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this episode of android weekly is brought to you by gamefly welcome back to android weekly my name is Jason this is where we cover the week's Android news and we found out about a mystery technology that's going into what is looking to be a beast of a phone that is the one plus one we also find out what the head of samsung mobile said about a rumored galaxy s5 premium edition rumor real yes I'm sorry to tell you my friends that the head of samsung mobile has shattered the dream that many of us had of a premium galaxy s5 according to the Korean media mr. JK Shin has officially denied the possibility of a premium galaxy s5 saying that the rumors reporting its existence are completely false Shin instead mentioned that Samsung would be releasing a new Galaxy Note model this fall so does this officially closed the door on a phone with a metal clad chassis not necessarily this samsung mobile head did say there'd be no premium galaxy s5 but that doesn't mean we won't see a phone with a beautiful metal clad chassis in the future we'll just have to wait and see now moving on to what could be potentially a beast of a phone the 1+1 is designed by former opel vp and running a popular cyanogenmod rom this smartphone could potentially shakes things up in the android world last week's announcement confirmed that the phone will be running a snapdragon 800 running at 2.3 gigahertz the handset will feature a massive 5.5 inch display running at 1080p resolution it will also include a 3100 milliamp hour battery that is non-removable I know that will disappoint many of you but you should know what the CEO peter loud did say about the battery and removable battery would have meant adding a protective layer to the motherboard as well as extra circuitry resulting in a smaller battery or a significantly thicker phone there is also some mystery battery technology that is meant to quote enhance and boost the user experience now we don't know exactly what this mystery technology is but it could be something similar to the Snapdragon glance which monitors your app usage and then optimizes for battery life the one plus one is expected to go on sale in the second quarter of this year with a retail price of no more than four hundred dollars moving on to some important updates when it comes to the Google Play Store this time around the updates to the Google Play Store app includes some design tweaks and the ability to batch install which will make those of you with a new phone very happy now you don't have to install each individual app you can simply batch install but perhaps the most important features that they've added in-app purchases to the app permission list allowing you to password protect those purchases now you're free or to have your life destroyed by your clash of clans addiction but if those in-app purchases are getting you down you may want to consider other affordable options to getting your gaming fix like my current gaming fix battlefield yeah they don't call me daddy headshot for nothing you see when you become a gamefly member you can rent this title or any of the 8,000 classic and new titles they have to choose from across all consoles and handhelds rent up to four games at a time and keep them as long as you like gamefly members can also play hundreds of PC games for free with unlimited PC play and our own Joe Hindy challenged me and it's clear he needs that extra pc gaming time he needs to unlearn his bunny hopping ways so come join me Josh Joe and Kevin as we play our favorite games and see if you can beat our scores I know most of you have quashed my flappy bird score already the a droid army can get a one month free trial when they go to gamefly.com /a Bertie moving on to news about a rumor regarding Google's new SmartWatch last month we heard a rumor claiming that LG and Google were teaming up to release a SmartWatch with plans to debut the device at Google i/o this June now thanks to a tweet from EV links we might know a little bit more about what this SmartWatch could look like keep in mind that Ed links does not have a perfect rumor track record but it gets us a little bit closer in the tweet we learned that the watch will have a 1.65 inch LCD with a 280 x 280 resolution other specs include a 512 megabytes of ram and 4 gigabytes of storage no word on the processor just yet thanks for watching a droid army my name is Jason loved it connect with you here on Google+ or Twitter or in the comments below tell me what you think about the one plus one that looks like a beast of a phone i'm really excited about it I told you that Chinese manufacturers would come and eat everyone's lunch if Samsung and LG weren't careful they're doing some good things that's what China does tell me what you think in the comments below don't forget to connect with my brothers nandroid Josh Joe and the tech ninja Kevin I shall talk to you next week on android week