Brad Bennett

Toronto

Feeling like a corrupted ZIP file⁣ ⁣~ head of creative @MobileSyrup. Also, a journalist who likes phones too much. ~ Email: [email protected]

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Articles

Elon Musk says he's not on drugs

5 days ago | mobilesyrup.com | Brad Bennett

Nothing like sending out a tweet to quell suspicionsAfter a new report from the New York Times that elaborated on Elon Musk’s drug use while working at the White House, the CEO has taken to X.com to deny the allegations. Musk replied to a joke someone made about the report by saying, “to be clear, I am NOT taking drugs! The New York Times was lying their ass off. I tried *prescription* ketamine a few years ago and said so on X, so this not even news.
Galaxy S25 Edge survives bend test

5 days ago | mobilesyrup.com | Brad Bennett

The YouTube channel JerryRigEverything has finally gotten its hands on Samsung’s ultra-thin S25 Edge, and surprisingly, it survived the bend test. You can watch the video below where Zack from the channel submits the thinner-than-average phone to various tests to discover how scratch and fire-resistant the phone is. Near the end of the video, he finally attempts to bend the phone.
Rogers adds $75 fee for customers still using 3G at end of June

5 days ago | mobilesyrup.com | Brad Bennett

Rogers updated a support page about the July 31 3G network shutdown, detailing a new fee it will charge customers still using the 3G network. While we were aware of the $3/month fee for select customers to keep using 2G and 3G services, a new one-time $75 fee now applies to people using the 3G network (or earlier) for a full billing cycle. According to Rogers’ website, several notices have been sent to people who might be billed.
Apple testing its own AI assistant to compete with ChatGPT

5 days ago | mobilesyrup.com | Brad Bennett

Apple isn’t the first name you think of when you think of AI, but the company is reportedly still working on various AI models that will theoretically compete with ChatGPT and Gemini. A report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that models with three to 150 billion parameters are being tested and could be employed on the iPhone in the future.
I was a robot vacuum skeptic, but EcoVacs pulled me back in

1 week ago | mobilesyrup.com | Brad Bennett

I’ve been testing out the EcoVacs Deebot T80 Omni and X9 Pro Omni vacuums, and I never want to go back to a house without one. For years, I’ve lived in small Toronto apartments so it never made sense to buy a robot vacuum when I could sweep the whole place in less than ten minutes. However, my new apartment is much larger, so when EcoVacs reached out for me to test its latest robots I said yes.
Judge rules Rogers needs to accept Quebecor's MVNO rates

1 week ago | mobilesyrup.com | Brad Bennett

Rogers has been fighting Quebecor (owner of Freedom Mobile and Videotron) for almost two years over how much it can charge the Quebec-based carrier to use its network. Now, a final arbitration has been made siding with Quebecor’s original proposed rates. Taking a step back, this all started in 2021, when the CRTC established new rules for how the large carriers in Canada need to share their mobile networks with smaller players.
28 Years Later is getting everything out of the iPhone camera

1 week ago | mobilesyrup.com | Brad Bennett

To help modernize the themes of 28 Days Later, the team behind the third movie in the trilogy, 28 Years Later, shot on iPhones in all kinds of impressive ways. You may hear “It’s a movie shot on iPhone” and think it’s going to look like a low-end YouTube video, but as more information comes out about the film we can see that it’s pulling all the stops to give the movie a unique look that’s not weighed down by the iPhone’s lens.
Tesla sales down 90% in Quebec

1 week ago | mobilesyrup.com | Brad Bennett

Quebec sells the most electric vehicles (EVs) out of any Canadian province, but French Canadians are turning on Tesla. Quebec’s auto insurance board, the Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec, says that only 524 Tesla cars were registered in the province from Jan. 1 to March 31, which is a 90 per cent drop from the quarter before, when the automaker sold over 5,000 cars. The Tesla market in Quebec was on an incline throughout 2023 and 2024, but took a tumble in 2025.
Instagram no longer requires you to crop pictures

1 week ago | mobilesyrup.com | Brad Bennett

The next photo you post on Instagram can finally be completely unedited, as the app has been updated to support 3:4 images. Most phone cameras take images in 3:4 by default, so this change will allow you to post photos without having to crop them a bit. Previously, the tallest photo you could post on the app was 4:5. Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri announced the change on Threads, and most of the responses to that post have been positive, suggesting that people are happy with the change.
Google reportedly tripling down on Pixel customization

1 week ago | mobilesyrup.com | Brad Bennett

Google Pixel phones are currently able to run the Android 16 beta and a new feature has been uncovered by Android Authority that suggests Google is working on theme packs, which could be similar to how things work with Samsung’s One UI. These Pixel themes could, in theory, change your phone’s icons, wallpaper, operating system colour and more. It could even extend as far as changing system sounds, fonts or app designs.