{"id":4193,"date":"2021-10-10T11:22:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T21:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=4193"},"modified":"2021-10-10T11:22:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T21:22:43","slug":"mobileviews-podcast-378-guest-frank-mcpherson-windows-ce-25th-anniversary-airpod-4a400-firmware-update-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/10\/mobileviews-podcast-378-guest-frank-mcpherson-windows-ce-25th-anniversary-airpod-4a400-firmware-update-more\/","title":{"rendered":"MobileViews Podcast 378: Guest Frank McPherson; Windows CE 25th anniversary; AirPod 4A400 firmware update &#038; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MobileViews Podcast 378: Guest-Frank McPherson. Looking back at 25 years of Windows CE\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=efsia-10ff22d-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1&#038;font-color=auto&#038;btn-skin=7\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/wp_201506_03-218x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/wp_201506_03-218x300.jpeg 218w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/wp_201506_03.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><br \/>\nJon Westfall and I are joined by frequent guest panelist Frank McPherson to reflect on Microsoft Windows CE&#8217;s 25th anniversary and Microsoft mobile journey over the decades.<\/p>\n<p>We also discussed:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>My <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/dp\/B09BN47YHV\">$48 Bluetooth earbuds<\/a> have two features my Air Pods Pro do not: (1) Over the ear &#8220;hooks&#8221; so they don&#8217;t fall out when walking and (2) a digital display on the charging case that shows the battery charge level for each earbud. It seems like a decent product so far. However, despite having &#8220;noise cancellation&#8221; in the product name, it does not have such a feature.<\/li>\n<li>New this week: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/10\/06\/airpods-pro-conversation-boost\/\">Apple pushes out AirPods firmware, enables \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Conversation Boost\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a> &#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Apple says Conversation Boost is designed to help people with mild hearing challenges stay more connected in conversations. The feature uses the AirPods Pro&#8217;s beam-forming microphones to boost the volume of a person talking in front of you, making it easier to listen to a face-to-face conversation, and there is also an option to reduce ambient noise.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8211; How much longer until commercial BT headphones replace $$$ hearing aids? &#8212; Firware Version 4A400<\/li>\n<li>Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/ios-15-tips-and-tricks\/\">MacRumors has a massive iOS 15 tips\/tricks document<\/a> &#8211; some things I forgot about &#8211; drag and drop support greatly improved, square calendar widget (Month view!), iOS password manager now supports 2 factor codes, AR walking mode directions (would be great for cities), background sounds (e.g., rain, other ambient sounds to help improve concentration).\n<p>And something I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t realize you could do &#8211; when sending a photo in messages, you can search by month\/year. Really helps when you know you had a picture you took last March that you want to send someone now.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Available via <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/listen?u=0&#038;gclid=COid8dLi6s0CFQrQfgodJ_8CsA&#038;gclsrc=ds#\/ps\/Ioaoswyblmdonyb42jg6stsl6om\">Google Music Podcasts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/mobileviews.com-podcast\/id301171904?mt=2\">Apple iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Westfall and I are joined by frequent guest panelist Frank McPherson to reflect on Microsoft Windows CE&#8217;s 25th anniversary and Microsoft mobile journey over the decades. We also discussed: My $48 Bluetooth earbuds have two features my Air Pods Pro do not: (1) Over the ear &#8220;hooks&#8221; so they don&#8217;t fall out when walking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,126,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-podcast","category-windows-mobile"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-15D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4195,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions\/4195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}