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this episode of android authorities brought to you by atlassian build what's next so we've now found these supposed images of the HTC 10 so what's the verdict for a phone that was once considered the best designed Android smartphone regardless of what its final name is the one thing we know for sure is that HTC is gearing up for a somewhat radical departure and design moving away from the looks of the HTC One m9 we've already seen a number of fuzzy images showing off the device but today we get our hands on a few more images from on lakes which was immediately followed by a detailed press render as expected the new HTC 10 removes the boom sound front-facing speakers in favor of a design that's more akin to the HTC One a 9 especially on the front side taking the place of front-facing speakers as a front-facing fingerprint scanner built into the phone's HOME button which is flanked by two capacitive keys on the back is a fairly minimalist design though the chamfered edges help give it an extra bit of flair from the front to the back and even it's somewhat curved looking design we can't help but feel this phone seems a bit like an odd mix of Samsung and HTC's design language with perhaps a tiny bit of moto ask shape thrown in for good measure in addition to the new images on leaks also unofficially confirmed a few things about the specs namely that will see a five point 15 inch quad HD display a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor with an Adreno 530 GPU 4 gigabytes of ram a 12 megapixel main camera and a USB type-c for charging that said these are prototypes specs so the final model may differ slightly well I'm underwhelmed let me know what you think in the comments below now let's talk Google's hands-free and it's not android pay it's a little bit different when Google was teasing its hands-free payment method last year we didn't really know what to make of it the service allows users to pay at retailers and restaurants simply by mentioning that they'd like to quote pay with Google hands-free is an app that runs on Android 4.2 and up when you set up the app you'll create an account and link a credit card or debit card to it upload a photo of yourself and now you're good to go when you walk into a hands-free supported store restaurant the app interfaces with the cash register via bluetooth and Wi-Fi so when you say that you'd like to pay with Google all the cashier has to do is verify that you are who you say you are via the photo you've uploaded no cards no cash and you don't even have to pull your phone out of your pocket you just take the items and go transaction processed pretty cool all grand chief but we have to be cautious when it comes to security in these types of situations especially because Google's not giving us any details about how they're going to secure the transaction but it's a very limited test roll out just in San Francisco and it is completely separate at this point from Android pay so we'll keep you up to date now this is normally Hindi speed but I got to talk about my new addiction clash Royale and I be ponen peeps following the huge success of clash of clans the game developer supercell has released a new strategy game to the google play store and it's called clash Royale and it's a real-time multiplayer game that stars the Royales the aim of the game is to knock the enemy king or queen from their towers on the other side of the field in doing so you win trophies and crowns which room turn will earn you rewards new cards and upgrades of your existing cards the game takes place in real time so you will need a steady internet connection to play this keeps getting interesting though as you'll be able to battle against players who all around the world with different strategies and different cards you'll also challenge your clanmates and friends to private duels if you're not keen on battling in random battles now I really like this game because it's a great balance of being both a casual game and a good 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