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and good morning on Tuesday March twenty eighth time for episode 201 of the 359 podcast I'm bvg and i'm here today with Roger Cheng and Alfred and good morning guys morning morning it's a new era start of 201 on the road to 300 baby that's right we are post punching Roger Cheng in the face but you missed out your chance we're not we're not talking about anymore and Christian we know you're in the chat where the hell have you been we were dying to find you the last week because it was your time to shine and you left us hanging okay I never forgive he's back it's fun I fends all the really that's yours that's your reminder to always watch this show because you know we might make a whole request based off your comments there you go you missed out alright so not a big surprise we're gonna be talking a lot about Samsung today really posing the questions that we want to answer tomorrow tomorrow's obviously the big event it's Samsung unpacked here in New York I'll be at the show just reminder the show will not be tomorrow's podcast will not be going on as will be busy actually talking about for attending the event so every time with that and we couldn't do the show without talking a little bit about spider-man that new trailer that just that just debuted at me I had a little brown anonymous Jess well giggly about it oh yeah very very excited talk serious Samsung and then get silly spider-man that's right as always leave your questions whether it's samsung or spider-man related brian will pick out the best and will get answered will get them answered in three minutes 59 seconds all right and starting the recording in three two welcome to 359 we talked about the top tech news of the day and all the other crap we want to throw in I'm Roger Cheng I'm Alfred hang tomorrow is the big Samsung unpacked event here in New York will be done with all the rumors leaks and speculation and get our first official glimpse at the galaxy s 8 until then today we're going to pose the questions we want answered from tomorrow's event so the big one for me is will this phone be impressive enough to wipe away the bitter taste left from the galaxy note 7 to buckle I think they're going to wait have to wait at least two more years you can't even bring up Samsung without somebody talking about you know oh is it going to explode is there gonna be a fire John Oliver did a whole segment like two weeks ago yeah yep that was like an entire like year over a lot of people it is it's an issue that's still fresh in the mind yeah it's not I don't think it'll drop until you know at least the galaxy as 1000 so I mean what are some of the questions you want answered well I've in the last like three to five months I've seen so many leaks about the galaxy SI it's gone to a point now where I'm wondering you know are there any surprises left in the tank for samsung on this yeah I don't know that's that's a really good question it just seems like basically every facet of this phone has been revealed right we kind of I mean if the rumors are correct you know we kind of know that there's no more home button the bezels are much smaller it's gonna be a much bigger screen pack into a smaller body presumably I'll use Qualcomm's latest snapdragon chip so it'd be faster and more powerful you know there's a lot of things to kind of get excited about this product assuming of course all these rumors are correct of all the rumors which one to use seems the most likely and which one seems like it's definitely a rumor it's not happen I mean most likely is obviously the display change right getting getting away from the home button packing in a bigger screen you saw it with the LG G six I think that's it's gonna be the trend for this year for phones I think you're gonna see with apple and the next iPhone removing or shaving off some of that bezel making as thin as possible so you could pack in that bigger screen that's what people want right there staring at these things all the time why not have as big a display as possible and which rumor seems like the most far-fetched uh you know in terms of the the super 4k video recording I mean that that's one that Sony kind of has that sort of locked in I don't know if people ever want that it seems like you know it seems like excessive not 4k video recording I'm sorry 4k display 4k display is something that I've seen rumors about I'm not really sure about that one and then again sony has done that with their experience no one replies those things I mean the rumor that seems to me I don't think it's going to happen is then pulling an apple and getting rid of the headphone jacks for the USBC cord oh yeah that would be a bold move but i doubt i think they're gonna try to dinging Apple again by saying yes we do have headphone jack all right so next up couldn't do the show without matching the new spider-man trailer DC did you watch it plea please take notes that's I mean it's a great it looks amazing I i I'm kind of worried that they gave away the entire movie in the trailer yeah yeah it feels like Latino you can sketch out the plot just based on this trailer but yes I'm still gonna watch it or I'm still gonna find a way to convince my wife to let me watch it I mean I I think it's interesting this in this spider-man you know it's more about the suit where like the suit kind of gives him the powers as opposed to all the other ones were like the zoo is just kind of like an after note on it yeah they're making a big deal of it the students kind of cool it has this like it's it's sort of uh like latches onto you yeah yeah yeah it's kind of a cool effect uh and Michael Keane I mean Michael Keynes awesome basically everything he does what is with this man and being like a bird in like I know Birdman he's the butcher now he was Batman I don't know what it is what he likes rocking wing also I know bats aren't Birds they're mammals they flow yes a fly no I get it I get it all right you want more of these stories check us out on cnet I'm Roger Cheng I'm Alfred Aang thanks for listening all right first and foremost we got to remind everybody what time is the keynote tomorrow yes a really good point the keynote starts at 11am Eastern 8 a.m. Pacific will be there much much earlier crakkadawn way in line to make sure we have the best seats making sure that the photos that we have for you guys are wonderful were there will be a live blog by the way this time Cena it's not doing live blog but we will be live tweeting from the event will have a page up collecting some of those tweets so you will get live updates from us on cnet but but definitely stay tuned we're going to have a sort of full court press in terms of Samsung coverage and we'll have I as akhtar Bridget Carey and Ben Fox Rubin at the desk here in the studio doing a pre-show post-show roundup yeah I would be talking to you and maybe even dan ackerman out on the floor getting exclusive first look so come and tune in at Cena at 1030am eastern standard time and yeah livestream cnet com I think we're facebook liveing it as well yeah yeah so awesome we look forward to seeing you all there so a perv is asking will Bigsby be a big fail for samsung like Tyson uh well that's really interesting question she as big a fail is Tyson no no I mean Tyson Tyson's really it sort of takes the cake in terms of software failures no one's using although if you have a gear s3 or gear s2 you're using a size Tizen device which I don't actually know how many people actually own that device but in terms of bixby though you know in terms we've talked about our race cars are in a story about pics beans or the vision of that AI it's going to be very limited at first they want to incorporate new features from some of the startups they purchase over the last year so you could expect bixby to get better over time and you expect Bixby to be show up in more products you know microwave TVs TV refrigerators so it might be more useful it's remember this is sort of an AI to kind of control your phone it's less I think it's going to be less like Google systems yeah kitano where your you rank searches it's more about like they called it a sidekick for your phone to kind of control the the parts of the s8 that you know that you normally be basically things I like yeah just like controlling your phone without having to touch it so like if you want to pull up a photo like can you pull up all the photos I took yesterday right it'll be able to sort that as opposed like you going and then like scrolling people and all that stuff it's basically trying to make using your phone a lot more based on your voice and you know touch screen using your touch that said yeah I rarely use voice assistance now so I don't know if I'll use this I mean I only use voice assistant for like small features like that to be honest like where it's like set a timer where I don't want to open up yeah like that's true i mostly ask Siri for the weather yes point though yeah yeah so you know as opposed to me pressing like the weather app and then like going through like what the forecast would be yeah just ask it I mean that's how i feel about timers like small menial tasks which is kind of what they're going like all in on with big speed right though right do we know when the release date for the essay it's going to be or is that going to be announced tomorrow okay announced tomorrow I think speculation is late April according to the chat yeah I think that's what the rumors are calling for again will well sort of part of the problem is that they can actually announce their own launch date they usually wait for the carrier's to do it since they they all have slightly different dates right so like I would imagine shortly after the event you'll start hearing from at least here in the US you start hearing from 18t and t-mobile and Verizon these guys don't start rolling out announcement dates and prices samsung actually doesn't talk about the price of these phones rightly weights they wait for the carriers to do it here's an easy question and he wants to know are they going to bring back the note 7 well yeah we can answer that yeah apparently yes unfortunately not in the US though if you live and fortunately or fortunately right if you live in America you are out of luck the imagine that they'll go after certain emerging markets or other markets that didn't have note 7 the first time around you think that they would be able to work in the US so like let's say I go all the way out to Vietnam and i buy i have a note 7 there i'm back to the US I me possibly it depends on assuming I can get on a flight with one right it depends on the radio the frequency yeah otherwise when I'm cups from the the u.s. better possibly I don't really know phone do we think there's going to be any waterproofing to the essay asking asking for Daniel I would say that's pretty safe bet there's gotta be yes seven resistance water resistance the s7 and the node 7 were both water resistant both features that customers love and the iphones also water resistant it would be a mistake if Samsung took that feature away re speculating any changes in the camera I don't know the rumors have been kind of their inconsistent wasn't one of the rumors that they were gonna you know kind of do the same thing the seven plus did with the dual rear cameras yeah yeah we saw that song yet okay and uh yeah I don't I don't really know what what they're gonna do with the camera that's uh there there are a lot of inconsistent rumors so that I think that's one of the questions we want to answer definitely like what's up with camera are they going to put big speed on the s7 as well uh that's a really good question I mean it's a software thing though so I mean I don't think it would have come eventually had the s7 hung on without any flaws and eventually the software update probably what brought it on boards well like a rerelease or to note that the that Bixby will have a physical button control on the essay so I mean yeah you can theoretically just call it up on the s7 as a as a software update but that's I don't know I mean from what I understand though Bixby is not supposed to be a very high demand software update like they've been talking about like you know if we're not gonna put on your TV maybe we'll put on your TV remote right right you know which doesn't really have the most high-end like chip running it that's true yeah it's not it's not a very you know exhaustive you know software updates I can see it coming to some of their later phones but as you said it a lot of it has to do have hardware so it is not always listen yeah it seems like they're really big on like having a physical button for HP so that doesn't really work backwards compatibility was from what I understand the reason why they wanted it the button though is so that you know get in one of the issues that they looked at was like how people like look at um voice control and like voice assistance where I you look kind of silly when you're holding your phone out like this yeah they wanted the button to kind of be like making it look like you're naturally talk to my phone yeah the idea was it gives a walkie-talkie phone yeah right Kareem is asking will the noh8 have fingerprint scanner on the glass panel I the rumors say no that that they couldn't figure that part out on time and that's why the fingerprint scanner will likely be in the back of them and what is your opinion on that location of the scanner and how it will function it kind of depends on where the back of it is I you know we were not sure yet I think that where the pixel has their Center print readers is pretty decent sort of in the center of the back lephone that I think the rumors are calling for it to be a little bit higher than that so I don't know it depends on how the phone ultimately looks and how to hold you how it started held in your hand sure also it might be a plate again people don't want to use the irish / face scanner more right all right if they don't want to have to like reach out to the back and it's like just like looking right at it that's what todo saying in the Chad they want to promote the iris scanner above the touch scanner yeah yeah definitely uh call the duty gamer 1999 that's a great name what about 3d touch think we're gonna see 3d touch uh no well that's an apple yeah that's an apple thing in terms of haptic feedback I mean Samsung phones already had haptic feedback so i don't think they'll have something like 3d touch though this is a question that's over my head why will us get Snapdragon and not XE knows that's a really good question i would say partly for competitive reasons i think they want to have multiple suppliers for their their chips it kind of keeps both sides honest in terms of making the volume of phones that they make i think it's smart to have sourcing from two different suppliers supposed to rely on just one and you know in the US i imagine qualcomm has already spent some money kind of building up its snapdragon brand and they want that relationship of course and there are enough kind of high-tech or tech savvy people out there who you know who do care about what ship that runs their phone right so essentially they're the kind of i mean they are come they're gonna be the same you know they're they're all manufactured by samsung anyways but you know one bisbee Qualcomm one happens to be the homegrown version interesting perspective coming in here people are anxious about VR will there be any new VR gear or gear sorry gear VR for the sa yo so they actually introduced a new gear VR system back in Spain last month at mobile Congress it's basically a the same headset but it comes with a controller looks a lot like daydream the controllers actually motion sensitive so like you can actually kind of wave it around and recognize that as well as thumb through a touchpad just like the daydream controller so you can imagine that will be part of some sort of bundle or where Elias will be sold as you know part of this package yeah and I know Snapdragon ever at least on there on the SH that will have the Snapdragon chip they have been like pushing really big for that for the 35 to be right to be very V are ya ready for it yeah yeah 1,000 frames per second camera true or not I don't know that seems a little lofty that's yeah that's already i seen that rumor it's in our room around up as well i am a little skeptical about that that's an idea but maybe not yeah i think i'm not sure what the iphone one is it's like 250 i believe um but yeah that's that's just for the slo-mo camera Lulu we don't know the cost yet we'll find out tomorrow with the rest of y'all will they have a boca camera feature like the iphone plus 7 iphone 7 plus you have the bunch of the portrait mode that is one of the rumors I don't know it's like I mean I don't know how likely it is it's you know obviously I think a feature that people want apples definitely made that sort of a coveted feature I mean I use that thing all the time I freaking love it when it works it is a little hit or miss but when it works it's wonderful um I think that's probably a good spot to leave off because I think we've answered all we can answer your time being yeah we don't look we don't a lot of answers right now with you were anxious to see yeah yeah we're definitely interested excited to see what happens again just a reminder the show will not be on tomorrow I'll actually be at the event it's over at Lincoln Center and Ben I as and Bridget will be doing the pre-show starting at 1030am and I'll dial in and give you guys some impressions from from the event ahead of the actual start time if you but it goes from 11 to we think noon should be an hour long presentation we never really know that sounds about right yeah yes so stick with it all the way either way but you'll be able to follow our live tweets tweets for myself just dull chord chart it can who are our SF folks who are in town especially for this event and before we wrap it up for the day let's geek out for a second about that spider-man trailer odd that those look good so good he's the best spider-man he really is yeah the most of all I don't think there's anyone is gonna argue against that there are people who would defend Tobey Maguire to eccentrics and o people defend ain't Garfield but they'll still turn around is a wall but just on Tom Holland looking like a kid alone yeah we require or Tony look like a 30 year old playing yeah like why would they be in hiding all good yeah I mean I thought Andrew Garfield did a better job of looking like high school student than to them but it wasn't it still wasn't that convincing Andrews Andrew Garfield's a terrible Peter Parker he looks nothing he's like Custer ish hipster cool way to redefine the modern geek in the mine geek still plays Dungeons and Dragons he doesn't it laid all the time Garfield although I thought I liked how he was like he was definitely like thinner there like a thinner frame to like it seemed like two looked good in the Soviet Toby kind of was he look bulk a little bulky relatively I was good i like that but i mean back to this one though like he's an actual kid yeah you know he looks he's small ya mean short relative to some other heroes i'd answer yeah actors dance yes yes yeah i like yeah you all a lot of flips in real life just to like yeah she like the instagrams of yeah just a standing flips like wow yeah he's like but seconds on screen in the avengers for people to instantly fall in love yeah so good i want to see you know they took a lot of departures with that amazing spider-man franchise like we didn't ever get to see the Daily Bugle really in effect and I would really like to see the main temples of Peter Parker's legacy quantity fair I don't think the Daily Bugle would be successful or up and running in in like today's time so well if it's analogous to the New York Times maybe it is but they legality I'm sorry isn't there a billboard an amazing spider-man 2 that said something like Daily Bugle blog or something like that yeah that's what it probably would come boy yeah alright like jonah Jameson would not be paying that much for photos of spider-man with the new way sorry not the times the post I guess it's now now just piss off like New York tabloid yeah yeah yeah um anyways there is a rumor floating around who might be playing JK Simmons a JJ Jamison and it won't be JK Simmons a and although you can never beat that oh yeah he's the perfect jonah Jameson so the rumor I heard hmm was ice cube what really just a rumor but think about it at my first reaction was to reel back and then I went wait no he's such an asshole he yells bye Felicia every time granted just a rumor no validation i'm with you i'm reading all the spoilers & blogs and everything and i took a second turn away oh man i would actually love to see him screaming at tom holland that's true yeah yeah he could do a good job and again there's no there's no validation the bat he's not anywhere in any call sheets of cash sheets but that's not a bad fan cast to be honest i also i do like pal a diversified his friend now is not he's played by an asian actor it's kind of nice to have a what was a character's name i forgot it i completely forgot it but it's a character for cut they pull this on the ultimate comment yes yeah yeah yeah but that's again we're getting a great rounding out of the rogue's gallery we got Liz it's not just Mary Jane right right we're gonna actually see that like no Peter does have friends is a besides Harry is MJ gonna be in the business she's not in this one definitely not in this one he's had three different girlfriends now across three different movies Leia and they call him a geek yeah right the one thing I don't want to see is I don't want to see another going Stacey because if nothing more that was the best part of the amazing spider-man franchise was Emma Stone oh yeah yeah no question I didn't like that French s at all I'm not validating the franchise I didn't really care for it either but I thought she was fantastic yeah but just Emma Stone is pretty awesome in general so it seems like this spider-man's like a lot more gadgety though then like all the other ones yeah yeah it's like it's all the zoo like coming out of a suit I MacGyver kid who got like a sponsorship deal Yeah right if you think about it though which works in the spiderman cartoon in the 90's I was a lot more gadget until yes like scheana he record his own web days it sells toys he has like 14 different suits you know they're gonna sell an action ticket for all of them Tony Stark takes away all of them I think it's kind of an interesting idea like it really ties them back into that science e tekky kind of MCU that they've built we have very much works in a contemporary setting well it's I do like how they like they address that issue up front you know when the when the vulture like shows up in the trailer Tony Stark's like let the etic let the root let the real heroes kind of deal like they're addressing the fact that there is this kind of universe of heroes I forget that so like what it does he want spider-man for like only solve like crimes but like only like some crime like straight line crossing street level crimes like bank robbers like if there's a super villain we call in the adventures to give somebody like a kick-ass suit like that don't you just do like the normal but that's the entire premise of that is like Oh without the suit you're nothing oh wait of course he's not that's the whole point is going to prove that he doesn't need it yet that's it they give him all the toy I reading they really give everything away yeah well I'm okay with that I'd Marvel's been good in the past about still keeping something under the hood that they can surprise us with I thought that line was incredibly ironic though coming from iron man Massoud yeah suit yeah well that's him getting back in touch post age of Ultron where you know he taught quasi retired right yeah well technically retired after iron man 3 and like they kind of wiped that whole thing away like here already destroyed all the suits as like I don't need to see to be Iron Man right and like they could be slightly late Voltron and I completely wipe that away with the age of Ultron Oh back with the new suit just built a course he's got suits hidden away in the closet somewhere all right we've efficiently wasted enough time we covered some Samsung stuff we got to dig out a little bit and it's time to wrap it up I do Ice Cube interesting hood today was a good day all right we'll leave it that if you like to anything you saw or heard here check us out of cnet podcasts also available on itunes tune in stitcher SoundCloud feedburner and google play music you'll see you on Thursday stay in stay tuned tomorrow tune in tomorrow cnet.com exam seen a facebook live stream all 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