Not all of us have read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, so not all of us were exactly qualified to make the lame joke that kicks off this week's podcast. But we made it, and we stand behind it. Because as hundreds of fifth-rate "manufacturers" well know, sometimes you just have to fake it. But we're not talking about secondhand knockoff products in this episode of the Weekly. Rather, we get serious about octa-core comparisons, the till-recently-mythical HTC M4, the insanely cheap new Lumia out of Finland, and just how tired we are or aren't of the Samsung Galaxy S 4. In between, we ...

I'm a little worried about Samsung. Not "very" worried, mind you, but after hearing about some of the company's upcoming products, looking back on what it's offered over the course of the past year, and considering the recent success its smartphones and tablets have been seeing, it's all enough to make me start questioning some of Samsung's product decisions. You might think that success would cause a company to really look inward, to try and divine just what it did that was so popular, and then extrapolate from there to lay out a course for the future. There may be an aspect of that in ...

Here at Pocketnow, we've spent a fair bit of time with the Galaxy Camera. Samsung's peculiar Android device caught our eye at IFA, helped us shoot some of our behind-the-scenes footage at CES, and we even took it for a spin as a daily-driver replacement for a weekend, but that's been the extent of our interaction with the GC-100. That's because, for all its novelty, the Galaxy Camera has its shortcomings: it's a big, thick, and heavy device, its feel-in-hand closer to a small DSLR than the point-and-shoots it's meant to compete with. And there's no exceptional performance justifying the ...

We’ve taken you on a software tour and we’ve shown you how it stacks up against the Galaxy S III - so the next logical step was to use the Samsung Galaxy Camera as our primary device for a weekend. Right? We know what you're thinking, and the answer is no: this wasn’t just a stunt. We really wanted to find out if the Galaxy Camera, which runs the full version of Android Jelly Bean on hardware sporting a cellular radio, could substitute as a daily device for a tiny niche of users: shutterbugs who don’t make a lot of phone calls, but do communicate in other ways, like via social ...

Only seven billion remain following the Great Mayan Apocalypse of 2012, and three of them have joined forces in this new dystopian future-world to talk technology. Closing out 2012 is a tough endeavor, but thankfully the pre-holiday news explosion quickly gave way to a post-holiday news respite, and the resulting abbreviated topic list gives us a little breathing room at the tail end of this year. In this episode, we talk about the future of Windows RT tablets, the rumored Apple iOS-running smart watch, Motorola's mysterious "X" project, first impressions from a week with the Galaxy ...

The Galaxy S III's barely old enough to warrant an After The Buzz episode, but we're already talking about the Galaxy S IV. In any other venue, that would be a sign of jumping the shark; on the Pocketnow Weekly, it's just business as usual. Tune in for our best speculation on what Samsung might include in its next sensational superphone, from unbreakable screens to bone conduction. Then keep on listening for an extended debate about the merits of Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 versus iOS, drilling down into their UIs and design philosophy. Finally, after some extended talk about how useful ...

Samsung's Galaxy Camera is one of the most unusual Android devices we've seen arrive in a while, and may just foretell a future where smartphone operating systems make headway into all sorts of products beyond straight-up smartphones and tablets. AT&T introduced the Galaxy Camera to the US last month, but there have been all sorts of rumblings that we might get to see the Galaxy Camera spread its wings to another carrier, all while offering some new connectivity options. Some FCC paperwork painted the picture of Verizon getting the Galaxy Camera, and now that's essentially been ...

Smartphone manufacturers are showing more and more concern with the digital imaging capabilities of their handsets. Perhaps no one's making a more public display of its devotion to this idea than Nokia, with both the PureView 808 and the Lumia 920 addressing camera performance in different ways. While Nokia attempts to raise the bar when it comes to cameras on smartphones, Samsung's decided to broach the challenge from the other side, and instead of bringing high-quality imaging to a smartphone, has brought smartphone tech to a standard digital camera. We've had our eye on the Galaxy ...