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welcome back to android weekly my name is Jace and with the plethora of smartwatches that have been released as of late it's hard not to get excited but they do all have one thing in common or most of them and that's that they are designed to augment and accompany your smartphone but when do we get to the point where their SmartWatch can begin to replace your smartphone all together that's what Samsung has tried to do or at least begin to do with the DRS SmartWatch so let's look at the pros and cons among the pros are that there's no need to carry two mobile devices and second you'll stand out from the crowd with the gear s and finally a phone or phone replacement that reportedly has two days of battery life now the cons low resolution 360 x 480 the two inch display isn't ideal for media consumption in gaming Tizen has considerably fewer apps than Android and modest specs and modest storage space now I could imagine some uncomfortable moments in public with this SmartWatch / phone well just love to say I love you come shoot the word I love your burger dead the love your burger did I give you kisses I love your burger dead but I have fun with your friends shut up now to be fair those are the rumored specs surrounding the gear s and its attempt to replace your smartphone but a guy can hope right now moving on a news surrounding the Galaxy Note 4 and its fingerprint scanning features the note 4 will reportedly include screen lock private mode samsung account verification and paypal payments all features present on the s5 and the elsa and made possible by the same synaptics natural ID swipe based fingerprint sensor found in both devices among the new features is the fingerprint shortcuts which lets you assign a shortcut to a specific app or piece of functionality for instance swiping your index finger could take you straight to the camera while using your thumb could unlock the phone now to be fair this feature is said to be linked to certain services and apps and not necessarily meant to be a total replacement for your password protection like many of you might be hoping for now one of the most common questions we get here in android authority is what is the best mid-range android phone while HTC is hoping that you will consider the HTC Desire 510 so what can we expect from the device in addition to the Snapdragon 410 CPU the desire offers a one gigabyte of ram 8 gigabytes of storage a microSD card slot 5 megapixel rear facing camera and a 2100 milliamp hour battery LTE Android KitKat out of the box and a 4.7 inch display with a resolution of 854 x 480 now besides that painfully bad resolution the desire 510 could if price correctly compete with the Moto G we can help now for those be who lusted after the LG g3 but didn't like the flagship price tag you might want to consider the LG stylist it's all about the ten people LG has made the g3 stylist fairly priced by taking the LG g3 and performing a few downgrades to get it into the budget mid range of devices the equipped 5.5 inch IPS display is 960 x 540 resolution instead of the 2560 x 1440 of the full g3 you'll also find one gigabytes of ram 8 gigabytes of internal storage and a 13 megapixel camera on top of a whopping three thousand milliamp hour battery all powered by android 4.4 point2 thanks for watching edward army my name is Jace and I thought I would end off by responding to the whole ALS ice bucket challenge nominations I got a number of them thank you for thinking of me and it is certainly a worthwhile cause needs lots of donations for the research it's a nasty condition and I hope that it gets the research that it needs however I have worked with three charities in the past and most of them not all and in many cases but not all the money that is donated is not spent the way that I might like and that's one and number two I mean the ice bucket challenge has like just taken over and I suspect I don't wanna make a judgment but I suspect that some people are doing it because it's the thing to do not because they genuinely care about donating to ALS I mean a lot of people don't even know that that was the point so I have chosen charities that I donate to one in particular but I work with that charity and on a first-hand basis so I know where that money goes and that's just how I want to be effective so you want to forget it my my brother's here Jost Joe in the tech ninja Kevin lon and Chris I'll working hard to deliver the best android content on the web and we got to finish off that you only have a few more hours before I shoot the last Android QA that will deal with the Great Leap Forward I gave a huge hint in last week's Android QA so you might have a few more hours deliver the best answer someone already has got it they gave a good answer it was a length Lancer it was well thought out but you may be able to give a better answer so don't give up there's only a few hours left to win that fifty dollar google play gift card see you next week