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this episode of android weekly is brought to you by Dollar Shave Club welcome back to Android weekly my name is Jason in this past week we not only learned more about the new Samsung tablet lines and the G pad's from LG but we got our hands on the entry-level goodness that is the Moto e so yes let's start off with the official launch of the Moto e and although it is no flagship powered phone at a hundred and twenty nine bucks are you getting the best bang for your buck well let's start with a specification that's under the hood it is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 with a dual-core running at one point two gigahertz it has an Adreno 302 GPU now it only has four gigabytes of users storage but you can expand that to the microSD card slot up to 32 gigabytes of expandable memory the display is 4.3 inches with 540 x 960 HD display with 256 PPI now the battery is a nineteen hundred and eighty million power battery claiming a standby time of 24 hours the rear facing camera is 5 megapixels notice there is no front-facing camera and the device will come equipped with Android 4.4 KitKat now this has good news written all over it and by the looks of the first video that Josh put out it looks like it's a very comparable user experience it's a little bit slower than the Moto G but not too much a little bit thicker thicker bezels but for the price very decent Android experience I do have a concern though for people like me who have tweens and teenagers we're often looking for affordable very affordable Android phones that we can give to our teams if they lose it or break it it's not a it's not a deal breaker for us right but there is a lot of stigma or social status attached to your phone if you don't have an iphone or a flagship Android phone you're not considered really to have a smartphone I know it's kind of silly but it is a reality and my concern is that of a lot of teenagers will have this phone purchase for them and it will just end up in the bottom of their backpack with they're smushed up bananas I don't know we'll see how it goes now thanks to the crew at the phone arena we have some more leaked videos about the LG g3 can no one keep a secret these days LG is teasing us with a little press release and some photos of upcoming tablets the LG G pad line appears to be gaining a 7-inch new 8-inch and a 10.1 inch version coming soon official product announcements are due later this week LG is on a roll this week having just released a teaser video of the upcoming G watch but as teasers go LG is giving no information at all about the new g pad tablets they do promise LG specific user features though such as NOC code so for those of you who don't know what NOC code is this is LG's response to the fingerprint scanner or any other security features that are used to lock out unwanted users on your phone so on the Nexus 5 you know how they have the pattern I can set up to unlock my phone and iPhones password and that kind of thing well this is where you tap on certain parts of the screen predetermined parts of the screen and that would unlock your phone not a big fan of the idea it requires more work than a fingerprint scanner more work than just sliding around on a pattern I know some of you think I'm lazy I'm not lazy the average Android user is lazy as is painfully obvious I am losing hair up here and it is growing everywhere else that's why I was grateful for our beloved sponsor Dollar Shave Club because shaving this is serious business butter it's called Dollar Shave Club and it couldn't be simpler raiser for a few bucks a month Dollar Shave Club ships amazing razors and other bathroom stuff right to your door but wipe their blades are just as good as the big shave companies at a fraction of the price it's like a personal assistant for your face thanks for watching edward army my name is Jace love to connect with you here on google+ or twitter in the comments below i read them all if you have any questions for android Q&A shows come up make sure you go to the android authority forums and post them in the android Q&A section i am much more likely to use that question in the show it's posted there and if you're smart and you know your android chops you can answer some of those questions and then possibly win a fifty dollar gift card also every week if you post those questions we will send out a t-shirt anyone posting those questions once a week talk to you next week on android weekly