Nexus Smartwatches, Brexit Price Increases, and Apple manufacturing shakedowns? | Pocketnow Weekly 208

Is Google working on a Nexus smartwatch? Brexit is already causing tech prices to climb in the UK! Can Apple maintain high profit margins in an increasingly competitive industry? These stories, plus we’ll be tackling your questions and comments, and get ready to vote for your favorite Pocketnow photog! Make sure you’re charged and ready for episode 208 of the Pocketnow Weekly!Watch the video broadcast from 2:00pm Eastern on July 7th (click

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BlackBerry Black Friday deals don’t include Priv

The plague of recently-released devices means that those devices will most likely skip out on the whole “dealdom” of Black Friday. Hey, these companies have blessed us consumers with new wares and we’re apparently going to like them ...

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Legere says Blackberry “on a comeback” as T-Mobile works on Priv deal

Brett Dennen isn’t the only one that loves a comeback. John McCain isn’t the only Comeback Kid. And it took a comeback for Apple to be in the elephant position it’s been in for several years now. BlackBerry CEO John Chen believes the company can pull a Justin Timberlake and bring sexy back. Now we know that T-Mobile CEO John Legere believes so, too. How? Like in this lede, through word association.Seriously, a word association game. Who knew those things could be so telling?For example, ...

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BlackBerry first impressions from a first-time BlackBerry user

I have a confession to make. I’m a technology writer, and I’ve never carried a BlackBerry. Ever. There are a lot of reasons for this. By the time I got heavily into the mobile tech scene, BlackBerry had its bags packed and was waiting for a cab. That’s the prime reason. When I started with Pocketnow, The Z10 and Q10 were launched within a few weeks. I wanted to get my hands on one, but it wasn’t in the cards. That is no longer the case. So these days, I’m toting the BlackBerry Classic, which is appropriate in many ways. And I wanted to give you my BlackBerry first impressions, as ...

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BlackBerry Classic review: the very best of yesterday (Video)

Openly carrying a BlackBerry in 2015 is an invitation to be interrupted. You’re bound to be asked by some well-meaning friend or nosey stranger, “is that a BlackBerry? Do people still use those?” And while the answer to both questions is an unqualified yes, the more interesting question (to me) is “what’s that like?” Thanks to the fine folks at GSM Nation and US Mobile, I had the opportunity to spend a couple weeks finding out. The result is the BlackBerry Classic review video below.During my time with the BlackBerry Classic, I took pages and pages of notes over several ...

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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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