The Verge Mobile Podcast 020 - 03.20.2012

Every twentieth podcast, each Verge Podcast District must choose one Podcaster to send to The Verge Podcasting Arena in New York City to podcast to death against his fellow Podcasters. In this way, Podcasters are reminded of the brutal genocide Joshua Topolsky brought against the Podcasts many moons ago as punishment for breaking a critical series of nondisclosure agreements. Fortunately, Chris, Dieter and Vlad are all Career Podcasters, bringing the Verge Mobile Podcasting District a glimmer of hope that their Podcaster might return to the Podcast in the coming weeks bruised, but not felled, by the Vergecast's chosen Podcaster. May the odds be forever in Mobile's favor.

Song: El Remolón - Riki Tiki (ZZK Records)

• 00:02:30 - Ultra-thin Samsung Galaxy S III mock-up shows up on Reddit
• 00:17:06 - Will Samsung's Galaxy S III come standard with wireless charging?
• 00:18:18 - Galaxy S III to have quad-core Exynos SoC with built-in LTE?
• 00:30:48 - Verizon doubling LTE markets to 400 by year's end
• 00:31:15 - Sprint 'exercises its right' to end LightSquared agreement for LTE, $65m returned
• 00:32:00 - LightSquared won't say die on LTE, demands reversal or spectrum from the FCC
• 00:35:43 - Sprint CEO Dan Hesse: beset on all sides
• 00:38:50 - Sprint push-to-talk app coming to select Android devices
• 00:49:05 - Ofcom approves Orange and T-Mobile plan to launch LTE in UK this year
• 00:53:45 - Canada looks to bolster mobile competition with 700MHz spectrum auction and more foreign investment
• 01:07:10 - Without ads, Android apps could be more than twice as power-efficient
• 01:18:55 - Beats buys MOG music streaming service