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welcome back to Android Weekly my name is Jason in this past week we got some serious goodies for you one Samsung does its own unboxing of the Nexus 4 we got some news on a new Nexus device named Shamu and finally how would Android phones fare in Bend date now by now many of you will have heard about bendgate Ben gate was the scandal that was started by my fellow Torontonian at unbox therapy he wanted to see just how far he could push the iPhone six-plus before it bent it turned out it didn't take that much force at all at least according to him now some of you as Android enthusiasts are gonna want to know hey how would my favorite Android flagship phone fare under a similar test well it's no real scandal until Consumer Reports weighs in and weighed in they have at approximately 80 pounds Consumer Reports used a standard three point test to see how much force the phones could withstand until the show permanent damage the test started at 60 pounds of force and continued in ten pound increments until permanent damage occurred the devices in the test group were the HTC One m8 the LG g3 and the galaxy note 3 and three iPhones the iPhone 5 6 and 6 plus to get an idea of the kind of force we're talking about Consumer Reports says it takes 80 pounds of force to break four pencils at once a feat that for many people will be very difficult well as you can see here although that the iPhones did not do very well the HTC m8 did the worst with the Galaxy Note 3 doing the very best so what is really going on here is this just an effort by unbox therapy to make Apple look bad probably not he put up a second video a couple days later doing the same test with the same results all in one shot with witnesses right here in Toronto at Yonge and Dundas and but it doesn't explain while Consumer Reports had a very different result under a similar test but my uneducated I would notice that in unbox therapy he used two thumbs to try and bend the phone where as Consumer Reports had that one point test pressing down in the middle of the phone that may or may not made a difference in the test results but clearly there's a discrepancy so what does that mean for Android phones it means that Samsung's Galaxy Note series is a tank of a phone and HTC needs to work on the m8 Wow well there's a first time for everything and it turns out that Samsung has released its own unboxing of the Galaxy Note 4 and it looks like this this is the first unboxing of the Galaxy Note 4 and gives us a closer look at what to expect keep in mind that the video shows off the Korean model which arrived later last week and ahead of schedule that means that the boxing materials may not be exactly the same as you'll find in your own market and it is also a video that's in Korean though there are English subtitles looking for more details on the Galaxy Note 4 check out our original IFA announcement as well as our hands-on look at the latest note 4 now if you're lusting for the note 4 but you're not in South Korea for the official release don't worry because by the end of October the note 4 will be released to a hundred and forty countries so we've received rumors about the HTC m8 I which to be blunt on surface looks just like the HTC m8 but with a 13 megapixel camera like it should have had in the first place the m8 I upgrades the One m8 to a 13 megapixel dual camera sensor but it does not appear that the HTC's ultra pixel technology is coming along for the ride immediate response to the HTC One m8 four megapixel shooter was somewhat negative but many were surprised by the end result of the images as the ultra pixel technology meant larger pixels that captured more light resulting in greater image quality in low-light conditions if the final rumors are to be believed the HTC m8 I will only be headed to India and China it will run Android 4.4 KitKat and we'll have HTC Sense 6 skin on top last week many of you were asking for information on the next Nexus device and it looks like we have it Shamu and it's a massive phablet first we've learned that the handset will look very similar to the Moto X only much larger second the handset is said to have a massive 5.9 two inch qHD display with 498 pixels per inch as Snapdragon 805 CPU with three gigabytes of RAM 32 gigabytes of storage a 13 megapixel rear-facing camera a 2 megapixel front-facing camera and has 3200 milliamp hour battery as you can see it shows off the allegedly massive Motorola handset next to the LG g3 one thing you'll notice is that the Motorola M branding is present on this device and there doesn't appear to be any Nexus labeling on it unless the logo is super tiny and then the piece of paper with the word Shenmue written on it but we somehow doubt that that means that so this means that either the Nexus branding won't appear on the device or this device is not a Nexus device at all phablet lovers are gonna cry oh right thanks for watching android army my name is Jace love to connect with you right 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