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this episode of Android Weekly was brought to you by Full Sail University welcome back to Android weekly my name is Jace and in this past week we not only saw two new phones from Sony a new system on a chip from Samsung but Google now allows us to correct Google now when she misunderstands us case in point ok Google who's the most handsome Android host of all when there's a need for a correction you do OK Google know I said who's the handsomest Android host of all stop you just like seeing his name yes that's right you can now correct google mouths voice search commands handy tool but that's not the only improvement we've seen from Google now Google now lets you change the name of a location card previously you could only change the name of two default locations home and work now to rename a custom location in Google now you click on the three dots Settings button right here select your preferred mode of getting around like mass transit driving biking walking whatever then click on the next arrow then click on rename button now moving on to good news about what's claiming to be the world's best selfie smartphone the Xperia c3 the new experiance c3 is a 5.5 venture with mid-range specs and a consummate Sony design that launched last week in Taiwan a successor to the experience see Sony skipped this c2 for some reason the new c3 s most outstanding feature is a 5 megapixel wide-angle front camera with an 80 degree field of view and a soft LED flash guaranteed to make you look the best day or night so sony claims sony also packed several software features to enhance selfies or pro selfies as sony calls them the Xperia c3 is the first Sony phone to boast superior auto mode on the front of the camera which picks the best setting depending on the scene including HDR you get the obligatory beautification mode and a function called Smile Shutter which does exactly as the name suggests plus a few eight-hour features allow I'm gonna make a suggestion if I may if you're one of those people who are crazy enough to watch YouTube videos on a mobile operating system maybe you want to consider this as a career because you should know that it's expected mobile app development projects will exceed that of PC projects four to one by 2015 yeah you see the emerging world is just gonna skip the PC revolution and move right on to the mobile revolution and that's where our beloved sponsor comes in the people who make all this possible Full Sail University at Full Sail you'll learn specific technology used in creating and distributing apps so that you can conceive deploy develop and market an application from start to finish Full Sail also offers the online mobile gaming master's degree program allowing you to expand your programming skills while learning how to improve the mobile gaming experience through full sales project lunchbox program students receive a MacBook Pro industry software plus iOS and Android devices so if you're serious about this consider visiting Full Sail University edu forward slash authority and get started now now some good news for those of you who are hoping that Qualcomm and NVIDIA will get some more system-on-a-chip competition this system-on-a-chip is the first from Samsung to offer an on-die LTE integration and is built on a 28 nanometer H kmg process this system-on-a-chip offers cat 4 LTE and a built-in image signal provider capable of supporting an 8 megapixel sensor with 1080p video recording at 30 frames per second suite now it's clear from the mid-range specs of the system of a chip that it's clearly intended for more mid-range devices but the question remains will Samsung's Exynos series be able to compete more and more with Qualcomm let me know what you think in the comments below I'll be reading them now for those of you hungry for rumors we got rumors about the sony xperia z3 while previous rumors made us expect the design to be different we don't see many changes in the design language here most specs continue to be a mystery but from the photos you can tell it seems to be running Android 4.4.4 it also seems like the device will have a 2.5 gigahertz Snapdragon processor at Drina 330 graphics and probably the same 20 point seven megapixel camera found in both its predecessors keep in mind guys that what was found here was a prototype and therefore subject to change even if the rumors are completely accurate the phone could look quite a bit different once it officially launches