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this episode of android authorities brought to you by netflix head to netflix.com / android for your free 30-day trial hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe Hindy the android authority afgan and welcome back to the last episode of Google Play weekly in the year 2013 we had a major holiday last week but the application ecosystem continued to chug right along we're going to talk about the Final Fantasy 6 teaser trailer the interesting journey that rom manager had and a whole lot more so let's get started amazon is running a promotion right now that's continuing until december 28th where if you download an application from the amazon appstore you'll get a five dollar credit so you can go buy more the best part of the promotion is you don't have to buy an app to get the five dollar credit you can buy an app or download a free one and you'll still get it obviously this is Amazon trying to entice new users onto their ecosystem and if they're giving away free stuff we're totally okay with it act fast though the deal is almost over if you're one of the 40 million people using BBM then 2014 is going to be an exciting year for you included in the features planned is easier sharing more emoticons bbm channels and BBM voice the interesting two are obviously the channels and voice features channels are like those old AOL Instant Messenger topic chats where you go in and chat with people not on your contact list about various things BBM voice will let you make free voice calls to any other bbm user using only your data pay attention to that one folks because that one's going to be interesting when it comes out have you ever wanted to see where you've been with your device a google maps feature posted on reddit allows you to see where you've been with your device but only as long as you let Google track your data you can see your maps by going to maps google com / location history if you don't allow google to track your data your map will obviously be empty for those of us that do you can see pretty much everywhere you've been with your device shown is my personal map from thursday december 26 as you can see i wandered around my house for a little bit and that one spot that's far away from the cluster that's me taking out the garbage as you can see it can get quite detailed we've talked a few times on this show about Square Enix is inevitable remake of Final Fantasy 6 which is due out sometime this winter at the Jump Festa 2014 expo square enix released a low definition trailer showcasing some of the new graphics the reactions were mixed on one hand a remake is coming which is great but they didn't give the game the graphical overhaul that many Final Fantasy fans including this guy believes it deserves for fanatics it'll be a must-buy title regardless however for a more casual fan Square may not have given the game enough of an overhaul to make it worth it enter the last bit of news this week rom manager along with helium were removed from the Google Play Store due to in app purchase problems the problems were fixed and the apps are now back up the problem was rather simple actually in both apps there was an option to pay with paypal instead of Google's Google Wallet this of course is against the Play Store rules and thus the apps were removed thankfully they've been updated to get rid of the offending issue and are both back in the play store right now so who wants to check out some trending applications as usual if you want to check any of these applications out you can find the links in the written companion in the video description I'll cast from couche the same guy who does rom manager and helium mentioned earlier is now available in the Google Play Store there's a free demo that lets you stream a measly one minute of videos you'll have to fork out the five dollars to get everything to work if that's not too much it's a really good app to pick up super-g nes is pretty much the premier super nintendo emulator available on android over the last week it's been updated to include a lot of under the hood changes that should improve game compatibility and audio quality it also fixes a long-standing bug on the Nexus 10 so if you're into emulators this one is worth owning okay so square enix is actually a developer and not a game but they are tossing quite the sale at the moment where most of the Final Fantasy titles are about fifty percent off this includes Final Fantasy 1 2 3 4 5 and dimensions Chrono Trigger chaos rings KO springs omega crystal defender and pretty much everything else they do if you love their content but thought it was a little bit too expensive this is a great time to get them for a more reasonable price swiftkey has undergone a lot of changes this year and they ended the year with a pretty decent sale it's over now unfortunately but there are a few apps that made a bigger splash than swiftkey in 2013 if you're looking for what many consider to be the best third-party keyboard available we recommend giving swiftkey a try another great app that's having a big sale is camera zoom FX it's on sale right now for fifty percent off and if you've been looking for a camera replacement app that's packed to the gills with features this is a great one to have it was even included on our best camera apps list once again I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy don't forget to some grab to our YouTube channel and check out our social media links below if you're hanging out for a minute we have a couple of Awesome videos for you to watch right over there also don't forget to check out the written companion in the video description thank you again for watching and have a wonderful day