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welcome to Android authority on air the original Android hangout show on Google+ I'm Derrick Ross I'm Dan Charlton and I'm Jonathan Franklin this week we're gonna hit up the Android nation that is supposedly coming to New Delhi and some other news from the Android ecosystem and maybe even some information about balloons are they 99 of them are they red I don't know as a bad joke we're gonna have some devices such as the new Galaxy camera some interesting devices from Samsung Huawei is doing some cool stuff HTC is I'm impressed with the HTC device we're going to talk about um we're gonna give away a secret code for a chance at winning a Galaxy Note 8.0 so you want to stay tuned once again stay tuned because we're gonna give away a secret code a chance to win a Galaxy Note 8 and then we're gonna talk about apps and some carrier news and some patents specifically intellectual Ventures you know Nokia Microsoft that they're doing some bad stuff and you know what and in Falcon Pro everyone's favorite Twitter client has gone through some rough times we're gonna talk about that as well all right so so let's get started about this this contest I mentioned a few moments ago tomorrow Friday we're going to officially launch a giveaway for a Galaxy Note 8.0 it's the it's an international contest so no matter where you're at on the planet you can go ahead and enter oh you want a place to receive mail oh yeah if you can read if you have a mailing address so you know I mean we will ship it to you it's the 16 gigabyte galaxy note it's white the it has 2 gigs of ram if you're not familiar with a device at 1280 by 800 screen resolution 1.6 gigahertz Exynos 4400 16 Giga and I said 2 gigs battery lasts for about eight hours five megapixel rear web camera so and has a stylus you know that's the biggest thing with the notes right this stylus I guess I should have mention that it comes with the S the S Pen not just a stylus actually I think I downplay that by calling it a stylus it's an S Pen it as over a hundred different sensing capabilities and it works better on that size of device too okay so so once again we're gonna give away a secret code a little bit later in the show and what you're gonna do is you're gonna take this code you're gonna visit Android authority comm you're gonna go to the contest and you're gonna enter this secret code and it's gonna give you an additional chance to win and then next week we're gonna do the same thing for those of you that are watching the show and listening to the show we're gonna give you an exclusive chance to get another entry so you want to watch and listen this week as well as next week for two additional chances to win a Galaxy Note 8.0 free of charge shipped to any place on the planet with a valid shipping address thanks Dan alright so so let's talk about some ecosystem news before we spill the beans in that secret code alright so Google is supposedly planning Android nation I like that we should go try to register that domain names it's not available I mean if it is available so anyways Android nation retail brick-and-mortar stores are coming to New Delhi and their goal is to eventually then further spread out throughout India in the future they're gonna they're gonna support you know multiple handsets from different OEMs with spicemobile from Asia the stores are gonna Center on hands-on experiences accessories technical assistance from gurus like us and experienced guys giving demos and more basically it's every Android fans wet dream giving you all the information and devices and Android it's gonna give you a chance to play with devices and you know apparently that's not a very big thing you know in in a in India it's a huge market and it's tough to have you know people go to places to actually see all these different devices that are available to them so so that that's why they're doing that there and you know what I'm a little jealous of of that side of the world you know I want to walk into an Android nation you know I want to walk in and geek out and see all the cool Google stuff all the cool Android stuff you know definitely but I think I think Google smart to do it and we're really still emerging markets for the cell phone industry and the smartphone industry in particular so I think it gives them an opportunity to get in quite literally on the ground floor in India the market with over a billion consumers and really hub market that Apple just hasn't been able to play in and so it's going to push more I'm curious to see how this goes I would love to see it come to other markets but you know there's a lot of talk about it it just wouldn't work right now at least another market so I'm curious is how this pans out so we're gonna talk about Facebook for a second I know you know Google+ country Google country I wanna talk about Facebook but uh Facebook today announced that vine was coming to Instagram right oh wait a second wait a second no no they announced that Instagram you remember they bought them a year ago they announced that Instagram was going to get not six second videos like Twitter's vine has they're gonna get 15-second videos so almost three times is good Google offers you unlimited seconds on YouTube yeah yeah you know it's a so it's not for everybody but vine you know has a lot of users and it's growing more popular and brands are looking into it so you know I There is obviously a market for it but it's interesting that you know Facebook or Instagram you know felt the need to to be able to do that so the videos will play in your feed but they won't automatically loop like they do on vine over and over and over again so you'll see the 15-second video once and if you want to watch it again you'll have to tap play again actually I believe the update is now available in the Play Store so go ahead and check that out make us some 15 second videos letting us know how awesome Android is and share the link in the comments and we'll check them out so Dan are you gonna you gonna install Instagram something on Instagram user now you can install it just to make 15-second videos no definitely not I don't really understand are they silent well if you don't make any noise yes but if they're not and like I have my stream open I could have potentially offensive language just randomly streaming on my computer for 15 seconds at a time yeah so it's not a photo bomb you know cuz that's Instagram right so it's a video bomb so basically just you you come up with a whole bunch of obscenities and you're not safe for work content you need to start streaming in your stream and you offend everybody that you're following right yeah I mean I you're near lose followers pretty quickly so I would suggest to not do that but but yes it is possible yeah I'm not sure I want that it seems very intrusive I want to watch a video I'm gonna click on it I don't want to just start playing don't you hate it when you land on a website that has some video content on it just starts playing yeah you have some chick that comes out and she's like hey I'm gonna use a sexy woman to sell you a product in a marketing blah blah blah blah blah uterine yeah yeah kind of website you going to Derek I would prefer not to admit this on a public forum John you know the NSA knows what that's a bad I do like the the video service provider workers are now degrading into who's offering more seconds yeah yeah I know it's not hours of YouTube sockets now Twitter's going to come back and get you 18 Oh beat that Facebook and YouTube finally here's a competitor eventually alright so the next thing we're gonna talk about balloons and there's not now well there's probably more than 99 of them but and they're definitely not read the more of like a from what I've seen the more of like a clear plastic but they could be read so so anyways Project loon was announced and Project loon is putting basically weather balloons balloons in the stratosphere to form a massive mesh network with them to bring Internet connectivity all over the world more importantly to bring Internet connectivity to places that don't have it or it's very sparse or very inexpensive very expensive and you're looking at 3G or higher speeds now which isn't horrible when you're talking you don't have internet access you know it's better than nothing and it's pretty it's pretty neat the the balloons are gonna use hardware that will being the signals you know down to homes and homes will have a special receiver on them then coincidentally enough receiver actually looks like a little balloon and the balloons will actually you know ride up and down in the winds in the stratosphere so they'll be they'll be able to use that to navigate so when a bunch of balloons you start heading and over to an area maybe and they're not getting is they're getting you know too much coverage in there and in another area is lacking they can then either make the balloon go up or make the balloon go down depending on which draft which wind stream they're trying to maneuver into and then to actually steer them that way so they'll be able to move them around and and not have you know big dead zones it seems like I mean this technology is very new very experimental and they're they're testing it out right now in New Zealand so if you're watching us in New Zealand try to get in on this you know uh it's very very interesting I think it's very cool dan the John what are your thoughts on this yeah it's well it's something that really opens up a lot of other markets like for business and education you know I don't think it's ever a bad thing to you know get the power of the Internet or even you know you're talking about very heavily you know agricultural places that can get information like weather and stuff that will really affect them and help them make their own lives better really so and Google execs have said at least two different times that I can think of in recent months that it's time to reach the next five or six billion people you know I mean there's you know Google services might cover a lot of people in the world but in the grand scheme of things there's still five or six billion people that you know Google can still reach with a service or two then and that you know that's really what I think Project loon is is really about I mean look at you know places you know you know China or India that we were talking about with you Android nation I mean you know in Africa there's so many people in these places compared to you know compared to Europe or United States and there's a lot of potential for Google well these are our emerging markets no absolutely and I think that Google is really really trying to focus on places that just flat-out don't have any access or have such sparse population densities that there's no real no realistic way that anybody's gonna build terrestrial infrastructure to service the people in that area there's some African officials they're kind of pushing back against it saying oh yeah this sounds nice but realistically network access isn't the problem for the people in those countries capable devices is the problem it's not that they can't find a place to get Wi-Fi it's that they don't have a laptop or a cell phone that can use the Wi-Fi so really projecting 3G everywhere is nice but there's already cell phone towers to do that there just aren't any cell phones so I mean it's definitely as its detractors but I think they're right in their goal of trying get everybody on line and I think you're right in the if they need to focus on other markets as bigger forces the US is in world economics half the world's people live in Africa so you gotta go over the people are yeah alright in just real quick news about some some former HTC execs and they'll get on to some devices remember over the past month or so there's been a few execs that have left HTC you know bleeding and from the ranks above and people were you know crying wolf talking about how well you know HTC is going downhill cuz execs are leaving we're not going to talk about that because you know frankly you know it is it is what it is but we will talk about what some of those execs are doing now that they're not with HTC they're they started a company called Kazaam yes that's what it's called and we don't really have a lot of details yet except for that it's coming soon and that they're gonna heavily focus on the european market focus on solid design good hardware you know good technology which you know really should be the goal of any smartphone company there is no announcement what software these devices are going to run you know I'd like to see him run Android obviously this is Android authority on air but you know there's other open mobile OS is out there so who knows what they're gonna run I guess we'll Firefox yeah they can be running Firefox we'll find out soon enough though and hey it's interesting you know to see what they do you know it's always nice to get another competitor out there consumers generally win when there's more competition the way it's bugging me go meat goes Tysons alright so so let's talk about some some devices John you want to enlighten us with some device news around the world heard Samsung get some cool stuff today really a lot of devices this week but the first one is not really an upcoming device yet but it's an IndieGoGo campaign and it was what was showing off was the concept of a motorcycle helmet it's really kind of centering around having navigation in a way that motorcyclists can you know really safely have it it's kind of similar to Google has its augmented reality and the displays pretty similar where it actually project an image in the images full-color but it's also translucent so basically what they're proposing is that the thing is when I have to 3000 milliamp hour batteries you know for a long battery life on it then you'll have a microphone for voice control and then two-year phones no clue if the earphones allow you to play music back while you're riding but you never know the interface is gonna be tailored to be very minimalist and focused so probably not gonna be able to play any games or watch any videos on the go unless you're you know find a way to unlock the bootloader it will be Android powered you know every gyroscope every other sensor you could imagine they're proposing that would have LTE and the maps would be for the entire world and it would include points of interest weather traffic information it's not really some you know it's not just a bunch of small-time guys doing it it's also it's already got a lot of backing it's a russian project that already has a substantial amount of backing from a bunch of russian science and their prized foundations their goal is to reach $150,000 by July 12th so if you're interested you could search for it it's called live map and it's an IndieGoGo thing is it on Kickstarter the interesting pitch in a Russian businessman it's interesting at least Samsung's keynote today part of the keynote was that they're kind of officially announcing devices they've already officially announced like we're not going to cover the active and the zoom and all that but in terms of new things that they've announced is uh the galaxy s4 is becoming in five new colors blue arctic brown autumn pink Twilight purple Mirage and red Aurora I'm really kind of surprised that they announced all five at once and so staggering them like you know three weeks apart for a press conference oh look we add it in blue archive Arctic this week three weeks later ah now it's in pink Twilight aren't you I did why didn't they announce these colors you know a month two months ago this is what pisses me off so everybody that bought them two months ago or am I yesterday well yesterday you can return it okay so if you bought these devices 30 days plus ago and you oh wow I want some blue or purple or whatever the hell they're calling them now you can't get it why do manufacturers do this at least I didn't wait eight months or nine months or whatever the hell the Nexus 4 was my varieties are a bit like is it that hard to to colorize the shell of a device that it takes weeks and months to announce I just did that blows my mind yeah apparently I'm not smart enough to comprehend this because I don't work for these manufacturers you can't car manufacturers don't do this I mean seriously hey that's my rant for this week you know it's good it's definitely you know one of the things I did with the s3 was kind of pushed that the covers you know you had the flip covers and stuff and that was really your the the way they were wanting to go as far as your customer customizing it and the s4 it has that too but you know they're you know on in addition you're getting the you know device if you want to but if you wanted to turn like a white s4 into a you know red or something you're probably gonna see you know realistically with the they have the band around it you'll have a two-tone or you have a flip cover that you could do red and white and it would still look good so you know yeah so it's not too bad on that one just makes you know getting a white device is probably your best bet if you want to color customize because it goes with anything but the next one of the next things that they announced was that actually a Galaxy NX camera and you know people think about the galaxy camera this is a you know Android powered version of their DSLRs and it's a very serious camera 20 point three megapixel sensor it has their proprietary lens mount and it will work with any existing lenses from they're interchangeable in x-series as far as the Android software it's gonna run for TouchWiz on to 4.2.2 it's got a 720p 4.8 inch display that's got a 1.6 gigs in those quad core and one and a half gigabytes of RAM 4360 milliamp hour battery and it's got 16 gigabytes of on-board storage with a micro SD slot for expansion like it's a very it looks like a very impressive you know professional camera that you could do you know that's a little bit of flexibility to it it's not something you're gonna play around on the software all day but it would be good to be able to post social networks and things directly you know from that especially with networks like Google+ it's let you upload in full resolution so it looks like a very well you know it looks like a very well designed device for what it's intended for I think it's a step above the you know current this dslr's where you'd have to do so much more management as far as plugging into you you know I want to buy a DSLR camera you know I I keep saying I want to do it you know I wonder if I should drop the you know the money for the Samsung nx-1 x-series is you know very professional on pretty pricey so doesn't get ready to dump your wallet out but it looks like a very good camera low if only it came without is you can route it and put a custom on it you know NX you know Daniel we could put a custom ROM on it the camera might force closed for a while you know you know is it and that's the main function of the day at least I run a custom wrong this is why I want them to release a Google edition a Google edition of VNA throw them least and ask him that and the next really and this was probably the one that raised the most eyebrow is I think was the teeth cue and it's a 13.3 inch tablet laptop hybrid that runs both windows 8 and Android it packs an S Pen that I believe this it works with Microsoft Office and you can actually pin Android apps onto the window windows 8 say the modern UI the Metro desk blasphemy ah sorts the the hardware itself though it's a 3200 by 1800 display on a 13.3 inch screen so it clocks in at 275 pixels per inch samsung knows how to make high density display really on their android tablets at all but that's a beast of a display for us yeah thirteen point three inches that's huge yeah it has a their advertising is having five modes being a it's a convertible a tablet a stand you know for typing floating and writing with the pen the cpu interestingly that kind of mounts on a hinge it has you know you have the keyboard and it will talk down to the tablet but the the processor is actually built into the hinge and they tell you that you know because of that the processors not want to heat the keyboard up while you're using it but you can the hinge kind of comes if this is your keyboard the hinge kind of comes out right here and the screen can float where you can have it like a stand if you're standing up and typing you can move it you know tilt it back this way if you want to demonstrate something you can tilt it like a laptop or you can use it like a tablet it's kind of a better proposition as far as how many modes and has they kind of you know every Windows 8 thing that hybrids have been kind of quirky but it actually looks useful you know the keyboards not so small that you wouldn't want to use it and it's actually a real keyboard so it doesn't look pretty impressive yeah it's a hassle beast the whole I can't I can't get past that John the whole dual OS mode I mean it's kind of what are the you use cases for that not not what you would think and that's one thing I would say that a lot of the reviews I saw if you're gonna buy this thing don't buy it for Android buy it for Windows because Android if you look at the Asus trio with the transformer trio the way the Asus does it is when you dock it it's in Windows 8 but when you undock it it's just a full-blown Android tablet is not trying to be two different things at the same time that's what one would actually call dual OS yeah and all of Android and all of Windows on top of that this actually has a dedicated Intel Atom processor to Android and it has a separate processor what this one does it actually emulates Android on top of the current hardware which is it's got good hardware but you're in Android all of the windows 8 the charms bar that slides in from the gesture is actually you can still do the charms bar that's not like Android so if your if your finger rolls over it's going to you know it's gonna be kind of disjointed yeah that's because you aren't really in Android you're in Windows with a full screen view of Android on top yeah you're just virtualizing it amazing which I guess if it was Windows RT I could understand it more but you got a full-blown version of Windows 8 I just don't see as much of a need to dual boot in Android because you're gonna manage Android devices from it yeah I I don't see the use of that if you're blending full-blown desktop operating system why do you want the Android yeah I don't need that much more convenient for me to use some Android application that it is use the desktop equivalent or the browsers it's gonna work better yeah and it's in in any way shape it's a very impressive windows you know hybrid just by itself but if you're gonna buy one don't buy it for the Android point buy it through the windows part alright so let's talk about devices you would buy it's for Android that's uh so anybody interested in the shield uh you know the Nvidia shield John Dan you guys interested now though you know I have a Kepler GPU in my desktop but I'm still kind of debating on this field whether I well it's supposed to launch here in a week actually on June 27th and the price the price dropped to something a little more reasonable it's down to $2.99 now so if you're looking at buying the shield to do some Android gaming you'll be happy to know it's only 300 bucks now it's you know the positioning device don't get me wrong I I'm not a big Android gamer or a console gamer so it's not for me but you know there's a lot of people that are in love with this thing and can't wait for it so always everybody's everybody's favorite well there's a lot of I guess I won't say that because ZTE falls in that category anyways Huawei from from China is one of the more prominent Chinese handset device manufacturers they announced their their first you know flagship and I don't know I like that term but whatever that's what they called it their first flagship device the Ascend p6 it's almost all metal build pretty decently thin six six millimeters there's no LTE but if you look at the market that it's in that really you know there's there's also no LTE in China you know that makes sense yeah the China doesn't have that so that's fine you don't need to look at it and think oh my god no LTE you know that's their market it the battery is a little small 2000 milliamp hours it's gonna have a 1.5 gigahertz quad-core of an unknown type that the processor hasn't been announced yet which is a little bit interesting two gigs of RAM eight gig storage it but there's an SD slot so you can go ahead and increase that if you need to it's gonna be rockin Android 4.2.2 with a heavily modified UI there emotion UI so well what's emotion UI if you've ever run me UI or mi UI depending on what school you're from it it looks like that you know it is that I mean it's it's very very very close when I first saw it at CES last year and then their video they released this past week the first thing that came to mind both times when I saw was hey look it's me why I mean it really reminds me of that Dan used to be big into me you I do you think their emotion you I remind you of that of are am I crazy I haven't actually seen it I've seen I've only really seen a couple of screenshots of that Huawei yeah it does look very much for along the same lines realistically I think that's just kind of the look but it's but it well yeah exactly where's me you are from I mean amazing China's Iommi's in China and ZTE the other other big smartphone manufacturer from China their UI looks similar to this as well they all they all share the same you know same look and feel and that's cool you know you gotta go with what your users want all right so my favorite phone in the world the htc droid DNA also known as the HTC butterfly it's not my favorite phone if you know who I am but it is the phone I use every day it's it it's getting a an upgrade a a replacement in the soon realm you know we don't know how soon but it was a it was announced or teased the butterfly s which is like I said it's the same same phone as the Droid DNA just depending on where you buy if you buy the United States from Verizon it's called the Droid DNA go to Japan and you buy it it's called the butterfly so the butterfly s was announced and it's it basically looks like the HTC One got busy with the butterfly and they had a love child and the love child was the butterfly s so it's gonna have a 5-inch display just like the original butterfly with 1080p so we have the same processor that the HTC one has a Snapdragon 600 but like I said it's going to be a 5-inch screen so you're gonna have a 5-inch screen with an awesome processor 16 gig of one board storage just like the current one the current s9 yeah one more time the current butterfly but the butterfly ass is gonna have an SD slot it's gonna have two gigs of RAM and just like the one it's gonna have an ultra pixel camera and it has front-facing speakers for boom sound boom and it's gonna rock a 3200 milliamp hour battery which that's big and that's I wish the DNA had that in it so I'm confused because HTC is only putting out the HTC One this year and the kind of like how they're not focusing on low-end markets while pedaling the desire yes yeah they're they're they're they're only putting out the one they're only focusing on the one all wait a sec what about the one mini what about the the low-end crappy desire and we're now good max or the butterfly ass now the butterfly is Verizon yeah so I want as a DNA owner I want this phone and I wish my phone was this fat but I'm curious that it's not going to have a Snapdragon 800 because new phones being announced right now are being announced with the Snapdragon 800 so I'm curious to eat either this phone is going to come out very very soon or it's gonna come out everyone's maybe like oh I using that when the new would you know this is the new thing to use so I would bet it we're gonna see it soon just for the fact that it's a 600 what do you guys think no I think that's I think that's accurate I think they've probably been planning to release this for a while and it's just getting announced now yeah it's really focused on Asian markets anyway so yeah it kind of makes sense that it's a pretty small market release I mean it's never going to have LTE onboard so they clearly aren't trying to go gangbusters with this and that doesn't you know that doesn't mean that they're not gonna add in the future for you know who knows what they're planning on doing with it I'm still confused it all these other devices are coming out because HTC said you know six months ago they're only focusing on their flagship so I don't know what this is anyway so let's speak of that snapdragon 800 that the butterfly s doesn't have Dan tell us how awesome that processor is because I saw some benchmarks yesterday and I'm still excited over I can't contain myself yeah the benchmarks for it are pretty impressive we were finally able to get some realistic benchmarks out of it because Qualcomm invited an an tech and gadget a couple of other big publications Ars Technica I think as well how to really show it off and show off their development platform so they gave the press a tablet and phone running on the Snapdragon 800 and basically let them have their way with the devices and so an tech and and our stack could really put the devices through their paces and clogged him against the nvidia tegra for reference tablets clocked him against the nexus 10 for the 5055 20 and the ipad 4 that's the the Apple a6x their top align processor and really the snapdragon is quite a strong performer in some of the more processor intensive tests it's still losing out a little bit to the a-15 in terms of per core we're all processing power but it's really narrow the gap down top almost but weird it's really just blowing away the competition is in GPU performance and honestly that's kind of unexpected for Qualcomm they don't typically make the best of GPUs ever but the GPUs the GPU in this is the entry no 330 which is a substantial improvement over the 320 that's in the 600 and when I say substantial heavy a Miss scores on the order of double the performance of the previous generation challenge so absolutely blowing away every other Android chip maker out there giving the the power VR the chips that are in the Apple a6 series run for its money in terms of just raw performance and then in terms of like game simulations from real world use performance is handling beating out those devices so this GPU is really by far the best on the market right now nuts yeah and in tech even put it up against Intel and Andy just top level graphics processors and it's I mean it's still losing to those definitely but it's starting to close the gap between arm and the desktop or between arm and x86 graphics processor so this is really the chip to meet the tiger for is not even out yet and it's already looking sad and decrepit unfortunately for NVIDIA but they have started to talk about potentially just licensing their GPU architecture to the arm market so maybe that's their way yeah I saw that that's interesting it's almost like conceding before they even had a chance to fight yeah well they tried the fighting and it hasn't been going so well yeah the Snapdragon 800 you mention is in all the best things that are in the pipeline it's been announced or rumored for the next generation Optimus G presumably to Qualcomm was there to announce the device with LG that's also an announced aureus rumored for a Galaxy S or version with lte-advanced for Korea the lte-advanced there is key because that is on dye with the 800 and so all of these devices that have Snapdragon 800 will support LTE advanced even if your carrier doesn't have LTE advanced your device is ready for it so it's definitely good for future proofing Europe your hands on other devices rumored to have it are the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 the HTC One Maxx or g6 which is their upcoming Note competitor and the Estonia Xperia Z ultra or Z you are to garden which i think is also their no competitor so all the most massive phones on the market are going to have the most your beefy processor market now let's get to our secret contest code in honor of these Snapdragon 800 the code for this week is going to be snap dragon sorry so for those of you that are just tuning in or missed the beginning here I'm gonna give a brief recap so what a Dan just but what was Dan talking about all right so we're giving away a galaxy note 8.0 the official contest is gonna be announced tomorrow but because you love us and we love you we're giving you an extra opportunity so what you want to do is write down that secret code that Dan just mentioned Snapdragon and put a little piece of paper put it in notepad save it somewhere Google keep I don't care where you save it remember it and then tomorrow Friday whenever the contest officially starts you're gonna go to the contest page there's going to be a Rafflecopter entry form you're gonna put that secret code where it says android authority on air week one code and you're gonna put that code in there and then because you love us and we love you you're gonna watch on or less and next week and you're gonna get a totally different code and you're gonna enter that code in there that's gonna give you 2 exclusive android authority on air chances to win that some people won't get so you know I like those odds for a Galaxy Note 8.0 International shipping as well if you have a International shipping address if your mail carrier can get to you you have an opportunity to win all right so so let's uh let's talk about what we're talking about next Oh Dan's gonna talk about some care your news and and some device updates and then that will take a question here from the audience sure so T no t-mobile announced that they are gonna be selling the Sony Xperia Z later this summer the exact date and pricing are still a little bit up in the air which is kind of sad so the device isn't exactly new anymore but you know it's finally coming to t-mobile if you've been waiting for the Xperia Z soon will be your time Sony is also pushing 4.2.2 to the Xperia Z L which makes it the first non Nexus device to get updated to 4.2.2 rather than just ship with it so definitely good for Sony they're updating don't we wish everybody else would do the same thing in addition to just the regular basic Android goodies they are also getting support for 64 mega Giga Byte excuse me 64 gigabyte microSD cards so if you have one of those I think they're called X HD something along those lines super extra high capacity SD card the FBX yeah something like that if you have one of those here Sony Xperia Z out of now supported in other carrier news there's been a lot of entertaining drama between Sprint Clearwire dish and Softbank going on last week we talked about how clear wires board was recommending they accept dishes much better offer than Sprint's sprint meanwhile rebuffed dishes buyout offer for them sued dish over there bit unclear wire and up to their own bid on clear wire - better than dishes and now clear wire is recommending - that their shareholders side with Sprint Oh is kind of getting left out in the cold you're looking like they're not gonna get anything sprint is poised to accept softbank's view and clothes on buying out the rest of clear liner though for a lot more money than they wanted have to pay for so Derek how about some updates for the region all right before we hit the hit app update so we have a comment from from YouTube saying Derek are you still excited about the Moto X with the rumored leaked specs and just as a refresher if you don't pay attention to leaks earlier this week evie leaks famed smartphone insider that pretty much leaks leaks a lot of stuff I don't know how he gets his information but he's generally more right than not he says the Moto X will be a 1.7 gigahertz dual-core processor and MSM 8960 Pro 7 excuse me Dan if it's pro it's gonna be a quad core ok I'm just reading what he said 720p 2 gigs of ram 16 gig of storage 10 megapixel camera in the front I'm sorry and the rear the front camera is gonna be 2 megapixel it's gonna run Android 4.2.2 so Dan you're saying if it's an MSM 8960 Pro that's actually a quad core another dual core like he be leaked said well if it's a Snapdragon s4 pro then it's a quad core if it's pin 8960 as opposed to the 8960 a then it's a dual core and not a-- for its using a processor that's a year old well it's either using one that's a year old or one that's a year a hassled ok so you know phones are fast enough so I looked the processor and I say yeah ok whatever but then I look at that 720p and then I go back to previous rumors where was either a 4.3 inch screen or a 4.7 inch screen then I died a little bit inside because I need five inches and I need to be 1080p the DNA as much as I hate that damn thing I love that screen and I need a phone with a big screen and a big display but this what if this isn't the flagship and what if it's the razor him successor but that would be a beast of a phone at mid-range so yes oh so i'm i don't know i really wanted motorola to step up and save the day um i'll gonna keep my fingers crossed and confidence high that they're still gonna do that for me instead of releasing a film with a year-plus old SOC system-on-chip they might surprise us or this phone could come out and be you know you've got to remember the Nexus 4 sold for $300 and it had that part you know the same or similar processor in it so maybe this phone will sell for 150 bucks I don't know you know maybe they're gonna do something with the price it's gonna allow us who knows I want to be wowed I want Motorola to WoW me and I'm still hopeful I don't know if those specs are real I don't know if I'm gonna buy it I I don't know all right so so let's uh yeah there's an another user comment or question here about the giveaway is there a space in Snapdragon no there is not as and you know what um if you happen to mess up and put a space and Snapdragon for that secret code that's fine the winner will be checked to make sure you know that that that they they entered the code and and when it whenever chances go down through to be honest with you I'll go and spill the beans it's just gonna see if there's text in the field so if you put something that isn't correct in there like scott anderson never makes his bed calm then it's still gonna count as a entry but then when I look at it and I don't see Snapdragon in there I take it out manually so you can you can spell it as horrible as you want and as long as I basically look at it and say hey they're trying to spell Snapdragon it'll be a pain that I have to go through for you guys and I have to manually check all the entries I will go through that pain for you cuz I'm I'm just that dedicated all right so so back to apps so OH Verizon so instead of releasing an Android update for every phone they have except for the Galaxy Nexus because it's already on 4.2.2 instead of releasing Android updates for every phone except for one they decide to give us what we really wanted and that is a game Verizon reactivated their droid landing Twitter account they haven't used it since last November when they announced that the Razr m and all the other stuff so let's see it down personally so everybody's like oh my god to reactivate the account we're gonna get a new droid device I hate that name and then they're like Moo ha ha ha ha we're not releasing a new device we're releasing a game instead you know we spent time and money on this game who cares about Android OS updates more blood we're you know yes this is what your overpriced phone bill pays for not phone service all of this crap you didn't want in the first place all right so so what exactly is is this game so it's called decom droid combat also available for iPhone so it's not just exclusive to to risings droid tones droid come on iPhone seriously you can install it on your iPhone if you go to Verizon's website they link directly to the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store it's it's kind of Awesome there's Nexus for them yeah it does oh yeah because that's the Nexus the Nexus or the devil alright so so what this game is it's an augmented reality game sounds kind of cool right so basically you're uh you're a mech you know if you remember what mecha Warriors are yeah that's really what it is you're 50 foot tall walking flying tank and you swipe and you tap over your phone to fire and block missiles it the game's free so you don't try it but there is in-app purchases to make your to make your character more bad way so you can spend more money on Verizon if you did you'd be quiet' if you buy more missiles for your mech they will use that money for software development and update your Android device to mcgary ok so moving on with besides things that make me sad actually know this makes me sad too this is a sad week for for app updates so Falcon Pro it is a very popular Twitter client a lot of people use it I don't use Twitter that much but I use Falcon Pro when I do when I do get on the Twitter the the developer remember a few months back he ran into some issues were it became so popular that it hit the 100 thousand account API token limit Twitter limits third-party apps so their app stays the most popular anyways it hit a hundred thousand so he said well we're gonna reset these tokens so people that pirated the app people that don't use the app anymore it's going to release their tokens and give you a chance to you know real legitimate users that want to use it to continue using it he did that and all was hunky-dory for a while and then he started releasing new updates adding multiple accounts so people could add multiple accounts but you know what those multiple counts they pull in new tokens to to kind of shot himself in the foot by adding multiple counts support and they hit the hundred thousand API limit again so he says alright we're gonna reset everything so he resets everything people start logging back in all is fine and well and then boom he kind of gets shut down Twitter basically says no no I don't really know exactly what's going on the app has been pulled from the Google Play Store and if you already have a token on there you can go ahead and use the but the future looks pretty grim for for Falcon Pro at this point I what do you think John I I don't think it's sustainable I mean it's unfortunate it's not the developers fault it's yeah it's Twitter's business model I respect that he wants to support customers that you know basically supported him you know I understand that he wants to fight you know every way he can to try to keep his at Boeing because these people gave him money you know for our product but you know at some point you just gotta realize how it's just not sustainable anymore it's not worth fighting this is a mess Twitter being a douche but so ya know all sorts of other app updates you know Netflix updated chrome updated we talked about Instagram earlier Instagram has an update you know asana got an update all sorts of apps those I know a lot of people use Spotify so we'll talk about that a little more in depth Spotify you know finally got updated to use notification toggles you know those those things that are awesome and jellybean they allow you to control apps you know from from the notification area so Spotify now allows you to do that you know and some people are saying oh hey you know it's about time you know jelly beans only been available for a year so it's about time Spotify supported this and in you know I think that Google Play Music you know is shaking up the industry and and Spotify is like well we're not the only you know kid in town anymore so we better do what we can to spruce things up and they've been doing that you know the last updated landscape mode so that and that had been missing for like years ya know yeah dirt you know and that's good so if your Spotify user that's good now you're getting updates me I'm a Google Play Music all access user and I couldn't be happier I paid my $7.99 last week or two weeks ago whenever that was last drop in the Hat and I mean what that analogy means but apparently people say that when in this situation alright so Dan you want to yell about some patents yes intellectual adventures which you may remember is a control to use the president's term for them I know that's a great that he actually calls them that yes yes not a patent asserting entity and intellectual adventures you might also remember as a front for Nokia also known as a front for Microsoft has sued Motorola or you know Google in Florida never mind the fact that they already have an ongoing litigation against Motorola in some other state they filed a totally separate suit rather than joining it together just so it would be more paperwork and more costly for Google to defend themselves and the patent that they're claiming Motorola is infringing has to do with linking URLs in emails yes seriously as in pasting a URL into your email client and then when you hit Send having it render like as a clickable URL which in fact is just the default way that HTML functions I really hope that now that you know the United States government realizes that patents are hurting and in hindering software development now that things like this hope will hopefully things like this in the future can't actually be a real thing because the fact this is a real thing saddens me almost as much as you know patenting a shape yes yeah I mean Microsoft is seriously suing Google and claiming that they own a certain way that the internet functions for everybody anytime you ever type a URL into an email and press send you are violating this patent according to intellectual Ventures that sounds like a fair use you know patent ban you know it's a standard thing about this is that this patent was ever granted seriously the US Patent and Trade Office should feel embarrassed that crap like this went through their office and came out with their seal of approval it's pathetic clicking on a link in a URL is not something that you can patent particularly not when it's already part of the HTML standard that is open to everybody it's really just ridiculous all right well dan do you have anything else to add we didn't cover this week no that was really the only big patent news that was Android related this one current John how about you any anything we didn't hit on you want to yak about first a few seconds pretty much covered this very humourous with him like Microsoft and Nokia how Microsoft almost boat bought Nokia but they've degraded Nokia so much by running Windows Phone ok has no value for them to justify buying them as a mobile division well I look forward to the news coming up next week because this week this week was a slow news week in my opinion yeah there was a couple of big things in the news to talk about but it's a little slow and I'd like to talk about a report Android news so let's hope that next week is exciting you know we're getting close to the end of January a week from now will be the end of our galaxy note 8 giveaway so we'll be able to talk about that and more importantly a week from now is the two-year anniversary of Google+ so go ahead and start your conspiracy theories and rumor engines now about what cool thing what awesome feature will Google roll out in a in a week and also coincidentally the Nexus 7 pre-order becomes a year old in a week so maybe the Nexus 7 to then updated Nexus 7 the Refresh the reboot the newbie whatever you want to call it please don't call the Nexus 8 you know baby will have maybe where we had a report on that in a week because it'll be it'll be a thing I want it to be a thing one order one I will order one all right so you can find us on Android authority calm if you're watching this on YouTube now hey that's where you can find us youtube.com slash Android authority Google Plus Android Authority facebook.com slash Android thority Android off on Twitter Android authority on Soundcloud or also on iTunes we're also on the Miro and current Google Currents we have our app in the Google Play Store where you can stay up to date and be notified every time we publish an article all sorts of stuff so check us out tune in next week for an additional chance to win a Galaxy Note 8 and if you fast forward it to the end hoping to get that secret code nope it's hidden somewhere in the middle of the show you have to watch everything that guys