OnePlus One mini, BlackBerry Classic, Windows Phone ups & downs | Pocketnow Weekly 127

Updated with links to the high-quality version of the podcast (both to stream and download it), as well as timecodes to let you jump through the podcast. As always, thanks for listening, and we’ll see you right here next week!“Bring us alternate topics,” you said. And boy oh boy, have the waning days of December delivered.On today’s podcast, we’re joined by Daniel Bader of MobileSyrup for a firsthand account of the BlackBerry Classic launch and an acoustic retelling of MobileSyrup’s BlackBerry Classic review, told as only a true Canadian can tell it. ...

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Octagonal Androids, luxury smartwatches and SO MUCH MAIL | Pocketnow Weekly 124 (Hangout)

Updated with the HQ audio version of the podcast (download and streaming links) as well as timecodes so you can navigate the whirlwind that is our podcast with ease. As always, thanks for listening, and see you next week!An octagonal Android smartphone, a lawsuit over the term “Milk,” and a phone camera that flips up like a deranged pancake. Oh, and luxury smartwatches. (Luxury smartwatch faces, anyway. Illegal ones. Or something.) Companies have waited until the end of the year to spring all the nonsense on us, it seems – and we’re lapping it up like the grateful tech ...

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Nokia N1, Samsung Gear S, Gorilla Glass 4 and more! | Pocketnow Weekly 123

Updated with links to stream and download the high-quality audio version of the podcast, as well as timecodes for all the stories mentioned. We hope you enjoyed – see you next week!Is Nokia’s new tablet just an iPad ripoff – or just what Android needs? Will Gorilla Glass 4 finally stop you from shattering your smartphone? And is the Gear S a good enough smartwatch to make the dumbphone obsolete? These are the pressing questions on the docket this week as the mobile industry prepares to end a wild year on a weird note, and we’re gonna tackle them one by one in the ...

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Sweeter Android, musical YouTube, Microsoft-ier Lumia | Pocketnow Weekly 122

Updated with high-quality download and streaming links, as well as timecodes. We’ll see you next week!Android gets sweeter, YouTube gets more musical, and Lumia gets more Microsoft. Those are the headlines this week in tech news and views (backed up by a lot of crazy happenings from Samsung, LG, Sharp and more) and by sheer force of will, we’re going to try covering them in 90 minutes or less on the fanciest podcast this side of Tuxedo Alley.Joining us this week to help with that monumental task is Joshua Vergara of Android Authority, a veteran of our live recording session ...

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Android Lollipop imminent, new Nexuses nearing, no more Nokia | Pocketnow Weekly 119

Update: The Weekly 119 is now available in super-HQ audio form – your ears will thank you if you download or stream from one of the links below. See you next week!As one brand gets a supersized juice-up, another goes a little quicker to the retirement home – and the rest undulate in uncertain undertakings from the sensational to the soporific.So it goes in mobile as in any other field, and we’re here to cover it in the brief lull between reviews at Pocketnow’s Boston offices! In between talk of the Lollipop-flavored new Nexii and the sandblasting of Nokia logos from ...

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