iPhone X pre-orders begin on October 27

The time to pre-order the iPhone X is close at hand. Canadians who want to ensure delivery of the completely redesigned iPhone flagship on November 3, will have their browsers or Apple Store apps locked and loaded on on Friday, October 27 at 12:01 a.m. PDT . That's 3:01 a.m. for us East Coast folks, which is pretty brutal but since a lot of people will presumably be calling in sick for the premiere of Stranger Things 2 on Netflix (that kicks in at midnight, y'all).

iPhone X is the statement device from Apple and the culmination of 10 years of iPhone evolution. While the company released the perfectly capable and similarly specced iPhone 8 last month, iPhone X brings a bezel with notch design (for FaceID) that removes the home button and uses facial recognition as as security and payments feature.

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Review: Sonos One Smart Speaker

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Sonos is considered the originator of wireless streaming audio. The company’s innovative MESH network solution enabled high fidelity audio streamed across multiple rooms simultaneously (or independently). Sonos speakers have been considered the gold standard in audio quality and precision while their software has long been the envy of other speaker manufacturers.

2017 has been a challenging year for Sonos. While the company continued to unveil well-received speakers and sound bars, they are seeing unprecedented competition not just from cheaper smart speakers with built-in assistants. They are also seeing companies like Google and Apple jump into the premium connected speaker space, presumably with smart assistant functionality. Now, Sonos has answered that challenge.

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Review: Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Microsoft has released the second of this year's updates to Windows 10. Called the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, the latest upgrade comes free to existing Windows 10 users and brings a surprisingly large set of updates.

I've been testing Windows 10 FCU as a Windows Insider for a few months now and despite a few glitches (Mail App shutting down for no reason while I'm composing an e-mail), it's been rather stable. For the rest of my review hit jump.

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Google Home Mini is now available in Canada

Canadians can now preorder the Google Home Mini which is expected to start shipping on November 5. Google Home Mini is the smallest member of the Google Home Family which is a smart speaker with a built-in Google Assistant which is the only assistant that's specifically tuned for English and French Canadian users and handles local information and nuances. We reviewed Google Home Mini here. 

With a price of CAD $80 as well as three attractive colours, Google Home Mini is the ideal trojan horse for consumers to get started with Google Assistant as well as smart home control and all the advantages of AI.