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it should be pretty obvious where most of our news is coming from this time around hey it's Josh Berg are from android authority what's going on everybody and it's time for another dose of the week's top Android news it's android authority weekly coming to you live from Aoife in berlin clearly the vast majority of the news that we have in this edition comes from Aoife but some of the important news actually came out even before the exhibition doors opened namely from samsung yes the Galaxy Note 3 was unveiled to no one's real surprise but what did catch us all off guard was the material choice this is no longer a glossy plastic phone like so many of Samsung's of their offerings instead a textured plastic made to someone mimicked leather it replaces it under the hood you get the update performance with the Snapdragon 800 and 3 gigabytes of RAM all of which power the new S Pen and multitasking functionalities it is a true beast of a phone but it does come with a little friend also true to the rumor samsung came out with its own SmartWatch and it is called the galaxy gear it's a stylish little device that comes with a load of abilities aside from pairing to your Galaxy Note 3 via bluetooth and viewing your notifications the gear can actually take calls and comes with speakers and microphones to do so plenty of apps will be made for the gear but we're told it's a pretty closed ecosystem developers might be able to make that change however these are two devices that are supposed to come together and so we can expect them to come in bundles across major carriers speaking of development it was revealed what the next iteration of Android is going to be called what we were originally calling key lime pie a all over the place is actually going to be called KitKat yes it seems branding isn't going to be an issue for either company as KitKat even changed up their websites and mimicked typical smartphone marketing you should go check that out 4.4 kitkat will apparently be made for everyone which suggests that it will be compatible with even older hardware new statue was put up at the Google campus commemorating the announcements we'll have more for you about the upcoming version as more Kit Kats come our way but what's that a wild new Nexus smartphone appears yes this shot taking out the KitKat statue shows someone taking a picture of it using a unique looking smart phone nexus logo readable winning landscape looks like a soft touch plastic could that be the nexus 5 but we all just he can't just go about calling the next Nexus smartphone the Nexus 5 or anything but it does look like a slightly small seven which is definitely something I could get behind patent listings show the Reuben Nexus 5 might have gotten passed through the FCC already so we might be seeing the next Nexus smartphone quite soon now plenty of people out there still think that LG might be the developer of the next Nexus smartphone but this week LG got into the news for a different reason the Korean manufacturer officially got back into the tablet game with the announcement of the g pad an 8 point 3 inch tablet made just for you the g pad tries to be the best tablet without trying to go overboard with the typical plastic front the tablet employs a welcome-back you made of aluminum it includes all of the functions the great g2 smartphone has and adds in seamless entered device functionality will have a full review of the g pad soon so stay tuned and finally we end on sony whose newest flagship phone has until now been called the oh Namie phone however as is the trend a lot of the rumors happen to be true and now we know the inami phone as the Sony Xperia z1 a 5 inch device morning the Snapdragon 800 the Xperia z1 retains the general design of the experience see what comes with an incredible camera powered by what is called the G lens the G lens is supposed to reach a similar quality to Sony's contact cameras and sports a whopping 20.7 megapixels however the camera department wasn't left for the z1s glory as the fabled attachment lenses were also unveiled the QX line includes the 110 sporting 20.2 megapixel and 18.2 megapixel exmor r CMOS sensors respectively the biggest news regarding these lenses is that they aren't just for xperia phones yes they even attached to iPhones basically any Wi-Fi direct device will connect to the lenses which include their own hardware buttons built-in camera app that is installed on the phone and even its own memory via microSD cards these little lens units are definitely different but they sport pretty great quality close to the stela compact camera a sony RX and so there you have it for this edition of android authority weekly Aoife is winding down and that means so am i stay tuned for our next episode of weekly and for all of our other coverage at android authority drop us a like down below in our videos and don't forget to subscribe I hope you enjoyed all of the coverage we had here at Aoife in Berlin so stay 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