Engadget Mobile Podcast 041 - 06.05.2010
By Trent Wolbe 
posted June 5th 2010 1:30PM
posted June 5th 2010 1:30PM
A disturbingly spiritual edition of the Engadget Mobile Podcast: Our Lord and Savior The HTC EVO 4G's name is invoked at least 3-5 times. That, and other Touchy iTopics like your data plan and how it might become less or more terrible over time.
Host: Chris Ziegler
Special Guests: Sam Sheffer, Richard Lawler
Producer / Special Guest: Trent Wolbe
Music: Daestro - Light Powered (Ghostly International)
01:18 - HTC EVO 4G launch day line watch
09:52 - AT&T makes sweeping changes to data plans, iPhone tethering coming at OS 4 launch
15:45 - T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide review
00:00 - WWDC
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Hey guys,
This podcast isn't in the RSS Feed.
Any chance you could post the mobile podcasts in the RSS Feed like the other engadget podcasts do?
Still not in the MP3 RSS.
Question for Sam Sheffer : Why are you trashing the coverage in New York so much? I live and work there also, and don't have no coverage issue whatsoever. My iPhone is always on 3G.
You made it sound like coverage in NY is the worse.
I have been using about 7-9gbs per month sense I got my hero and now I have a evo I think i will use even more. Thanks to Google listen, last.tm, Sprint tv, and the internet.
Not sure if this is going to get answered, but I'd like to give it a shot.
My father, a longtime Verizon customer, has finally listened to my assertion that Sprint gives us more for less. The problem: he wants Android 2.2, and he's not willing to pay the $10/month extra for the EVO 4G. HTC has said that all devices launched this year will get 2.2, but that includes exactly zero Sprint devices outside of the EVO.
Is there any foreseeable way we can experience 2.2 on Sprint without having to buy an EVO? We're planning on pulling the trigger in November-ish.
- Totally agree with Ucbigmike20. I live in Queens, NY and work in midtown in the heart of Manhattan and I have no 3G signal problems with my 3GS for the 3 years I've been an iPhone user. Where is the intern-dude working. (Think he did a great job on the podcast, tho.)
- Like the Dr. Who-ish intro.
- What happened to Sean Cooper? You're going to lose the Canadian contingent.
The dropped calls with AT&T on the iPhone is not because of 3G being overwhelmed. AT&T claims to that have always been a lie. Voice does NOT run on 3G with AT&T, they are on complete separate networks. I don't know why people keep buying into that with AT&T. But I am concerned with Sprint and possibly their 4G being bottlenecked.
I'm interested in getting an Evo 4G but not having unlimited 3G for data is a killer for me. I take a lot of trips, some being road trips, and some flying. I want 3G tethering as it's more available then 4G. I go over 10's of gigs per month on my Nexus One while tethering. Sprint has a soft cap of 5 gigs per month on their plans while T-Mobile has truly unlimited, but do throttle you. I'd rather be throttled then have overages.
BTW, if 98% of users not affected by AT&Ts new plan still means, 600,000 customers are being affected.
Okay... No mention of why no Sean in the podcasts? Sean, come back Sean! (Ode to "Shane")