{"id":3759,"date":"2011-09-07T18:32:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T08:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=3759"},"modified":"2011-09-07T18:32:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T08:32:08","slug":"android-4g-tablets-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2011\/09\/android-4g-tablets-imminent\/","title":{"rendered":"Android 4G Tablets Imminent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catching up on my weekly diet of podcasts this morning, I listened to the most recent edition of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twit.tv\/show\/this-week-in-google\/110\">This Week In Google<\/a> &#8211; admittedly an episode that is almost a week old now.<\/p>\n<p>One of the guests was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_DiBona\">Chris DiBona<\/a>, the open source and public sector engineering manager at Google.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of the show, Chris fell off the Skype call &#8211; (apparently due to an internet connectivity failure at Google headquarters) &#8211; and reconnected via his tethered 4G tablet.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, a 4G tablet?<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"450\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td align=\"center\" width=\"450\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AdZRF8Mn_YU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>Clearly they are being used in house at Google, so clearly are not far away from release for public consumption.<\/p>\n<p>The only question now is: are they Google-branded, or are Google just testing some upcoming models from the usual suspects such as Samsung and HTC?<\/p>\n<p>Interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catching up on my weekly diet of podcasts this morning, I listened to the most recent edition of This Week In Google &#8211; admittedly an episode that is almost a week old now. One of the guests was Chris DiBona, the open source and public sector engineering manager at Google. Towards the end of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17,90,259],"class_list":["post-3759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-4g","tag-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}