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This Week in Android #6 with Barb Dybwad & Drew Olanoff

Episode #6 with Barb Dybwad

Featuring Barb Dybwad of Mashable and Drew Olanoff of TextPlus.

The big news this week included new app store statistics, and an interesting statistic discussed later in this post.

The app of the week was TextPlus. Drew Olanoff talked about the application. On the app, you can text for free and have group conversations. If someone responds, the rest of the group receives the message. You can find Drew on Twitter here.

The panel discussed the security of Android. Mark had talked to someone who said that her Hero was rooted by a rogue app that started creating havoc on her Android device. In addition, Nooks, which run Android, are apparently easily rooted. Barb talked about how she liked out of her Nexus One, iPhone and Droid, her Nexus One that she got at TED the most. She also discussed the appeal of e-readers and more.

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  • http://www.twitter.com/_mark _mark

    TextPlus is cool for old school. But it’s a flash in the pan. Everyone will use Buzz Eventually.

  • DISAFAN

    I tried to download the latest episode of your podcast in video to see if I would like it. The size of the file is 1.1GB. Could you post a slightly more reasonably sized video file? I don’t have a bandwidth cap, but…

  • Will

    I subscribe to the audio only podcast (http://www.twiandroid.com?feed=rss2), and the episode sounds terrible. It is not my DROID because all of my other podcasts sound fine. The only way I can explain it is that it sounds like everyone is about to Cylon (TWiT reference)

    Will you be producing a corrected mp3? I like the show and don’t want to miss an episode, but this makes my head hurt trying to listen to it.

  • Will

    Seems like the issue may be on my device…Anyone else have any problems?

    Using DoggCatcher (1.1.1180)
    Motorola DROID (Running DroidMod 1.0)

  • Joseph

    Good episode, subscribed & will listen every week.

    Audio for this episode is terrible, robotic sound coming from the left speaker in my headset.

  • Joseph S. Grace

    I’m also having problems finding a feed for Google Listen on my Nexus 1. Apparently the feed I was using isn’t the straight-up podcast feed, and didn’t download the latest episode.

    It would be much easier to listen if a straight-up podcast feed was created, or could somebody point me in the right direction if 1 already exists.

  • http://www.reddroid.com Carlos Cardona

    My name is Carlos Cardona. I am a junior developer at Red Droid Software. We love the show and listen live every week. You guys/gals have a good stage presence and I can see this show growing into something great.

    Currently our 20 apps have over 1 million downloads and we have an app (10001 cocktails) that is in the top 100 free apps in the marketplace. Last year our head developer Wayne McFadden was in the Google developer sandbox at Google I/O.

    We work with all areas of the Android API and have been developing for android since version 0.9. Our blog is http://www.reddroid.com/blog

    Is it possible to arrange to be a call in guest on the show?

  • Mark

    Audio Only feed is here: feed://www.twiandroid.com/?feed=podcast&format=audio-only

    Can people explain the bad audio sound? Is it consistent throughout? At a certain time? The file I have linked right now sounds great to me? Is it happening after download? Any info will help!

  • Lurifax

    I also have problem with the audio quality. (HTC Magic)
    It is some kind of robotic echoing that is consistent throughout.
    It occurs both during streaming Acast and after download using Acast and default Media.

    However, I couldn’t hear the distortion when i transfered the mp3 to my computer and listened with winamp.

    I’m also curious about the file size 168MB for 70 min, as opposed to f. e. TWiG that is 32MB for 70 min.

    I’m looking forward listening to the show and I hope you manage to sort out the audio issues.