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this episode of Android Weekly is brought to you by domain.com you guys know we live in a bubble right I mean there's a world of us geeks and then the rest of the world who could really care less about phones I'm sure you've heard your significant other say something like this how do you find the time to watch so many videos about phones the same way you find the time to feel two closets full of shoes you got to do better than that oh hey so if wives and girlfriends can be shoe geeks we can be phone geeks and that's why today is all about the ultimate geeks phone and I'd like to start off with aesthetics so the onion com has a great parody about Apple's MacBook Pro and how they said they did away with the keyboard and put in a key wheel I'll buy almost anything too shiny and made by Apple Alex Alban was one of the lucky few to get to try out a Mac wheel and spent 45 minutes typing an email to his friend and of course this was a gross exaggeration because it would be exceedingly painful to type with a key wheel but they made a point that Apple often sacrifices function for design now I'm not here to rag on Apple I love a lot of different Apple products but they do exaggerate to make an effective point here for the new MacBook I'd have to buy an $80 dongle because they're only putting in one port to the MacBook for people like me who live on my macbook and I earn my living off my macbook pro that is a really big sacrifice for design but there's a reason they do that they're questioning what do 80 percent of the people do 80 percent at the time and what 80 percent of the people do 80 percent of time is they're looking for something that's sexy that looks good that they can show off to their friends a little less so with function now many of you will think hey Android manufacturers often you know favor function over design but look what's happened most recently with the galaxy s6 and s6 edge would it have been as popular if it were not so thin and sleek and metal unibody I would submit to you that it would not I think it's fair to say the market has proven that aesthetics are important and you're much more likely to be engaged with your device if it is aesthetically pleasing and looks like from our poll that most of you agreed notion no let's talk screen size some people feel that bigger is better but flagship smartphones are now frequently bumping up against phablet territory officially the phablet category starts with the screen size of about 5.1 inches and goes up to 7 inches where devices really become tablets but that probably needs to be reassessed the original Galaxy Note had a 5.2 inch screen the galaxy s6 now has a 5.1 inch screen shrinking bezels allow us to get away with much bigger screen sizes without having to have huge devices and you can see here how most of you really prefer larger devices now let's talk power now I could tell you that you know I gave my son the Nexus 5 that has a Snapdragon 800 and it has never lagged he plays games on that quite a bit and he would tell me if it slowed down at all but this show is all about our dream phone so let's talk about the dream system-on-a-chip now some of you might be lusting for the rumored Snapdragon 820 but personally I would go with the Exynos 7420 because it has been blowing away all benchmarks thanks to the smaller manufacturing process samsung has been able to up its clock speeds by 200 megahertz on the CPU side and 72 mega Hertz on the GPU side working out to around 10 percent increase over the Exynos 54:33 what this will inevitably lead to some performance gains the biggest changes have been made in the system on a chips memory and GPU specifications and of course when you power-hungry geeks chimed in it was clear you were all about the muscle now for all you shutter bugs out there let's talk about the camera thanks to these smartphone gods the mega pixel war is now over and we can talk about cameras that actually make a difference I am looking for cameras that have really good low-light performance cameras that I can use in real-world scenarios when I'm in a restaurant or you know I'm out late at night and I can still take a photo without flashing that harsh ugly flash now if we're talking about a dream phone that also means a dreamed camera and I have the Sony Xperia z3 compact it has a very powerful camera on there but all those great features are deep within the menu and often times when you go in and try and use it it's tedious takes a long time and sometimes it just makes the app so we we need to pull out those powerful features and make them much more user friendly that to me would be the dream camera what do you guys think storage anybody you know what this really depends on where you live what country you live in and how expensive data is here in Canada it's super expensive I'm on like a $70 a month plan and it's like I don't know five gigabytes a month and without sneezing I can easily hit a hundred and thirty dollars per month like without even trying and that's not watching YouTube or Netflix or influent that that's just regular uses a little bit of Facebook a little bit of Twitter Email and Google Maps like it's that stupid expensive it's crazy here some other countries I know you've said hey you know just use the cloud it's not practical for people who you know don't have affordable data plans what do you guys think so my dream phone would have a crazy internal storage or microSD support I'm talking like 512 gigabytes you may laugh but in five years you're gonna have phones that big no problem so when you're talking about the ultimate anything you really should put a time limit on it the ultimate phone I'm looking for in the next year is different than the phone I'm looking for in five years but if I were honest with you the ultimate phone I'm dreaming about isn't a phone at all I want the hardware to get out of the way from the content and the information that I want to get to when I'm at dinner with my wife I don't have to be looking down to my phone to get the information I want when I am driving I don't have to look down on a text cuz I don't do that or I don't want to have to look down for a map when I'm driving get the hardware out of the way between me and the information or content that I want to access whether that means better wearables whether it means HUD displays on cars you know other devices I don't know but we need to not allow the hardware to get in the way from us and the wonderful world of the web what do you guys think let me know in the comments below so I asked you guys to share your domain names and business names and you did I found John grant and Michael from the game Bolcom and they produce some really good stuff there it's all gaming news and reviews please go checking out the game Bolcom they said they took about two hours to consult and decide on the name and make sure that you'd find the dot-com cuz you know the dot-com matters why because no domain name 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