SyrupCast

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Rose Behar and Patrick O'Rourke are joined by Peter Nowak to talk about former Telus executive, Ian Scott, joining the CRTC and the future of wireless in Canada. Scott, who has 25 years of experience in the Telecom industry, will be taking over as the head of the CRTC . The team is wondering if Scott will follow in the footsteps of Jean-Pierre Blais and...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Dean Daley , Rose Behar and Patrick O'Rourke , talk about Fido's announcement to offer five free hours of data per month to their Pulse plan customers. The announcement comes just a week after Roger's, the owner of Fido, bumped their data overage charges up significantly. Tune in to hear the SyrupCast team's thoughts. Do you have questions, comments, th...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Zach Gilbert , Rose Behar and Patrick O'Rourke , discuss the ever increasing costs of owning a smartphone in Canada and get nostalgic about the past. Rogers increased its data overage rate this week by 40 percent and this has a lot of consumers up in arms. The team discusses what this rate hikes mean to the average consumer, why the cost has gone up so...

This week, the SyrupCast crew -- Igor Bonifacic , Zach Gilbert , and Patrick O'Rourke -- are joined by tech journalist and MobileSyrup contributor, Teddy Kritsonis , to discuss the Google Home coming to Canada and the release of iOS 11 beta . Canadian's have been long awaiting the arrival of a smart speaker north of the border. The Google Home is the first to be released officially in Canada and b...

Last week under the leadership of departing Chairman Jean-Pierre Blais , the CRTC announced that Canadian carriers can no longer charge unlocking fees . As of December 1st, 2017, all phones sold in Canada will no longer be carrier-locked. The decision is being touted as a win by consumer advocates because it means that the barrier to switching carriers and finding more competitive rates, has just...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Sameer Chhabra , and Brad Shankar are joined by Patrick O'Rourke who is live on location in LA for the Electronic Entertainment Expo, also known as E3. Patrick fills the team in on how this year's E3 differed from previous years by letting in the general public and how he thinks that may affect the direction the conference goes in next year. The team we...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Rose Behar , and Zach Gilbert are joined by Patrick O'Rourke who is live on location in San Jose for this year's WWDC. This week, Apple held its annual developer conference, WWDC , in San Jose, California. The main event was chalk full of major announcements for developers, but surprisingly also contained many hardware reveals. Among some of the more no...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Patrick O'Rourke , Rose Behar  and Dean Daley debate the usefulness of Android Pay and ask if it's 'Essential' for another high-end smartphone to enter the market? On Wednesday, Android Pay officially launched in Canada. Not all major banks are supported on the platform however, with both TD and RBC notably absent . Previous mobile payment platforms suc...

This week the SyrupCast is trying something new! We are asking you, our listeners, to send in your questions, comments, thoughts, and anything you would like addressed on the podcast. Send us an email to podcast@mobilesyrup.com . If you're feeling extra adventurous, send us an audio recording of your question and it may make it into a future episode! This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Pa...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Patrick O'Rourke , Rose Behar  and Brad Shankar  discuss the ins and outs of this year's Google I/O. Google I/O's keynote included major announcements this year, especially for Canadians, with the Google Home finally becoming available north of the border. Along with hardware announcements came updates to Android O , Google's next-gen mobile operating s...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Patrick O'Rourke , and Dean Daley are joined by Rose Behar who is attending Microsoft Build 2017 in Seattle. With Build 2017 already well underway, Rose walks the team through all of the latest announcements from Microsoft as well as what the company seems to have left in its past. Also in the news this week, Amazon announced the new  Echo Show , a voic...

This week on the SyrupCast,  Igor Bonifacic , Patrick O'Rourke , and Rose Behar welcome MobileSyrup's newest staff writer Bradly Shankar to the podcast, and talk all about Microsoft's New York City education event. On Tuesday, Microsoft held an education-focused hardware event in New York City. In attendance to take it all in was MobileSyrup  senior reporter, Rose Behar . Among the announcements w...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Patrick O'Rourke , Zach Gilbert , and Rose Behar give the low down on the fight for net neutrality in Canada. On April 20th, the CRTC ruled that Videotron's zero rated Unlimited Music service c ould no longer operate in its current form given the carriers preferential treatment of certain customers and music streaming platforms. The CRTC also went on to...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Patrick O'Rourke , Zach Gilbert , and Ian Hardy give their updated perspectives on the Samsung Galaxy S8 and speculate about Andy Rubin's rumoured Android phone. The MobileSyrup team has had its hands on the Galaxy S8  for a few weeks now and is bringing you their more detailed impressions of the device, including the phone's design, comparing it to LG'...

This week the SyrupCast is 'Switch-ing' it up and bringing you a special video game focused episode. After having a couple of weeks to play with the Nintendo Switch ,  MobileSyrup senior editors  Igor Bonifacic  and  Patrick O'Rourke , as well  TechCrunch transportation and automotive reporter  Darrell Etherington  and Financial Post reporter  Josh McConnell , sit down to discuss their initial imp...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Patrick O'Rourke , Rose Behar , and Ian Hardy talk about the LG G6 and Toronto City Council's plea to the CRTC for unlimited data. This week marks the Canadian launch of LG's newest flagship phone, the G6 . Following the recent release of Samsung's Galaxy S8, the SyrupCast crew is asking if this is a swing and a miss for LG? Does a $100 price difference...

This week on the SyrupCast  Igor Bonifacic , Patrick O'Rourke , and Rose Behar are joined by TechCrunch staff writer Darrell Etherington to discuss their reactions to the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+. This past week, Samsung officially announced the Galaxy S8 and S8+ . MobileSyrup  went  hands-on  with the much anticipated devices and are bringing you their hot takes on the device on this week's podc...

This week, the SyrupCast crew is mixing up the hosting duties and bringing you their hot takes on Android O, the Samsung Galaxy S8, and Apple's Project Red. Join Ian Hardy , Rose Behar , and Zach Gilbert as they dig into the biggest mobile news of the week! Tune in to hear the SyrupCast team's thoughts and jump in the comments to give us yours.   Total runtime: 40:29 Android O: 2:15 Samsung Galaxy...

This week, the SyrupCast crew is taking you on a tour of their go-to apps - Igor Bonifacic , Patrick O'Rourke , Jessica Vomiero , and Zach Gilbert each select three of their favourite mobile apps to share with the rest of the team and you, the listener! Igor's picks: 1.  Instapaper  2.  Snapseed (and for Android ) 3.  1Password Jessica's picks: 1.  One Big Thing  2.  Timeline  3.  Netflix (specifi...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Patrick O'Rourke , Jessica Vomiero , and Rose Behar  talk about John Pecman, the Competition Bureau Commissioner, and his comments regarding the prices of wireless plans in Canada. The team then switches gears to talk about Google Assistant finally starting to hit some Canadian Android user's smartphones.  As all Canadians with a cell phones will tell y...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Patrick O'Rourke  and Rose Behar are joined by MobileSyrup contributor Ted Kritsonis to talk about the announcements from Mobile World Congress (MWC) and the arrest of Samsung heir, Jay Y. Lee . Over this past week, the SyrupCast team has been keeping a close eye on MWC, covering all the smartphone reveals at the conference. With a plethora of new phone...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Jessica Vomiero , Patrick O'Rourke  and Rose Behar  discuss recent Qualcomm announcements and the team's favourite phones from Mobile World Congress. MobileSyrup staff writer, Rose Behar, travelled to the west coast recently to catch up with Qualcomm to learn more about the future of  5G . This week on the podcast, she brings back her newly acquired kno...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Jessica Vomiero , Patrick O'Rourke  and Ian Hardy  discuss Bell's acquisition of MTS and also go through a rundown of the highlights from the CRTC's recent Wireless Code review. Bell recently finally received regulatory approval to finalize its acquisition of Manitoba's regional wireless carrier, MTS. The new network, Bell MTS , will be launching on Mar...

This week on the SyrupCast, Igor Bonifacic , Jessica Vomiero , Rose Behar , and Patrick O'Rourke talk about the launch of Android Wear 2.0, as well as examine the Canadian telecom industry's sky-high mobile prices. LG has officially announced the LG Watch Sport and the LG Watch Style , both of which will run off of Android Wear 2.0. Although the company has confirmed the devices will be coming to...

On this week's episode of the SyrupCast,  Igor Bonifacic , Jessica Vomiero , Rose Behar and Patrick O'Rourke  take a look at the the CRTC's decision to feature  American commercials in the Canadian broadcast of the Super Bowl . The team also talks about the ZenWatch 3 and the future of Google's smartwatch operating system, Android Wear 2.0 .  Tune in to hear the SyrupCast team's thoughts and jump...