Yer A Wizard, Niantic! | #PNWeekly 278 (LIVE at 3p ET)

A new roving AR game for Harry Potter fans is coming around next year! Plus, more controversy around the Pixel 2 XL and iPhone X on this week's show!

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Saygus tweetstorms on the V2’s Snapdragon 801 and an unreliable ODM

Saygus had the uberphone of 2015 at CES — both at last year’s show and this year’s.After a two-month lapse in tweets, Saygus confirmed its CES 2016 projection that shipping will begin within Q1 — another setback from internal sentiment as a February shipping target didn’t account for Chinese factories taking off for the upcoming new year. The Utah-based manufacturer hopes to show off version 3 of its PCB for

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Saygus reveals pre-order pricing and some early-adopter bonuses for V2 Android

The Saygus V2 emerged as one of the surprise hits of CES 2015, interesting because of its solid hardware and the presence of dual microSD expansion slots, which when coupled with the phone’s own 64GB internal storage, and a pair of 128GB microSD cards, outfits the phone with an impressive 320GB of data capacity. In the time since, Saygus had begun taking pre-registration for the smartphone in advance of full-on pre-orders, ...

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Saygus lets us know when to expect V2 pre-orders to kick off

Weeks ago, an interesting new “superphone” crossed our news desk, claiming to put to shame competitors with a spec sheet that can only be described as stunning. At the time, it seemed as though it were a bit of a pipe dream, but when we went hands-on with it at CES 2015 we started warming up to the idea of the phone becoming a reality. Now that reality is almost here, with Saygus V2 pre-orders set to kick off soon.The details we’ve received directly from ...

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How would you use a 320GB smartphone?

We live in a world where everything is available “on the cloud”. We have more online storage options that I can count. Streaming radio is not only so widespread, the majority of online radio stations even stream for free on the T-Mobile “uncarrier” network. Netflix, Hulu, YouTube and others offer streaming video with HD resolutions, even up to 4K.We have LTE that provides data speeds in the dozens of Mbps, HSPA+ picks up the slack when we wander outside of LTE coverage, and we’re almost always within range of someone’s WiFi bubble.Even with all those ...

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Saygus V2 superphone: hands-on (Video)

“My god, it’s full of gigabytes!” This past year, we’ve seen smartphones reach for higher and higher storage capacities. We’re not talking just the open door that is microSD expansion, either, but the launch of phones that skip 16GB options altogether, as well as even higher capacities coming to models like the 128GB iPhone 6. But at CES 2015 in Las Vegas, Saygus has managed to put nearly everyone else to shame, announcing the V2 (that’s V-squared), its Android ...

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