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Updated with links to download and stream the HQ audio version of the podcast. We hope you enjoyed this Weekly. And we'll see you right back here next week! It's a mighty fine month to be an iPhone, a pretty terrible one to be a Windows Phone, and an interesting one (as always) if you're an Android. The first month of ...
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by Jaime Rivera | January 31, 2015 11:30 PMRead On
Pockentow Daily gets an average of 300 to 500 comments a day, and sometimes even a thousand. We’d like to thank you all for participating in our question of the day, and we love your feedback so much, that we decided that since we can’t respond to ever single one of your comments, we should at least feature a ...
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Windows
by Adam Doud | January 31, 2015 10:00 AMRead OnMicrosoft made me excited about a Microsoft product again. Cortana was really the last time that happened, and I’m happy to report that my excitement was well-founded in that case. But this year, Microsoft introduced Windows Holographic, an augmented reality self contained headset that has a ton of potential in many ...
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Windows
by Anton D. Nagy | January 30, 2015 11:38 PMRead On…and that’s not entirely Microsoft’s fault. After watching the Microsoft Windows 10 event I decided to give Windows Phone another shot, for a week. It was either that, or because I missed using the platform; it could have also been because I wanted to see what’s new in Windows Phone 8.1, or that getting an Xbox ...
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by Jaime Rivera | January 30, 2015 11:38 PMRead On
Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Microsoft's recent updates to Windows Insider and Windows 10. Then we talk about Microsoft again, and how it might be backing Cyanogen. Samsung follows as we learn design details on the Galaxy S6. LG follows as we learn more about the G4's display. We end today's show ...
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by Michael Fisher | January 30, 2015 8:14 PMRead On
Despite sluggish adoption, confusing marketing and a long-simmering standards war, wireless chargers litter today's tech landscape. From the TYLT Vu to the Aukey Luna to Google's Nexus "orb" to Nokia's old DT-900, owners of Qi-enabled smartphones have no shortage of options to juice up their devices in the most ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | January 30, 2015 7:37 PMRead OnHTC's been making big progress with Android Lollipop updates for the One M8 lately: this week we saw the release hit phones in Europe and Canada. And while that was great to see, that still represents just one portion of the M8's user base. Back on November 3, shortly after Android Lollipop went official, HTC assigned ...
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Multi-Platform
by Pocketnow Deals | January 30, 2015 6:47 PMRead OnThe Pocketnow Deals Store brings you some of the hottest tech gadgets and more at prices that can’t be beat every single day. Today, we highlight several deals that everyone should take advantage of, including some super cool products that were recently featured at CES 2015! OSTraining Developer Courses: Lifetime ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | January 30, 2015 6:09 PMRead OnAfter Android 5.0 Lollipop debuted with the Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 last fall, Google was quick to start making Lollipop updates available for most of the rest of the Nexus family. We saw phones and tablets alike graduate from KitKat to Android 5.0, then 5.0.1, and most recently, a few select models have been graced with ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | January 30, 2015 5:07 PMRead OnAndroid users already know that Google Now can be a hugely powerful tool, reminding you about important appointments, helping you navigate to your next meeting, advising you of upcoming weather alerts, and more. But for all that great stuff Now offered, it also put a lot of pressure on Google to deliver relevant ...
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Android / Windows
by Joe Levi | January 30, 2015 1:48 PMRead OnMicrosoft Surface Hub promises to be a "powerful team collaboration device designed to advance the way people work together naturally" and to "unlock the power of the group". From what we've seen, Microsoft Surface Hub looks a whole lot like the failed Microsoft Surface "table computer" that we say several years ago. ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | January 30, 2015 12:44 PMRead OnOne of the recent trends surrounding Samsung Galaxy S6 rumors in recent days has been the discovery of numerous images from case manufacturers, attempting to design cases that will be compatible with the upcoming flagship. If we're to believe that these efforts are based on some advance knowledge of the hardware's ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | January 30, 2015 12:00 PMRead OnLast year, LG was one of the first big smartphone OEMs to bless its flagship model with a quad HD 2560 x 1440 display. In the time since, more and more manufacturers have come around to the idea of such crazy-high-res screens, and we're bound to see quite a number of these handsets among this season's launches. Rumors ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 30, 2015 10:49 AMRead OnLast fall, we saw Jolla turn a new page for both itself and Sailfish OS, stretching beyond its smartphone to test the waters of the tablet market as it attempted to crowdfund an affordable Sailfish OS-powered tablet: the aptly-named Jolla Tablet. Despite the platform's relative obscurity in the eyes of the mainstream ...
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Android
by Hayato Huseman | January 30, 2015 10:48 AMRead OnHuawei’s never quite been synonymous with premium handsets - at least, not in the United States. But that doesn’t mean that the company is incapable of making them, and we were reminded of that at IFA 2014 when the company unveiled the Ascend Mate 7. The phone effectively serves as Huawei’s flagship phablet, and ...
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Android
by Rithvik Rao | January 30, 2015 4:03 AMRead OnOnePlus and Cyanogen have seen many bumps in the road with their relationship. First it was Cyanogen disagreeing with a contest run by the company (largely seen as sexist). Then it was the India fiasco, when Cyanogen left OnePlus in a tough spot following a deal with Micromax to have exclusive access to the company's ...
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by Jaime Rivera | January 29, 2015 11:35 PMRead On
Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about T-Mobile's new deals for the Google Nexus 6. Microsoft is next as we learn about its new Outlook app for iOS and Android, that doesn't work with Windows Phone. LG then takes the stage as we learn the reality of the Snapdragon 810 processor. Then Samsung follows with details ...
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Windows
by Jaime Rivera | January 29, 2015 9:18 PMRead OnBeing able to modify anything in Windows Phone isn't really something easy, but then again, that doesn't apply to the lock screen. You have some really cool options provided by the Microsoft Weather app, Facebook and even the current Beta of Instagram. In that same fashion, there are third party apps that can take the ...
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Android / Windows
by Jaime Rivera | January 29, 2015 8:55 PMRead OnMicrosoft hasn't found the amount of success it wanted to see in mobile. Windows Phone is still just 3% of the mobile market, and even with its moves in acquiring Nokia's mobile division, the company is still struggling to re-invent itself internally. You could assume that Microsoft's interests in Android are low, given ...
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Windows
Microsoft updates Insider app in advance of Windows 10 phone preview, hints at hardware requirementsby Stephen Schenck | January 29, 2015 7:39 PMRead OnThe final release of Windows 10 is still months and months away, but Microsoft is happy to give users eager for a preview an early look at the operating system. The PC preview has been out for a while now, and for the past few weeks we've been anticipating the start of a similar preview for phones. Earlier this month ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | January 29, 2015 6:40 PMRead OnThe parade of companies announcing the details behind their latest financial performance continues on this evening, following the reports we've already seen out of Apple, Samsung, LG, Microsoft, and more. Now it's Google's turn to let everyone see how it's been doing, as it releases numbers for not just the past ...
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Android / iOS
by Jaime Rivera | January 29, 2015 6:02 PMRead OnApple and Samsung may be out of the court room with all the patent disputes, but it seems that both companies continue to compete at something. For the longest time, Samsung has overshadowed Apple in smartphone sales, and that does make sense since Samsung serves every single market segment, while Apple only focuses on ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | January 29, 2015 5:47 PMRead OnStarting a couple weeks back, HTC's been pushing Android 5.0 Lollipop updates out to more and more of its One M8 handsets. Following initial availability for dev units and unlocked models, yesterday we learned that mass distribution was underway for the One M8 in Europe. That marked a huge number of new users who ...
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Multi-Platform
by Michael Fisher | January 29, 2015 4:38 PMRead OnOne of the unavoidable pitfalls of covering a field as vast as mobile technology is that sometimes, you get things wrong. It happens regardless of preparation, regardless of time spent with a device, and no matter how many colleagues help copy-edit your work. But it happens most often when you establish an opinion ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | January 29, 2015 4:21 PMRead OnThe 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 ...
