A coming HTC event, a two-faced smartphone, new 4G tablets, and a smartwatch with a rotating bezel. From the big to the weird to the dull to the small, it's a new and varied news cycle and that's just the kind we like to come back to. Fresh from the holidays and from the roaring insanity of CES, the Pocketnow Weekly is back again.
We're not just talking Hima, YotaPhone, and Samsung's spinning smartwatch rims, either: there's news from Microsoft, LG, Xiaomi and even Google's modular-phone concept Project Ara – plus a YotaPhone 2 extended hands-on session and the return of Stephen Schenck's editorial series Dial F For Fail. And it's all capped off by the return of our long-lost Editor-in-Chief, Anton D. Nagy!
That's an awful lot of jawin' for one show, so let's get to it. Join us for Pocketnow Weekly 131 below –either through the live video stream at 12:35pm Eastern on January 16 (click here for your local time), or the high-quality audio version available later on– and shoot your questions to podcast [AT] pocketnow [DOT] com for a shot at getting your question read aloud on the air. See you then!
Pocketnow Weekly 131
Recording Date
January 16, 2015
Hosts
Michael Fisher
Anton D. Nagy
Stephen Schenck
Producer
Jules Wang
Podcast Rundown
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News
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HTC invites go out for MWC event
Rumors name YotaPhone 2 US carrier partner
Xiaomi Mi Note announced as company's new flagship
New LG tablet with LTE shows its face at the FCC
2015 Samsung tablet lineup reportedly leaked
Samsung round smartwatch might get rotating bezel
Project Ara market pilot coming to Puerto Rico this year
Microsoft readies Windows 10 smartphone preview
Gadgets in Hand
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The "two-faced" smartphone is one of the most intriguing handsets we've entertained in months, and we're eager to take your questions! Let us know what you want to know about the YotaPhone 2, using the Q&A function in Hangouts if you're watching live. We'll do our best to get to every question we can before time runs out.
Dial F for Fail
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A segment from our top news wrangler about injustice, misdeeds, and general foolishness within the mobile industry. Today’s topic: Samsung's Tizen Z1 ... and how it's really hard to care about it.
Samsung's snooze of a Tizen launch: the ZZzzzzzzzzz1
Context: Samsung Z1 announced as company's Tizen flagship
Listener Mail
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E-mailed submissions from Greg Vogt, Paul Stevenson, and Kevin Choi
Music
It may just sound like a ringtone to you, but our transition music track ("Radiation") is a real song, from a real album, by a real artist: Ali Spagnola. You can download that album, along with many others, at Ali's website here, visit her YouTube page here, and follow her on Twitter here!
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