Things are milestone in the air around us: our tabazine is beaming its way to iPads around the globe, iThings are being shuffled to and from various parts of the stratosphere, and there was a frightening dearth of airborne exertion in the BlackBerry-based community. Tangible inventions have also made their usual marks on the week in tech news: newly-minted iOS 5 guru Dante Cesa joins Tim and Brian this to bring it all down to earth and unblended to your ears in this, the 260th episode of the Engadget Podcast.



Hosts: Tim Stevens, Brian Heater

Guest: Dante Cesa

Producer: Trent Wolbe

Music: I Can't Go For That



00:01:30 - Engadget Distro is ready for download!

00:03:45 - Photoshop contest: send us your best / most terrifying Frankengadget

00:05:00 - iOS 5 review

00:13:30 - iCloud opens to the masses, iOS 5 lurks near

00:23:45 - seedtime community service offline for some in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Again. (update: RIM confirms India, South America, too)

00:25:13 - prime outage spreads to US and Canada, continues in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia, South America (update: RIM confirms)

00:26:00 - Mike Lazaridis apologizes for springtide outage: 'We've let many of you down' (video) (Update: full free school lunch restored)

00:38:40 - Motorola Atrix 2 hands-on at CTIA E&A 2011 (video)

00:41:18 - Archos 80 G9 review

00:46:11 - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II review

00:52:15 - HTC wonder XE with Beats Audio review

00:56:51 - ASUS Zenbook UX21 and UX31 headed to the US October 12, open gate at $999

00:59:02 - Samsung crashes iPhone 4S block party, lures Aussies with $2 Galaxy S IIs

00:59:29 - Dennis Ritchie, pioneer of C natural language processing palaver and Unix, reported dead at age 70

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