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what's good brian Tong here and welcome to Google ishes for everything google that we can pack inside to show each week Mobile World Congress is just a week away and that means plenty of faux news and really we should just call this episode phone delicious now the biggest hype right now is surrounding the samsung galaxy s5 especially with its anticipated reveal on februari the 24th but we're starting to get more concrete details including a report from Sam mobile that the s5 will not only have a fingerprint sensor that will unlock the phone but it will also allow for automated website logins it's reporting that Samsung's fingerprint scanner will differ from Apple's touch ID because with Samsung's you will swipe your finger and it will detect it as you pull it across the HOME key now Sam mobile also says you can register a total of eight fingerprints and assign each one to a different task one fingerprint must be used to unlock the phone and you can even use a fingerprint as an app shortcut now I'd use my middle finger for flappy bird another detail they mention is that the galaxy s5 will show a real-time image of your finger on the display as you're swiping it over the home button sensor now if the report is accurate Samsung is really pushing a take fingerprint scanning to another level that's a great thing and we'll find out if they do anything more with the tech another leak from efflux after they released a really crappy looking full res photo from a galaxy s5s camera now ignore the quality of this picture this is one of those stealthy quick test shots but the picture itself has a resolution of 53 12 by 2988 which suggests the s5s camera will come with a 16 megapixel camera and improvement over the current 13 megapixel camera on the s4 also a bloomberg reports says Samsung might also try to not only compete on features but with price this time around their sources saying the Korean tech giant may sell the new s5 for less than previous s phones that's about as broad as you can get and in an expected move retailers are currently cutting the price of the s4 in anticipation of the new phone also the next generation galaxy gear watch is anticipated to be part of Samsung's unpacked mints which we expect will cover multiple product lines best buy / the current galaxy gear in half for $149 in recent promos an ATT has started one hundred dollars off a galaxy gear watch with the purchase of several galaxies products the reality is this thing isn't selling at all and they achieve their goal of being one of the first to market but it was a huge flop and we're going to need a whole lot more from the next version the next gen acc one note on the rumor mills right now with the codename m8 will be unveiled on march twenty fifth after HTC sent out invitations to members of the press including cnet it will be held in New York and London like it was last year but there's a lot riding on this one for HTC with profits and sales continuing to fall now the HTC One was a critical success it's my personal android phone right now but it was just beaten down by the Samsung marketing machine now they've opted to announce it after Mobile World Congress instead of during the convention this year which is a good idea with Samsung doing their thing at the show now there's also been plenty of leaked images of the HTC One successor but a new one from a Bleek's shows what it's believed to look like with a case on it ACCC has started manufacturing their own double dip cases for the ACC one so this wouldn't be a surprise for the next one it also looks to retain the same overall design on the front with the big HTC logo and touch screen buttons on the bottom and in an effort to potentially win more customers over acc announced they will offer the replace your crack screen for no charge if it happens in the first six months as part of their HTC Advantage plan it also includes their promise to keep users updated with the latest Android a clear poke at Samsung since they are taking their sweet time to get to KitKat and the ability to upgrade google drive storage from 25 gigs 250 gigs for two years now nokia or nakia i said it both ways to make everyone happy well they've teased their ex phone ahead of Mobile World Congress which is expected to be their first Android handset it's been codenamed Normandy and it looks like an Android variant with a Windows Phone like user interface is being branded as nokia X and here's another look at it according to another leak promo image revealed by Eveleigh now like I told you lots of phone news and we can only expect more next week and in our last story if you guys thought the whole flappy bird tale was over it's not google is now rejecting apps that are using the word flappy in their title in an attempt to ride flappy birds tail feathers now the store has been hammered by clones and the Play Store zap section has over 240 plus results based on the popular game so if you're still trying to get your game through google has now blocked that from happening alright guys that's going to do it for this week's show you can email me at Google issues at cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong if you need a friend to talk to that's going to do for this week's show thanks so much for watching i'm brian Tong and we'll see you guys next week for some more of that google ish asst cuteness