Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup 12/14-12/20

2014 Gift Guide: Health and Wellness

Review: Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7

Review: Amazon Kindle (2014)

Hands On: Pebble Steel smart watch

Review: HTC RE mobile action camera

SourceCode: For BlackBerry, all roads lead to NYC for Classic launch

Runtastic and Oculus Rift to offer 3D fitness exercises

FrontLog 1.1 is a multi-level task manager for iOS

Top trends and tech to consider this holiday season

Robin Williams tops Google Canada’s 2014 trending list

Instagram introduces five new filters

BlackBerry launching secure productivity bundle with Blend, BBM and VPN authentication

BlackBerry Classic preorders shipping next week

The Holiday Season's BEST Ad Campaigns

Eggtronic adds Qi wireless charging to HUB IT

Review: Kyocera DuraForce tough smartphone

Beck Taxi supports MADD Canada with re-loadable Card Launch

2014 Gift Guide: Gifts for Him

BlackBerry Classic now available online from TELUS, comes to stores in January

2014 Gift Guide: Gifts for Her

Hands On: BlackBerry Classic

Evernote brings Context feature to Android and Windows

Evernote debuted in October a feature they call Context to iOS and Mac. What Context does is it pulls content from different sources and then displays these on your screen. The sources include everything from your old notes, your co-workers’ notes, as well as websites like The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, and Fast Company. Now, Android and Windows Phone users who have Premium and Business accounts on Evernote will gain access to Context.

If you worry about having your information shared with these different sources, Evernote assures its users that it doesn’t share information to any of the publishers about you and your account.

Source: Evernote | Via: Engadget | Download: Google Play Store (Free) + Windows Phone Store (Free)

Flickr adds two-column layout for Android tablets

Flickr is optimizing its app for Android tablets with its latest update. The app now has a two-column view for tablets. Aside from that, you will be able to browse through photos within the full-screen lightbox view. This means you can swipe through photos without having to exit full-screen view. That second feature works for all Android devices.

The photo-centric app also has more in-app photo cropping features and the ability to share a number of photos in one batch instead of one at a time. The update should already be pushed to your Flickr app.

Source: Android Police | Download: Google Play Store (Free)

Hands On: BlackBerry Classic

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose - The BlackBerry Classic takes us back to the future

Text and Photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

BlackBerry didn't just get the band together for a farewell tour for their diminishing but rabid fanbase. The company commited substantial manpower and engineering into bringing to life a modern BlackBerry smartphone that's replete with the familiar, reliable and almost quirky feature set that users loved four of five years ago.

There's great power in nostalgia. Just ask carmarkers like VW, Mini, Fiat and even Ford, which relentlessly and successfully peddle newfangled and modernized versions of their iconic and best-selling products from yesteryear.

At first glance, many might dismiss the BlackBerry Classic as the smartphone equivalent of a "New Beetle", a new product that's riding on the reputation and the popularity of BlackBerrys iconic Bold line but which has very little in common with its famous predecessor. The truth is, there's much more to the BlackBerry Classic than meets the eye.

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