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this episode is sponsored by lynda.com easy-to-follow video tutorials help you learn software business and creative skills go to linda.com to learn more welcome back to android weekly my name is Jason we cover Android news in these parts and boy do we have some goodies for you in the form of galaxy s5 rumor but I know what you're thinking yeah whatever Jace a badly photoshopped phone does not a rumor make yeah but what if that photo showed no signs of manipulation and the official announcement for the galaxy s5 was leaked by a blogger who is correct last year about the galaxy x 4 yeah getting so excited I'm having trouble controlling my inner geek catch it hey if women can gush on puppies I can gush on a phone and what I'm excited about is the fact that a blogger named elder mertes in I hope I'm not butchering your name too bad older but he claims that the Samsung Galaxy s5 will be officially announced on sunday februari 23rd at 6pm a day before the Mobile World Congress interesting you see for those of you paying attention when a company like samsung announces a flagship phone they traditionally like to do it at a standalone event they don't want to do it anymore at these big conferences like CSI mobile or Congress because it's really hard to get above the noise and be distinguished between all the other competitors out there so why would they do it at day before well I thought that was a masterful stroke of marketing because if they do in a day before what all the press are at that you know in Barcelona ready and primed to report on phones every other phone that is released or announced at the Mobile World Congress will immediately have to be compared to the Samsung Galaxy s5 pretty smart now last year elder predicted the launch of the samsung galaxy s4 almost to the day which gives a lot of credibility to his claim as a reminder the samsung galaxy s5 rumored specs are a 5.25 inch 2k display a snapdragon 800 chipset and the three gigs of ram so yes let's talk about that new TouchWiz which is the other half of this rumor we've heard lots of stirrings about a new TouchWiz and we've seen some graphic from last week but this most recent graphic is very Google now ask it looks like these cards would live in the home screen and users would be able to swipe up and down to go through them we see some cards that are found on Google now such as flights deliveries and events however there are also cards for home automation fitness social stairs and messages overall the UI looks like a combination between Google now and n Notification Center moving on in news about android root breakage oh boy according to well-known developer chainfire the next version of android could be bringing a change that will stop you from accessing your favorite root apps now of course such a move would make many of us so angry we'd want to give birth but you should know this was not meant to be an attack on root apps but an attempt to improve security a recent addition to the android open source project master tree has been spotted that will prevent apps from extracting files to the directories located on the data partition and then executing them as root the idea here is that it could prevent some malicious programs from executing scripts on the data partition and furthermore it's unclear whether this change will be added to the next version of android or not and so last up is the rumor that the nexus 5 would now be available in various colors not just in black and white so the fruity among us could enjoy some banana strawberry and blueberry phones thanks for watching android peeps and i thought today I would do something completely different and find out who actually watches this portion of the show and how effective I have been and teaching you about Android so your homework is the following find out how you can use Android to translate this in just a few seconds it's been I'm in fits a child on each come out Toronto for stage to me the spout in the comments below on twitter on google+ give me the translation tell me what i said and i will give you a tribute and this week's Q&A talk to that