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Windows 10 on a smartphone a G flex 2 on the porch and fond PDA memories from over a decade ago when that's the kind of work day you're waking up to your doing something right and if that's the kind of podcast you're turning in for you've gotten to the right place from the studios of W ers in Boston Massachusetts where we have 40 different curse words for snow I'm Michael Fisher I'm joined by a man who calls out manufacturers on Twitter when they try to cook the spec books chief news editor is Stephen shank happy friday how you do it legal I'm very well and by a man with the finest accent imaginable and who knows a thing or two about mobile tech to from phonedog media cam Bunton to welcome to the weekly sir good day to you sir properly address a few tools long as our podcast producer kicking the tires and working the sliders as always and the time is precisely 1246 p.m. good afternoon and it will always be a good afternoon if you can avoid a dreaded case of the wallet but that's what I 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and submit your own questions in our live Q&A the other listeners the show be able to vote up the ones that they like the most and we'll take a look see what the the crowds consensus is also some of the questions are particularly pertinent will discussing and we'll do our best to answer them on the air now we're not going to be able to answer everything that you might want to ask so if we don't get to yours or if you just happen to think of a question after the fact shoot us an email we drop the address a little later in the program I think it's pocket now podcast Michael yeah I'll be so many emails and we will try to get to it on a future show so please we'd love to hear from you we want to talk about the things you want to hear us talking about so let us know and we will do our best to tailor our show to your listening needs we are versatile and dynamic hosts and we are happy to do it I just want to let you know folks if you if you are not listening live you want to send an email to podcast of pocketnow.com make sure they're short please the very first email I opened up today for consideration was like 18 paragraphs long so make them short if they want to be longer that's cool to get other people involved in the conversation leave them in the comments post at its living room comments of the podcast post right right right all that business aside cam Bunton what the hell is happening with you special guest you I mean I people should know you because of your excellent video work but the first video I saw of yours at phoneDog was a throwback I think of the palm pre the best smartphone ever made as we all know but if no one has seen that I've just loved it I was that was my first time seeing you I was like who is this man he every time he speaks I see I feel more relaxed I feel like I'm being I'm being taken care of yeah yes and part about dreamings knowledge but tell the people who have not seen you before where you're coming from what you do how you do it and what you're all about or just tell people what's your name that's seven words or less that's when seven words or less yes that's a challenge mm-hmm oh man I'm cam Bunton and I make videos for phoneDog how many words was that so many 1400 as far as I was concerned but no cam it's great to have you and we're really glad you're here to talk to us about mobile talk with us about mobile tech today um jammer you gonna get somebody in QA is asking about mwc which we're not going to be talking about too much because I think we're gonna cover that in next week's show but the Jolly Jacobs asks what are your expectations for mwc I expect to see some of my colleagues there and cam you're gonna be one of them right I will be there yes that is fantastic if I lost Michaels audio there this is not as entertaining as last week where something went wrong with the mixing board at any time he spoke there was this awful like dubstep II transformer talking feedback it wasn't constant it was only when he's talking now I'm seeing him moving his lips but nothing's coming out which is less interesting I mean Phileas lovely his mug there but well could always just listen to my relaxing British voice until that would mean again wonderful I would marry as she would save us I've switched the input to the old computer i'm going to go ahead and switch back to the ATR to USB and see if that helps Nathan this is strange we did have a similar issue last week you're right Stephen let me hop back here and let's see if this solves anything nope not not happening he's breaking things come back to us Michael alright um this is the look like now I'm back to you we were so ready we were beyond ready and then the board had failed us I don't know I don't know what the situation is but I'm back to the built-in mic so there's that while we iron out that difficulty I think Stephen we owe the viewers and the listeners well well what is the quote the show the show must proceed something like that yeah I had to fancy it up because of our British guests you understand yeah yeah so I'm the original saying is British or anything right now what comes from there we call all right we've got a language from you we just put a fancy accent oh that's right please some extra bells in there every so often and it sounds you know what it sounds even better um Jules I wonder shoot usher us into the new segment please and Ted that's they're pretending it's there thank you sir while it's in we're gonna work out some stuff Stephen take us into the news and tell us what's been happening please o co first thing we got our hands on some hot new hardware there was not a ton of super compelling flagships that premiered at CES with a lot of manufacturers holding out for mwc in a couple weeks one of the few standouts though was LG with the follow up to it's not even last year's it's technically 2013's kirby looking g flex with the G flex 2 oh that would be awesome enough just for being a another curved display LG phone we working out some of the issues that we had with the lousy screen quality on the first one but also maybe the most important thing about this for now at least until mwc comes along and we're flooded with similar models it's powered by a Snapdragon 810 which is the crème de la croque of smartphone processors moment if you don't believe all of the overheating rumors which are seeming to be largely overplayed there have been some benchmarks done on the development harder from Qualcomm that are making it seem like overheating is not really the issue we thought it was a performance is super killer but more importantly we have our hands on one of these guys now and I guess Michael has it so why don't you tell us a little bit about what you've seen with the Skyway hoping to do next with it Michael yeah yeah I'm with you sorry I'm trying to be a cowboy and trying to work with real microphones um yeah I do have it but I don't have it on time and I don't have it with me so the copier you didn't bring it dude here's the problem um we were slated to run some coverage on it today and then the circumstances regarding what we were allowed to release about it so not to get into too much detail but this is suffice to say we thought we were we had a green light to publish anything we wanted it turns out we can only really talk about stuff that we learned at CES which of course we know already from our CES videos so then that right now so we'll be we'll be handling it on next week's suits actually does have any fun yeah well we hopefully will be another next week at least at least an in podcast form because we are I believe going to have our friend flow on and we will have a gadget and hence I've met with the G flex 2 but I'm happy to answer some questions in the Q&A now I can do that this is not a total blackout so submit your questions about that cam are you going to play anything with the G flex 2 or somebody else in your team going to handle that I'm presuming that it'll be someone else in our team because i don't think it's made its way across the pond yet yeah it's tough to say I mean the release footprint on the thing is stuff because it's like all right where it's going to be ready and then three weeks later it's like it's gonna be ready halfway through the year it depends on what mark in your etiquette it's already out in South Korea isn't it though right yeah there's only at the end of January yeah I don't know the only thing I can really focus on is my is my UPS tracking tracking list and finding out exactly where it is on the truck you know how much does your UPS delivery guy love you you must get packages like every single day it seems I do I get packages very very frequently but normally it's fedex and I actually appreciate that fedex is the morning delivery and UPS teams have them all day with him it if it's not the LG G flex 2 it's what some mistakenly purchased Star Trek cards mistakenly purchase you seem to Brecon I am I was not regretful one of living a wonderful part of my youth less I actually that's um that's another bit of the fun story Ness I got a notification from UPS last night that the g flex was going to be delayed by a day I said shot it and then I went and had some very potent a beer and about 22 golden monkeys in my you're a god buzzer at the door and there was a G flex 2 and it was 90 at nine or whatever and I was like I'm not that's num not sober enough to do this unboxing so we're not going to be doing this anyway we I'm having to work from memory on the run down because apparently if a site is down because our internet connection is fine but the pocono itself is dead luckily I have it loaded here Thank You Stephen continue to take us through I think the next thing we're talking about is it is a development on a rather well a rather notable platform this week yeah the big windows 10 technical preview for smartphones has landed we knew it was coming sometime in febuary Microsoft's being a little coy about saying just when but for the past week or so rumors have been saying I osgood me today and then they shoot it down no no it's gonna be tomorrow I shoot it down well we have it now it dropped yesterday it's only available for certain models will be talking about that a little more later later on dial ever fail but if you have one of these supportive devices which are the Lumia 630 35 36 638 730 or the 830 and you sign up for microsoft's windows insider program you can go ahead and install this guy now there's some very very small risks of this because it's just a preview right now microsoft admits there's this infinitesimally could muck up your device while flashing this you're probably fine and what's even better is that there's a a rollback tool or if you're not loving this because it is a preview it's very very rough around microsoft does nothing to hide this if it's not working few as a daily driver and there are some big things that are broken and a VPN support isn't working a lot of other little things you can roll back to 8.1 no problem and then wait for the finished polished Windows 10 release to come along but Michael you've been playing with this you are you filmed your first interaction with this what do you think of the preview so far indeed I have and I i find the preview a lot of fun i know we're going to talk about this a little bit later statement about which devices got the release which ones did not but it is so far it's fun to play with this at this stage but it's always a little more satisfying for me and i'll ask him if he has the same opinion in a second to be able to have some sort of conclusion for a video even in a comparison where it's like i don't i don't generally like to say would who's the winner who is the loser I at least like to have a conclusion of some sort that says you know hey this one's good for this kind of person this one's good for another kind of person or in a review this is crap or this is awesome with a technical preview like this it's like impossible to do that and these are some things this is what they are now they might be different things later that will rightly we write exactly yeah and so early and and I'm actually really pleased that it came out this early because I was not expecting the technical preview yesterday when I was waiting for the for the other phone to land certainly and so when it did when it did appear and it was popping up on my 8 30 against all of my like prior luck to the you know in this area I was like oh my god well I'm going to do a video on this real quick so you have to learn it as quickly as possible upload the video and you know I I think it has some nice elements of potential but it's so incomplete I didn't get to try the new outlook the new office the idea what would oh the new browser the new maps like there's just a lot of stuff that's on Joe Belfiore is 15 20 that hasn't made it to the technical preview yet you'll see cam of what you've seen I know you were just working with a 400 series Lumia over there but from what you're looking at what what are your thoughts on the Windows 10 so far on phones yeah I think there's a there's obviously a lot of good things about it a lot of improvements that Windows Phone I guess features that it should always have had and I think the most exciting thing potentially is the universal apps the way that you've got apps that have built to run across your pc or small tablet annual smartphone sort of all at once they don't have to develop separate apps i guess so you can have the same on the move as you've got at your office at home it just creates that better feeling or of an ecosystem that's supposed to work together rather than having a Windows Phone that's separate from everything else that you have I like the quick reply I think from what I've seen of that and also the new voice to text which is apparently more intelligent but obviously I have not been able to test it myself so I haven't been able to see how good that is at adding punctuation or choosing the number two instead of to the word or two the other word with 2 o's so yeah it looks good and there's a lot of good potential there but I haven't played with it myself so I can't have a conclusive opinion like a god and yeah all right I think we lost our Michael there um let's keep on moving on with the news while they work out their issues there let's see ah ah nokia had a little update coming to here maps which I'm happy to see that here is still becoming a more and more nothing ever wasn't a valid option but it's easy to with when you have really great mapping things like Google Maps it's very easy to think okay I have this this works we don't need anything else and certainly when when Apple moved away from google ad map provider with iOS a couple generations back it struggled to make apple maps work on its own Nokia's from doing its own thing with here maps for a while now this new update I just came out it added in some new new information on bodies of water roads turn-by-turn navigation with more regions around the globe ira flesh things out in taipei Rio de Janeiro são Paulo Singapore tastic vacation destinations for this time of year if you're especially in the Northeast where it's super cold like we are Michael and I at least here is it cold in England cam constantly yeah okay so these are because if you want to go to somewhere warm and nice here we'll hook you up with how to get around there these new updates are for the windows phone and the Android version and there's also some transportation public transit updates where it's better at keeping track of where the actual trains and buses are moving around so using that while you're out on the oh now you can do it with your Maps been better than you could before let the duh is Michael back yet oh here on Ceres not thanks come yeah well that's fine he had a good run this is gonna be the whole new pocket now weekly with Stephen at the helm from now on Jon Stewart's moving out of daily show I'm stepping up to take helm of the that weekly it's change isn't happening all over the place uh that's at that okay uh let's switch gears to Android for a minute here valentine's Day is coming up tomorrow if you're like me you have been neglecting it and are waiting to see if s going to come to bite you in the ass but the girlfriend hasn't mentioned it yet so you think you're okay but we'll find out but if you're thinking of maybe buying some tech stuff because your lady is a pocket now listener and really she should be then you've made the right choices in life Motorola has been having a Valentine's Day sale to help you save a little bit of cash when outputting yourself with the latest phones and accessories the big deal was announced at the end of last month and you could stay up to a hundred and forty dollars if you were spending 500 or more in Motorola's online store that was a really limited time offer you had to register by Monday a week ago so you've missed the boat on that going forward though there was the opportunity to save a little bit less still at decent amount you could save a hundred dollars on that five hundred dollar purchase or if you're only spending 250 they would knock $35 off your order it was gonna be they only had until Valentine's Day itself Saturday to take advantage of this you know Motorola's like well you know we're going to give you a little more extra time in case you haven't made your mind up just yet now you have through the 17th yeah through next Tuesday to finalize your purchase and well as the the initial 140 off you need to register and get a promo code or DeMuth this is very simple no code you just go to motorola's website throw stuff in your cart if it reaches these 250 or 500 the cut-offs you get the discount very suppose that I mean really hello it's Jules here I look at her like over here why not finally I like this huh usurped Michael here yes sir yeah I honestly he had a good run but I think you've been we've been grooming you for a while to fill his shoes now well I haven't received my first paycheck yet so we'll talk about that letter little later that's not the right Mike that's that right leg so now you can possibly hear me more when we can hear you before more than we could save her and Michael initially yeah this thing's still cut off and all that but yeah I mean broken wire is broken hearts what a lovely way to spend this Valentine's Day sure sure the only really disappointing thing as far as I'm concerned is that some of the prices and motorola's store or they're still a little high I'm gonna go sleep pardon still inflated there we haven't seen big discounts is the problem I mean this time last year they were cutting motox prices left there right soon as January rolled around it was saved 100 bucks here save 150 save 200 there I don't think we've seen that this I mean yet it saved money on a huge order and granted the Moto X is going to run you a significant amount of money buying it full price anyway but i would like to combine this with the discounts I am a