LG quits the smartphone business / Sonos Roam review / Apple "Spring Loaded" event preview

The Vergecast

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News, Technology, Tech News

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🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Chris Welch dive into the tech and gadget news from this week — including theories on what will be announced at Apple's spring event next week, LG quitting the smartphone business, and Sonos' next speakers. Further reading: US recommends pause on Johnson & Johnson vaccine use over extremely rare blood clots How the Johnson & Johnson pause could move the needle on vaccine fears For many, COVID-19 vaccines come with a side of side effects How CO2 sensors might help us return to ‘normal’ Airbnb is trying to preemptively cancel post-pandemic bacchanals Celebrate your COVID vaccination with these off-the-wall tchotchkes Expedia launches a new tool to check coronavirus travel restrictions Apple officially announces Spring Loaded event for April 20th New iPad Pro still coming soon but supply could be short, says Bloomberg Apple officially starts letting your iPhone help find lost third-party products Samsung’s Galaxy SmartTag Plus with UWB to track items with AR is out April 16th Logitech officially discontinues its Harmony remotes Apple gets its own button on Roku’s latest remotes Roku announces Express 4K Plus streaming player and rechargeable Voice Remote Pro Roku OS 10 adds instant resume for streaming apps, brings AirPlay 2 to more devices Apple reportedly developing an Apple TV with a built-in camera and speaker LG is quitting the smartphone business LG had a few smartphone hits, but it’ll still be missed LG leaves behind more than a flip phone-shaped hole in our hearts Google announces Pixel 5A 5G by denying rumors it’s canceled TCL aims to build a better budget phone with the 20 Pro 5G TCL’s Fold ‘n Roll concept transforms a 6.87-inch phone into a 10-inch tablet Sony announces the Xperia 1 III and Xperia 5 III with variable telephoto lenses US carriers have thankfully abandoned at least one bad plan for RCS Apple says iMessage on Android ‘will hurt us more than help us’ Sonos Roam review: portable potential Ikea is working with Sonos on a hidden speaker built into art you hang on the wall Spotify’s Car Thing debuts as a limited release for selected US users Amazon announces new Echo Buds with more powerful ANC and better comfort ONEPLUS WATCH REVIEW: BIG, BASIC, AND BORING Microsoft announces Surface Laptop 4 with choice of Intel or AMD processor Can Clubhouse keep the party going? Apple trusts Phobio for its trade-ins, but maybe you should think twice Google is poisoning its reputation with AI researchers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on the VRTCHAS Chris Welch joins us. We talk about next week's Apple event lots of stuff to preview.
0:05.0	LG has quit the phone business. And of course we talk about Chris's sonos room review. That's coming up on the VRTCHAST now.
0:15.0	Hello and welcome to the VRTCHAST, the flagship podcast, Spring.
0:21.0	Which is here.
0:23.0	See what I'm doing, Dealer.
0:25.0	Yeah, that's good. There's a Spring Apple event. It's a little late.
0:28.0	I'm Neil, I'm your friend, Dealer Brown is here.
0:30.0	I'm your friend who refuses to make weed jokes about the Apple event being on 420.
0:35.0	I think you just did.
0:38.0	Chris Welch is here.
0:39.0	Good to be back.
0:40.0	This is great. We got Chris for the whole run today. We got like a classic run, a gadget news to get through, including an Apple event that was just announced.
0:48.0	A bunch of TV news. Dealer has promised to memorialize the LG phone business in some way. But I want to start where we always start, which is COVID.
0:58.0	It's still the biggest story in the world. Although I got my second shot yesterday. Dealer, you got the J&J shot.
1:03.0	Got that last week. Yep. On Wednesday, which was really dumb timing because I meant I was knocked out for the VRTCHAST last week.
1:09.0	Chris, if I've been following your Instagram adventures correctly, you've got two of them.
1:14.0	Yeah. Yep. I got my second one last week. I was down for like 24 hours. But did I wait? It's still worth it.
1:19.0	I was fully exhausted yesterday, although I did not have it as bad as other people. I had Pfizer.
1:25.0	So I heard there was going to be nasty, but it's actually just, I was just a sleepy boy, basically.
1:31.0	That is actually the news in vaccine world is right now that Johnson and Johnson vaccine is paused.
1:39.0	United States are excellent science team Nicole, what's in our health reporter watched that press conference yesterday was a lengthy and detailed explanation of the six cases of blood clots that have been discovered.
1:51.0	It's a very rare clotting side effect. We're watching that very closely. We're also watching. I mean, if you listen to the VRTCHAST, you know, we spend a lot of time thinking about the information ecosystem.
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