Brad Bennett

1 week ago | mobilesyrup.com | Brad Bennett

Every year, Apple hosts a challenge for students to create an original app using the Swift coding language. This year, Apple selected several Canadian winners and highlighted four, each with a wildly different app. There were 350 winning submissions worldwide. Toronto York University student Nahom Worku developed an app called AccessEd that allows users to take photos of their notes so the app can use machine learning to analyze them and turn them into flash cards.

1 week ago | mobilesyrup.com | Brad Bennett

Best Buy is holding a flash sale over the weekend on a wide variety of stuff. Here are some of the top deals we saw:MotionGrey standing desk – $149 Razer Orochi v2 – $63Samsung 27-inch 4K monitor – $309iPad Air M2 keyboard case – $161TCL 85-inch 4K TV – $1,149You can find even more sales in the deals section of Best Buy’s website.

1 week ago | mobilesyrup.com | Brad Bennett

Many of the larger carriers in Canada have already announced that they’re phasing out the 3G networks in Canada, and while most users won’t notice a change, people with older devices might have some problems. When the 3G shutdown occurs for your carrier, you’ll need to start using voice over LTE (VoLTE) to make calls. However, there are still older phones in rotation that don’t support the feature.

1 week ago | mobilesyrup.com | Brad Bennett

An ex-Freedom Mobile customer received an email from the carrier for a $29 plan that includes 60GB of data that can be used in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. For people who also subscribe to Freedom’s Internet service, the price for the mobile plan drops to $25 per month. This plan is only available to customers who used to be with Freedom but left, and it also appears to be for customers who already own their phone.

1 week ago | mobilesyrup.com | Brad Bennett

People who bough the Cybertruck without the ‘Full Self-Driving’ (FSD) package were originally entitled to Tesla’s lane guidance systems, but now the company is moving it behind a paywall. The ‘Autosteer’ lane guidance system keeps the truck between the lines and was traditionally a free Tesla feature as part of its basic Autopilot technology stack. Now, it’s being moved to the $11,000 FSD upgrade. Alternatively, you can pay $99 per month for the service if you don’t want to pay the upfront fee.