Amazon’s Kindle Scribe, printer problems, and earbuds on a bike

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Today on the flagship podcast of hardcopy peripherals: 02:27 - David Pierce and Alex Cranz chat with Dave Limp, SVP of devices and services at Amazon. Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is an E Ink tablet for reading and writing 24:04 - David also tries to answer a listener question about why it feels like printers haven't improved in years. Best Printer Buying Guide (Consumer Reports) 39:55 - Lastly, Becca Farsace tests out which earbuds sound the best when calling from a bike ride. Bose QuietComfort Earbuds II review: noise cancellation domination Apple AirPods Pro (second-gen) review: same look, better everything else Google Pixel Buds Pro review: the sweet sound of redemption Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we'd love to hear from you. We are conducting a short audience survey to help plan for our future and hear from you. To participate, head to vox.com/podsurvey, and thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of Hardcopy peripherals.
0:08.6	I'm your friend David Pierce and well I'm not doing anything interesting today because
0:13.0	it's been raining for like a week and there's nowhere to go and so all I do now is sit
0:17.6	here and try to get my hands on an iPhone 14 Pro Max.
0:21.6	The phrase not available today at 12 nearest stores is starting to drive me truly, truly
0:27.1	insane.
0:28.1	Every day I check, every day it's not available.
0:30.7	Anyway fun show coming up today.
0:32.3	We're going to talk a bunch more about the Kindle scribe including with the executive
0:36.1	in charge of it at Amazon and we're going to try to see where it fits into the broader
0:40.8	e-ink tablet market.
0:42.4	We're also going to dig into the printer industry and try to figure out why it feels like
0:46.1	printers haven't changed or improved in decades and then we're going to put Apple's new
0:51.6	AirPods Pro and some other new models up to our brutal earbuds microphone test.
0:56.8	All that's coming in just a second but first I'm going to see if I can get a phone in
1:00.2	like Indiana.
1:01.9	Wish me luck.
1:02.9	This is the Verge Gas.
1:03.9	See you in a second.
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