Pocketnow Weekly Podcast

We didn't plan this week out to be this way, but it just so happens that we are dealing with the ghosts of iPhones past, present and future! From older iPhones getting slowed down to future iPhones getting big batteries and a Secret Santa game at Pocketnow where one person "gets" the $1,000 iPhone of 2017. Those stories plus some grievances from Microsoft and Amazon toward Google and a lot more on this episode of the Pocketnow Weekly!

When isn't Samsung a potential big story? It's always on the edge of success, on the edge of trouble, on the edge of beating Apple, on the edge of being upset by Huawei. We dig into the current happenings with the chaebol from a smart speaker to a loss in market leadership. Also, TK Bay joins us to talk about Chinese brands, BlackBerry's abandonment of its first Android phone ever and the loss of net neutrality plus other topics on this episode of the Pocketnow Weekly!

If you're buying a smartphone next year and are on Android, chances are that you'll probably have this chip in it. The company that's making it is under mounting financial pressures. What will its future business picture look like with patent warfare and acquisition hostility coming in? Answers won't come easy, but we'll try and sort it through. Beyond that, what are doing with three rear cameras, Huawei? And will YouTube and Amazon ever play nice? All this and more on this episode of the Pocketnow Weekly!

Graphene has been around since the 50's. Researchers are still trying to find the ultimate formula to get this power-prone material into batteries. Has Samsung found the way to do that? Plus, iPhone X sales are looking pretty decent, but does Apple's master plan for the holiday quarter still stand? And our first taste of 5G will be coming from Verizon, but only if you're in Sacramento and a couple of other places. All the mobile tech news fit to podcast on this episode of the Pocketnow Weekly!

Since we're getting off of that Thanksgiving gravy train ourselves, we'll try (and fail) to keep it tight, keep it cozy and keep it quick with questions from our mailbag and social media and a few bits of housekeeping to take care of — like the basic fabric of what's keeping the internet usable by consumers here in said united states. Hayato Huseman of Android Central will join us for this episode of the Pocketnow Weekly!

Brooklyn, oh Brooklyn. OnePlus took over the East River shore to slam some machinery together and bring up the OnePlus 5T. It's the second year that this manufacturer decided on pushing a quick turnaround on iteration and it caps off a whirlwind of big device launches this fall. We dissect every little aspect of it and go into our favorite punching bags: Sprint, Face ID and wearables. All the news fit to podcast as we chat with scene newcomer Ryan Woo on this episode of the Pocketnow Weekly!

Niantic Labs is going one game deeper, this time working on a Warner Bros. franchise beloved by kids naught to 100 and beyond. But will it leave Pokemon Go fans, who feel they've been let down several times before, completely in the dust? We'll get to talking about that. But we have more talking to do about Face ID, fast charging and another Chinese OEM getting some time in the US limelight. We chat with Irish tech fan Laura Fagan for this episode of the Pocketnow Weekly!

Two more HTC phones, one big Razer Phone. Who said November was a dead month for mobile? Between Android One utility and maximum charge muscling, we're about set for the year, we think. More on that and the Sprint and T-Mobile merger that just won't die and, as it was iPhone X pre-order day last week, it's iPhone X sales day today! We talk about all this on the Pocketnow Weekly!

Hopefully you should be awake by now from that exhaustive pre-order process for the iPhone X. Ready to relive it again? We'll talk about it and have a few words about how "lucky" certain people are to get one while others may have to wait weeks on weeks. As we promised last week, we have finally reached into the mailbag for five listener topics and we're gonna get through those, too! Shimon Das of Droid-Now will be guiding us along with some answers. It's all on this episode of the Pocketnow Weekly!

Post BB10, what changed at the core of the Canadian enterprise tech company called BlackBerry to bring it from Priv to Motion in two or so years? Kevin Michaluk, aka CrackBerry Kevin, talks with us about the new BlackBerry. That, plus three big phones: one confuses, the other's displays disappoints and the last... well, we can't make anything of its displays yet. It's the Huawei Mate 10, Pixel 2 and the ZTE Axon M on this episode of the Pocketnow Weekly!

In the business of phones, we are in between launch weeks before the holiday season, but that doesn't stop us from talking about all the mobile technology. What we do have instead is a Huawei phone set for release next week and a Razer phone that will finally break the gaming brand into a new vertical. We talk about it with #PNWeekly superfan Andrew Wallace on this episode of the Pocketnow Weekly!

In this bonus episode, we talk to Riccardo Cambo about his elaborate hoax for the Google "Ultra Pixel." We also talk about a previous hoax he committed in the name of the PlayStation 4 Slim. Why did he do it?

This week, Joshua Vergara of Android Authority joins us to chow down on Google hardware overload! What do the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL give us? Will new Google Home speakers and the Pixel Buds make dreams come true? Will we care for Google Clips or the Pixelbook? It's episode 273 of the Pocketnow Weekly!

Will the iPhone X crown the iPhone 8 as the most popular iPhone? If things pan out the way analysts think it will, where does that leave the consumer, who may be "stuck" with a top-tier device, but not get all the future-proofing of the tippiest of the tip-top features? We debate with Dom Esposito on where Apple is on the gauge and talk about the big news of the week with this episode of the Pocketnow Weekly!

HTC and Google have finally come to an agreement, though it’s one that we didn’t exactly expect. Does it warrant the hype it’s getting this week? And what will come out of it for the struggling manufacturer, the budding hardware brand and you, the consumer? Tech reviewer TK Bay joins us to discuss that, Motorola’s software update policy and the week’s news, so pop in that SIM and get connected — this is the Pocketnow Weekly!