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jellybeans sunglasses and another dang pen phone all that more in this week's episode of welcome to android atlas for februari 22nd 2012 I am Justin Eckhouse alongside Jane mark the BB hello special guest Greenlee me hello thank you guys for having me thanks for coming on yeah and I don't want to leave out our ampere Steven yes the Emperor podcast receive I'm dubbed by the chat room i should say i'm not calling myself that well i think you deserve it I think you should wear a little hood though I mean we never see his face yes and your face needs to be far more wrinkled in it is well I think it's appropriate they're here because I feel like this episode is at least fifty percent of rumors I know and I had nothing to do with that I opened up this doc that said what we're talking about today and I was like it's catered to me that's that's out I love that that's how every show goes exactly we cater a tour guests uh well let's jump into it talk about our first rumour jelly bean mmm jelly bean condition I like our former President Ronald Reagan I'm a big fan jelly beans I agree me too I remember that yeah did he's one of them didn't like broccoli that was George George Bush okay oh noes know these things I mean what a weird space that is taking in my brain monday was Presidents Day I studied up a little bit of essential food habits that was my theme this year for presidential study don't you guys do that they like to eat yes exactly anyway let's talk about Android I don't know why it just seems like a good idea so jelly bean is the name for the next version of android which we've known for almost a year now or something like that a long time and our friends over at the taiwan-based digitimes have come out with some detailed rumors about when jelly bean will come out and what it will be so let's run down what they're saying first of all they're saying it's coming out in the sec quarter and that you will be able to I guess dual boot windows 8-based tablets to run Android and that it's basically going to be optimized for tablets and potentially netbooks or notebooks I I thought the other one was already optimized for tablets right that was the big thing with honeycomb was it was going to be optimized for tablets let's keep let's keep doing that then write an ice cream sandwich is also optimized for both tablets and phones and that just came out yeah exactly and no phones are running except for one pretty much right so as far as jellybean coming out q2 this year I'm gonna have to say digit times is lying lying straight line I major just mistaken you think there they have to be lying it's a black girl I'm still I silly they were missing well the first time that they've lied straight to your face well not straight to my face oh thank you I mean they're welcome to come in and be a guest I would like them to lie to me maybe more Reggie digitimes yeah come on come on Reggie if that's his name I think that's his name the other thing that's pretty weird about this is that if they did this they pretty much would be killing Google's Chrome OS which is already for notebooks right which wouldn't be a bad thing I mean is anyone using Chrome OS right well that's the point maybe that's what they're you know if they give it a fun delicious name then maybe people will start using it more and start right I mean they are psychological they are on this path of just colliding very soon right I mean that's the way it kind of seems chrome and Android it seems like at some potentially I mean either like a chrome browser I mean I don't really know what they're doing with chroma so it doesn't really make a whole lot sense to me to have these different os's which aren't that differentiated in most consumers mind I mean most consumers don't even know what chrome OS is right right to be shocked to know that it exists so yeah I mean I think we're all in general agreement here but what if i throw a curveball so last week or maybe was two weeks ago we talked about this and raid at home thing i don't think we called a enter it at home but it was kind of like the media hub concept and so an article on SlashGear is basically saying that they think that android at home and android 5.0 AKA jelly bean will be released at the same time but not just at the same time but there are really the same thing potentially so that whatever this hub is will run jelly bean and that's why it's going to be released in sort of the second quarter now do you believe this no I still think that digit times is a big liar all they do is a lie to my face Oh rich tell me more about this android at home this ain't this hub so based on what we heard about a last week is that essentially it was sort of your media hub so that it would download various TV shows and music and store it all and then distribute it to your other devices there's not tons known about it so so it'd be kind of late I mean what how how is that different than google cloud or that or would work with google cloud and then there's rumors that the google drive will come out which is there like how you which is something else yeah these are all great questions i think it's kind of your personal cloud almost okay so that I mean maybe if you have a massive music collection you don't want to keep everything there or maybe now that they own motorola this is actually your cable box out your cable box bus it's storing stuff okay so it's a little cloudy to me I see what you did there sir touche sir uh yeah I don't know exactly but I would like to know so if you know so interesting so what originally when that when we read about this rumor and why we're saying that this doesn't seem likely is because why would they release android 5.0 when android 4.0 isn't anywhere yet nobody has ice cream sandwich really unless he bought the nexus great city which you did so good great keep keeping google and business one phone at a time so but now saying that android 5.0 is actually this android hub or whatever android at home would make kind of changes the game a little bit that kind of changes the rumor and then jellybean might have just been to throw us a little you know like you said a curveball so I don't know now I maybe you want to reconsider my vote about this android jelly be maybe it will be announced let me throw out one more thing there oh god then I think I don't know why you more is it possible they're all giving Google way too much sense for being logical about their OS releases I mean have they done this before have they shown that there is any logic to when they roll it out and no that's very true right that's true because then you know they wrote rolled out this one to only one phone and then they rolled out honeycomb which was just two tablets and gingerbread that was to God knows what and then nobody ate it really knows what anything is called or what version number so yeah you're right maybe maybe it's not even called jelly bean maybe it's called something else and now we're all gonna do yeah I can't remember if they confirmed that or not I feel like they didn't I feel like even the name is a rumor that we you know we just thought that was the lot could just be jello jello exactly could you be dude mmm I like that I do except they get stuck in your teeth right that's true ute them at the movies all right well tell us what you think a droid us at cnet com um so what are we talked about last week it was a samsung galaxy note yes we all loved that as I remember is that how you remember it because it was the size I was great for pockets yeah for small hands right right for all of us that are just dying to write on our phone screen with a pen yeah exactly so this week we have news of the LG optimus view which is also coincidentally a 5-inch screen phone nish thing at his design to be penned friendly I'll and from our good friends over at lucky gold star also Korean company like a restaurant looking good yeah I said it I think Emily said that last week oh my god she and I are like on the subway and I said I thought it sounded like that store that's right yeah my goldfish from lucky gold star um anyway five inch tablet what I was wondering is I don't want to get in trouble here but in Korea is that just do people really want to draw on their phones yeah maybe is there something culturally that this makes sense they want big phones that they can draw on do these companies like powwow and talk about hey let's come up with some humongous phones that are Penn friendly or did they do their own independent research right or they're like oh look samsung did it we can do it too right right good copy it's it's interesting that like in the past you know phones and tablets and everything are getting smaller and then now they're getting bigger and then what you know and then are they gonna get smaller again did you guys see Zoolander he's like talking on his little phone he's like hello and that's like the cool thing is his phone is the size you know of a nickel and now it's like this big now he's talking on a tablet basic or phablet which is the lamest new coined term a phablet yeah i mean the pee when I we kind of references a little bit last week what you're saying is do people actually want this or do manufacturers just for some reason think that people want big phones because i don't think i have met someone yet who's like oh yeah i really want a 5-inch phone even I who bought a big phone I didn't really wanted this big I just wanted the other things that this phone had do you find that phone because how big is that work 4.3 inches about 35 feet yeah so I mean it's about this size of a huge billboard um do you find that phone cumbersome is it hard to handle it's not as bad as I thought I mean I want from the incredible which is you know much smaller mm-hmm to this and I thought I was very worried it's not bad this bigger screen I mean it's nice again I don't necessarily think I would choose it but it's not as bad as I thought but yeah this is 4.3 4.4 right-center 25 is a lot bigger private you know when Jessica dole court was reviewing the galaxy note and so she had one and she was walking around with it like taking pictures with it and I was like that is huge like you don't know what you're dealing with and then you'll see it in person but I have to say I played around with the stylus and I used to have you know a whatever it was what 30 a trio mom buy whatever like and never loved the stylus I have a nintendo DS have a stylist don't love it whatever but playing around with the stylus at that thing especially the one that's a little bit bigger that's like a pen sighs Silas is actually kind of Awesome and it's super responsive and I don't know maybe my next phone will be a 12-inch good galaxy whatever note 2 I look forward to that day when you come on and I'm like talking it's like the size of an ipad and you're like hello yes I'd like to make a phone call you need two hands and help hold up i need to make it yeah exactly you so just one correction by screen size is four point six five inches so hold your complaint email I don't know what I'm talking about yeah please other stories because clearly I don't anyway this phone sorry to disappoint you won't be available in the US immediately will show up in Korea first next month initially running gingerbread yes man who even care whose major releases the exits not good morning jelly if it's not running jellybean Jujubee then why do we even care about this 25 foot monster of the phone we're KitKat it's not gonna be running I know kit kat it could be called karate I was looking forward to lemon bar actually uh it's dual-core 1.5 gigahertz but they do expect to roll Ice Cream Sandwich out with three months or so they say why don't they just wait three months I don't know why don't they or why don't we all just switch to the blackberry playbook what do you think yeah I heard good things about that haven't you know mmm well well the new OS just came out blackberry playbook OS two point oh and I mean the reason I think that we care about it is that they make it easier to for developers to port their apps their android apps over to the blackberry OS right so they pretty much given up on blackberry development at this point right right because all their people are getting arrested and they're too drunk to it to make any more apps so they're like you know what you guys you do it you seem to be doing a coach the Android developers I mean you can blame them yeah yeah I mean I think this wasn't that hard for them because it's you know android apps are just sort of java based so it's pretty easy to get sort of a Java Runtime environment on your operating system versus like trying to port iOS apps where it's a subjective see thing that not is not widely supported say what say I guess the process is you just take your existing app and let it through this thing and it re packages it yeah I think there's a down a blackberry packager and then you you know you upload your apk into there and then it turns it into whatever a blackberry runs which I think it's like a bar star Jar Jar ER I don't know you'd have to go to the bar u bar and apparently it doesn't show up I mean I can't imagine it's like looks like a native app the same exact way that native app would be developed right but I haven't seen it and I guess it doesn't always work for everything like there's probably some low-level apps that are you know making calls to hardware that only android has do you leave it to blackberry to come up with this thing that only works like part of the time but and then when it doesn't work there like sorry it didn't work we don't know why we don't know if it will ever will but email still works great on blackberry right and you know what and that email those keep words are unbeatable I used to have a blackberry playbook that doesn't have a keep the playbook internet the PlayBook blows my mind but whatever I won't even get into it but I had a blackberry mmm yes I i loved it i like to Sandy no on it yeah I had the pearl yeah in the pearl broom I the pearl and a gray pearl phone yeah exactly then I had a at a curve and then work at the torch the one with like wow love I wasn't that serious very I mean I went I was all in it and then you realized he learned about the world wide web exactly and then I realized that there was there was more beyond my front door I started using this thing called Netscape Navigator right and when I was on AOL I was as a copy serve guy um anyway let's talk about other geeky stuff other os's that you could potentially run on your android phone or vice versa poor segue there lubuntu i actually got it you got it all right I didn't get it and I was saying so there has kind of been this trend of trying to use your phone as your desktop computer because we love convergence and stuff like that there was a motorola web tops i think they were called where you could sort of dock it and get the specialized you I that was only available you know when it was docked I was optimized for your keyboard and mouse I was still android though it was just a new UI and that didn't really catch on so now let's try again kubuntu the i guess the company behind it a canonical i think is the name has developed boo 2 for android and what that means is sort of the same thing that you have your phone and you take it and you doc it in your boo boo boo docking thing and you then have your monitor and your keyboard in your mouse and suddenly you're using new bluetooth so the phone is still Android and looks totally it is one hundred percent Android except when you dock it when it turns to boone two and I don't really I don't know do want this um I you know what I think anything when you can run two things simultaneously when you dock it it's like Linux which everybody loves a linux I guess I don't I've never I don't know I just make that up but I mean Android is what subtle hey is it linux is Unix yeah right so it's the same idea it's open source which is cool and if it hasn't you know a different skin or whatever when you when you dock it that's and all of your contacts and messages and everything it's all shared seamlessly then it's basically like their version of the web web top thing but with a more complete operating system exactly when you dock it so great what bring it bring it on I like the concept here I just don't know if people actually want to boone too so this is something that's going to be pre-loaded into specific devices I'm assuming is that right right so they're looking for manufacturing partners right now it's not a download that you can go out and get right now or potentially any time ever it's you know I think they want to sign deals with people who are going to make phones that can be docked so I i don't know i think if you just are looking for sort of a Chromebook type of computer a netbook or you don't really care about the apps on there so much then this might work because you're like oh now i can use like full chrome on a desktop environment or firefox you know because there are a bunch of linux apps out there that are good but if you you know i think most people want to use stuff that is either windows or OS 10 so it's not it's not going to be the same thing it's not necessarily going to replace that until we are one hundred percent cloud-based and everything is just cloud and i don't think we're quite there yet but we're pretty pretty close I think I agree and I think that that's what google or whoever is making this is banking on is that we are getting really close and that the people who would use this like I wouldn't use this but the people who do or not dilly try it well that's true okay you're right you're right i used to walk free after all yeah but if he's a black bear you can basically use anything in the whole world um but people who do use this or who find this cool or useful well definitely I think jump on board and would would find this even more useful once it you know don't go what is it go seamlessly shares seamlessly with would you know with all their other apps and stuff so I do like the concept a lot I mean I you know if I could do the same thing with windows or OS tan on my phone I think that would be pretty cool all right we are all going to brush our teeth but stick around and we'll be right back after this break ah your mouth feel good now minty fresh minty minty fresh um so let's talk about toothbrushes um there's this beam brush this is your story to Anna intro sure sure I didn't write this story well but there is a brush that but there's a new beam brush which connects to an Android app that coaches you it coaches you on brushing your teeth yeah I mean optimal brushing time is two minutes per session and it it helps you reach that optimum time apparently so the deal is this is an app that connects to their special toothbrush and the toothbrush has replaceable heads but it's it's a manual toothbrush that times you fifty dollars to time yourself because you're supposed to brush for two minutes yes to get the full effect of to brushing right you have to brush for two minutes so hey fifty dollars fifty dollars do you know well how much is a you know one of the this is what I would like to talk about yes so I have a Sonicare which i think i bought for fifty or sixty dollars right here i'm at costco and they're probably around pretty cheap and it's electric which is better than manual i think for most purposes and it has built-in two-minute timer right so this is this is a manual toothbrushes is i don't even do it for you so 450 for the same price you have something that does it for you it does it for you should get this thing and if in like 60 or 70 bucks you can get not only the two-minute timer book one that like beeps every 30 seconds to tell you to switch quadrants in your mouth wow that's awesome you're gonna start your gums are bleeding that's what you have to switch is the question though does your sonic care connect to your android device what is the point of connecting to it just tells you like how good you did that day just hit times you know i'm just trying to you know trying to give him some credit I don't know so let me tell you guys about the toothbrush that my in-law got for me it's a Justin Bieber toothbrush and it has to each tooth brush it's manual as well it doesn't connect to an android app thank God because it's embarrassing but it plays a justin bieber song for how long you're supposed to be brushing oh wow so that's way more useful than I think that's Wiggy here that thing and you can dance to it you could dance you get your exercise you get your two minutes of brush time you have justin bieber in your mouth okay I'm throwing it away forget it I think I'm not a way to go I think um I I actually got sent a toothbrush here like a year or two ago that sings the Baron simple bare necessities that that's cuter than so that's what my son has used for a long time is its timed as well and then like halfway through it says good job keep going oh my god I haven't gotten well I haven't really used my justin bieber toothbrush because it's too humiliating but even though I'm by myself in the bathroom brushing my teeth up late to humiliate myself but I haven't I wonder if he said maybe I'll use it tonight and see I'll get back to you guys and see maybe he said if he talks to me at the end and is like good job mmm sold done any news i don't know ruin for all my friends I think you should I don't want to ruin your your gift or anything but just so our audience knows the Justin Bieber tooth grace brush at walgreens is 999 Oh check it by five of those for them exactly and they'll know another different songs about you can get it yeah it's I got two of them one of them oh wow oh please excuse me one was purple one was yellow I one of them plays baby baby baby oh I don't know what the name of that song it baby bit that one and then it also does now Never Say Never Say Never and I think and one of them's you cry I cry that one yeah I mean I'm like talking to this hello is anybody on like nobody knows I'm talking about except for Steven that's all the song i was looking at like it looks like there's like this graphic things here does it like measure your frequency too i think that like her everyday how long you brush that day see if it measured like how hard you're brushing or did anything besides just be a timer um yeah you know you could get a stopwatch pretty cheap it also looks like this your phone actually has a stopwatch you can you can get that app it's true you can you can do a duck timer you know you can also sing to yourself as we're talking about earlier that you can one of the commenters on this story was like you're just sing the ABC song which is what they teach to infants to you know what when you're brushing your teeth you can just watch the godfather series right and so she wears brushing the seed for so long that his face melts off to bleeding gums yeah there you go alright so we apologize to the people at beam brush but work harder next time come on but here this next thing speaking of android connected devices i love so android-powered google glasses or you might call them google goggles huh trademark copyright 2011 uh yeah these are did you talk about these on rumor has it we did a yay or nay section about these and incidentally i wanna point because of this Emily Dreyfus said that they were not coming out and I said that they are and lo and behold she has to humiliate herself well I will say this is still a rumor I think because it's from an anonymous Google source um and that's good enough for me that's good luck alright well I just want to clarify for our audience and let them make their own judgment but this anonymous Google employee is hand by the end of 2012 google will launch a pair of android-powered augmented reality heads up display glasses that are basically like the oakley thumps which I guess are kind of cool except for the ear piece sticking out the side but you know what do I know about cool there have three or 4g connectivity forward facing camera gps and a full array of movement centers and they will cost around the price of current smartphones it will cost around the price of that toothbrush yeah well i think a lot more than 600 bucks or something like that wow so you can imagine that these basically turn you into the terminator yes did it great without without Souls oh forget it then I don't want it six hundred dollars i want the muscles too well you can get that for 60 dollars you just have to pay a trainer for it for your steroids does it save us a rating system is running its android it I ice cream sandwich oh oh it's running froyo it's running donut it only works part of the time your terminator glasses run ice cream sandwich it doesn't sound Bray so you can imagine you put these on what we're saying the morning and it tells you what the traffic is like and you know you're walking down the street and you're like oh that girl is kind of cute and it brings up her google plus profile takes her picture mm-hmm kind of creepy but if you think about like if you've used the yelp what's called monocle yeah which is pretty awesome like you hold that up and you can just look down the street and it shows you the name of every business and how it's rated ha they could see coupons for businesses as you're walking down the street I see people bumping into each other all over the place totally because they're trying to like and go to the frozen yogurt place and so is everybody else they can't see each other yeahman tation uh i think this just goes to show i'm een android is super fragmented right it's on every device in the world it's on it's on a lot of different phones and now it's going to be in glasses too like how much what else are they going to put it like where elsewhere else can we go after this this is what is great about Android this is this is where you have you can put it anywhere you want in a toothbrush yeah in your glasses in coffee cup limited like some other operating systems which were no longer allowed to mention on the show I know it does not exist on this chair anyway I want these so you got you don't you're not in no muscles going I don't know I would have to see what they look like I'm too vain I thanked it is your picture yeah if they make me look like the Terminator yes I'm gonna get rid of the bluetooth thing because that's kind of yeah that is no that's not that much does it oakley those play music you'll actually exist yeah we did a review and then back when I Jasmine was here okay so she did a review on them and those are like for skiing so they play music through I think it's Bluetooth and their glasses so there I mean it's all inclusive so now add to that augmented reality and google wallet and you've got a pair of Google yeah I want these it's just it's like Snow Crash have you guys read that all right well this is what it's like we all live in our own little connected jacked in world with her goggles we don't we wouldn't even be able to talk to each other I just have to text you and then it would come up in your own text you with my eyes yeah you can just nod your response exactly whew this will just make things so much easier alright wrap it up really quickly here google has filed a patent for a siri-like voice control thing basically to connect with your TV so the idea here is that sorry I'm having trouble on our own site loading this article that unlike so I guess apple TV is rumored to come out voice control with series so that you could talk to your TV essentially and say play me and read atlas and it would just load up the download podcast and play it for you Google's gone a different route and basically they're going to have voice control to control your TV but it's going to be connected to your phone or your tablet so you talk to the device which you probably have right there in front of you rather than something that's across the room and if you have your speaker's up really loud maybe doesn't work as well I kind of like this approach right rather than yelling at your TV you're yelling at your phone that you're already yelling out anyway exactly yeah I do wonder about the delay though right I mean I figure it's going to be it's not going to be connected directly to your TV it'll be through Wi-Fi and then back to your TV right so yeah I mean there are true I have used some devices like second screen apps at Google or not google TV um tivo has a half fried pad where you can pause and play in fast forward / wife and it actually works really fast I mean I think we've become used to our TVs being so slow at this point to change channels and stuff like that right that this won't even be that much slower right necessarily um but how didn't I the kinect doesn't isn't that doing something where you can yell yeah do you that does do that i have that it's um I mean I think generally I kind of think this stuff is a little not the most useful feature to put it nicely the connect stuff especially gets me very aggravated when I'm just like like dude visited change the channel you look like a lunatic look like a cheerleader that doesn't work very well the voice stuff actually works surprisingly well even when a movie is playing but you know what works really well remote the remote control it just works great I just know it work well what I mean the the cool thing about the Kinect is yet that the voice thing kind of works but you do have to say like stock phrases like xbox Xbox who whatever you know you have to say stock phrases and the thing with Siri was that it would be a little bit more conversational so be like Siri channel to please or whatever you say and so next next yeah yeah I think you're right if you can accomplish you know 10 different button clicks with one phrase like their example is when is seinfeld on so if I want to do that with my remote I'd have to let a guide and go to search and then type in Seinfeld with a remote which is hard right so that stuff makes sense basic like volume up volume down yeah I mean and like pulling up the guide and like finding a channel it's not that's like making you sweat and is like the are you know a hard task so it's funny that they're like making a problem out of something that's not even a problem and then you know creating a solution for it and which is you know talking to your TV which you know what how you're right a remote control is pretty easy to do as it is right already there and it's free it comes with your two BR right we don't always know what we want to watch you know so I can't always say what channel is Seinfeld right so surely sign so you would say bring up the guide which you could just do with a button browse anyway if we could answer the question um just find some find something I like or what do I want to watch right now mhm yeah and then I control like that's cool then it knows your mind but um google TV is so I mean it doesn't not working that great I thought yeah but this maybe will work with the new android at home thing we talked about early in the show which everyone's gonna that's juju juju juju be jelly bean yum yum yep uh this thing can do one other thing which is it can work sort of as a home automation device potentially so you could say you know turn on my TV or whatever and do stuff before you even actually start to interact the TV itself now if I could control this with my glasses that's a whole nother story exactly and maybe that's the next you know the next iteration of this is that you just blink and then it turns on whatever you want no that was a real Blake yeah I don't don't change the channel this is important all right I think that is our news but I think you have a app of the week sort of angry birds have you guys heard of angry birds no no mores tell me about this how do you pray and rebirth free bird Angry Birds yace irds anyway angry birds space is the next iteration of the game and it's supposed to come out on march twenty second we're we're assuming it's for both Android and that other OS that we don't want to mention is that that which cannot be named yes Voldemort Voldemort uh-huh but yeah I think we're going to have to deal with gravity issues and all kinds of things that happen in space asteroids I'm just making this up at this point but there is there is a short video teasing the release it is so scary so awesome are we sure that's a game and not like a movie trailer yeah I think that's pretty pretty good the angry birds movie there be no script like Rio right I mean but yeah it would start um what's his name Benjamin Button what's his name Brad Pitt as the benjamin button when i think about his name um god bless angry birds it's gotten me through some boring time waiting for the train well you know I'm glad they're I'm glad they're switching it up putting it in space agreed adding new physics agreed i think it looks mean well i know nothing about it other than that trailer that everybody just saw it looks great looks cool right alright let's do some email and read alice at cnet com first one is from our good friend Larry David Justin thanks for dressing my email on the last episode of Android Alice while I'm not the real Larry David oh bummer I even read the rest of this yeah forget it I don't want to know so it's not the real Larry David or the real Stephen Colbert I do admire their work so basically sort of addressing the whole google voice making Wi-Fi calls thing hey there there is there we go and he basically says that yeah i mean some of them are kind of subverting google to use VoIP to make calls but some of them are actually VoIP on their own and they are just they're their own service and your forwarding your google voice number to this other service which is also kind of a weird workaround hack that i'm not a fan of so basically you're right it there not also brooding google service but they're all hackish and i just want a real service that works and then he says and a warm what work wet Wow and a warm welcome to Jimmer no matter what his proximity to the mic is shout out to jmar happy Android Beam um let's see the next one is from Mike and Portland dear Android Alice gang just started listening to the podcast a couple weeks ago bet him and join them very much and now look forward to them every week he's to only look forward to them every other week right now he's bumped up a level I have to admit that the podcast benefited benefit greatly from the presence of the lovely and talented Emily Dreyfus absolutely it's true love us some Emily drive me all through we're all fans Emily's energy in it isn't an infectious laugh our good balance to the low-key low volume of Justin and the new one Jamar is it it is it is in fact I'm willing to strike a bargain on Emily's behalf and she promises to make regular appearances on the podcast i will promise to purchase a new android phone recommended by android Alice team and act as a volunteer newbie guinea pig I'm completely died when it comes to consumer technology all right let's just stop right here I don't really care about the rest of email how do we feel about this deal this almost I'm sure Emily Dreyfus would love to come on the show as a regular regular guest right and so that this person can have a high class recommendation from you guys on the phone that they're gonna use yeah all right what do we get out of this so we get to recommend you crappiest phone ever and have them be a guinea pig and test apps for you mm-hmm and they get Emily every week I know who wins in this situation who wins what kind of a deal is this well we would also get him well Mike does say anyway it sounds like a win-win situation for all google android gets a new customer android ask it's a new smartphone toting listener and i get a new phone and regular access to the cheerful musings of Miss Dreyfus love the show and keep up the good work we'll round up by Emily and we'll get back to you on that one I'll answer for her yes oh look at that she says yes um alright so we got this email from adam from utah hey android atlas while listening to you guys talk about the pros and of the stylus on the Galaxy Note they began think of an a concept for an Android tablet that would stand head and shoulders above the ipad in terms of graphic design capabilities it would be a 10 to 13 inch android tablet designed by wacom and adobe the tablet would be full-featured and have higher end specs but would also utilize the pen interface technologies like the one and the wacom intuos drawing tablet i'm probably mispronouncing half the brand names in this email to complete the package it will also come pre-loaded with full feature version of adobe photoshop that was made specifically for android with the option to purchase other android optimized adobe creative suite apps online the concept is just wishful thinking I want to know what you guys thought about it with anyone including Stephen considering buying such device do you think it would be successful or even commercially viable if it was priced at or below seven hundred dollars blah blah blah blah blah love the show Adam from Utah alright so seven hundred dollar adobe photoshop tablet android based he's asking you Steven I'm not really into photoshop or art drawing like I hate art I mean I'm not like an artist drawing stuff so I probably wouldn't be in the two and seven hundred dollars that's a lot it is a lot yeah I don't I don't I don't know I they they do have a lot of they don't have exactly creative suite but they have a bunch of fado dia Dobby apps for Android they're not pen-based right right right i mean i think it actually think it's a good idea but i don't think it needs to be a Wacom adobe collaboration I think you know could be LG or Samsung yeah I think what they would have to do is just you know step up their their pen game maybe incorporate some wacom technology and then adobe would have to optimize their apps for that pen technology and i don't think this is actually too far off we talked to our rumors last week that the Samsung Note stuff was actually going to come to a samsung galaxy tab 10 inch tablet potentially even at Mobile World Congress what yeah I mean why not that the technology really like until you've tried drawing with that thing you don't realize how awesome it is and how effective it is so sure bring it to a bigger than you don't even need your wacom wacom wakeham well I'm I like whack-a-mole Yakima Yakima YC I thought Antoine told me was wacom ideas like me I'm degree I always said we come to Oh what yours like diet design early we eat so yeah I mean bring it bring it yeah great on good idea Adam um alright who wants to read this next one I think someone want to do with an accent which one of the others I think it was j-mart put your face to the mic hey Android alliser's I was sad to see Antoine leave the show but on the other hand I'm happy to hear Jessica Delcourt I like her very much I hope I didn't I hope I didn't murder her name what what I hope I didn't mutter her name but i suspect i did sorry motor signed Edgar the mafia boss yeah we're not gonna make fun of that cuz he's the Mafia yeah he's just my best mafia boss voice I wasn't making fun of them thanks thanks for your email all right next one from Holly Justin and Jay mr I love the show thanks for the news updates i am a t-mobile customer of 16 month less left on my contract and i would like to change my LG g2x to another android phone with a larger screen without losing 4g speed do you know if i get the unlocked gsm Galaxy Nexus or galaxy note well I still be able to use 4g on the t-mobile network is there any other large screen android phones except the samsung s2 that you can advise keep up the good work and bring Emily back on the show more often she is fun everybody loves Emily Dreyfuss Emily I'm just gonna leave now I'm answer Marcia well I will say that I didn't know they answer to your question so I went to our cell phone expert Jessica sorry what was the teleport teleport don't matter her name from typhoon watt inverter and she says that he could potentially use an unlocked version of the t-mobile but I can't vouch that he'll get the same speed or voice clarity as if the phone were optimized for the network and I'll also add one other thing that if you're just looking to buy this because you're in a contract you could still you can like cancel your contract for potentially less than you can buy a new unlocked phone for so it might be like 200 bucks to cancel your contract but six hundred dollars to buy the galaxy next is out of contract so maybe it's better just to kill your contract or something like that so you could I would encourage you if that's all you're trying to get around to just go and talk to him alone see what your options are there but um and then if you want other advice go to reviews cnet com and click on our best cell phones list and we have it organized by carrier and there's a good list for tmobile anything else on this one all right now let's listen to voicemail from our favorite color cherry from Toronto hey guys this is Jerry from Toronto well the best thing since four-point-oh is coming out for Android and that's the Chrome browser it's in beta right now and fantastic I first thing I thought when I got my android phone was I hate the browsers on this and the beauty is you will be able to go between your chrome browser on your computer to your chrome browser on your Android seamlessly so bring up one thing on your computer and it'll be on your phone and vice versa fan tabulous he was it wouldn't love that that's great thanks for the call Jerry I like the Chrome browser as well I'm sorry that everyone can't use it yet alright so I think we have one more email from Sam who has some interesting opinions on voicemail from Sam about Jessica let's just go tell court don't go yes hi this is Sam just finished watching and Roy doubtless weekly and I have to say I think Jessica doll court might be a spy for Apple she definitely touted off how good Andy a iphone apps were on a iphone twice anyways also finding out your sound guys also an iphone guy just left me a little bit confused and wondering if I made the right choice clogged with Android I think I did but you never know alright just wanted to make that observation I actually like Jessica doll court on the show she adds a lot to the to the experience and jmar I think you need to speak up sometimes sometimes a little hard to see you anyways other than that I think everything is great great show I'm gonna keep watching thanks even though you guys mentioned that which cannot be named twice I'll still listen I guess even though you're all spies what what I don't get is a how that equates her to a spa right because she mentioned it twice that means she's the worst spy in the world he's like a propagandist or I don't know what the right word is pretty evangelic all right she's bringing bringing the Apple mission I said it oh we need like a little dunce cap that you need to wear when you say that on the show oh my god can we all focus on the important part of this voicemail though I have gone to great lengths to increase the volume of yes please I got him so proud yes that's good you really took his routes Sam i hope i hope this this helps miss Olivia here I hope you can hear Jay mark thank you thanks for that email that was whoa whoa oh my god echo echo that was great if you'd like to call us and leave a clearly not insane voicemail please call 866 344 seen at 8663 442 638 if you do have an insane voicemail to leave us just call 911 5150 up so that you can get all the Android news all week long at cnet com / android Atlas you can watch us every wednesday at ten a.m. pacific cnet com 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