Gadgetory

this episode of android authorities brought to you by full sail university well flagship season is fast approaching but until then we've got some goodies so far the rumor mill has said that a sodding from adding a micro SD card slot and possibly waterproofing into the mix the galaxy s7 will largely look the same as its predecessor over the weekend Evan Blass aka we be leaks also brought us alleged renders of the galaxy s7 that further confirmed this claim at least as far as the front of the device is concerned curious how the back will look well evan has got our back again this time showing off the rear samsung also put out a short teaser clip featuring its gear VR headset it's possible that virtual reality will be incorporated somehow to the launch of the galaxy s7 and there has been some confusion regarding a third version the galaxy s seven plus possibly launching at the Mobile World Congress but our current understanding is that only a 5.1 inch Galaxy s7 and a 5.5 inch Galaxy s7 edge are coming on februari 21st and as expected LG has confirmed via twitter that it will announce its upcoming g5 flagship on sunday febrero 21st same day as the galaxy s7 thanks to our exclusive leaked a few weeks ago we know that the LG g5 will come in a thinner taller and wider package along with a redesign chassis it's also expected to come with some notable goodies such as a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor a 5.6 inch quad HD display an iris scanner and a secondary ticker display like what's found on the LG v10 as well as a magic slot that can be used with different hardware accessories other reports have speculated that the device could sport a 16 megapixel rear camera I Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor 3 gigabytes of RAM and 32 gigabytes of on-board storage you'll also be interested to know that a leaked photographed purported to be the front of the HTC one and ten has surfaced and it looks quite a lot like the one a9 now there's no HTC logo on the front of this device and it looks like the company has ditched the black bar that has haunted the m series so far an elongated oval shaped home button rests on the bottom of the device and there's some speculation that it's also a fingerprint sensor the volume and power buttons are housed on the right side of the phone and the power button looks pleasantly ridged like the edge of a coin which should make it immediately identifiable with the brush of your fingertip now what we're not seeing is the second front facing speakers load the display so that may mean that boomsound speakers aren't going to be making the cut in this model all in all this look is fairly in line with what we were expecting from the one m10 solid metal construction and what looks like a 5.1 inch qhd AMOLED display under the hood the device is rumored to run a Snapdragon 820 chipset 32 gigabytes of on-board storage for gigabytes of RAM we're also expecting a microSD card slot for additional memory and a 12 megapixel ultra pixel rear camera and for those of you who are lovers of swiftkey you'll be interested to know that Microsoft is acquiring swiftkey to the tune of 250 million dollars both Microsoft and SwiftKey have confirmed the acquisition the swiftkey team will be joining microsoft and continue to work on both android and iOS apps which will continue to be available free in their respective app stores according to Microsoft's EVP of technology and research Harry Shoom the acquisition quote further demonstrates Microsoft's desire to bring key ops and technologies to platforms from windows to android to iOS unquote you know it's become a bit of a cliche now people learn how to create an app but don't learn how to distribute it and get it in the hands of the people who actually want it that's where full sail is going to be a big help with the mobile development undergraduate degree program you'll learn how to both create and distribute apps and if you're ready to advance your development skills check out the mobile gaming graduate program students receive a mac book industry software plus iOS and Android devices and if you're ready to compete in this rapidly growing industry visit Full Sail ed you /i Authority thanks for watching android army my name is Jace love to connect with you right up here on Twitter he also don't forget about my brothers and sister and Android we're working super hard to be your source for all things android