Show Notes for Sunday October 9th, 2011

What’s on our Radar
Movies – Footloose, The Thing, The Big Year
DVDs – Green Lantern, Horrible Bosses, Zookeeper
TV – Last Man Standing
Music – Tomorrow’s World – Erasure, Biophilia – Bjork, New Blood – Peter Gabriel
Games – Forza Motorsport 4, Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, Dead Rising 2: Off the Record,

iPhone 4S
This Is Why the iPhone’s Screen Will Always Be 3.5 Inches [IPhone]
Gruber’s Thoughts on Let’s Talk iPhone
Pre-sales of ‘disappointing’ iPhone 4S fail to disappoint
AT&T announces record 200,000 iPhone 4S pre-orders in first 12 hours
Apple sells out of iPhone 4S for Oct 14th delivery, now quoting 1-2 weeks
Unlocked iPhone 4S coming in November, won’t work with CDMA
Apple reportedly working with AT&T to display ‘4G’ in status bar
Sprint Will Have Unlimited Data for iPhone 4S [Sprint]
Don’t panic, AT&T iPhone 4S buyers: You can keep unlimited data
Sprint converts its network to LTE, plans ‘aggressive rollout’ to be completed by 2013
7th-gen iPod nano teardown reveals new Apple processor, SanDisk flash
Mac OS X Lion and iTunes to get iCloud updates ahead of iOS
GSM Nexus Prime passes through the FCC, possibly heading to AT&T?
Google, Samsung postpone phone launch event out of respect for Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs’ Funeral Today, No Public Memorial Event Planned
Sony Pictures Acquiring Rights to a Movie About Steve Jobs

Show Notes for Monday October 3rd, 2011

Let’s Talk iPhone Event

Sales of Apple’s Mac OS X 10.7 Lion top 6M, 80% more than Snow Leopard
iPod Nano Updated, Price Reduced
iPod touch Now Comes In White, 8GB Model Now $199
Apple: iPod Touch Is the Most Popular Portable Game Player in the World [Blip]
iCloud arrives Oct. 12, includes Find My Friends
Family and Friends allows location sharing with other iPhone users
iTunes Match arriving “late October”
Apple’s Launches 2 New Apps: “Find My Friends” and “Cards”
Apple Introduces iPhone 4S with A5 Chip, Faster Graphics, Siri Voice Assistant
Siri Voice Recognition Arrives On the iPhone 4S
iPhone 4S Includes Significant Antenna Upgrades
Apple’s site suggests unlocked iPhone 4S will be available
Apple unveils dock to micro USB adapter to comply with EU standards
AirPlay Mirroring coming to iPhone 4S, not just for iPads

Show Notes for Monday October 3rd, 2011

Let’s Talk iPhone Predictions

Tech
HTC Flyer drops to $300 at Best Buy in sign of shakeout
Amazon interested in buying Palm
Kindle Fire pre-orders reach 95,000 units on day one, market research firm says
Showtime launches Anytime streaming portal, social iPad app
Facebook Timeline: Important privacy settings to adjust now
Facebook Now Scans All External Links to Keep Grandma Safe From Porn (and Viruses) [Facebook]
Move over, Apple! Google goes retail with the ‘Chrome Zone’

Games
Dead Island ‘Bloodbath Arena’ DLC launch held up by work on main game
Gotham City Impostors beta starts October 5
Achievements reveal playable Nightwing in Batman: Arkham City
Xbox 360 ‘New Dashboard’ captured on video, Kinect and all

iPhone/iOS Stories
Apple to Offer iPhone 3GS Free on Contract?
‘iPhone 4S’ 16GB, 32GB, 64GB Listings at Vodafone Germany
An A5 Powered iPhone Will Have Much Faster Graphics Performance (Benchmarks)
Apple Outs “iPhone 4S” Name in Latest iTunes Beta
Apple Removes iPod Click Wheel Games from iTunes
‘iPhone 5’ Silicone Sleeves Already Arriving at AT&T Retail Stores
‘iPhone 5’ to Support 21 Mbps HSPA+ ‘4G’ Technology
iPhone 4 users begin selling back old units
iPhone 5 appears temporarily on Cincinnati Bell website (Updated)
Sprint scores iPhone 5 exclusive thanks to $20 billion deal with Apple?
Teardrop Skepticism
Ticonderoga: Aluminum iPhone 5 is happening, launch to ‘shatter’ sales records
Hong Kong Apple Store’s ‘Express’ counter going worldwide?
Rumor: Apple considering an app rental program for the iPhone
AT&T confirms iPhone insurance hike on October 4th

Show Notes for Sunday October 2, 2011

Carl is here visiting and talking comics.  Please check out his blog at <a href=”http://itsmecarl123.blogspot.com” target=”_blank”>http://itsmecarl123.blogspot.com</a>.

What’s on our Radar
Movies —The Ides of March, Real Steel, 1911, Human Centipede 2, Blackthorn, Hell and Back Again
DVD—Lion King “Diamond Edition” and Beauty and the Beast on BR, Pulp Fiction on Blue Ray, Jackie Brown on Blue Ray, Scream 4, Fast Five
Games—Rage, Dark Souls, Spiderman: Edge of Time
TV – Dexter, Homeland, Breaking Bad, Treme
Comics – Action Comics #2, Batwing #2, Detective Comics #2, Green Arrow #2, Hawk and Dove #2, , Justice League International #2, Batman the Long Halloween

Comic Chat

Show Notes for Wednesday September 28, 2011

Samsung copies Apple
iPhone 5 could lure more than half of BlackBerry owners
If Apple retires iPod classic and shuffle, rest of line will shine
Cable Providers Mull Switch To A La Carte Subscriptions

Kindle Fire
Kindle touch, Kindle 2011
Amazon Just Won The Android Tablet Wars With The $199 Kindle Fire
Amazon Kindle (2011) impressions
Is a 10-inch Kindle Fire coming? Amazon says ‘stay tuned’
Amazon unveils $200 Kindle Fire tablet; $99 Kindle touch eReader, $79 Kindle
Everything You Need to Know About the New Kindles [Amazon]
Amazon estimated to lose $50 per Kindle Fire sold
Amazon Fire does email, already beats RIM