Pocketnow Weekly 220: Google Hyperdrives to Andromeda, and Blackberry Black-holes

Published: Oct. 1, 2016, 7 a.m.

Will Android and Chrome OS finally just merge already? What's going on with Android Wear, and will Huawei jump ship to Tizen? Can Blackberry survive by giving up on in-house hardware? This week we're joined by Trisha Hershberger to discuss these stories and answer your questions, so make sure you're charged and ready for the Pocketnow Weekly! Watch the live video broadcast from 2:00pm Eastern on September 30th (click here for your local time), or check out the high-quality audio version right here. For folks watching live, you can comment and ask questions by using the #PNWeekly hashtag on Twitter during the broadcast. For folks watching later, you can shoot your listener emails to podcast [AT] pocketnow [DOT] com for a shot at getting your question read aloud on the air the following week! Pocketnow Weekly 220 Recording Date September 30, 2016 Host Juan Bagnell Guest Trisha Hershberger (@ThatGrlTrish) Producer Jules Wang Will Chrome OS and Android finally merge already? (00:06:33) And it might just be called Andromeda. So, will a Pixel 3 laptop run Andromeda OS? How about a Nexus 7P tablet? News 15:47 | Android Wear 2.0 delayed until 2017. 18:09 | Will Huawei's next watch run Tizen? 29:39 | Samsung replaces replacement Note 7. 38:00 | Could this possibly be the Galaxy S8? Really? 44:41 | We're already talking iPhone 8 rumors... 49:29 | Apple might send your iMessage contact numbers to police. 54:08 | Sprint's "Free iPhone" deal could return a profit. 57:26 | Rogers bundling Projector MotoMod with every Moto Z pre-order. 59:38 | Lenovo lays off most of its remaining Motorola employees. Blackberry says goodbye to hardware? (01:03:15) No more in-house phone development, as more images of the DTEK60 leak, but CEO John Chen says there will be QWERTY phones in the future. Listener Mail (01:11:39) Listener questions this week from Haniko!  • See you next week! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.