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welcome back to Android Weekly my name is Jason this is where we cover the week's Android news and in the past week it became clear that Samsung is hurting hurting so much you can put a dollar figure to it to the tune of four point two two trillion won Wow yes Samsung is bleeding with a net loss of forty eight point eight percent from this time last year and that's a total of four point two two trillion won or roughly four billion dollars u.s. ouch in theory it's quite easy to understand the driving force behind Samsung slipping sales it's always difficult to be number one and like any leader power and performance eventually wanes over time Samsung is especially noticing declining market share in China India Thailand and the Philippines now these are markets where companies like zo Milla Nova and Huawei work exceptionally well due to their low cost upfront pricing now Samsung seems to recognize their failings and gave us a hopeful response albeit a little cryptic senior vice-president at Samsung Mobile's communication business said quote we will fundamentally reform our product portfolio now is this just a well-crafted PR response or will Samsung actually start to reduce feature creep in their phones and maybe reduce the amount of phones they produce we can be hopeful but don't fret you Samsung fans because Samsung will be launching the Galaxy a3 and the a5 which on paper at least look like very decent mid tier options both the Galaxy a3 and the Galaxy a5 are designed in a similar fashion but the a5 is clearly the larger and more powerful device of the two while the galaxy a5 may be larger when measured edge to edge it is the thinner of the two measuring in at just six point seven millimeters while the thicker galaxy a3 also measures in at just under seven millimeters now both the a five and a three will come packing at 1.2 gigahertz quad-core processor 4G connectivity and include galaxy lines specific features including the ultra power saving mode private mode and multi screen in addition a3 and a5 will come with adjustable audio which will adapt to noise levels in your surrounding environment to adapt and enhance sound-up hood of the devices the galaxy a5 has a 5 inch HD Super AMOLED display backing the system-on-a-chip will be 2 gigabytes of RAM 16 gigabytes of internal storage with support up to 64 gigs via microSD slot and has a larger 13 megapixel rear-facing camera now they did say that these two phones would be launching in select countries including China but when I hear select countries I hear not launching here in the West so we'll see now I wanted to bring you an update on the oneplus one although there's been great hype and excitement about this phone very few people can actually get one to the surprise of only a few things did not go exactly according to plan at last week's oneplus one one hour pre-order event the server's froze up they had to extend times and there was plenty of bugs and issues with the pre ordering process now oneplus one has officially taken to its blog to apologize and to offer up a second chance to preorder those that were not successful the first time around now get your clicker finger ready for November 17th at 1500 hours GMT that's 3:00 p.m. GMT time now for those of you who are eagerly awaiting a lollipop it should be coming out for Nexus owners this week there are some interesting security features probably one of the most important ways to prevent your data from falling into the wrong hands is by using a lock screen but Google notes that many people don't use a lock screen or a pin or password because of the added inconvenience and that's where smart lock comes into play which lets you use bluetooth pairing or NFC this means you can pair your SmartWatch or your Android TV for when you're at home or really any compatible device in order to skip the pin password process there is also a new and improved face unlock experience that Google says is much more advanced and secure than previous face detection screen unlock methods thanks for watching Android R me my name is Jase love to connect with you right here on Google+ or Twitter you don't have forget about my brother's Android Josh Joe in the tech ninja Kevin lawn and Chris all working really hard to deliver the best Android content on the web I should see you next week on Android Weekly