LG pulls a Samsung, screens get touchy-feely, and we go dark with Blackphone | Pocketnow Weekly 108

Updated with time codes, new streaming portals, and links to the high-quality version. Skip past the YouTube embed and download your very own copy of this week’s podcast. Enjoy!Thanks to our new Blackphone review devices, we’re already halfway off the grid … or at least, halfway buried under Post-It notes littered with passwords, which is almost the same thing. Before we get too stealthy, though, we’re hosting us a little show. Some of you might know it as the mobile technology podcast that’s gone 108 episodes without missing a single week (accurate). ...

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Pocketnow Throwback: Dell Venue Pro (Video)

Looking for our original Dell Venue Pro review from 2011? Check it out here. Wondering about the tablet family with the same name from 2013? Peep this. Want a sweet nostalgia trip? See below.•There was a time when manufacturers still pushed the boundaries of industrial design, when Windows Phone was the newest smartphone platform around, and Dell still called ...

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Affordable Windows 8 tablets could be just what Microsoft needs

Microsoft has an opportunity here. It may not realize it, being minus one CEO and all, but there is opportunity for advancement here. Android is a fantastically popular operating system. It’s incredible. The meteoric rise of Android from Verizon’s DROID to what it is today has been a beautiful thing to behold. But there is one place were Android has not been able to make a dent. Sure it has made nicks here and there, but no dents. And that is in the tablet space. You remember tablets, right? They’re those things that run iOS and make people vomit. It’s almost silly ...

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