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gagan kicking off kicking stuff off stop pause you dumb here at Pocket now we are not exactly lacking for youtube series we've got the pocket now weekly to bring you the mobile tech news every seven days the pocket now daily to give you a rundown of yesterday's news every morning the pocket now VIP that lets us get to know the popular news purveyors from other sites and the pocket now live to give you the chance to talk to us face-to-face about the news but we haven't had a show that tells you where to find our opinions specifically the written editorials that give our site its voice until now I'm Michael Fisher and this is the pocket now round up a once a week recap of everything happening on the editorial side at pocketnow.com you'll get a quick overview of the notable editorials or features from the week along with links that you can follow to read them it's been in busy week so let's get started this is pocket now round up kicking off the week after two days on America's smallest network was me with report on using t-mobile us for the first time in over a year and though I used a very unflattering shot of t-mobile CEO John leisure within the post that didn't stop him from responding to the editorial on Twitter probably because it was a glowing review of a formerly piddling network that's grown a whole lot in the last year if you're thinking about making the jump to t-mobile or just interested in what life on America's Most magenta network is like these days check it out following that up on Tuesday was contributing editor Adam doubt stirring the pot as usual with a contrarians view on just why nokia's star camera phone the Lumia 1020 is not for him now this is less a windows phone hit piece than it is a commentary on the staying power of Nokia's Lumia 920 and the comment thread is actually quite civil so don't be afraid to weigh in with your own dots on whether the 1020 is still worth considering in 2014 I know where my opinion lies on the matter as more HTC m8 rumors kept pouring in toward the middle of the week Joe Levi graced us with a think piece on just how similar the m8 should or shouldn't look to the company's current flagship the HTC One I won't spoil Joe's conclusions but in addition to using a pile of Star Trek themed cookies as an editorial aid he also shared this quote with us rear facing speakers make about as much sense as an away facing screen Levi the android guy knows how to turn a phrase and closing out the short week was a very busy Thursday the HTC talk continued on episode 08 three of the award-winning PocketNow weekly podcast that's still fun to say featuring special guest Nick gray of Android and may and HTC source to talk all things m8 that was followed by Adam dad's controversial analysis of the pros and cons of Microsoft's new CEO and Taylor Martin's video review of the oversized boost max the carrier variant of ZTE s iconic phablet which Taylor called a great bargain with quite a few compromises that's sort of the exact opposite of my conclusions regarding Sony's Xperia z1 compact an expensive little gem offering a small footprint with very little compromise both reviews are live at pocketnow.com along with one last editorial that just managed to sneak under the roundup deadline a Joe Levi piece predicting what Apple might be able to do to reinvent the SmartWatch folks if you're wondering where hi Mase Steven Anton Adam Lane are don't worry they're either covering the insanely busy news shift or they're cooking up more features and editorials for next week for links to all the stories referenced in this roundup see the description below and follow us on social media like this video if you did enjoy it and let us know what stories you want to see covered on the next one going live a week from today until next time this has been michael fisher with pocket now wishing you a great weekend with whatever mobile device you carry you you