Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup 8/9-8/15

iPhone's importance highlighted in special Apple website

Camera360 introduces Bestie selfie app

Update lets you replace Google Now on Android with Microsoft’s Cortana

Alcatel OneTouch IDOL 3 4.7 coming to both the US and Canada unlocked next week

Google is now under Alphabet. Wait, what?!

Spotify rumoured to be considering Premium-only music content

New Android smartphones from Acer are coming to Canada

iStore comes to Scarborough Town Centre and West Edmonton Mall

Facebook tipped to be developing breaking news notification app

Apple Music gains 11 million trial members

Twitter says goodbye to 140 character limit for Direct Messages

LG brings G4 Vigor to Canada

Samsung goes big with new Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge+

Canadian-made ONE Messenger app for iPhone teases capabilities on video

VW recalling more than 670,000 vehicles in North America due to faulty airbags

Kyocera Duraforce comes to TELUS for $50 on 2-year terms or $530 outright

New iCloud update lets you restore lost data

Samsung takes the fashion angle with Gear S2 smartwatch

Here’s the latest news about the ‘Star Wars’ universe

Find snippets of movie reviews by adding the word ‘reviews’ to your Google Search

Want to find out what critics are saying about the new Fantastic Four? You can catch what reviewers are saying by just adding the word reviews right after the movie title. Your search result will show you a Rotten Tomatoes score, a Common Sense Media score, and a Metacritic score, alongside the snippets of reviews. So the next time you’re stumped about what to see, you can check these out if it’s worth heading to the cinema to catch the flick.

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Here’s the latest news about the ‘Star Wars’ universe

A new poster for The Force Awakens, the cast for Rogue One, the director for Episode IX, and theme park rides. It’s been a pretty busy presentation from Disney and Lucasfilm at the semi-annual D-23 fan event.

The new painted poster released for The Force Awakens shows some new information about the upcoming film. Created by Drew Struzan, who’s worked on the posters of the other Star Wars films and the Indiana Jones films, it shows us things like Finn (John Boyega) is possibly a Jedi as he wields a lightsaber. Also on the poster, you see Kylo Ren, Rey (Daisy Ridley), and Han Solo (Harrison Ford).

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Microsoft tests news summary reader

Commuting and don’t want to be staring at a screen but you still want to catch up on the latest news? Microsoft is testing out an app that reads new summaries to you. Called NewsCast, the app takes articles from around the web and begins reading news summaries to you in a playlist. You can choose to save an article for actual reading later or read it right from the app with its built-in browser.

The app is supposed to be a proof-of-concept product from the Bing News and Speech teams that they’re currently testing internally at Microsoft. The app used to have a publicly-accessible website but now it looks like that has been taken down.  The app seems to have been iOS-only. Hopefully though they bring this to the public in the future and open it to more ecosystems.

Source: PCWorld