Gadgetory

what's up brian Tong here and welcome to google issues for all that Google that we can pack inside of a show each week let's get to it and first it's the gadgets the Samsung Galaxy s5 is here so here's a sneak peek and what you can expect from Samsung's flagship phone another year another samsung galaxy super phone with the galaxy s5 Samsung once again reaches for the top with high-flying specs like a 5.1 inch 1080p HD screen a 16 megapixel camera android 4.4 and pretty much the fastest quad-core processor around it also adds a fingerprint scanner and the cell phone world's first heart rate monitor so does that make Samsung's Galaxy s5 the smartphone to be you know not necessarily I'm Jessica doll court for cnet i'm going to show you around the phone samsung has really talked up two of the phone's features the fingerprint scanner and the heart rate monitor now other phones have had a fingerprint scanner before and this one uses a slightly different approach if you don't do it just right you're going to have to rely on your password backup luckily the heart rate monitor is much more consistent it ties into the revised s health app and can track your heart rate over time you may not use this on a regular basis but it is a fun extra for fitness buffs the galaxy s5 still does everything that the s4 did and then some like there's a download Booster split screen mode a ton of motion based gestures and you can use the screen while wearing gloves thanks Jessica and is it me or did that glove kind of look like OJ's I'm just saying alright Amazons fire TV is also official their android based set-top box brings things we haven't seen from any streaming box with pretty accurate voice search super fast streaming and gaming support with an optional Bluetooth controller it's an impressive product and if you live in the Amazon ecosystem it's almost a no-brainer but it's hard for me to see why I'd personally make space for this with my Roku my game consoles and Apple TV n that's the challenge they will face but it's a legit product for ninety nine dollars and the game controller is an additional thirty nine ninety nine that's what's happening in the tech toy world but what's coming down the pipeline well is giving us a sneak peek at project ara their modular phone project just in time for their our development conference on April the 15th and 16th what makes this phone unique is that there will be no casing holding the different modules together instead it will use electro permanent magnets to lock the components together google is planning three different models ranging from a six module mini try saying that 10 times fast because you can't to a 9 module phablet and it will really be up to developers to rally around this creative concept now sometimes companies can get a little ahead of themselves in Google is no different after the wall street journal reports that google has been working for the past year to register the word glass as a trademark they've successfully received a trademark for Google glass which makes sense but the US Patent and Trademark Office rejected their submission because they said it was too similar to other existing trademarks in that the word is merely descriptive they really don't need to be overly obsessed about that and just focus on the product like signing a deal with ray ban and Oakley parent company luxottica to work on creating frames compatible with glass now seriously let's get that aviator model going on okay now the googs is testing a new gmail for android app that lets you pin and snooze emails according to get calm it also includes categorizing males into groups like social finance and travel 925 google reports that this design transition to managing apps on a full page of content is being called google to internally to make its app scalable from the big push for wearables like a watch to phone and tablets and all the way up to pcs and we'll obviously find more about this at the upcoming google i/o also google is expanding the ability to access app content in their search to 24 new apps so if you search for anything on your device in you can get that content you are directed to open the app in the app if the app is installed now the bleacher report invent bright tumblr and urbanspoon are just a handful of the apps that are getting support and Google wants to be part of every aspect of your life and you might be able to add a network carrier to that soon enough according to a report from the information google has been exploring providing its own wireless network in cities where Google's fiber high-speed infrastructure exists so if you're in kansas city missouri austin texas or provo utah you might be one of those lucky people also provo you can find the scenic bridal veil falls just 10 miles northeast and that's a factoid you can tell your friends yeah yo Mitch check this out I just found this out about Provo Utah they have this amazing beautiful thing all those we give you or not alright guys that's going to do for this week's show email us at Google licious at cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong thanks so much for watching and we'll see you guys next week for some more of that ghoulish asst judicious