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Engadget Podcast 189 - 03.27.2010

Josh and Paul use the Engadget Podcast as a platform for coping with Nilay’s deportation earlier this week. Grab a box of tissues and click the PLAY button.

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Producer: Trent Wolbe
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02:45 - HTC EVO 4G is Sprint’s Android-powered knight in superphone armor, we go hands-on
21:00 - MetroPCS bringing LTE to Las Vegas this year, Samsung doing infrastructure and first LTE handset: the SCH-r900
21:15 - Verizon talks commercial LTE deployment details: data devices first, smartphones in ‘1H 2011′
21:38 - AT&T says Verizon’s first LTE phone is ‘going to be a fat brick’
25:55 - Samsung announces Galaxy S Android smartphone
27:00 - Samsung Galaxy S hands-on with video
28:05 - Samsung’s Galaxy S has four times the polygon power of Snapdragon
30:52 - Dell Aero is ‘the lightest’ Android phone yet, poses for pictures
31:38 - Nintendo announces 3DS — the glasses-free 3D successor to the DS
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