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this episode of android weekly is brought to you by your mama because none of us would have our favorite android phones without our mothers go hug your mama happy Mother's Day welcome back to Android weekly my name is Jason this past week saw some interesting news about a new samsung tablet line a new huawei phone and even news about the HTC One mini 2 that's right there allegedly going to go and call it the HTC one mini to proving that the person responsible for titling such phones has a master's degree in chinglish please carefully bang your head yes that's right the ever-reliable evleaks has provided us the first credible image of the new HTC One mini 2 there are three color options available gunmetal silver and gold while the plastic rim around the device is still present it's much less than on the previous HTC One we also don't have any detailed specifications on the mini 2 but the image above suggests that the screen may be larger than 4.3 inches there is also no depth sensor on the device so it's very likely that HTC opted for a conventional 13 megapixel sensor for the camera move it on the news about a leak from Sam mobile which suggests that Samsung is about to launch a new tablet line titled galaxy tab s the first two devices in the series will be the galaxy tab s 8.4 and the galaxy tab asked 10.5 both of which will feature a 2560 by 1600 AMOLED display so why are these AMOLED displays a big deal it's because AMOLED is exemplified in the galaxy s5 is emerging as the best technology for displays thus far hopefully we will see this type of AMOLED display going mainstream moving on to good news about Google Maps and those of us who need help with lane changes Google Maps is getting a pretty big update today adding a significant number of new features including uber integration if you need transit or walking directions and have the uber app installed on your device in select cities of course then the uber option will appear at offer you the estimated trip times for a car service google maps on mobile will now show you upcoming lane information when you're using turn-by-turn and the updates include lane guidance and an easier access to alternative routes now what this means and what I'm most excited about is the fact that Google Maps will now tell you when you need to change lanes to prepare for the next cutoff so currently you know Google will announce you know an 800 meters turn left or an 800 meters take this cut off but if you're on a you know highway 401 in in Ontario is huge it's like four lanes in many cases and you're on the far left lane and you have to get to the right and 800 meters that may not be enough so it gives you a warning when to change lanes and it's a much safer way to use the navigation tool moving on to news about a new phone from huawei and it's looking pretty impressive this past week at a press event in Paris huawei introduced its latest and greatest flagship Android device the Ascend p7 the brand-new Ascend p7 is largely an evolutionary update from last year's ascend p6 but that's not a bad deal at all especially since Huawei brought enough improvements to the table to make it worth upgrading the Ascend p7 features a 5-inch display with a quad-core processor running at 1.8 giga hertz two gigabytes of ram 16 gigabytes of storage it does have a micro SD card slot the battery is 2500 milliamp hours with a 13 megapixel rear-facing camera and an 8 megapixel front-facing camera it of course will come out of the box running Android 4.4 now the big question is price and I was hopeful that it would be a much more affordable phone but it turns out it's going to be launching at 625 in US dollars or 450 in Euros so we'll see how it goes at the heavily modded phone but I did get my hands on the p6 last year and it's very elegant it was very thin and it felt fantastic in the phone we'll see how it works out if any of you have this phone or get it I want to hear but in the comments thanks a lot thanks for 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