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what's up Brian Tong here and welcome to Google issues for everything inside the world of Google and unfortunately we start off with one of the biggest fails we've ever seen in consumer electronics with the Samsung Galaxy Note seven now I called it the best phone of 2016 and it really was until you know things went kaboom and then it went kablooey again now Samsung has completely halted production of the note 7 and they even started shipping out note 7 return kits last week that included gloves and we're made of fireproof packaging according to apt elegent there are still over 1 million Galaxy Note sevens still in use right now so if you're one of those people please just give it up because denial isn't just a river in Egypt plus Sammy's making an effort to persuade people to remain loyal to the brand by offering a $100 credit for anyone that is exchanging their device for another Samsung phone now people who exchange it at a carrier store for a different brand phone get a $25 credit and they know this is as bad as it can get but hey you know at least they're trying now according to The Wall Street Journal initial cost from the note 7 debacle have completely wiped Samsung's 2.3 billion dollars of projected mobile profits for the quarter with the whole bean as large as 3 billion dollars we've talked in the past about Samsung's rush to get out the note 7 to take advantage of a lackluster iPhone released this year except it literally blew up in their face but what was really behind this according to reports and breakdowns the note sevens design exerted undue pressure on its battery packs which in turn resulted in the negative and positive poles to come into contact and voila the smoke you know where there's smoke there's fire plus Samsung SDI batteries proved to be too big for a design that was trying to be as slim as possible while also being waterproof when they went for replacement batteries from China's ATL the second time around even that didn't fix the problem now the note 7s design was also tightly sealed not by screws but by glue that held it all together so they couldn't even tell customers to remove the battery because it was glued down and I fixed it tear down even was taken apart was not an easy task so so much for the best phone of 2016 but what are some of the alternatives out there for you right now well if you're a Samsung person you can always get that $100 back and go for an s7 edge it's the easiest phone to transition to you won't lose anything from a specs standpoint but you'll miss the s-pen bigger screen and USB see now this might seem like you're going backwards but if you're all about the s-pen the note 5 is the closest thing to the note 7 functionality maybe Samsung even brings a software upgrade to bring some of the new features to the 5 but the Android phone I'm most excited about is the pixel and in this case we'll go large with a pixel XL it's a great big screen alternative with the pure Android nougat and the Google assistant coming October 20th other great alternatives include its Korean rival and the LG v20 that's a spec beast with a 5.7 inch screen and a removable battery to boast that's coming out October 28th and the 1+3 is a feature-packed 5.5 inch AMOLED display phone it's half the price at 399 and comes packed with a whopping 6 gigs of RAM and you know if you're willing to finally switch over to the fruity side the iPhone 7 plus is another big screen gem that deserves your attention if you're fed up in you know ready to go Apple or you can just wait for the Samsung Galaxy s8 yep the rumors are already out there in San mobile reports that we could see two Galaxy s8 variants one is rumored to feature a 2k 5.1 inch curved Super AMOLED display while the other will have a 5.5 inch 4k display it will come equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 processor or Samsung's own Exynos 88-90 5 a dual camera lens system will be exclusive to the larger screen phone and the viv artificial-intelligence assistant that samsung recently acquired from viv labs will replace s voice the guess is that we'll see it launched at Mobile World Congress in February of 2017 which honestly isn't even that far away and in Google News to do commercials featuring the first made by Google pixel phone have arrived showing a search bar morph into the shape of their new flagship phone the phone is already completely sold out on the Play Store except for the very silver and quite black 5-inch models with 32 gigs really blue sold out in just a couple days which left some of you really blue also the phones are expected to ship October 20th and I have one coming my way and taking a page from what they've learned working on both hardware and software Evan blast reports that the Google made SmartWatch is running the next version of Android 2.0 will be delayed into the first quarter of 2017 there hasn't been much news recently but two devices are still in the works that support swappable bands the slammer 42 millimeter watch codenamed swordfish features a single button interface and gets rid of the flat tire design now the more advanced of the two watches codenamed angelfish will feature LTE and GPS and allow the watch to work as a standalone device that does not require a phone it also includes a heart rate sensor and a three button design all right that's going to do it for this week you can always email me at Google dishes at cnet.com or to me at brian tom thanks for watching we'll catch y'all next time for some more of that Google inches google ishes