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On this week's SyrupCast, the team ditches the usual two-week release cadence to drop an emergency episode focused on Valve's new Steam Deck.Patrick O'Rourke spends roughly an hour telling Brad Bennett about his experience with the Steam Deck so far -- and yes, we now know that Proton is just the Linux translation layer and not the handheld's OS. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's SyrupCast, Patrick O’Rourke and Brad Bennett take a look at Chrome OS coming to Mac and PC and then unpack all of the major rumours surrounding Apple's upcoming March event, including the iPhone SE (2022), iPad Air and more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Just hours after the end of Samsung's latest 'Unpacked' event and with the Galaxy S22 Ultra in hand, Dean Daley offers his initial impressions of the smartphone to Patrick O'Rourke and Brad Bennett.The pod squad then shifts the conversation to discussing the Galaxy S22/Galaxy S22+ and breaks down whether this year's lower-end S series smartphones are a notable upgrade over their predecessors. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on the SyrupCast, the crew talks about Pokémon Legends: Arceus and Samsung's Galaxy S21 FE. To start the pod, Dean Daley explains to Patrick O'Rourke and Brad Bennett why Arceus is such a refreshing take on the Pokémon series. Next, the conversation shifts to Samsung's Galaxy S21 FE, a fan edition version of the S21 series that arrived on the eve of the S22 line's release.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on the SyrupCast, the crew returns after an extended hiatus to talk about how low-key CES 2022 was.To kick off the pod, Brad Bennett regales Patrick O'Rourke and Jon Lamont with news regarding Rogers' new CEO, the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE and the latest software update for the OnePlus Buds Pro. Next, Patrick steers the team towards recapping CES 2022. While this year's show was pretty dull, cool gadgets and several electric vehicle (EV) concept cars were still shown off. Finally, the team talks about some of the games they've been playing over the holidays, with Patrick shining a light on Halo Infinite and Brad talking about finally catching up on The Last of us 2. If you've been a long-time SyrupCast listener, you already know that Jon spent time with Destiny 2, but he also started playing Stardew Valley again. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week’s SyrupCast, Brad Bennett and Patrick O’Rourke grill Jon Lamont and Dean Daley about their respective Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro reviews. The pod squad talks about how the smartphones fit into the Canadian market, their significant refreshed designs and why Jon prefers the Pixel 6 and Dean is all about the Pixel 6 Pro. If you're interested in an hour-long conversation about the Pixel 6 series (and honestly, who isn't, right?), this is the SyrupCast episode for you. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's jam-packed SyrupCast, Brad Bennett, Jon Lamont and Patrick O’Rourke talk about Google's big Pixel 6 series reveal, Apple's new MacBook Pro and finally, the new 3rd-gen AirPods. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's SyrupCast, Brad Bennett, Jon Lamont and Patrick O’Rourke, once again, talk about Apple's iPhone 13 and the iPad mini now that both Patrick and Brad have spent time with the respective devices. Along with the Apple talk, the team also breaks down Microsoft's Surface event, with Jon offering his thoughts on the Surface Duo 2, Surface Laptop Studio, Surface Pro 8 and more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's SyrupCast, Brad Bennett, Jon Lamont and Patrick O’Rourke talk about Apple's big iPhone 13 event. This includes a discussion surrounding the fact that the iPhone 13 series is very similar to the iPhone 12 line, the reveal of the stellar-looking iPad mini, the Apple Watch Series 7 and the far more boring entry-level iPad. The team also talks about how wrong some rumours leading up to the event were, particularly surrounding the Series 7. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on the SyrupCast, Patrick O'Rourke and Brad Bennett sit down with Jon Lamont to go over some of the devices they've reviewed over the past year and how prolonged time with those items has shifted their opinions, including the Xbox Series X, the iPhone 12 mini, the Pixel 4a/4a 5G, the Fitbit Sense and the Sonos Move. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on the SyrupCast, Patrick O'Rourke, Brad Bennett and Dean Daley discuss the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Flip 3 and the Galaxy Watch 4 and the Galaxy Buds 2. As an added treat, Dean's Flip 3 review device was delivered to him mid-podcast. Next, Brad and Dean catch Patrick up on all the Pixel 6's and Pixel 6 Pro's new features, and he refuses to call the new robocop-like camera bump, a camera block.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on the SyrupCast, Patrick O'Rourke and Brad Bennett and joined by Dean Daley, smartphone leak reporter extraordinaire, to talk about Samsung's upcoming August unpacked event. Along with detailing rumours surrounding Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3, Dean also outlines the speculation surrounding the Galaxy Watch 4, Galaxy Watch 4 Classic and the rumours Galaxy Buds 2.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's been a busy week at MobileSyrup, so Patrick O'Rourke and Brad Bennett podcast as a duo on this episode and talk about the new OLED Nintendo Switch and all of the wireless earbuds Brad has been reviewing lately, including the excellent Beats Studio Buds.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on the SyrupCast, Patrick O'Rourke and Brad Bennett are joined by MobileSyrup's resident Windows expert Jon Lamont to talk about Windows 11's big reveal, including the top new features, the controversy surrounding TPM and of course, why Windows 9 doesn't exist.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on the SyrupCast, Patrick O'Rourke and Brad Bennett and joined by MobileSyrup's gaming reporter Brad Shankar and smartphone leak reporter extraordinaire Dean Daley to break down all the recent gaming announcements. This includes E3, Summer Games Fest, the Microsoft/Bethesda show and even the recent Nintendo Direct.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on the SyrupCast, MobileSyrup's Patrick O'Rourke and Brad Bennett sit down with Jon Lamont to talk about all the new operating system updates Apple revealed at WWDC 2021, including iOS 15, iPadOS 15, macOS Monterey, watchOS 8 and more.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on the SyrupCast, MobileSyrup managing editor Patrick O'Rourke, "bad boi" Brad Bennett and Android specialist Dean Daley, unpack everything from Google I/O 2021's keynote. To start the show Brad and Dean shoot rapid-fire questions at Patrick regarding all the Apple products that he reviewed this week, including the 2021 iMac, iPad Pro and Apple TV. The trio then unpacks some of our favourites announcements from Google I/O, including new camera tech and the really funky android 12 visual refresh.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on the SyrupCast, Patrick O'Rourke, Brad Bennett and Jon Lamont sit down to discuss early impressions of Apple's AirTag and Samsung's Galaxy Book Pro.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on the SyrupCast, Patrick O'Rourke and Brad Bennett are joined by MobileSyrup's Jon Lamont to break down Apple's recent 'Spring Loaded' fall hardware event, including the purple iPhone 12, the new Apple TV 4K, the AirTag, the colourful new iMac and the M1-equipped iPad Pro. And yes, we now know that the purple iPhone is not called 'Gorgeous Purple.'  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On the SyrupCast this week, Brad Bennett and Patrick O'Rourke are joined by Dean Daley to talk about the death of LG's mobile division and Apple's rumoured April event.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.