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what's going on brian Tong here and welcome to Google ishes for all the Google goodness that we can pack inside of a show each week let's get to it in this week amazon takes center stage with their big announcement on wednesday now they first t is the event with an open invitation to the public and journalists with this video that's a pretty damn intuitive that's really cool I would use that a lot it's really cool that's fantastic doctor give this back and we'd agree after our video team analyzed everything and realized everyone was playing with the wobble app okay well not really but all signs point to Amazon revealing their first-ever android-based smartphone with a 4.7 inch display and glasses-free 3d display that uses for front-facing cameras with one on each corner that will facilitate a 3d effect tracking the users face and eyes in relationship to the phone's display now the phone is expected to take advantage of this as much as possible using the effects in special lock screen wallpapers icons the user interface and even in their Maps application so to tease the event even further they mailed out Jeff bezos's favorite childhood book mr. pines purple house and it's all about the world being a better place by being different you know people copy his pine tree his bush so he finally paints this house purple and uh you know what I'd like to actually read an excerpt from this book that really made an impact on my co workers here at cnet there are red houses greenhouses brown houses there's yellow and pink houses too but there's just one purple house on Vine Street and that is mr. pines purple us so kids it's okay to be different even a Lizardman different all right back to the phone and the 3d effect might be cool and you know it might not be but what this is building to is Amazon releasing another hardware product that will give consumers access to the entire ecosystem and really this is what this battle is all about the ecosystem now Amazon even recently touted that their own amazon app store has tripled its number of apps to over 240,000 in the past year and almost two-thirds of their developers are getting the same or better total revenue compared to other platforms now the phone is also expected to have its own branded wireless plan possibly called prime data that will give users exclusive access to Amazon Prime content as well so you know what to do join myself in the crew for cnet lives coverage on wednesday june the 18th at ten a.m. pacific time and we'll have all the details from amazon as they happen just for you alright shifting a Samsung we told you about their tablet event last week and Sami delivered two sizes for their new Galaxy Tab s line up so let's check out a first look with david carr knowing hi i'm david carr no way and i'm here at the launch of the samsung galaxy tab s this is samsung's new premium tablet comes in a couple of different sizes i'm holding the 8.4 inch model there's also a 10.5 inch model and samsung is touting its AMOLED display is a 2560 by 1600 pixel display the price for these tablets is very similar to what you see with the iPads this 8.4 inch model is 399 comes with 16 gigabytes of memory along with three bytes of RAM that memory is expandable however there's only one configuration at this time 16 megabytes but you can add cards up to 128 gigabytes the step up model the 10.5 inch model is 499 with that same 16 gigabytes of memory and three advice of RAM as far as the processor goes this is an octa-core processor but it is split in two there are four processors running at 1.9 gigahertz and for running at one point three gigahertz for sort of a power saving mode finally if you're wondering how the battery life is with this new display Samsung is saying it's right around 11 hours with video that goes for both the larger and smaller tablets as you can see this is obviously a slim tablet if you're wondering how much of ways the smaller 8.4 inch version comes in at 10 ounces and the larger 10.5 version comes in at just around one pound thanks DC now unfortunately the rumoured 12.2 inch ultra HD tablet that was in the wild didn't make an appearance but Samsung has got to do something about simplifying their tablet line with our tab for their tab pro note pro and note 2014 edition and now the tab best lines with different sizes for each of them is a little ridiculous all right sticking with the Korean giant according to The Wall Street Journal nuance communications and Samsung have held acquisition talks exploring the possibility of a sale nuances believed to be powering the back end for Apple's Siri and they also partnered with Samsung for voice recognition on its galaxy gear smartwatch and note 3 product lines as Samsung continues to move further away from Android with its own Tizen OS getting their own voice recognition platform would be smart and it could also hurt their competitors so just follow along with the trail here but Apple's Siri was originally based on vlingo that nuance has acquired since then and if Samsung grabs nuance then it could be a sign of trouble for Apple Siri but right now all of this is still speculation all right Samson continues to push out every kind of SmartWatch possible and Sami today has found FCC tests as evidence that Samsung is looking to bring its gear branded SmartWatch running Android wear very soon the FCC documents reveal a watch that's 10 millimeters shorter than the current gear 2 samsung also recently filed for a trademark for galaxy we're suggesting this device might be made for google smartwatch OS and n a follow-up to google's april fools prank where they encourage people to collect all 151 Pokemon all over the world on Google Maps well the googs has issued a letter of congratulations certifying their success with a set of business cards labeling them a Pokemon master at incorporated and it's just another dream of mine never realized because I had a life outside of spending hours on Google Maps looking for Pokemon alright that's going to do it for this we 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 Google Isha's you delicious