Bumpy Batteries and Star Wars Droids | Pocketnow Weekly 178

An Android tablet that doesn't quite belong. HTC news on both sides of the good/bad divide. An ugly-as-sin Apple accessory. And a Droid Turbo 2 that looks like Star Wars' own BB-8! Where are you going to find talk like this anywhere else on the internet? If you answered "anywhere I look," you're right indeed ... but you ended up here so welcome to the party. All of the above –plus your listener mail– awaits on episode 178 of the Pocketnow Weekly!
Watch the video broadcast from 1:30pm Eastern on December 11 (click here for your local time), or check out the high-quality audio version the Monday after we broadcast. And don't forget to shoot your listener mail to podcast [AT] pocketnow [DOT] com for a shot at getting your question read aloud on the air!
Pocketnow Weekly 178
Recording Date
December 11, 2015
Hosts
Michael Fisher
Stephen Schenck
Jaime Rivera
Producer
Jules Wang
 
Sponsor
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News
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It's the Pocketnow double Priv-away!
Pixel C now at Google Store starting at $499
Google confirms Android split screen in the works, possibly for Android N
Verizon Droid Turbo 2 Star Wars designs come to Moto Maker today
Could the first Snapdragon 820-powered Windows Phone be this HP Falcon?
Windows 10 Mobile Insiders getting free hardware to test Continuum
HTC explains Vive delays | enjoys revenue rebound
HTC Perfume allegedly en route with Android 6.1
ASUS and LG poke fun at "bumpy" iPhone battery case / Tim Cook defends it
Listener Mail
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E-mailed submissions from R S, Chris from Buffalo, and Ian
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See you at 1:30p ET!