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audio running there's the peaks and the valleys happy Friday everyone it's michael fisher with pocket now here with a recap of everything that's happened on the editorial and feature side of pocketnow.com in the past week and because the pocket now daily is on temporary hiatus while Jaime Rivera is in Barcelona will cover a few news items as well it's been a busy week leading up to mwc 2014 so let's get to it this is the pocket now roundup kicking off the week bright and early at seven a.m. on monday was Joe Levi with a piece on why the much-ballyhooed notion of an HTC made tablet might not be the panacea for the company's wounds that others might think it is and hot on the heels of that editorial came a flood of HTC leaks that stretched across the week starting with in hand shots of a gold-colored device and eventually progressing into renders all but confirming the unique look of what we're told will be called the all new HTC One there's plenty of time for more conjecture on this as we won't see an official launch event until March 25th so click the HTC tag down below to join in the fun and be sure to swing by our story on HTC's new warranty program for buyers of one series handsets called HTC advantage which the accident prone should appreciate also if you've ever broken a phone come commiserate with your comrades and clumsiness Taylor Martin has a poll for you to take after which you can add your horror story to the comments spigner Taylor Martin our North carolina-based senior editor finally took delivery on Nokia's Lumia icon this week you've probably seen his rather epic unboxing or if you will unque Singh here on YouTube and we've since seen a couple comparisons with a full review coming quite soon while you wait Adam doubt has a think piece on just why one of the biggest rumours of the week android apps running on Windows Phone is a bad idea calling the proposed solution a possible short-term gain but ultimately a long-term loss for the platform speaking of Android and Windows Phone the nokia X the erstwhile nokia normandy is almost certainly making its debut at mwc if you believe the big green X in its event invitation but the story doesn't stop there rumors of the android-powered Nokia phones apparent low price point have incensed Joe Levi who employs a lot of exclamation points in his recent editorial to explain why this is not a good idea add in his appearance on this week's PocketNow weekly podcast and is to video tutorials on printing documents from your phone and Google's new voice interface enhancements and our Android guy might win the award for most prolific editor of the week but that doesn't mean the rest of us weren't having any fun can you guess which smartphone took these photos if you can congratulations you've got a sharper eye than ninety six percent of commenters in our second monthly smartphone guessing game published on Monday the answer is already posted but if you scroll carefully you should be able to examine the evidence and make your own guess without getting spoiled and judging from the success rate in the comments we're happy to say you should prepared to be surprised that's not because the commenters are dumb but because smartphone camera quality isn't quite as easy to discern at a glance as one might think stay tuned for more from this series as time goes on and to round out the last week of pre mwc editorials I contributed a brief piece on why we'd like to see more sony smartphones this year and also one bemoaning the lack of salt water resistant devices on this blue planet of ours while Joe leave I couldn't quite put the pen down and he kicked out one last piece this time on LG and it's g2 mini weak sauce or awesome possum Joe seems to think it's the latter which gives him the status of contrarian of the week but there's an important qualifier to click on over to his piece to find out what it is and finally be sure to check out Steven shanks pre mwc roundup of everything we're expecting hi May and Anton to report on from Barcelona from the huawei leaks that just broke covered today to the products teased in Nokia's and Samsung's mwc trailers Adam Lane and I will be covering the Samsung unpacked event from New York City while Anton cover it from Barcelona so stay tuned for that but there is much more mobile news happening both before and after the galaxy s5 announcement in the run-up to the world's largest mobile technology trade show keep it locked to pocket now is mwc hub so you stay on top of all that be sure and follow us and social media and in the links at the description below there's also a like button down there please click it if you did enjoy this video until next time this has been Michael Fisher with the pocket now roundup thank you for watching and enjoy your weekend no matter what mobile device you carry