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welcome to android authority on air the original android hangout show on google+ I'm Derek Ross I'm Scott Anderson and I'm Johnathan Franklin this week we're going to hit up all the rumors surrounding the Moto X a lot of stuff happened over the past week we're going to talk about Android 4.3 some new droids are heading to verizon wireless we have some leaks on those some other device news with a routine ramen some glass stuff and uh all right so so let's get started so as you know this isn't our normally scheduled show normally on Thursday nights but Thursday was the fourth of July so we are we were out partying or out drinking or eating lots of food or family plans or whatever so here we are Sunday night John did you have a have a good fourth of July doing the exciting I did mostly the latter I eat a lot of food there you go you are to you how about you Scott just got back from up north and had a lot of food got a lot of Sun and had some fun with some water toys I can tell that you got a little bit of Sun you're looking a little bit you're looking a little bit more red than usual little bit yeah I'm not a pasty white like Casper the ghost but you know yeah you know I got a little bit of sunburn myself on my back at the beach I was on vacation this past week but everywhere else I tanned up real nice so it wasn't that's not that bad I came back from vacation with a little bit of headgear so we'll talk about that a little bit alright so Android 4.3 Scott when we find out this week so basically report service that with 4.3 google plans to introduce more stocks stock apps into the Play Store so the keyboard is the most recent introduction to the Play Store camera people dialer mms launcher if you're not on sense you can still make it look like stock so it's it's rumored that more apps could come so so right now you know camera the stock camera app isn't there but we know we can steal that APK from the Play edition phones and put it on almost any phone you know and we know that the stock launcher isn't there the stock text messaging app isn't there you know the stock people app isn't there so this rumors true like you were saying if you have a sense phone or a TouchWiz phone you basically download all of the core you know Google stock Android apps you could have a you know an HTC phone completely running you know HTC sense rom but besides uh you know notification toggles or you know the settings pretty much everything looks and functions as a stock android phone you know 40 for argument's sake you know for a cosmetic standpoint now I'm not that familiar with it but could they essentially replace the Settings app mmm oh how about you John it made it really hard because almost stuff in settings is very specific to yeah I personally like if you look on a samsung phone you've got the settings and then you've got their gesture controls and you got the s-pen controls a lot of that stuff kind of hard coded into because that would be the one really underlying thing that you know is a big part of your device that you know would be off if you were to notification shade would be another one which would be kind of complicated but you know the Gazette's system UI yeah so there isn't more apps then it'd be pretty easy yeah so if you're on Android for not to and want the new google apps you can just install them and maybe wait for them because they do it in a roll rolled out stage which we've come to love and kind of get angry about but uh people post APK so that's nice you know and you know what if google actually does this this is a way for them to take back you know control of android because you don't have to wait for another app another core app to be updated by a new android version number you know you know what if that's all really android 4.3 is its breaking out every single Android corps app and just a few under the hood changes you know so 4.3 is releasing all these app to the masses you know if 4.3 is truly that and they release all of the most as many as it's not of the stock apps as they can and you know just do incremental bug fixes and performance updates I'd be a happy camper um I don't know about you guys would you guys be satisfied with that is a 4.3 update or would you guys want a hawk um you know 4.3 is we saw a little bit io there some framework you know enhancements that be welcome but if your phones running good right now I don't think you've got any reason to complain you know a lot of like 4.2 you know with a lot of the versions caused performance issues for people and that's kind of the stuff you don't wanna you know some OEM s are better than others pushing up haze but if you're just kind of decoupling all the core apps away from the operating system that's really the stuff most people care about anyway this software features you know that's the stuff they're buying phones for now is not really the version number as much as what the phone can do anyway so yeah um so yeah chainfire has taken leaked android 4.3 builds of the galaxy s4 to talk about a little bit last week and got super user working on it already that's nice so you know I mean that's no surprise but it's a it's nice to know that super user whenever 4.3 rolls out as long as the leaked you know edition of the s4 doesn't it isn't missing any major changes or something you know a lot of the leg work is already done yeah so before we move on to the next topic if you guys have any questions about glass for anything you want to post them in the comments dirt my answer then later and if you have any questions for during the show we can answer them live if it's the on topic okay all right so so let's talk about the new Moto X the show is called a Moto X you know rumor roundup because this week we just saw tons of information and official information so so let's get started here so motorola officially tease then the nouns but they officially teased the Moto X this past week on July third the day before the most patriotic day in the United States motorola published a flyer in some of the most highly subscribed newspapers in the nation to the Washington Post The New York Times USA Today The Wall Street Journal they put a flyer in there teasing / you know kind of hinting announcing the Moto X and that this was you know very well time and they did it on the third on purpose you know the advertisement said you know why you're at home eating burgers or out picnicking burgers you know you're doing fourth of July stuff you're celebrating freedom we just wanted to let you know that this is an American engineered American designed phone and it's going to be the first smartphone assembled in America and following that freedom notion we're going to give you the freedom to customize it so you know we really didn't really find out what type of customizations were coming to the Moto X but we knew customizations now was officially you know hinted tease so thanks to some leaks thanks to some speculations you know we have a bit more information on that but also this was the first time that Google was officially showing the world hey this is our Motorola and it's supported the new motorola logo at the bottom of the flyer all right so no now the fun stuff so what do we know about customization well reportedly the Moto X is going to allow engraving similar to what you can do on an ipod on iPod you can put on the back you know your name or because I'm crazy saying whatever you can put on whatever you want so there's a rumor a report i'm sorry that there's a report that you'll be able to do that with the Moto X so I can put their across or android authority or sky Anderson needs to make his bed anything like that I want to on the back of my Moto X now okay that's that's cool and all but you know what other customizations can we do to make it our own well there's rumored reports that in leaks that you'll be able to customize the color casing the whole entire phone all you know casing the sides and the rear it won't be a two-toned you know black and white phone like the nexus 4 supposedly it'll be more than just the back face plate so that's nice but the big part of that is it's going to be 20 different colors not and it's going to be available from launch not hey here's a black phone six months later hey look you can make it white or partially white you know it's going to be from the get-go and that that's nice um we actually saw a leak of some of the cases and there they were hot pink and teal and light purple like very pastel bright colors and normally we don't see that from an oem you know we'll see that from a third-party case and normally we see like a red or a white air but or a blue but since they're gonna have 20 colors available you know the regular most popular color is obviously they're going to be covered and then some and these are some of the additional colors ah so I don't know about you guys but I'm on line up that hot pink you know my that's gonna be mine and then so so let's let's talk about some of the other rumors he is were kind of a rumor roundup because this past week you know we got some more leaks more speculations more reports when that flyer hit and everybody are coming out of the woodwork so we've heard in the past that the battery is you know it's gonna be huge on this thing because you know Larry page's said multiple times at your phone you know should last the whole day you shouldn't have to worry about oh my god where's my charger at where's the next power outlet so we've heard the battery is going to be there 3,300 milliamp hours and we've also heard reports of 4,000 to either way that's huge um i mean i'd be happy with either one complaining with either one of those so we don't know which one it's going to be you know that that either way that if it turns out to be either one of those that's pretty awesome um there's another report staying that's going to be ip57 certified so that means it's going to be similar to the galaxy s4 active which is ip67 or the Xperia Z so it's going to be a little bit of dust resistant and it's gonna be a little bit of water resistant up to a metre of water for 30 minutes we've had reports in the past there's going to be rear touch controls so you're going to touch the back you know and and can control something on the phone we don't really haven't heard anything else about that in a long time but you know that's that was still out there there's been reports it's going to be maybe a 4.7 inch screen with 720p display now that that's a little bit of a letdown for me seeing it as a lot of phones or 1080p now five inches up or close to five inches you know maybe it's a 4.7 inch phone and it's 1080p you mean look the HTC One so I would like a higher resolution but that's just me all I said earlier there's 20 different colors to choose from it probably won't be available until August but that's just a speculation who knows you know in in a week we could have an announcement I but you know since its beginning of July we haven't heard anything yet usually they make an announcement in a few weeks later it's available so i would say august at some point and motorola did announce at all things digital few weeks back that it was going to be available this summer so August is still the summer so fingers crossed confidence high now Taylor Wimberly from android and me said on Google and a Google+ post this past week that he had inside information that the Moto X was going to offer dual LTE and tenants that's my mum multiple-input multiple-output antennas which would be pretty unique it would offer a faster arm for lte-advanced though yeah that then that's how lte-advanced works so it would be lte-advanced without actually being lte-advanced or just offer hot you know higher download and upload speeds because you're connected you know multiple times I'm curious about that report I'll I'm curious is it some type of precursor to lte-advanced or is it just you know do LT you know my mo LTE to just allow we know you to burn through your data plan faster but that's what we all want to do yeah I know I know nice i have the potential it's nice exactly it's nice if you want to download and cut through your data in half the your normal time you know mmm um so we're still not really a hundred percent sure on the cpu you know we've heard and we've heard it's going to be a Snapdragon s4 pro you know we've we've heard recent rumors now suggest it could be a Snapdragon 800 if Dan Charlton wasn't feeling a little bit under the weather tonight he'll be all over this rumor he'd be like it's not going to be available until August production on the 800 doesn't start until August yada yada yada August and then we go back and say uh other rumors suggest is unavailable to August hmm but you know evleaks famed insider had said it wasn't going to be a Snapdragon 800 so only time will tell one thing that was kind of interesting if you if you go back and watch the all things be confident conference um because dennis woodside was talking about it and they were asking him because when he was talking about the phone being contextually aware how do you do that without it sucking down your battery and everything and he kind of snuck out that we've created we know we created the processor we said well actually two processors it's not really not really hinting it like dual core or two actual like Snapdragon processors but you know there been rumors that they created their own custom proprietary processor that's specifically dedicated to contextual actions and voice actions you know and that's kind of something they do with moto active thing with for the watches so it will be interesting if they had some kind of I guess context engine like a processor specifically dedicated to that would kind of be an interesting little game changer for them compared to what the rest of the Mart you know something unique compared to the rest of the market you know beyond just the cpu side yeah definitely so we've heard it's going to have two gigs of ram you know that's probably a given we've also heard that according to evleaks that it's going to be a 2-megapixel front-facing camera and a 10 megapixel rear camera now Taylor once again from Android in me he suggested that the camera is going to be in clear pixel camera with gesture controls now if you're not really familiar with clear pixel is it's an image sensor designed by Kodak that adds panchromatic clear pixels in addition to the red green and blue pixels and these clear pixels detect all wavelengths of visible light so it can be up to two to four times as sensitive to at low light levels ultimately giving the potential for much clearer shots and low light which would allow you know faster shutter speeds as well and you know I don't know about you guys but most most phones there are some phones that take decent pictures in low light but most Android phones take horrible pictures and low light I mean they're they're grainy and if it did they just they just aren't that pretty so that would be interesting if that report pans out I mean I'm not really that familiar with the technology John is there anything you want to add to that or oh pretty much it's all I've meows awesome they I mean contact did put out samples of course it's hard to say because Kodak just kind of folded for reasons that were relevant to that but you know as far as the samples that they put out versus a regular you know camera they look pretty impressive and considering the phone you know I think it's a better use case with a phone where you don't have the luxury of having this really powerful flash because you're worried about your battery whether it you know I don't even as far as the rumor goes I don't have they gotten it where this image sensor could be in a phone form factor I'm not even sure you know unless someone's licensing it making it themselves but if it does you know that was really what killed the Galaxy Nexus and phones like that was that the low-light was terrible i was saying you know who was trying to push zero shutter lag you know so maybe they put all huge emphasis on trying to remedy that with this I don't if it if they accomplish it with this then that would be really impressive though yeah all right now Ryan Moore a friend of ours from Android Coliseum asks any Canadian news about the Moto X he heard that Rogers is going to have an exclusive and and yeah that's that's really all I heard from our friends up north is that Rogers is going to have an exclusive now I would assume that word exclusive means exclusive to Canadian carriers because back at all things D uh it was stated that the Moto X would pretty much be on every or almost every major carrier here in the US is gonna I forget the exact wording he use saying it but basically it was that was going to be well received by carriers in the US so that's the case then yeah maybe Rogers we'll end up getting an exclusive for the time being in in Canada but you will have to keep us posted on that my friend and whoa whoa maybe maybe we'll have you on the show some time to talk about to give the the Canadian news segment on the Moto X or something something all right so uh I guess really to wrap this up you know we had a lot of news this past week and a lot of leaks a lot of speculation about the Moto X let me know well let's know in the comments on wherever you're watching soundcloud YouTube Google+ Mars let us know what you think about these speculations and uh you know we've been asking you this before but we're getting more information are you getting the Moto X you want the meadow X do these juicy tidbits of information are they keeping you on your seat because I don't know about you guys but it's keeping the hype up for me I'm loving these leaks I'm loving these you know these reports motorola couldn't have chosen a better time of the year to do what they did that's very true and really the story is going to be the software and that's what everybody's kind of waiting on is you know the software the software does it justice then that's what's gonna be getting me really excited about it yeah all right so let's talk about some more devices let's talk about let's talk about Johnathan Franklin and eyes favorite carrier verizon wireless and the Druids so the rumor will we have three what's supposed to be three rumored devices coming to verizon and we're dropping the razor name apparently with the droid ultra and ermas are pointing to an ultra M which I guess would be your razr m you know mid-range replacement in the ultra and then the ultra Maxx so we got rid of the razor we really didn't get rid of the stupid max name but uh so the ultra code is XT 1080 which would you know make you think that it would suggest a 1080p display so you know progressively I guess we could also think of it as a 1080p you know version of the razr HD basically a man XD a member leaked out an image of it and it was a white kind of they show the front bezel and everything in it interestingly had three hardware capacitive buttons which is a bit odd just considering that motorola has went with soft keys with the majority of their devices in the last you know tears though two years ago the original razors were hardware you know where we're capacitive buttons then last year when the refresh the HD razors came out they were sought they were soft keys muscari oh so boys you with soft keys too yeah yeah so um I'm confused you know I wonder why that is yeah I can't say that I'm a fan of it either because uh when you if you look at I had a discussion of mothers day if you look at Samsung's devices they have a dedicated menu button which I'm not the biggest fan of but if you have a capacitive layout you need to have a menu button because of like HTC does with that stupid menu overlay that pops up on the screen so if you took soft keys away and put capacitive buttons and they're gonna have to have some kind of screen pop up whenever you have an application that doesn't use the action bar so I can't say I'm a big fan of the capacitive key movie that ends up being true but uh the next rumor is basically xt 10 ATM which is would be the max version of that so basically AAP razr HD max bigger battery evleaks posted an image of this one and it looks a lot like a verizon droid razr which isn't too big of a shock keeps the Kevlar backing wrapping around to the bottom kind of has a little bit of a chin to it almost like the M does I also shows hardware buttons on it which is like we were talking pretty odd um but verizon has been clearing our stock of its previous joy branded phones we were kind of hopeful that that was going to be a permanent move but you know them probably indicating that they're getting ready for you know what's coming up then the rumors for an altar and we really don't have a lot of information on that but it's probably most likely going to be a smaller more mid-range specification version of the you know ultra and ultramax realistically either way verizon needs some droids I mean they haven't released a droid since last November many phones in general you know I mean so bad off the phones right now the HTC One is kind of missing in action and the galaxy s4 is nasal as the last phone they released since the middle of November it's been seven months in one phone that's pretty bad it's it's almost like being on metro pcs or something its stead and uh your take you know what John they released a game though and damn it that game was more important than new phone is enough to resurrect jord landing on twitter i guess but yeah um it kind of makes me sad to see rumors of the droid ultra ultra am because we're back and forth on rumors of whether the verizon version of the Moto X is going to be a droid whether it's not going to be a droid but it it's kind of odd if Motorola would put out a Moto X for verizon and put three phones on verizon to be in a store so it's kind of scaring me into thinking that one of these phones is going to be there reaper android version of them what if the oh god what if the ultra m is the Moto X could very well be and now we've seen what but we've seen four different we've seen in there are so many rumors some rumors say that the droid you know the Moto X on Verizon is not gonna be a droid something bursting cries I might not get it all and then you know is just the way the rumor mill works it just yeah i'm i'm hopeful I want it to be eight God from that I would want it to be and I want to buy verizon make me happy can I give you my money here's my wallet please so and speaking of hopeful HTC One S owners you're probably not going to be as hopeful now sorry how about that HTC has proud of statements and that basically android 4.2 point2 and since five are never going to come to the HTC One S if we're talking about a phone that's about 15 months old and for point-to-point tues been out since late last year and you know petitions are growing all over the web and it's kind of gaining traction asking HTC to continue support for it it's sad the 1s was extremely popular I mean you know in it's odd because the 1s was they considered to be a mid-range phone but it was a really good phone hardware wise you know and I get you could say okay show me a mid-range phone from last year that has gotten or isn't going to get four point two point to even from Samsung I can't think of one but the thing is the 1s had a dual-core snapdragon processor in it that was just like the one exercise it was pushing a lower resolution display there's no zero reason that the hardware can't run for point-to-point to flawlessly yes our buddy Dan Charlton he had a 1s before he got the nexus 4 he loved that film and you know grateful a previous show guest of ours Jeff Ribeiro he had the 1s and he loved that phone I mean it's it's a good phone I'm surprised you know I that's sad when a phone can't even reach 18 months you know year and a half before it's obsolete it's to me it's not so much just that because you know OEMs do this all the time but HTC just doesn't have a lot of leeway to piss their fans off right now yeah you know they're not really perfect selves on a good zishan to rebound right now because you know they've done pretty well with the one you know they've released kernel source on time they've been pretty good about that they put it out right you know for the google edition they've put out a couple of updates for the one you know the HTC One just got four point two point two and then they come out and do something like this and people you know back to square one again it's like but you just fail to build your trust up again but don't you respect the fact that they come out and say it and just never say it because I think this is a good step for transparency um and it said it's yeah it's a good step for transparency and another thing is I don't repeat I think people tend to forget that we weren't that long ago looking at the galaxy s2 and Samsung told people that it wasn't going to get ICS and then they told him it wasn't going to get jelly bean and the internet just blew up about it and that's how that phone got support was because you know Samsung can't and told somebody that it was not going to get a jelly bean update and people just blew the internet up and asked why well you know we've done this before we've done this when HTC you know with HTC dead that's why we have HTC dev you know we did this before with asus and the transformer line you know they weren't good at the prime that was called I can't read it was it the bride it was the primer the Infinity when we were asked on the eighth loader and then they said went relax relax we pay hey yeah we flipped out and you know we took two we talked to websites we took to social media we let them know we were pissed and and they came back then they came back and released a bootloader unlock tool in and since then their other you know successors tablets have have had that as well so it is possible if we all act really pissed off and like jerks on every social media account they have i'm not saying to do this link um but uh it has worked in the past so if you do own an HTC One and you didn't sign a petition and you didn't flood facebook twitter youtube google+ and let HTC know how you feel I would say do that you know it has worked in the past we might were not the majority of the market were probably the loudest part of the market yes times matters more exactly so at sony benchmarks show up and it's an LG device that looks to be the g2 optimus g2 and it's already been known and been announced that this thing is going to come with a Snapdragon 800 so it's not really surprising that you know what the benchmark showed because they were right along the lines of what you expect to see from a Snapdragon 800 processor and the score was about 32,000 which is amazing but uh thumb benchmarks actually leaked out for the power consumption and the battery benchmark show the Snapdragon 800 you know pretty frugal for how much power it's packing because in some of the competitive battery testing they were doing considering what they were going up against it was actually consuming the same or a little bit less power than the ex knows 5 octa which is a really good achievement considering that it's faster it's a good bit faster but also because you know the octos pushing the whole big little thing and even with the four smaller a7 cores it's still not really any better on battery than Qualcomm's a modified version of an immuno Qualcomm's crate architectures kind of a 9 8 15 hybrid and they're doing with four cores what Samsung is able to do with a big little a 15 setup so the fact that it's better on power consumption is you know really says a lot for what they're doing with their architecture but the good thing is it shouldn't be a how power-hungry monster if you decide to get a phone with a Snapdragon 800 in it you'll get one that's a really well-balanced processor alright so let's talk about a little bit of rutin ramen Scott you know you still down with the pink unicorn or are you okay so any news from the root and rom in front this one they're just pushing Knightley's I haven't flashed or lightly yet but I'm thinking about doing it just because milestones they're growing a little bit slower than they were before so I think I'm gonna flash unknightly next weekend or maybe tonight just to kind of see if there's anything new and cool bud yeah still rocking the the pink what about the cyanogenmod any news this week ya khushi actually he got google voice text messaging working in cm10 messaging apps stock handcent etc messaging apps previously you had open google voice to viewer sent text messages and texts to your cell phone number were in the stock app they were separate no longer is the case this is awesome for people that have google voice accounts that are annoyed by the fact that it's not integrated into really anything but it's on all your devices because you know there's an app for that on all of your devices it's also the fact that the google voice app is terrible is all there is no project butter on google voice at all there's not any place didn't I project anything and Google glass right now well there is a project it's called hangouts which is supposed to the future of google voice which has no integration with google voice yet well that's why it's a project yeah but you know what's good in winter love all right so uh so let's talk about let's talk about glass this past week on july first seeing at it that it is the seventh month google pushed out XE seven explorer edition seven over the air update for glass and this update actually added a couple really nice features it allows you to do more with voice more hands-free so let's say you get a text message when you're reading the text message you can say ok glass reply to to start replying to the text message or you can view the text message and then say ok glass you know read aloud to have it read to you before you had to tap the touchpad and you can get to these options before we had to touch so now you just say ok glass so they're giving you more opportunity to say ok glass and also when you take a picture i can take a picture now and then after i take the picture i can say well while you're still viewing the picture you just took i can say ok glass share with scott anderson share with public you know to share on google+ or share with android to share to my android circle or you know if i want to share it to Twitter you know it's a share to twitter you know things like that that's pretty awesome so the next big update with glass now has a web browser so yes you can now watch youtube videos and listen to music through youtube on glass you can browse the web whenever you do a google search result whenever you do a google search i would say ok glass Google then daft punk get lucky let's say and the first link is probably a YouTube video so I select that I tap my touchpad and it says would you like to open the website I say yes yes I would like to open the website and then it opens the web page and then I can use my fingers to zoom in pan download in the across the web page and then once I find a link I can tap on the link and it comes up and says would you want to open the link and I say yes sir I do and I can browse the web it's you know it's not the most functional web browser ah but it gets the job done i mean it's it's not as good as obviously using a computer it's as good as using your phone or your tablet but it's a web browser on glass i know it's it's not bad you know I've used it just to play around that I've actually watched a couple YouTube videos and browsed around a few websites you know booked some pictures and all that good stuff um another big update was that that glass now has the same conversation conversational search that was shown back in May at Google i/o so you can do a search for letting you know for example I say who is the CEO of google it will come back and say Larry Page then I can do another search and say how old is he that can do another search and say where was he born you know things like that you know you don't have to keep you know keep asking the beginning of the question it knows that you're asking about that first query and they said you can do this right now in chrome you can do it right now on your favorite android device yadda yadda yadda now this functionality is now available and glass um there's where there are some experimental features found in the update if you ripped it apart such as him some type of music or volume control coming in the future and a glass boutique which is an app store because you know google has a lot of them and they wanted to add another one so we have the Chrome Web Store we have the google play store we have the google apps marketplace and now we're going to have glass boutique apparently which is a place to find all of the glass apps because right now you you have to you know if you want to find third-party apps that developers are pushing out there you have to go to various places around the web where people are collecting them and so forth so that's nice you know we needed we knew it was coming you know um but yeah so so Scott and John uh I happen to be wearing glass now finally ah I picked it up on friday friday morning while I was on vacation I i took a two hour bus ride into New York City from where I was vacationing and picked up glass and I'm excited so earlier in the show we asked you if you guys had any questions for me so I saw a couple of them and I know Scott and John have a whole bunch of questions about glass you know what I've thought so far so uh first bend the wrist you know the next 15 minutes the show just talking about glass cuz i know a lot of people you know want to know and want to do a live Q&A about glass so so let's do it you want to start with audience questions or us or with our questions first you know what you're a big boy I'm gonna I don't care you make the decision Scott I don't care all right I do have a question regarding hangouts um you were in the Hangout earlier and just talking with us how is the speaker on glass well I mean it's not really a speaker uh it's you know bone conducting audio ah but it vibrates you know the back of your ear there's a little for lack of better word is like a little button little plate here that vibrates my your bone and I can hear in quiet situations I'm sitting down here in my office I can hear fine from walking throughout the house you know I can hear an outside I can hear if I'm in a not a car I can hear from walking down the street yeah probably not you know it's it's quiet in a quiet areas I can hear it fine but if there's for example whenever I was trying on glass my glass guy told me to do something and then she said she was very helpful at a very helpful woman very nice lady she said hey do a search for this and you here red back to you Joe did you hear it but nay I didn't hear anything in there because there's a lot of people talking a little bit of background noise so I didn't hear it but if you cup your ear in a loud situation it makes it a lot easier to hear or in a quad situation it makes it louder but so I mean it I don't know I I don't hate it I wish it was a little bit louder but it you know uh we'll have to see what the glass team does with it in the future okay John so do after the you know I'm sure you're playing around with the new updates and everything but do you plan on ever like rooting the device breaking the bootloader party yeah you know I have to do that my Nexus 7 and Nexus 4 never booted up and or my galaxy nexus never booted up they know to a locked state the first time they egged them in i unlock the bootloader and did you know but what glass right now is locked I'm gonna eventually um unlocked bootloader and play around with some things enable some of the labs features that you have to add it to build up prop for and then I can change them back and I mean factory images are available you know me I'm an Android tinkerer I I have to do these things or my blood but right now I'm just playing around and trying to figure things out so i will do it just not yet okay um what the rest of routing is there a huge advantage or you know something that you would benefit from hurting it oh no no there's no reason to root glass if you want a side load an app that some people have developed you don't need root to do that there's no reason to relate to sideload a nap anyways you know unless you want to gain extra functionality I'm sorry you can do it um but really the right right now the benefit of rooting it would be to enable some of the labs features you know the UM that are turned off by by default you know such as such as winking to take a picture or now the volume controls or some stuff like that as things slowly get added to 2 glass you know to turn them on or off but yeah there's no real reason to we get updates every month so next month the things that are in labs might very well be you know real you know for everybody to use it's a good question from you too when I'm curious about it's from Brendan Owens he asked how big does the screen feel to you well so I just turned it on you can see if you're watching on YouTube you can see my eye there's my eye is blowing now you can see also the screen turns off pretty quickly if I don't do anything um it no Noah did it feels big I mean it feels small too because it's not in my direct eyesight but it's not anything I have to squint at I mean it's it's a decent size screen um Nick what I wanted to be bigger um if it was bigger it would be in more of my field of view I mean yeah I think I could see it being a little bit bigger but um I think it's fine for for what it's doing now you know so it doesn't need to be bigger yeah I mean for what for what you can do a glass now I think that it's fine because you remember it's not supposed to be it's not supposed to overtake your field of vision it's just supposed to be something a little extra you know it you don't want it to cover up you know your whole entire field of vision because then you won't know safety reasons you can't see a things so you know glass designers made a conscious decision to put it you know above your eye line so it is out of your direct you know field of view you do have to look up to it and when you look up you know it's a says you know it's a small screen but it's not overly some under sized so you don't think we're gonna see like a later edition glass mega mega mega um now you know who knows maybe when the consumer version comes out though they'll make it bigger who knows you know I mean it's a flat screen or something it could be it could be a little bit bigger like I said I mean without causing any major problems I would think in terms of like safety it could be a little bit bigger maybe maybe twice as big baby but yeah it's fine the way it is another another good one from the comments is up how's the battery life you know I'm actually having horrible battery life compared to what i thought you know and then you know glass has been used now for three months people have been using it you know I explorers started getting at the middle of April and you know slowly ramping up more and more people since then and people been saying yeah you know what if you record a 20-minute video on glass it's going to kill the battery but you know what you record a 20-minute video on the average smartphone it's going to take a big chunk of your battery too so that's no big deal you know most people said you know what I can take pictures use navigation do a video and I can it can last me all day long you know and Jason Kruger Tom I'm sorry I'm laughing at his comment hehe just posted a comment in our comment section saying next time he's going to try to watch us live on glass which you could do that you could bring up youtube and watch us live actually all right so anyway sorry about that I i I'm like a no squirrel you know anyways um we're talking about a battery that yeah so so yeah so there's been some reports people in the official glass community oh you know as well as various other social networks are saying that the XE 7 update konnen is chewing away at battery life and some people are saying hey I'm not affected some people are saying yep battery life sucks on this update and I'm gonna say I have I can't compare it because to a previous update because I updated my glass in the studio before I left I wanted to make sure I left before I was on XE 7 but i'll tell you right now i should not leave glass it for or two and a half hours not using it on my desk and it shouldn't lose twenty seven percent of my battery I shouldn't lead glass an hour on my desk and go outside and mow the grass and come back and have it go from sixty percent to forty percent so there's definitely something that's chewing away battery i I've right now I mean I'm in my honeymoon phase i'm using it more than normal so me having to charge it once a day or twice a day i mean is uh probably normal since i'm using it all the time but i'm gonna say that's probably not as normal as it should be because it's like a your your device when it's idle shouldn't suck away twenty percent of the battery and i'm having that issue right now um at nine o'clock my glass was fully charged i did a hank how long do you guys think i was doing a hangout for no no more than five minutes right I 10 megs yeah so right so right now let's just see so an hour and 20 minutes ago my glass is at eighty-three percent right now and I did a five minute hang out and that's all I've done with class has been idle since then I turn the screen on maybe four or five times and then turned it off so I lost seventy percent battery in an hour and 20 minutes and I did a five minute hang out now you know i think but i think it's dropping battery faster as it gets low and lower percentage but but who knows that anyways i'm rambling on let's get to another another question here so you guys had think that's uh bad but how BIG's the screen feel yeah yeah does it does it heat up like a smartphone um camo Edmund says doesn't heat up like a smartphone does well when it's charging yes um you know I it gets hot when it's charging you know so you don't want to really walk around you know with it plugged in you know to try to extend the battery life I I did that my first day because you know came out of the box it was only like fifty percent battery and I wanted to use it all day so i charged it with my portable charger for a while I felt it get warm so I wouldn't you know suggest doing that but who knows maybe something will will change in the future so you've seen them we're getting toward this trend of like hybrid between phones and tablets and then like we're coming up with peripherals like little handsets that you can use with that do you ever see glasses being like the phone part and just toting a tablet for your data aspect of it and being that and getting rid of the phone all together well I'll tell you that I haven't used much I got it friday you know it's Sunday right now um there's things that can be improved there's things that need to be added and then yeah I mean I can make a phone call and talk to somebody and I have I can do text messages which I have but i don't really text message that much anymore I in fact i rarely has sent a couple text messages a month I do hangouts to all friends and family you know I google talk you know I that's what I do so that support isn't there yet um I have to rely on my phone for that and you know creating creating posts um isn't available yet an easy way to do it will say there's a workaround but right now the only way for me to create a post on facebook google+ or twitter is to take a picture and then share it to those networks but i don't always want to share a picture maybe i want to you know just say a random message to a circle or a public poster you know friends or whatever or tweet right now without a workaround you know you really can't do that on the official apps so maybe that feat that feature and that functionality is coming in the future we're actually talking about a about that in the glass community earlier and developers they're familiar with the mirror API told me that that functionality is available so I'm not sure why are hopefully in the future I can say ok glass send a message to Twitter hey here's a tweet inhabit tweet or say ok glass send a message to public and have it send that message to a public post on Google+ know things like that i wish that functionality was there i wish i didn't have to take a picture to be able to share to a social network because i don't always want to share something with a picture right um but so once that functionality comes John you know where I can share you know a little bit more um III mean I think apps you to get little bit better like right now I'm subscribed to some news feeds so I can get some content on the glass so I could so I can read a headline but it would be nice if you could have it read you you know maybe not the whole article because you know people need to your are you know I don't know maybe that would be too much but region excerpt like right now the New York Times and CNN app will read you a sentence or two from the headline but I don't read the New York Times and I don't read CNN so whatever you know news aggregator that's out there such as the one I'm using wink feed which is awesome Matt's app it's great but it reach it reads you the headline I would like a little bit more information because i read a headline and right now I when i'm reading the headline i can add it to pocket and then go read the article later or I can you know oh hey this looks good go look at on my phone but I'd like to maybe you know get a little bit more than just a heading but that's just me you know that takes that means it's a function that glass has now I don't have to look at my phone because right now you know I still look at my phone to complete the text message complete the Hangout message or not the text message to complete the Hangout message to complete the news feed you know to complete the sharing to you know social networks and and all this stuff but but for notification uh you know notification about something and I want to read just a real quick blurb of hey here's a headline ok I want to read this later I can add it to boom read it later and read it later that's nice get a message on a social network I can do a quick ply do a quick retweet or do a quick um you know comment on google+ if somebody actually i have actually been doing that a lot more lately than I normally have been i've been using glass to reply to people's posts that was actually something that I'd it took me a little bit to figure out so right now I was only getting post on Google+ when somebody plus mentioned to me or shared a post with me I was like well how do I see people's posts i want to see everybody's posts you know i want to scroll through my stream and i couldn't do that and then that so i created a circle of notifications and said i subscribe to these people's posts notify me when these people post so when I need to cut that circle down because there's like 50 some people in it and my glass is blown up which could be my battery issue but uh I'm getting tons of notifications when people post and then I can +1 it right from glass or comment it right from glass I can't share the post but that would be interesting if I could do that maybe and that's a nice feature you never to reshare or something anyway so what was that question about oh I can just see glass being great for the media stuff that and you have to pull the phone out of your pocket but since you don't have to pull your phone out of your pocket for that kind of notification stuff i would think you could justify toting a baker device almost closer to like a nexus 7 this book just because you've got the glass there for the immediate notification kind of stuff that you would do that you would typically do one-handed while you're walking or something all right so remember earlier I said to how Jason Krueger was saying hey I'm gonna watch us on glass he's actually watching us right now on glass live so that's awesome he comment to let us know very cool so that that's a new form i wonder if this is our first hangout on air being watched on glass jason wants to talk about that later and make some big you know pat on the back announcement about it um so I have a question here Scotty tech more says how is bluetooth working with your phone well you know what I'm running cm 10.1 but surprisingly it's running great I've heard a lot of people a their phones are losing connection with the myglass app so I've had it for three days now my phone hasn't been disconnected every time I look at my phone even when I classes in one room and I phones you know when another room so I know they're not not connected anymore soon as they get in the vicinity boom they sync up I haven't had any issues which is amazing because Bluetooth generally sucks um I had to actually reboot my glass when I was setting it up to get it to connect to bluetooth but since then it's been connected for three days and I had zero issues haven't had to turn it off turn it back on anything I'm very surprised about that Brendan Owen says how many people have asked you about it in public well i live in hicksville Pennsylvania also known as know anyways that that's the town I live in so I've been to a couple stores and nobody has said anything couple people looked at me kind of funny probably wondering like what disability do I have that I'm wearing this yeah I mean people I'm serious I people probably differ on you don't know what it is unless they're tacky um it's a good time to get glass with all the NSA and yeah but I'll tell I'll tell you why right now you walk around with a camera I'll tell you what though guys whenever I was in New York City so many means so many people who it was so many people came I was only in New York City for a couple hours yeah we were there we got glass we left uh in the Chelsea Market just walking around the market there was at least half a dozen people this is all my god google glass and people came up to me wanted to know but what do you seek right now and and how does it work what can you do and as I calves got this half hour ago I don't know yet but I talked to him about it and I'll em try it on I was waiting in line across the street actually before I walked across the street as I was walking out of the building some guy yelled ok glass and then you know just he knew what it was you know and him and his buddies laughed and then I said oh so hey what do you think of it and I just got it awe walking I walked a few blocks so with my wife we had people you know coming over from across the street you know where people coming up to me asking me I was waiting in line at the bathroom at starbucks and a guy and his girlfriend were talking to me about it you know and had all sorts of questions yeah so i'm waiting to what happens tomorrow when i'm at work when i'm in an area that there's more you know tech people because i said my town at least the places i've been no one know it was so i'm sure it's only been a couple days but so far glasses been well-received I've been at restaurants and you know I know what you know no nobody cares yeah I as you know tons of people have reported that really just media hype I mean you're gonna follow us you're gonna find some people to care but most people don't care either one because they don't know what it is because they know that you're not going to walk up to them and stare at them and start taking their picture you know that that that's me you can do that with a phone now to you a big deal um quick one uh all right so uh the so Jason Koch and Teresa you know Teresa I'm trying to member your last name and your last names cops because you guys are married walls for the last name anyway so these are Jason and Teresa have been now married for a year they actually met through Android there an Android couple that they met a while ago and I got married maybe I may be the will guess and say what you guys met two years ago dated for a year or so and then got married it you know a year ago so happy anniversary Jason and Theresa you guys are awesome i love you both in a wish you a very happy and prosperous future together don't have to have little androids on top of their wedding cake you know what they better have that has to make it for an anniversary cake they need to get a little too low androids and one of them has a ball and chain to it's like all right so do we have any glue i'll take one more question we have any other question about glassy and scrolling down through the comments do we think other company yeah do we think other companies like Samsung and Sony and HTC will make devices like it Teresa you dicks that's right that's right I Jamie the drunken just he's watching he's another old miui guy uh memories memories dan dan actually as friends with all these people to we all this is how we all met you know years ago anyway so uh Matt wants to know if other companies are you know probably making glass device as well i think was already reported you know that all the companies you name samsung HD I don't know about HTC but samsung sony LG you know an apple has a patent for it you know I mean patent doesn't mean you have to make it but they have a patent for it you know so a lot of people are looking into wearable tech I mean it really is a future whether it's going to be a head-mounted device something in your face or if it's going to be on your wrist or something we haven't thought of the enemy it's coming uh it can make things easier I mean I've only a glass for a couple days now I can't say that it's made anything easier yet but I'm gonna be blogging about it on the android authority as well as my glass site living through glass calm and I'm gonna give weekly probably updates on living through glass calm from my personal life with glass and then I'll give more of a you know technical standpoint on android authority so if you care about the personal day stuff check me out there shameless plug living through glass calm let's th are you glass living through glass and then on android authority i'll be talking all things glass there as well i'll be talking about you know updates and everything like that there so stay tuned and i think i think that's it a little bit extra but hey i love talking about glass that's understandable john scott any last thoughts here it looks another look really cool and it'll be interesting to see what your thoughts are once you kind of find more of it you know place in your daily what's uh which what your kind of settle into a daily routine with it you know how you end up using it what's interesting is what want one last funny story so i'm sitting at the dinner table with my wife and i forget what i was going to look up but I just and I'll look it up and I was gonna say ok glass Google then my search query I said ok glass and before I could say Google my wife yells from across the table take a picture and then she like she kind of laughed and stuck out her tongue you know thinking she was being cute and then it took a picture of her she looked like so it activated from four feet away her yelling you know take a picture so that was got funny so yes yes you can go up to somebody if the screen is on or if they say ok glass or touch the screen you can glass bomb them into various bad google searches that good wait to get to the BBQ dude oh it's a good time though I love it and I've only had it for a couple days it's it's only gonna get better I can see it's only gonna get better when naps when asked become better in apps add more it's a very beta generation one product that has so much potential like look at it is like like you know a g1 or a nexus one you know it's early but God is it going to get better and I'm happy to be part of that you know phase and I'll be letting all of you know on android authority on air when new cool stuff happens to stay tuned thanks for watching Scott where can everybody find us on these interwebs youtube you can comment along as well android authority calm soundcloud podbean itunes google plus page all over the interwebs basically current all right that everything I think that's everything if not just android authority where everywhere we blanket the internet we have all actually a little bit of android authority news before we wrap up here sorry about that we launched today a weekly giveaway so check out android authority calm every Sunday 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