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This week on the SyrupCast,  Igor Bonifacic,  Patrick O'Rourke ,  Ted Kritsonis , and Simon Cohen break the "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" rule and sit down to discuss this year's CES. This year's CES kicked off the voice-activated assistant war, as well as exciting new developments in the infotainment side of the automotive industry. When the weather was behaving , CES attendees got to se...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Patrick O'Rourke , Rose Behar , and now free agent,  Josh McConnell,  are back after a two week holiday break to bring you their opinions about Apple's recent battery fiasco. Just before the holidays, Apple confirmed that the company does indeed slow down older iPhone models in order to conserve battery quality. Apple fans are especially frustrated that...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Patrick O'Rourke , Sameer Chhabra , and Rose Behar  bring you the SyrupCast's end-of-year episode, looking back at the team's favourite tech moments of 2017. Patrick goes first and talks about -- I'm sure you're surprised -- the Nintendo Switch;  Rose's pick is the rise of Freedom Mobile ;  Sameer's selection is the CRTC's precedent setting zero rating...

This week on the SyrupCast, Rose Behar and Igor Bonifacic are joined by  Christine Dobby , telecom reporter at the  Globe and Mail, and   Daniel Bader , managing editor at Android Central , to take a look back the major Canadian telecom developments of 2017, with a focus on Freedom Mobile. A lot has changed over the course of 2017 in terms of Canada's telecom ecosystem. One of the most significant...

This week on the SyrupCast, Patrick O'Rourke , Rose Behar , and Sameer Chhabra sit down to discuss Rose's recent trip and answer a few listener questions. Rose, back at the MobileSyrup office fresh from her trip to the  Snapdragon Technology Summit in Hawaii, gives the team a run down of all Qualcomm's major announcements from the event. The smartphone hardware manufacturer's new Snapdragon 845 mo...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Patrick O'Rourke , Dean Daley , and Brad Shankar  discuss their favourite games released over the course of 2017. As the year is winding down, the team felt it would be appropriate to reflect on their favourite games of 2017. Fair warning though dear listeners, this week's episode contains Spoilers.  Patrick goes first and selects  The Legend of Zelda B...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Rose Behar , Patrick O'Rourke , and Sameer Chhabra  discuss the CRTC's recently officially mandated smartphone unlocking fee ban. It's now December 1st and this means that in Canada, carriers are no longer able to charge a fee to unlock customer's phones . The CRTC ruling to ban unlocking fees was initial revealed back in June, but the actual start date...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Rose Behar , and Sameer Chhabra discuss the iPhone coming to Freedom and the latest Net Neutrality news from South of the border. Starting on November 24th, Freedom Mobile will begin taking preorders for the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and the iPhone X , all of which are now compatible with their networks. The team breaks down what the plans look like and w...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Rose Behar , Sameer Chhabra , and Patrick O'Rourke sit down to talk about the One Plus 5T and a recent interview with Ian Scott, the CRTC's recently appointed chair. The team is not exactly over-the-moon with the One Plus 5T , but they were even less enthused about the device's reveal presentation. Reflecting on the 5T's various features also brought th...

This week on the SyrupCast, Sameer Chhabra , Igor Bonifacic , and Patrick O'Rourke discuss how the Pixel 2 has behaved in the field since its release, specifically Japan, and the 2017 communications monitoring report for broadcast content. Igor spent the last two weeks in Japan and had the Pixel 2 along with him along for the ride. While he was traveling he had the chance to use the state of the a...

This week on the SyrupCast, Brad Shankar , Rose Behar , Sameer Chhabra , and Patrick O'Rourke discuss the iPhone X now that the team actually has one in the office, as well as theXbox One X. Patrick, in an impressive feat of journalism, flew to New York this week to pick up the iPhone X for an initial impressions review he completed in less than 24 hours . The team discusses what it is like to use...

This week on the SyrupCast, Ian Hardy , Rose Behar , Dean Daley , and Patrick O'Rourke  discuss two of the year's most highly anticipated phones; the recently released  Pixel 2XL , and the iPhone X . Earlier this week was saw reports that the Pixel 2 XL's POLED screen is suffering from display burn-in issues . Problems like this usually pop up following years of usage, but the issues with the Pixe...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Rose Behar , Sameer Chhabra , and Patrick O'Rourke discuss their thoughts on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL . The team also weighs in on the announcement that Alphabet is investing in Toronto. Rose and Patrick both had the opportunity to review the brand new Pixel phones this week. The two chime in to give the team a well-rounded perspective on the updates...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Rose Behar , and Patrick O'Rourke break down the details of roaming with Canadian cell phones. The team is constantly on the road for press events, so they have a few tips and tricks up their sleeves to share with you. Tune in to hear the SyrupCast team discuss their favourite roaming options, what services might cost you a surprising amount, and their...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Rose Behar , and Patrick O'Rourke are joined by MobileSyrup contributor Ted Kritsonis to talk about Google's Pixel event and all things Sonos. The team does a deep dive into Google's recently revealed  Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL . Among the other announcements at the Google event were Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on the SyrupCast  Igor Bonifacic , Rose Behar , and Patrick O'Rourke discuss Netflix's announcement to dedicate half a billion dollars to Canadian content. Canadian heritage minister Mélanie Joly revealed the new deal with the American streaming giant that will see Netflix develop a Canadian production 'presence'  and contribute $500 million to Canadian content over the next five years....

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Rose Behar , Sameer Chhabra , and Patrick O'Rourke sit down to talk Apple reviews and get Frank about phones. Patrick was at the Apple keynote recently and had the chance to check out all of Apple's new devices: the iPhone 8, the iPhone 8 Plus , the Apple Watch Series 3 and the Apple TV 4K . He sits down with the team to discuss his thoughts on the new...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Rose Behar , and Patrick O'Rourke are joined by Josh McConnell , technology editor at the Financial Post, to discuss all the announcements from Apple's keynote. The Apple presentation this week showed off a variety of new devices , including the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus , the iPhone X , the Apple watch 3 and a the Apple TV 4K . Both Patrick and Josh were in...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Rose Behar , Sameer Chhabra , and Patrick O'Rourke do their best to predict what will be unveiled at Apple's upcoming event. Apple's iPhone 8 keynote is coming up soon on September 12th, so the team sits down and does their best to predict all the announcements they expect to see at the keynote. It's anticipated that there will be a few new iPhones, a 4...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Rose Behar , Ted Kritsonis , and Patrick O'Rourke dig into the pending rivalry between Google and Apple's AR offerings. WWDC this year brought us ARKit from Apple , but there is now another option for developers --  ARCore from Google . As the consumer version of iOS 11 is hitting phones in a few weeks, this arms race is bound to continue heating up. Wi...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Rose Behar , Ian Hardy , and Sameer Chhabra discuss Samsung's triumphant return to the Note series and the increase in Rogers' Roam Like Home pricing. Last year's Note 7 issues are behind us now, but the reminders of Samsung's problems can still be found at airports. The SyrupCast crew is wondering if the release of the Note 8 will be enough to overcome...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Rose Behar , Dean Daley , Sameer Chhabra , and Brad Shankar  discuss their thoughts about the Essential phone and discuss the direction streaming video platforms are headed. Igor recently got his hands on the Essential phone and outlines his first impressions of the device on the podcast. Is it possible for Andy Rubin to break into the already crowded A...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Rose Behar and Patrick O'Rourke are joined once again by Tom Emrich , founder of We Are Wearables and partner at Super Ventures , to talk about the recent iPhone 8 leaks. Last week, major leaks about the much anticipated iPhone 8 surfaced thanks to Apple's release of HomePod firmware. Contained within the software update were references that gave away s...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Rose Behar and Patrick O'Rourke are joined by Tom Emrich , Founder of We Are Wearables and Partner at Super Ventures , to talk about Apple's ARKit and the future of reality. This past week, Rose jetted off to the west coast to learn about the ZenFone AR . This ASUS phone is Tengo-enabled and even Google Daydream VR certified. Discussing this new phone g...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Jessica Galang , Dean Daley , and Brad Shankar are bringing you a special episode on their favourite seventh generation video games. Fair warning, dear listeners, this week's episode contains spoilers. Jessica, news editor at BetaKit , goes first and chooses The Last of Us , Bioshock and Catherine . Dean gives his top three picks to Skyrim , Kingdoms of...