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welcome to alphabet city this is the show that covers everything related to alphabet Inc the company that owns lots of other companies I'm your guide Aya's Akhtar and you are the festive audience today we're talking about Google app updates holy phones your comments and more before we get to our top story Google CEO sundar pichai is testifying before the US Congress as we are recording this episode so let's circle back to that later speaking of circles let's talk about Google Plus on 2 + place Google Plus is dying sooner than expected Google announced that a bug in Google Plus affected 52 million users you might be thinking hey didn't Google mention a Google Plus bug a few months ago and you'd be right because you are very very good with the memory that bug was also paired with the announcement that Google Plus was joining Google Wave buzz and reader in the great offline in August of 2019 so for this huge bug news Google did it again it says that Google Plus is taking a dirt nap in April instead Google also said that all Google+ API s are going to put within 90 days of its announcement let's head on over to Android Avenue Samsung introduced these Samsung a8 s it's the first Samsung phone using the Infinity o screen that's the one with a punched hole the a8 s might give us a hint as to what the Galaxy S 10 could look like using that holy display the a8 s also got rid of the standard headphone jack is that another hint of the future as anybody who watches the show knows Samsung respects our opinion so much that they listen to every word we say so listen up Samsung don't kill the headphone jack on the s10 just don't do it Huawei showed off its honor view 20 it also has a hole punch designed for the front-facing camera it was announced a few hours before the Samsung one so it's the world's first phone with that kind of feature woohoo way to go while with on the back the honor of u-20 has a 48 megapixel camera and for giggles let's compare hole sizes the honor of u-20 has a four point five millimeter hole the a8 s has a six millimeter hole while we managed to make the hole smaller by making part of the display transparent and now it's time for uptown updates google lense for iOS got an upgrade instead of having to take a photo and then have lens do the work iOS users will get a live view finder in the Google app iOS is also getting the for you tab in the Google Maps app google fit has some updates it now includes a widget so you can see your steps at a glance fit also has a breathing exercise function if you've got a wear OS device assistant is also getting a new trick an audio News playlist that google says is assembled in that moment for you it seems similar to Amazon's flash briefing feature where you can get a rundown of pre-specified recordings Google says audio news will roll out first to a limited number of people in the US and in English let's go to comments code this is the part of the show where we shine a spotlight on the most amazing audience in the world and that's you guys use the force and lots of others are helping me out with my pronunciation the development side wakka Labs is working on it's pronounced key side I said quayside so I'm a dummy thanks guys alejandra diego asks do you still live with your mom or do you live with a bunch of cats it's gotta be either one or the other well Alejandro nope and nope Pavan ater asked which Android phone would you buy pixel 3 or galaxy note 9 as you are all aware I'm a very weird guy who owns no cats I like the note line because I like to write out my thoughts using a pen or stylus if you don't care about using a stylus I think the pixel three is a fine phone Thanks to everyone for writing in if you've been doing your stay in Alphabet City please like and subscribe oh my as that time I'll see you online one more bit of news there's a new YouTube record the trailer for Avengers endgame managed to pull in 289 million views in 24 hours that's the most views for a trailer ever on YouTube the previous champ Avengers infinity war with a paltry 224 million views okay bye bye