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iFixit’s Kyle Wiens flew to London to be one of the first people in the world to buy an iPhone 3G S and then take it apart. iFixit co-founder Luke Soules and I discussed what Kyle found. You can find a step-by-step description with photos of the tear down process here:

iFixit iPhone 3G S Teardown

This podcast is 19 minutes 10 seconds long.

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I updated my iPhone 3G to iPhone OS 3.0 and decided to try out the new Voice Memos app to record a mini-podcast. I apologize for the exceptionally poor sound quality. I didn’t realize that it would be so poor. I have a number of other rude OS 3.0 shocks that I discovered after recording this mini-podcast. Rants to follow later…

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Sony Ericsson has a number of powerful smartphones like the Xperia X1 and W995a Walkman phone. However, we rarely see them in the U.S. because they are not sold through any of the large GSM wireless carriers (AT&T Wireless and T-Mobile USA). I spoke with Sony Electronics’ Product Manager for Unlocked Phone in the U.S., Steve Media, to learn more about these phones. You can see The Sony Ericsson unlocked phones available in the U.S. at the…

SonyStyle USA phone product page

This podcast is 32 minutes and 3 seconds long.

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iFixit.com is famous for its detailed photography and text descriptions of gadget tear downs (mostly Apple products). They were the group, for example, that discovered the 2nd generation iPod had an unused Bluetooth radio in it. They took apart the Palm Pre and its TouchStone induction charger this past weekend. I spoke with its CEO and founder Kyle Wiens to talk about iFixit, their tear downs and their new user contributed tear downs.

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown

This podcast is 26 minutes and 47 seconds long.

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I could find the T-Mobile Hotspot login in the AT&T hotspot splash page in Starbucks the last time I dropped by one with my netbook. However, I noticed that the Seattle’s Best Coffee (owned by Starbucks) shop area in the local Borders Book Store had an actual T-Mobile Hotspot instead of the grandfathered (for another 3+ years) access via AT&T Wireless in actual Starbucks shops. Looking at T-Mobile’s list of hotspots, I see that the wireless service is actually provided by Borders itself and that the Seattle’s Best Coffee shop area benefits from that.

Although I’ve been a vocal critic of the Celio Redfly dumb terminal device for Windows Mobile smartphones (I own the original C8 model), Celio’s Marketing Communications Manager, Colin Kelly Jr., was gracious enough to accept my invitation to talk about Celio’s various Redfly products for this podcast. We discussed a couple of upcoming products too including:

- Redfly Mobile Dock
- Redfly for BlackBerry
- Redfly for Android

The podcast is 40 minutes and 30 seconds long.

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I just found out that one of my long time favorite mobile software development firms has a Twitter account. You can follow Ilium Software at…

@IliumSoftware

Ilium’s Ellen Craw and Marc Tassin were one of the very first podcast guests on the MobileViews Podcast (then called the MobileAppsToday Podcast). You can listen to it using the embedded podcast player above.

I had the opportunity to speak with iHound Software’s VP of Business Development (and one of the firm’s founders) about their iHound for iPhone app that can help you recover a lost or stolen iPhone. The app normally costs $3.99 but is currently on sale in the iTunes App Store for $2.99. Purchasing the app includes 6 months of tracking service via their website. The annual cost for the service is $9.99.

Gary announced on the podcast that they just started providing code to enable other applications to use their service. This means, for example, that if a game is iHound enabled, if someone uses that app on your iPhone, it will broadcast its current position.

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Case-Mate provided a review unit of their iPhone 3G Fuel - Rechargeable Battery Pack. I’ve got a pair of somewhat nit-picky issues with the unit. But, they do not detract from the product’s main purpose: Provide a convenient portable recharging solution.

YouTube video courtesy of demomoblin

I’m pretty happy with Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix. And, I don’t have another spare netbook to test Intel/Novell’s competitor Moblin 2.0 (beta) Linux distro for netbooks. So, I wasn’t planning to take a look at Moblin until I saw this video. It looks pretty interesting. I may have to invest another low-cost netbook to test Moblin. For now, I’m planning to see if it installs as a Guest OS under VirtualBox.

Do you watch TV with a netbook sitting in your lap or on a coffee table? I do. And, so does my daughter. I wonder if the rise of the inexpensive, lightweight and relatively cool-running netbooks (the ones I’ve tried run cooler than anything except my old 12″ Apple iBook) has people returning to the comfort of the coach and TV

Have you noticed that you spend more time watching TV recently because netbooks fit so well in that environment (living room, coffee table, lap)?

Nebur29: FYI After speaking with LiveScribe tech support I learned that I could sync my Pulse pen with multiple computers and platforms (Mac OS X and Windows) without doing anything special. Syncing the pen with Windows Vista, Windows 7 RC and Mac OS X based computers just fine so far. BTW, the LiveScribe inked text are searchable on the LiveScribe Desktop. I must admit it is pretty amazing.

Originally posted as a comment by Todd Ogasawara on mediabistro.com: MobileContentToday using Disqus.