before checkout, of course.
- Google Lens will be available within Google Photos
27:40 | YouTube
- 360° videos will be watchable on TVs
- Super Chat - live stream viewers can pay to highlight their comment
  - New API allows creators to rig things to happen when viewers use Super Chat
31:53 | Android: celebrating a big milestone together with you
- Picture-in-picture
- Notification Dots
  - App icon on home screen can have a dot on it to indicate that a notification is waiting
- Auto Fill
  - Chrome’s password autofill is coming to Android apps outside Chrome
- Copy+Paste
  - Double-tap on text, and Android guesses what part of the text you want selected.
  - Designed for proper nouns, links, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses
- Keeping you safe with Google Play Protect
  - Making the scans that Play already does more visible to the user
- Play Console Dashboards
  - Tool for Android developers to see what is affecting performance in their app
- Kotlin is now an officially-supported language on Android
- Android Go
  - A version of Android designed for low-memory, limited connectivity devices
  - Many Google apps have been optimized for the situation
    - Eg YouTube Go, which allows you preview stills from a video and choose the video quality before watching.
  - To encourage other developers to do the same, they are highlighting apps that are optimized in the Play Store
51:37 | Standalone VR Headsets The latest on VR and AR at Google I/O
- Working on a reference device with Qualcomm
- HTC, Lenovo are creating headsets
54:10 | Tango More on Daydream, Tango, and Developer tools for VR and AR
- Asus ZenPhone AR coming
- Google Maps will have indoor navigation. “VPS” Visual Positioning System.
58:08 | Google For Jobs
- Shows up in a regular Google Search
- Clusters different terms people use to mean the same thing
- Filters by many criteria
Making AI work for everyone

Attributions

"Wepa" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Nexus Special #50: Nintendo Switch Reveal

Sat, 21 Jan 2017 21:50:11 GMT

Index

00:01:34 | Our personal histories with Nintendo
00:04:24 | Nintendo's history
00:07:44 | Switch Hardware
00:42:38 | Switch Games
00:55:02 | Switch Online Services
01:09:05 | Comparing the Switch to its Competitors

Notes

Hardware
- Switch console
  - 6.2” 1280x720 tablet
  - Has a little kickstand
  - Charges via USB-C (on bottom)
  - 2.5-6.5 hour battery (4310mAh)
  - Capacitive touchscreen
  - Can create ad-hoc networks with other Switches for multiplayer
  - 32GB of storage, expandable via microSD cards (supports up to 2TB, currently 512GB is largest on the market)
  - Unclear whether or not the USB-C port allows you to connect external hard drives
  - Can get games as digital downloads or on cartridge
  - Not backwards compatible with 3DS or Wii U cartridges
  - Processor: unspecified Nvidia Tegra
- Switch dock
  - Plugs into TV via HDMI (supports resolutions up to 1080p)
  - 1 x USB 3.0, 2 x USB 2.0 (not sure if they are USB-A or USB-C)
  - Ethernet
  - An extra one costs $90
- Joy-Con™
  - Grip
  - Left
  - Right
  - Can be clipped onto grip or console, or used independently
  - NFC for Amiibo shit
  - Color options: grey, red, blue
  - Wrist strap attachment
  - Rumble can give you the sense of ice cubes in a glass?
  - Switch supports up to 8 Joy-Con connections at once
  - $80 to get extras ($50 if you just want a left or a right)
  - Charging Grip is $30
- Pro contoller
  - Pretty standard gamepad
  - Doesn’t come with the console, costs $70
- Joy-Con wheels (set of 2) $15

Launch Date: March 3rd
Launch price: $300
There are several events in North America where people can go try out the Switch before launch
GameStop has already sold out of their launch allotment
Online Services
- Stuff for free
  - Nintendo eShop
  - Manage friends
  - Share screenshots
  - Parental Controls app
- Stuff for monthly subscription
  - Online gameplay
  - Online lobby and voice chat app
  - A free NES or SNES title each month. After that month, you have to buy it.
  - Exclusive deals
No region locking
Games
- 1-2 Switch
  - Uses the Joy-Cons™ independently
  - You face your opponent instead of facing a screen
- ARMS
  - How do I even describe
  - Like boxing, but your arms are long springs
  - You use the two Joy-Cons™
- Splatoon 2
  - Summer 2017
  - New weapons
  - In-game events planned after launch
- Super Mario Odyssey
  - He throws his hat now, it boomerangs back
  - Hat has eyes. Is it alive?
  - Sandbox game
  - Mario is no longer in mushroom kingdom
  - Some levels are in a normal, human city. Mario appears to be some sort of hobbit
- Skyrim
- FIFA
- Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  - March 3rd
Games will retail for $60
No bundled games, they wanted to keep the launch price as low as possible

Attributions

Fuelship by Syphus

Nexus Special #49: Apple Event October 2016

Fri, 28 Oct 2016 02:39:29 GMT

News

Apple TV:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/10/apples-new-tv-app-is-its-way-of-simplifying-all-your-streaming-content/
Two prongs
- iOS
- Apple TV
- Where’s the Mac?!
Content providers at launch
- HBO Now
- Showtime
- Hulu
- CBS
- Potentially others (unannounced)

MacBook Pros:

Touch Bar
- https://developer.apple.com/reference/appkit/nstouchbar
- Touch ID
- Dynamically reassigning what displays on the Touch Bar
  - Apps can do this (Brandon’s super excited for the Creative Suite setup)
  - Accessibility
  - https://developer.apple.com/macos/touch-bar/
- Escape “Key”
  - It’s still there!
Tech Specs
- All models
  - Thunderbolt 3
  - Space Gray or Silver
  - RIP backlit Apple logo
  - Thinner
  - Lighter 3lbs for 13”, 4lbs for 15”
  - 500 nits brightness (67% brighter)
  - Wide color gamut (P3)
  - 256GB PCIe-based onboard SSD
  - 8GB of RAM
  - Skylake
  - Speakers
    - Up to 58% more volume
    - Up to 2.5x louder bass
    - 2x dynamic range
  - Massive Force Touch Trackpad
  - New 2nd generation butterfly keyed keyboard
    - 4x more key stability
- Low end 13”
  - 2 Thunderbolt 3
  - 8GB of 1866MHz LPDDR3 onboard memory
  - Intel Iris Graphics 540
  - Two microphones
  - 61W USB-C Power Adapter
  - $1499
- 13”
  - 4 Thunderbolt 3
  - Touch Bar with integrated Touch ID sensor
  - 8GB of 2133MHz LPDDR3 onboard memory
  - Intel Iris Graphics 550
  - Three microphones
  - 61W USB-C Power Adapter
  - $1799
- 15”
  - 4 Thunderbolt 3
  - Touch Bar with integrated Touch ID sensor
  - Up to 2TB SSD
  - 8GB of 2133MHz LPDDR3 onboard memory
  - Intel HD Graphics 530
  - Radeon Pro 450 or 455 with 2GB of GDDR5 memory or Radeon Pro 460 with 4GB of GDDR5 memory and automatic graphics switching https://twitter.com/RyanSmithAT/status/791737906905829376
  - Up to two displays with 5120-by-2880 resolution at 60Hz at over a billion colors
  - Up to four displays with 4096-by-2304 resolution at 60Hz at over a billion colors
  - Three microphones
  - 87W USB-C Power Adapter
  - $2399

Nexus Special #48: Made By Google Event

Mon, 10 Oct 2016 08:05:16 GMT

Nexus Special #47: Apple September Event 2016

Thu, 08 Sep 2016 00:51:26 GMT

Nexus Special #46: WWDC 2016

Mon, 13 Jun 2016 22:19:30 GMT

Nexus Special #45: Google I/O 2016

Sun, 22 May 2016 21:59:01 GMT

Links

Hey, shownote viewer, there is no fringe for this episode. Stay tuned.

Nexus Special #44: Apple Special Spring Event 2016

Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:04:04 GMT

Nexus Special #43: CES 2016

Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:22:17 GMT

Major Keynote News

Notable Topics

Nexus Special #42: New Year's Eve 2015

Tue, 29 Dec 2015 20:29:11 GMT

USB Type C

Google:

Google did a great job fixing bugs between 5.x and 6.x
Nexus 6P and 5X

Buck has one!

Missed the opportunity to introduce splitscreen multitasking to Android.
Finally released Nexus phones with good cameras and decent battery life
Onhub
YouTube Red

Apple:

Apple Watch from April
iPad Pro
MacBook One
3D touch
Apple Music

Gaming:

Steam controller, Steam machines have been released
Double Fine started their own crowdfunding platformFIG
Humble Monthly

Microsoft:

Windows 10
Surface Book
Surface Pro 4

Business:

Yahoo is splitting
BlackBerry Priv
Alphabet

Government:

FCC regulates on net neutrality
FAA regulates on drones
Scary primaries
Black Lives Matter

Media:

Star Wars
The Martian

Nexus Special #41: Google Nexus Event 2015

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 18:32:20 GMT

Nexus Special #40: Apple Fall Event 2015

Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:05:00 GMT

Nexus Special #39: E3 2015

Thu, 18 Jun 2015 23:23:09 GMT

Bethesda

Microsoft

EA

Ubisoft

Ubisoft's E3 press conference in 6 minutes | Polygon

Sony

Nintendo

Nintendo's E3 press event in 4 minutes | Polygon

PC

Nexus Special #38: WWDC 2015

Mon, 08 Jun 2015 23:44:25 GMT

Nexus Special #37: Google I/O 2015

Thu, 28 May 2015 23:31:43 GMT

Nexus Special #36: New Year’s Eve 2014

Thu, 01 Jan 2015 01:26:00 GMT

Technically, it was New Year's Adam, but whatever, nobody is counting. We wish you a very merry new year's. A special thank you, Andrew Bailey (or Baily), Steven Orvis and Matthew Petschl.

Events/conferences

Microsoft/dotnet · GitHub

Hardware releases / failures

Software releases

Big headlines

Upcoming things

Where you can find us

(Remember, it's The Verge's fault. I love you, Merlin.)

Nexus Special #35: Apple October Event

Thu, 16 Oct 2014 19:14:44 GMT

Nexus Special #34: Lollipop, Nexus 6 and 9 Launch

Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:40:44 GMT

Nexus Special #33: Apple September Event 2014

Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:15:48 GMT

Nexus Special #32: IFA 2014

Sun, 07 Sep 2014 20:15:32 GMT

Big week, episode #600!

Samsung

Sony

Lenovo

Lenovo built a ludicrously heavy, 17-inch, touchscreen gaming laptop | The Verge

Toshiba

LG

This is the LG G Watch R | The Verge

HTC

[IFA 2014] HTC Announces The Colorful Mid-Range Desire 820 With A 64-Bit Snapdragon 615 Processor

Microsoft/Nokia

Asus

Motorola

Nexus Special #31: Google I/O 2014

Thu, 26 Jun 2014 00:30:25 GMT

Nexus Special #30: E3 2014

Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:07:13 GMT

Matt briefly appears in this episode.

Microsoft

EA

BioWare E3 Official Trailer - Mass Effect and New Title Update - YouTube

Ubisoft

Sony

Nintendo

Others

Nexus Special #29: WWDC 2014

Tue, 03 Jun 2014 02:19:50 GMT

Nexus Special #28: CES 2014

Sat, 11 Jan 2014 03:10:08 GMT

If you would like to fund live coverage of CES 2015, please, get in touch.

Links

Huge thanks to The Verge for hosting 60 people during CES to bring us such complete coverage.

Nexus Special #27: The Internet Showed Up

Tue, 31 Dec 2013 00:57:52 GMT

Nexus Special #26: Apple iPad Event 2013

Thu, 24 Oct 2013 07:35:58 GMT

Nexus Special #25: Apple iPhone Event 2013

Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:12:13 GMT

Nexus Special #24: The Moto X Event

Thu, 01 Aug 2013 18:09:47 GMT

Nexus Special #23: Breakfast with Sundar

Wed, 24 Jul 2013 23:48:36 GMT

Nexus Special #22: BUILD 2013

Fri, 28 Jun 2013 14:22:52 GMT

Nexus Special #21: E3 2013

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:22:52 GMT

Nexus Special #20: WWDC 2013

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:17:11 GMT

Nexus Special #19: Xbox One Reveal

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:39:04 GMT

Nexus Special #18: Google I/O 2013

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:09:19 GMT

Nexus Special #17: Your Beloved

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:04:49 GMT

Nexus Special #16: The Fifth Quarter

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:45:18 GMT

Ryan Ramepersad and Matthew Petschl discuss the future of the network after having defeated the infamous dash, and review the first quarter of the new year -- huge growth.

Nexus Special #15: CES 2013

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:21:40 GMT

If you would like us to cover CES 2014 live on the ground in Las Vegas, please, get in touch.

Nexus Special #14: Big Year

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 02:57:06 GMT

Please see our complete coverage of technology news, development news, gaming news, science news, special events and incredible banter. Have a great year.

Nexus Special #13: The Google Nexus Event

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:26:46 GMT

Nexus Special #12: The Apple iPhone 5 Event

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 23:16:05 GMT

Nexus Special #11: Start Making Holes

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:53:49 GMT

Nexus Special #10: The Mars Curiosity Rover

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 23:06:22 GMT

Links

You can also jump to 18:00 for our special live recording of our thoughts while Sam and Ryan were listening to NASA TV.

Nexus Special #9: Sam Is Back

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:25:20 GMT

If you would like to listen the conclusion of this episode where we assume the data was irrecoverable, jump to 25:00. But trust us, you'll enjoy this piecemeal episode immensely if you listen all the way through.

Links

If there are links missing from the show notes, let us know!

Editor's Note

We ran QuickTime to queue the video of the trailer from Life of Pi, but it failed to load. I loaded the trailer up via IMDB's Flash player instead, but the computer crashed upon doing so. Upon restarting, the computer was stable, but the Audacity project files were unable to be imported into Audacity possibly due to some corruption -- somewhere. I labored for hours using various hand coded python scripts to come up with the audio in this episode. It is surprisingly pleasant. You should have listened to some of the false positives. Imagine the show, mostly in order but sporadicly jumping between future and past segments of the show.

Nexus Special #8: Did You Get That Deal?

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 23:06:34 GMT

Nexus Special #7: WWDC 2012 Keynote

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 04:25:02 GMT

Ryan and his long-time friend discuss the WWDC 2012 keynote, the new MacBook Airs, MacBook Pros, the impact of the retina display, Mountain Lion and its legacy, Siri and dictation, Power Nap, the lack of 17-inch MacBook Pros, iOS maps, Siri on iPad and more!

Nexus Special #6: E3 Wrap 2012

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:01:27 GMT

Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad discuss this year's lackluster Electronic Entertainment Expo. Sony barely said anything, Nintendo has become a fool and Microsoft? Well, the Xbox 360 is going to steal the show on November 6th, 2012, let's say that.

Nexus Special #5: When The Wind Is Howling

Fri, 11 May 2012 23:06:30 GMT

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl discuss the progress of the network since the first quarter in February and some plans for the summer. Note: If you would like to be a guest or have a show on The Nexus please send us feedback or get in touch.

Nexus Special #4: I'm Not Into Skirting

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 22:57:39 GMT

On Easter eve, Ray and Ryan Rampersad enter the basement and chat about Android's ignorance of the normal, animal travesties, types of cheese, Target's layout, Windows 8, Best Buy's impending doom and possible solutions, brief covers of this week's news and more!

Guests

@raytcg

Links

There are no links for this episode.

Nexus Special #3: The new iPad - I Don't Do Millimeters

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 03:07:30 GMT

On this Nexus Special, Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad discuss the resolutionary new iPad without a revision number. We cover the exciting new hardware: retina display, $G, and a quad-core processor, along with the fantastic new software including iPhoto, GarageBand updates and more. Finally, we discuss the impact and the future of other iDevices and Apple notebooks. This is an all Apple show and it's insanely great.

Nexus Special #2: State Of The Nexus

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:17:22 GMT

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl discuss the progress of the network. We talk about At The Nexus and The Universe and their audience, views, downloads and more. We also mention the studio progress, audio, video concerns and the network comment policy.

Nexus Special #1: Looking Back and Ahead at the Same Time

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:56:18 GMT

This episode summary was written before the launch of The Nexus. Happy New Year, everyone! This is our first special. We're talking about some of the most memorable things that happened in 2011 and a little about what we think will be happening in 2012. We begin by recounting the evolution of Firefox, then we jump to Google's march and their "Don't be Evil" banner. We continue with Microsoft's slow news year and hit on Apple's big story, Steve Jobs' death. All that and more. This episode has no links.