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This week on the SyrupCast, MobileSyrup staff reporter Shruti Shekar , Financial Post telecom reporter Emily Jackson and Yahoo Finance reporter Alicja Siekierska , discuss their recent trip to Huawei's headquarters in Shenzhen, China. Huawei has been in the news a lot lately. The company is at the forefront of developing 5G infrastructure but has also garnered attention recently regarding its lega...

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This week on the SyrupCast, MobileSyrup staff writer Shruti Shekar and Globe and Mail telecom report Christine Dobby ask the question, "what is spectrum and why is it important?" Last week, Canada began auctioning off the 600 MHz spectrum to twelve different players. This spectrum is low-frequency and capable of passing through buildings as well as travelling long distances. Shruti and Christine d...

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This week on the SyrupCast, MobileSyrup features editor  Igor Bonifacic , managing editor  Patrick O'Rourke , and staff writer  Dean Daley discuss the latest and greatest in phones following Mobile World Congress and dig into Samsung's new Galaxy S10 . Last week, Dean travelled to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress . What got everyone excited, including Dean, was all the foldable smartphone techn...

While U.S.-based streaming giant Netflix's catalogue of original film still leaves quite a bit to be desired, there's respite in knowing that the over-the-top streaming platform's selection of original documentaries continue to impress. This week,  MobileSyrup news and telecom reporter Sameer Chhabra and  MobileSyrup managing editor Patrick O'Rourke discuss Netflix's  Fyre: The Greatest Party that...

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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch isn't just the latest episode of Charlie Brooker's acclaimed  Black Mirror anthology series, it's also a visual novel that represents one of the most public Netflix experiments ever deployed. The film tells the story of a young programmer who finds himself in a strange reality loop while attempting to build a choose-your-own-adventure video game based on a fictional choo...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic, Patrick O'Rourke, and Daniel Bader do a year-end review of their favourite smartphones of 2018. Patrick's top 3 phones were the iPhone XS Max , the Pixel 3 XL , and in number 1 -- the iPhone XR . Daniel's top 3 picks were the Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact , the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 , and his number 1 pick -- the Pixel 3 . Igor's top 3 smartphones for the year...

This week on the SyrupCast, MobileSyrup features editor Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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This week on the SyrupCast, MobileSyrup managing editor  Patrick O'Rourke takes over hosting duties and sits down with telecom reporter  Sameer Chhabra and reporter  Bradley Bennett  to discuss Apple's big October hardware event. Completely the opposite of what Patrick predicted a few weeks ago, Apple revealed a new MacBook Air at the company's October 30th event in New York City. The device comes...

This week on the SyrupCast MobileSyrup features editor  Igor Bonifacic and managing editor  Patrick O'Rourke  discuss Apple's upcoming fall hardware keynote. Patrick is heading out to Apple's Fall event in New York on October 30th. There are quite a few devices expected to be revealed at this year's keynote, including a new iPad Pro , an updated  MacBook Air , the iPad Mini, the Mac Mini, the AirP...

This week on the SyrupCast, MobileSyrup telecom reporter  Corey Herscu  discuss the legalization of cannabis in Canada. If you haven't heard by now, recreational use of Cannabis is now legal in Canada as of October 17th, 2018. The team digs into the various technology and software solutions that have been popping up around the country in response to the big day. The team also talks about how to ac...

This week on the SyrupCast,  MobileSyrup features editor  Igor Bonifacic , managing editor  Patrick O'Rourke,  telecom reporter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on the SyrupCast MobileSyrup features editor  Igor Bonifacic , telecom reporter  Sameer Chhabra  and freelance tech reporter and author  Peter Nowak  discuss everything the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has been doing lately. Last week, the CRTC issued a follow-up decision to the Canada Broadband Fund . Under the regulator's previous chair, Jean-Pierr...

This week on the SyrupCast MobileSyrup features editor  Igor Bonifacic , staff reporter  Dean Daley , news and telecom reporter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on the SyrupCast MobileSyrup features editor  Igor Bonifacic , managing  Patrick O'Rourke , telecom reporter  Sameer Chhabra and freelance tech reporter  Josh McConnell recap Apple's recent fall hardware event. If you listened to last week's episode, you'd know that the team predicted what they expected to see at the annual keynote. Leaks indicated that the Apple had plans to add a large...

This week on the SyrupCast MobileSyrup features editor  Igor Bonifacic and  managing editor  Patrick O'Rourke , along with freelance tech reporter Josh McConnell and MacRumors tech reporter Joe Rossigno,  discuss what they expect to see at  Apple's upcoming September 12th fall hardware event . As far as leaks go, we will almost certainly catch a glimpse of the  rumoured iPhone XS and the iPhone XS...

This week on the SyrupCast, MobileSyrup features editor  Igor Bonifacic , managing editor  Patrick O'Rourke , and staff writer  Jon Lamont , catch up on the last three week's worth of mobile news. The Galaxy Note 9 has the team talking smart phone pricing expectations and what Samsung's latest smartphone means for the future of iterative smartphone updates. The Note 9, starting at an expensive $12...

This week on the SyrupCast MobileSyrup features editor  Igor Bonifacic, telecom editor Rose Behar and PHD student at Carlton University  Ben Klass, talk about all the telecom and mobile news from the past two weeks. Justin Trudeau has shuffled his cabinet, replacing Melanie Jolie, Canadian Heritage Minister, with Pablo Rodriguez . The team discusses what they think the change will mean for Canadia...

Tau is yet another Netlfix science fiction film with an interesting, important core idea but a disappointingly shoddy execution. This week,  MobileSyrup news and telecom reporter Sameer Chhabra speakers with  MobileSyrup features editor Igor Bonifacic about Federico D'Alessandro's  Tau . Later in the episode, Lex Gill , a research fellow at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab , speaks about di...

This week on the SyrupCast, MobileSyrup features editor  Igor Bonifacic and telecom reporter  Sameer Chhabra discuss the latest TCL-made BlackBerry branded smartphone, the KEY2 . The KEY2 brings all of the features that BlackBerry fans have to come to expect from the partnership between the former smartphone giant and TCL. However, the smartphone's price tag lands squarely in flagship territory, m...