Dean Daley
Dean Daley connects consumer devices, streaming platforms and video games for MobileSyrup, focusing on how hardware, services and software shape everyday entertainment. He is Devices Editor at MobileSyrup, with years of reporting and reviewing across smartphones, foldables, games, streaming and AI. His archive at the masthead spans hundreds of pages of news, reviews, features and resources, with bylines dating back to 2017. He writes in formats that range from in-depth reviews and first impressions to recurring streaming guides and AI news briefs. He also contributes to MobileSyrup’s podcasts and video coverage, extending his consumer-focused perspective into audio and on-camera formats.
Streaming in Canada: New and Upcoming Releases
Daley handles recurring streaming roundups that explain what is new on major services in Canada, including Apple TV, Crave, Disney+, Netflix, Paramount+ and Prime Video.
His “Streaming in Canada” resource series lists weekly additions across these platforms in a concise, service-by-service format. He also writes monthly guides such as “New on Netflix Canada: July 2026,” “New on Disney+ Canada: July 2026” and “New on Paramount+ Canada and Pluto TV: July 2026,” flagging notable titles and outlining what subscribers can expect to see in the coming weeks. This streaming coverage sits at the intersection of technology and entertainment, focusing on the content libraries of major platforms rather than celebrity-focused coverage.
Smartphones, Foldables and Consumer Devices
As Devices Editor, Daley leads coverage of smartphones, foldables and other consumer hardware at MobileSyrup. His recent work includes first impressions of Google’s Pixel 11 series, framing the devices through an early hands-on perspective. He has written multiple reviews of Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 line, with headlines such as “Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 is the future I want for smartphones,” “Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8: The folding phone I’ve been waiting for” and “Samsung Z Fold 8 Ultra: The thinnest foldable comes with an ‘Ultra’ price,” underscoring his focus on how new form factors change everyday smartphone use and pricing. Beyond phones, he reviews accessories and connectivity products like the GameSir G7 Pro 8K gaming controller and the AAWireless TWO+ adapter that “bridg[es] together Android and iPhone,” treating controllers and adapters as part of the broader entertainment and device ecosystem. His device coverage is grounded in hands-on reviews and first-person perspectives, with headlines that emphasise how products fit into daily life rather than only listing specifications.
Video Game Reviews and Features
Daley reviews video games alongside hardware, often writing in the first person about how a title fits into his broader experience with the medium.
Recent examples include “Beast of Reincarnation revived my love for Game Freak,” “Splatoon Raiders is one of my favourite Nintendo games in years” and “Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced - The pirate’s life is finally for me.” These pieces frame gameplay and story through a personal lens, using clear statements of enjoyment or renewed interest to signal why a game stands out. His coverage in this area complements his streaming guides, building a picture of how people play and watch entertainment across consoles, handhelds and services.
AI, Platforms and Everyday Infrastructure
Daley tracks the consumer and civic impact of artificial intelligence through news coverage that sits between technology and public life. His recent AI stories include pieces on Gemini for macOS gaining new voice features, Apple working on a HomePod with Siri AI and multiple face detection, and Peel Police introducing an AI tool for non-emergency calls. He also reports on Cloudflare’s analysis of how Google’s AI traffic affects the broader internet and on the transit operator TTC using AI cameras to catch drivers who illegally pass streetcars, tying platform-level changes to concrete examples of infrastructure and enforcement. Across these articles, he treats AI as a practical system that changes software, policing and transit, rather than only a marketing term attached to devices.
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Ama Sechere
Ama Sechere is an entertainment publicist at Bell Media who maps Crave’s streaming slate across Crave, HBO, Starz, and related specialty channels. Her main work is the recurring Crave Streaming Overview series, published monthly from at least December 2021 through July 2026 and in weekly editions. These releases track feature films, returning series, premieres, finales, special events, and new acquisitions by date, format, and platform. She also handles campaign-style announcements for priority titles, including the short-form original comedy series MY DEAD MOM. Sechere focuses on streaming and television publicity, with more than a decade of experience in national and multi-platform campaigns. She reports through structured schedules, concise loglines, highlight notes, premiere details, and clear cross-brand labels. Her work supports media planning rather than criticism or review.
Amaris Encinas
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Andrew Thompson
Andrew Thompson covers the modern wrestling business through interview-led news and detailed event reports across major promotions. He writes for Fightful and POST Wrestling, focusing on clear, news-first stories built from wrestler quotations, promotional announcements and match results. Since 2017, his beat has spanned WWE, AEW, NJPW, MLW and other companies, documenting plans, deals and career moves through his own interviews and conversations. He files chronological recaps from major WWE cards and weekly shows, tracking match outcomes, title changes, segments and announced bouts with wrestling-specific detail. His cross-promotion coverage and appearances discussing events like AEW All In add context on how talent, stories and major cards move between companies. Beyond articles, he runs the “Andrew Thompson Interviews” video series and appears as a podcaster, keeping the emphasis on direct questions, sourced quotes and concrete developments.
Angelina Mazza
Angelina Mazza is a romance scholar and cultural critic who treats love stories, celebrity narratives, and pop entertainment as serious subjects, tracing how they shape contemporary culture. She writes for outlets including Vulture, Slate, Literary Hub, Salon, and other magazines and journals. At Vulture she covers romance fiction and celebrity stories, using list-driven guides and essays to analyze genre tropes, fandoms, and how romance moves from niche communities into mainstream culture. Her work extends to television, music, poetry, internet culture, and the history of music television, examining programming choices, character types, and images as texts that encode identity, desire, gender, and audience. She also writes about digital culture and campus television comedies, and works as a fact-checker, bringing precise detail and careful sourcing to her reported and critical pieces.