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

Posted on by Michael Fisher

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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Octagonal Android boasts 80GB storage for under $400

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

How often do we find ourselves complaining about how all smartphones look the same these days? That far too many are cookie-cutter copies of an uninspiring design? And won’t someone come to rescue us from this chain of phone after phone with the same basic look? Well, at lease one German manufacturer has its eyes on smartphones that deviate from the pack, and this week Linshof shares some info about its i8 Android, a handset with some solid hardware, a nice price, and an eye-catching look.With its clipped corners, the Linshof i8 finds itself rocking

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