There's our IFA 2016 wrap-up, but BOOM goes the Note 7 | Pocketnow Weekly 216

Recorded September 4, 2016.
We have walked 500 miles and we would walk 500 more to be the men that walked a thousand miles to podcast off the floor of apartment rental. That's all out of necessity for us to not only cover days and days of devices launched before and at the International Funkausstellung Berlin 2016, but in order for us to podcast. And this late audio file is the result of our fruits.
Juan Carlos Bagnell and Jaime Rivera team up to talk about the pop and burn of the Galaxy Note 7, Google dropping Project Ara, the Star VR from Acer, Huawei's Nova before it, Sony's now-usual disappointments and a whole bunch more. Currywurst or none, eat up! It's episode 216 of the Pocketnow Weekly!
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Pocketnow Weekly 216
Recording Date
September 4, 2016
Host
Juan Bagnell
Jaime Rivera
Producer
Jules Wang
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The #PNWeekly Rundown
4:17 | Did Juan and Jaime have to evacuate from their hotel because of a exploding Galaxy Note 7 battery?
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27:15 | Google won't take Project Ara any further
37:18 | Huawei gets its Nova, Nova Plus, but it wouldn't talk to us about the MediaPad M3
50:37 | The Samsung Gear S3 and the ASUS ZenWatch 3 were our most-watched products
56:44 | Despite some downgrades, the ZTE Axon 7 Mini nails it for €299
1:01:44 | Lamenting Sony's Xperia, but will the XZ and X Compact do it right?
1:07:24 | IMAX, Acer and Starbreeze make the Star VR 5K headset, everything else is kinda meh for the resolution
LG 360 VR, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR
1:18:21 | Jaime might choose Lenovo's Yoga Book over the iPad
1:29:13 | The Jabra Elite Sport earbuds that cancel noise and are water-resistant
1:35:15 | Fossil kicks into gear with Misfit while Nokia/Withings goes spartan
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