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breaking news in the world of tech give me a moment Trump's the porting Joe alright I promise no more politics but let's get to the new features promised in these Snapdragon 805 Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 system a chip is expected to be in a number of premium phones this year including a new HTC flagship and the Samsung Galaxy s8 upon its arrival Qualcomm has outlined some of the photo and video features that the chip will offer namely optical and digital zoom Qualcomm claims to have made significant improvements in this regard and I quote the Snapdragon 835 processor is designed to address the graininess problem by intelligently combining optical and digital zooms so photos can be smooth seamless and lossless unquote further Qualcomm notes that the Snapdragon 835 will offer superior zoom performance in videos too but autofocus is another area Qualcomm has focused with the Snapdragon 835 chip the goal and I quote is to build a truly effective autofocus and help shutter bugs capture even the fastest moving moments said Qualcomm so all good news for Qualcomm this week not so good news for snapchat because after their IPO was revealed how they're making money and they're not in its filing earlier this week with the US Securities and Exchange Commission snapchat said it currently had a hundred and fifty million people using snapchat on a daily basis and that over 2.5 billion snaps were created every day it had just 58 million in revenue in 2015 but it greatly improved those numbers to four hundred four million in 2016 the bad news the company is not yet profitable in fact it lost a whopping five hundred and fourteen million just last year ok so my take is that snapchat is an innovative company that really has the pulse of how young people want to use their devices but it is not an ad platform or it's certainly not very good one everyone wants to be an ad platform because there's hundreds of billions of dollars to be made in ad revenue but not every platform is geared to that do a snapchat have a pre-roll mid-roll post roll ad that interrupts young people's content on snapchat they hate that I know from personal experience Twitter for example Twitter could have been a you know five hundred million dollar company if they had had a a subscription model right so you have a free based set of features on Twitter and then for power users you pay a few bucks a month to have power tools within the Twitter platform that would have been great it wouldn't have made fifty billion dollars a year but it would have been a sustainable profitable business but no there had to be an ad revenue based company so snapchat has learned from this and what they're trying to do is build hardware to integrate into these snapchat features I'm not very hopeful I am not I hope I'm wrong what do you guys think let me know in the comments below now we couldn't finish off today's show without talking about a photo that we found on the LG G six and it's the back this image here comes from an unnamed source who sent it to Business Insider it shows a dual camera set up along with a fingerprint sensor right below the cameras it also seems to show that the case will have a shiny glass back which again is consistent with previous rumors some of the phones back is obscured by the fingers of the person who took the photo most likely to cover up any identification markings that could link this phone to whomever have got their hands on it LG is expected to hold a press conference in Barcelona Spain on February 26 the day before the official start of the 2017 Mobile World Congress it's likely that the LG G 6 will be the star of this media event the company has already confirmed that the display of the g6 will feature a 5.7 inch qHD screen with an 18 9 aspect ratio with other on confirm rumors claiming that it will be the first third-party smartphone that will feature the Google assistant