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hey it's Josh of a guard 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 we start with a ton of computex news and asus asus asus quite literally because at their keynote for this year's computex at taipei they announced three new products for the upcoming year we start off with the new Transformer Pad Infinity a Tegra 4 powered beast capable of 2560 by 1600 resolution in its 10 inch screen you'll be able to extend that resolution even further through the ability to output a fork a signal through the hdmi port on the device 4k that's like way more than 1080p the second device announced by asus is a transformer with a little bit of an identity crisis the transformer book trio is a tablet capable of running Android and Windows 8 I know right now before you get too excited the dual functionality is only available when you have the tablet attached to the keyboard dock this is because the bits inside the tablet run Android and the bits inside of the dock run Windows 8 pricing is not available yet but I'm guessing as does our community that it's going to be around the same price as a notebook so now you can get all fancy so will you be using android or windows today so yes the last announcement recovering from a sous is of a new phone pad and now it comes with the little friend the tablet in the States and a huge phone everywhere else is now getting a note like stylist so now what you're getting is a intel atom dual-core processor an 8 megapixel camera front facing speakers and then of course that included stylist more computex news comes out of Intel's camp with their new murrayfield processor we may start to see some variety from the arms and the snapdragons of the android world as Intel's presence grows the next iteration is a lower powered 22 nanometer processor with a focus on battery life the previous processor midfield was already pretty beastly so we're gonna have to see what murrayfield can bring us we don't yet know how many cores the 2014 slated processor has but come you know us we got to have a lot of course come on come on and now we get into a lot of Samsung news if you haven't been following the patent wars and I know you're probably tired of it just like me well Samsung did get a big court win over Apple this week it was ruled that Apple has violated a samsung patent effectively causing a sales ban on some apple products now before you ask they aren't any current devices well Apple has since vowed to appeal yeah big surprise but what is interesting is that Samsung is not making a peep about the swim why well maybe Samsung is too big of a company to boast about a small wind like this true to form a debate sparked out in our comments and you're welcome to join in on the conversation here on this video or at the written article at android authority calm let's get back to devices Samsung stayed in the news this week with the announcement of a variation to the galaxy s4 following the trends of water resistance and does proofing that we're seeing these days the galaxy s4 active was announced and it is a ip67 certified device that is dustproof and can be submerged in up to one meter of water for up to 30 minutes apparently it's supposed to handle anything from the most rugged mountain trails to the roughest rivers which means it's perfect for kids one of our commenters made the good point that though this is a ruggedized phone that we're seeing now it's still a high-end device very fair point it's not something that we see every day rest assured that we're going to get our hands on at the moment it gets out in the states which is going to be sometime this summer and we're going to test it out thoroughly yeah then we're going to dunk it in water we're probably going to drop it and then for the dust proofing we're going to gather a bunch of dust and then oh that's disgusting speaking of the original Galaxy s4 it may not all be sunshine and rainbows like some people predicted Samsung's flagship device may not achieve as high sales as was previously anticipated as some analysts report what resulted was a massive sell-off by some investors now we know that analysts can sometimes get things wrong but what we do know is that Samsung pulled back on their 30 million unit projection for q3 and said it may be 20 what we also know is that Samsung sales in the States still remain very high and our remaining pretty steady so the reports are somewhat conflicting have you gotten your s4 yet do you plan to let us know in the comments below okay let's move on to something a little more cheery like the NSA peeping in on your phone records in a court order uncovered this week it was found that the NSA wants every call every day of verizon's telephony records all of them no discrimination no specifics just all of them of course customers of the phone carrier in the US are naturally freaking out rest assured that they are not listening in on the calls they just want to know who called who and when yeah that's better also the data is just about the call so no personal information is going to be revealed okay as to why only verizon and nobody else well perhaps it has to do with the carrier's reach and their scope as to what will be done with the information on the other hand maybe the NSA is looking for anomalies after all the court order was issued shortly after the Boston Marathon bombings if you're a customer of verizon or even if you're not let us know what you think in the comments below or at the written article found at android authority calm and finally we end on a piece of good news for all of you sony fans out there after first the samsung galaxy s4 and then the HTC one it looks like the Sony Xperia Z is going to be the next device to get the nexus experience given some tips from sources and then Sony's long time commitment to AOSP this is very likely to happen and in related news around half of Sony Xperia Z users around the world all collectively went damn and then a final nugget of information suggests that Motorola will indeed be coming out with the Moto X only one though as X doesn't seem to pertain to a line of phones but rather one particular device so the coming months look like they're going to get pretty exciting all right that'll about do it for this edition of android authority weekly a written companion can be found in a link in the description below while you're down there though you might as well drop us a like subscribe and then remember to tune in join me next week at the same time and place android authority calm your source for all things android