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what's up Brian song here and welcome to Google ish asst it's all the Google goodness that we can pack inside of a show the SmartWatch talk isn't going away anytime soon after reports from the reliable Sam mobile blog now we told you to get ready for this crazy month i like to call September and Sam mobile expect Samsung to announce their SmartWatch called the gear solo alongside of the note 4 on sep tember the third that will feature a sim card slot enabling it to make voice calls independently now on top of that everyone is starting to realize that making a SmartWatch with a round face that actually looks like a traditional watch is the smart thing to do and Sam mobile also reports Samsung currently has one under development of its own as expected to make it known in a few more months especially since LG is already teasing their own moto 360 killer with this trailer for what they're calling the G watch are their own rounded SmartWatch that will be announced at Aoife 2014 sometime between the fit and tenth of September and those are just the watches we know about so let's shift over to smartphones and Sam mobile also reports that Samson is planning to introduce their a series of smartphones that follow in the footsteps of the samsung Alpha and it's metallic design after all the years of plastic Samsung is getting more attention for the alphas design than it ever has and we're expecting to hear more in the next few weeks now HTC doesn't want you to forget about them and according to a post from Chinese web site Weibo the big green machine is working on a 64-bit smartphone with an eight-core processor this teaser image was included with the post with a claim of a 64-bit phone on a two tone phone design and again this could be another product making some sort of appearance at Aoife let's jump over to Google News and we've heard as far back as last month that there was a nexus phablet in the works codename Shamu the device is expected to have a 5.9 inch screen at a 1440 x 2560 screen resolution with a fingerprint sensor made by motorola now phoneArena reports it will be launched as the Nexus X with rumored specs including a 2.7 gigahertz Snapdragon processor and a 13 megapixel rear camera with optical image stabilization with a launch sometime around Halloween also we know the next flavor of Android L is coming soon in you can even download the dev preview right now but there's still no official name while android police believes it will be called lemon meringue pie after multiple sources in code and documentation lists the release as LMP now before we just jump to conclusions I can think of quite a few other names that could go with LMP such as lettuce mango pickle or lovable mud puppies now just a reminder android 4.4 was known as klp and key lime pie internally but turned out to be KitKat so don't be surprised if it ends up being little monkey poop and in an interesting behind the scenes we've Google is acquiring deco design a firm that helps develop and design products for other companies like Fitbit sling media and hewlett-packard gecko design will be rolled into Google's xlab the team responsible for google glass and the driverless car project so that's some pretty sweet stuff but we wrap up the show with something not so sweet and just plain bizarre discovered by our own team at cnet burger king is offering free on contract smartphones for customers yes the home of the flame broiled fast-food burner the reality is that there's nothing really that special here you still have to lock into a two-year contract agreement you can only do this online and you won't find the latest phones but you will find the galaxy s3 s4 and HTC one m7 now you're encouraged to download the Burger King mobile app but you don't have to and check out is done through Amazon now don't worry you're not the only one watching this with your hands in the air screaming w.t.f the fast-food giant recently changed its slogan from have it your way to be your way which makes no sense just like this smartphone promotion all right guys and gals that's going to do it for this week you can 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 time for some more of that Google Isha's judicious septic BRR you know I'm saying you've heard of it right cept ekberg get it