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what's up Brian Tong here and welcome to Google issues for everything inside the world of Google it's what we know and expect to see from Samsung's Note 8 and unpacked event on August the 23rd but before we start we all know about the solar eclipse seen here in the US but Google had to get in on the action during an eclipse a viewing party at 14th Street Park in New York to unveil the official name of Android 8 as Oreo we're only five people that were really paying attention to it like you can see the anti-climactic statue unveiling here again during the solar eclipse viewing party it's gonna leave that right here ok let's get to the big stuff and we have to give props to Evan blast who has been revealing a constant flow of images and specs for no date before anyone else until Samsung confirmed the leaks by publishing the note 8 on their Us website and then taking it down later right come on the secret's out so let's jump into the specs the note 8 will have a monster 6.3 inch AMOLED display with minimal bezels and a new 18 point 5 by 9 aspect ratio at a 2k native resolution it will be IP 68 rated like other Galaxy phones for water and dust protection and the design will be more squared off compared to the s8 and s8 plus it will bring six gigs of RAM a bump up from the standard four gigs in most versions of the s8 NSA plus there are 64 gigs of internal storage plus a microSD card slot for more expansion now the u.s. gets a snapdragon 835 processor globally it's the Exynos 88-90 5 chipset the note 8 will get a rear dual lens camera for the first time with 2 12 megapixel sensors one with a wide-angle lens and F 1.7 aperture and dual pixel autofocus and the other with a telephoto lens and an F 2.4 aperture with a 2 X optical zoom it will support wireless charging and quick charging via USB type-c with a 3300 milliamp hour battery that's less than the note 7s but you know what we know how that thing worked out and it will also come in midnight black maple Gold orchid gray and deep sea blue again these pictures brought to you by Evan last now no one has narrowed down the price yet but it's expected to be close but below the 1000 price point in the US and shipping sometime in September now this is really a chance for Samsung to make right after its note 7 disaster and would also be nice to see them you know offer some sort of a bundle or break to customers who previously bought a note 7 and then we're forced to return them so guess what we'll find out on the 23rd and guess who is back at it again venture beats Evan blast revealed details and images for the new Samsung gear fit 2 pro last week running Samsung's Tizen OS and we expect to see this at unpacked as well the fit tube probes band can be fully submerged in water to track swimming workouts with an ip68 rating for brief interactions with water but it's not meant to be submerged for long periods of time it will sync up with the speedo on app that we talked about last week the fit 2 pro will also have GPS and support offline play with Spotify and has this new clasp that's more reliable compared to the fit 2 it's compatible with both Android and iOS and the leaked screenshots shows us it will retail for 199 US dollars but we'll wait for the official confirmation and this next one won't be ground-shaking but we could see a new gear VR headset it was updated with the galaxy s 8 in April but it largely stayed the same and added a motion controller now we'll see if the new gear VR is compatible with the new note 8 or if it adds anything new we know Samsung is working on their own standalone VR headset that includes positional tracking they even showed it off at Mobile World Congress in Shanghai in July no word if it will make an appearance at impact but you know what you never know ok here's the details Samsung's impact event is Wednesday August the 23rd it starts at 8 a.m. Pacific time 11 a.m. Eastern Time and will last about an hour you'll be able to watch all of our live coverage with myself and the CNET crew starting at 7:30 a.m. right here on CNET we're at live stream youtube and periscope channels where we'll be taking your live calls as well so we'll see you all there alright that's it for this week you can email me at Google ish aside cnet.com or tweet me at Brian Tong thanks much for watching we'll catch you all next time for some more of that Google inches you delicious