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this episode of android authority is brought to you by netflix to get a free 30-day trial membership go to netflix.com slash android and sign up now hey everybody on Chris what you ask we answer its android authority QA for july third 2013 den asks Chris what do you think about the acer liquid e2 and what is the best phone in that price range well I haven't tried it myself but looking at the specs as an mtk6589 chipset quad-core cortex a7 CPU gig of ram 2,000 men power battery none of that's too bad now it doesn't have an HD display but 960 x 540 isn't bad especially for a phone around three hundred dollars my own personal pick in that price range would be the google nexus for it either matches or exceeds the e2 in pretty much every category but it's not without its downsides like the lack of LTE doh lab says i'm moving from an iphone and wanted to ask about chinese smartphones i'm looking for something nicely spectin mtk6589t or Snapdragon 600 chip 2 gigs of ram full HD in the price range of around 250 to 300 dollars what are your thoughts well if you're looking for a Snapdragon 600 it's a little harder to find a pic in your price range but with the other chipset you've got a lot of options now the huawei ascend d2 meets all your criteria but it's out of your price range a little bit still if you can stretch the extra cash i'd recommend one otherwise what you're going to have to do is just go start pouring over reviews and pay attention to with the specs you want and pay attention in the price range really that's the best advice I can give you right now Anthony asks when will the new firmware update for the galaxy s4 come out in the US the one that allows us to move apps to an SD card well that's a tough one I couldn't find any official announcement of when the update would be rolling out in the US even though it started rolling out elsewhere last month now it's possible that there won't be an announcement and it'll just start showing up on phones keep your eyes out for that but we'll probably see an announcement first we don't know yet but stay tuned and hopefully we'll let you know once we know britvic asked will the samsung alex e note 3 really be even bigger than the note 2 well there are a lot of rumors flying around about the Galaxy Note 3 and since nothing's really nailed down yet it's hard to tell what's true and what isn't but a recent rumor did suggest that the display would indeed be bigger than the note 2 specifically it said that the display would be five point seven inches compared to the note two is five and a half inch display it's not much bigger but it's enough that it could count again we don't know what's going to happen at this point but I have a very good feeling that Samsung would like to keep the device size about the same size as the note 2 while increasing the display size kind of like they did with the s4 that would definitely be a win-win situation for fans and I'm sure that's something Samsung would like to make happen if they can John asks when is the release date for the sony xperia z in canada well it seems like Sony's been teasing Canadians about the possibility of an Xperia Z through a canadian carrier since back in January while the company hasn't officially ruled it out they also won't say when or if it's going to happen at all either about the closest we got was a few months ago when it looked like the Xperia Z was finally coming to Canada but it turned out they were talking about the Xperia tablet Z not the phone that said there is still a chance so there might be hope don't give up just yet zani says my galaxy s3 charge is really slowly now taking about 12 hours or more to charge from twenty percent to one hundred percent how can I fix this now there's a possibility that it could be your battery starting to malfunction but you didn't mention any other symptoms so I don't think that's the case not to mention there's a fairly common issue with the galaxy s3 where the cable that ships with the device is a little faulty basically what happens is after a while it will start to break a little bit inside but not so much that it doesn't charge over time it'll start to intermittently disconnect as the phone is charging but not so much that you even notice anything what happens here is the galaxy s3 software pays attention to this and slows down the rate of charge leaving you with a phone that takes about 12 hours to charge so what you want to do first is replace your cable if you can if that doesn't help try replacing the charger that still doesn't help you might have a problem with your battery but I doubt you're going to have to go that far and that about wraps it up for this week folks now we have a written companion to this video android authority com you can find the link in the description now remember this show is powered by your questions so keep them coming you can find the link to ask your own questions in the description as well now while you're at it make sure to check out our other weekly show android authority weekly which airs every Sunday I'm Chris Wilk and as always thank you for watching