Featuring John Shiple of Startup Army and Kevin Marks, the VP of the British Telecom, and of ribbit and TummelVision, formerly of Google.

The co-hosts included Ashley Esqueda, Dave Buchanan and Lane Montgomery from The Android App Show and The iPad Show.

The big news this week included the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, the HTC Legend and more.

The app of the week was Qik. Mark had some fun doing a quick video stream of the studio. Qik allows you to live stream video from your phone.

Kevin Marks talked about ribbit, something he is working on, that allows “virtual telephony”, which allows you to use your phone on other networks. Dave and Lane discussed the possibilities of  Netflix Instant Streaming on Android and more.

News:

• Sony Ericsson turned down the opportunity to produce the Google Nexus One phone.
• AT&T will begin selling its first Android device, the Motorola BACKFLIP, March 7th.
• The panel discussed whether Google was oversaturating the market with its OS.
• AT&T has banded together with other networks including Orange and Telefonica to create a Apple App Store rival. Dave and Lane thought that this move would be a headache for all.
• 60,000 Android based handsets are shipping daily.
• A new Google Goggles feature was showed that allows using OCR and Translate, to take a picture of text in another language, and translate the text into English.
• Flash has announced a Flash version and Air for Android. Mark thought that it could be the solution to coding different versions of an application for different platforms.
• Microsoft announced a mobile OS, Windows Phone 7, that was well received. Ashley thought that if the integration with Xbox Live worked well, it would be amazing.
• The HTC Legend was announced. Everyone on the panel loved the new optical trackpad, and that HTC brought back the lip on the phone.
• A new eBook application for Android was announced, made by PacketVideo partnered with millmo. It is set to arrive in the Japanese market in spring 2010.
• Layar anounced a move that would allow developers to monetize their work. By selling developer made “layers” inside of the application, developers can earn money. Layar puts a layer of information over the camera viewer on your phone.

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