Our publication has a wishlist (of sorts) for 2018 — because if it's for Christmas, you're trying way too hard. Will the mobile technology scene conform to our desires? Check out the trends we're looking at.
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Our readers made them the biggest stories. What exactly were they? Pocketnow reviews the articles and topics that had people talking.
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Pocketnow has covered a lot of ground in smartphones this year and a lot of that coverage came onto our video side. Which ones were the most popular? Time to take a look back.
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How well do the members of the Pocketnow team know one another? In this season of giving, what gifts would they send each other?
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LG Mobile is holding an event at the New York Film Festival at the Lincoln Center on Friday, October 13. You can be a part of it!
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It’s nighttime in America and it’s Friday to boot. We should be out on the streets painting the town red. But instead, we’re sitting down, cracking a few cans open and talking with our best mates about a new Mate.
As Huawei takes over the scene for the week with a couple of luminescent phones, Evan Blass and Alcatel remind us that Windows can be a fun platform if it tried. Will it try? We may come up with an answer or we may just pass onto the unrelenting carrier wars, flip phones for modernity, Kickstarters, Indiegogos and a kick in the pants for us to go go GO!
It’s the weekend and this is episode 225 of the Pocketnow Weekly.
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November 4, 2016
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Following on from the Huawei P9, the Mate 9 makes its debut in Munich, Germany. Our Juan Carlos Bagnell was there to handle the Leica-endorsed, dual-camera goods — particularly with that fancy schmancy €1,400 Porsche Design version — while Jaime Rivera and Adam Z. Lein put some light onto the Huawei Fit tracker.
26:26 | This Windows phone is more than just a concept
32:09 | The Alcatel Idol 4s with Windows 10: where it’s at and where it won’t be
35:37 | Where’s Microsoft at with Windows 10 Mobile?
42:44 | Lenovo Phab 2 Pro finally makes it to the dance floor
51:52 | ZTE flips a phone here, Samsung flips a phone there
57:59 | Apple dongles dangle for a discount as a jungle protests
1:05:37 | Blood on the water between T-Mo and Verizon
1:14:39 | We completely speculate that Foxconn and Sharp are moving to the US
1:19:07 | Maybe Xiaomi is coming here, too?
1:23:08 | Crowdfunding Corner: 360° video-recording glasses and an eye-tracking VR headset
1:33:35 | Mobile beats desktop internet usage for first time ever
Yep. That’s a Southwest Airlines attendant. Dressed as a Galaxy Note 7.
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This was a big show. Rolling 360° video bots roamed the crowded grounds of Barcelona. Windows had a blitz of new products and they all didn’t come from Microsoft. Alcatel loses its (One)Touch while Sony puts the Xperia Z line to snooze. Oh yeah, there are those two big phones we’re talking about in the headline. You read it, didn’t you? Or have you been hiding under a rock from the rumor surge leading up to the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S7 and the LG G5.Well, whatever the case, ...
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This was a big show. Rolling 360° video bots roamed the crowded grounds of Barcelona. Windows had a blitz of new products and they all didn’t come from Microsoft. Alcatel loses its (One)Touch while Sony puts the Xperia Z line to snooze. Oh yeah, there are those two big phones we’re talking about in the headline. You read it, didn’t you? Or have you been hiding under a rock from the rumor surge leading up to the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S7 and the LG G5.Well, whatever the case, ...
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I remember one day back in 2007 when Brandon Miniman wrote me and said: “Hey, there’s this new thing called YouTube that we should consider, and I already uploaded a video of my HTC Tilt unboxing.” Back then, Pocketnow’s main focus was to be a Review machine, and our original idea was to have YouTube videos serve as an added value to differentiate our reviews.We had a very humble start. None of us were video producers, show hosts, and we had no clue on how to properly edit a video. I ...
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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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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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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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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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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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For all its limitations, Instagram appears poised to remain an unstoppable force in social media. As of last month, the Facebook-owned service boasts over 16 billion photos shared, a brand new video-sharing feature that’s spanking the competition, and over 130 million monthly active users. Well, make that 130 million and one. Because we’ve just joined the Instagram universe under the venerable (if predictable) title: “Pocketnow.” Now, many Pocketnow team members also have personal Instagram accounts which many of you already follow – and we thank you for that. ...
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