Gadgetory

what's up Brian song here and welcome to google inches for everything that we can pack inside the show let's jump into it and we know that Google Wallet has been around long before Apple pay but it didn't get any major traction at all because really it just wasn't that good well the success in buzz around Apple pay has helped to educate people more about mobile payments bringing some momentum back to Google and they're now primed to make a big push with wally google recently announced that of Google Wallet app will now come pre-installed on some of the carrier phones from AT&T t-mobile and Verizon running Android KitKat or higher Samsung is planning on rolling out their own payment system after the recent acquisition of loop pay sometime in the next month and a report from The Wall Street Journal also claims google is planning to completely revamp its wallet service at this year's Google i/o developer conference now rumors and reports have connected the big G with the mobile payments company soft card that allows you to tap and pay with their app right now so finally mobile payments are becoming a reality here in the US in 2015 just a decade behind some other countries but hey better late than never now we're just about a week away from Mobile World Congress where all the heavy hitters will release their latest smartphones but there's still plenty that's being teased or just outright leaked t-mobile showed off more than a sneak peak with this complete profile shot of the galaxy s6 edge version with a pink glow on the side for effect Samsung even put out a little teaser video for the s6 on their Twitter account to get fans hyped up for the announcement or you guys and gals should just look at this pic we showed you last week HTC is teasing a bigger boom for their upcoming HTC One m9 a clear reference to their boom sound technology there's also plenty of renderings for the expected m9 codename kima that I've been covering the interwebs and we expect to see that at Mobile World Congress as well pebble is jumping on the hype machine and by the time you see this will know what their newest pebble smartwatch will look like well it probably looks like this after this image accidentally appear on the website and was and removed whoops now the next gen SmartWatch is expected to have a thinner design a color epaper light display and an entirely revamped operating system that's been redesigned by the team behind Web OS and check your mail boxes Motorola is inviting select members of the press to an exciting announcement later this month but even cooler a mystery box is scheduled to arrive to those select members on febuary the 25th now there's no word on what's in the box but I'm sure it won't be this and before we see what the next LG g4 might look like LG hit us up earlier with four new mid-range phones that share a striking similarity in design to the g3 they are the LG magma spirit Leon and joy now their screen sizes range all the way from five inches down to four inches and even their exact specs will be different depending on market but we're still expecting to see the big boy g4 at Mobile World Congress all right make sure you guys stick with us at cnet com next week we'll have all the in-depth coverage of Mobile World Congress major announcements first impressions and really everything under the Sun and since we're on the topic of son I'll be out of town next week so we'll be skipping an episode of the googs so you guys can always email us at google issues at cnet com or tweet me up brian Tong thanks for watching it will see you all in two weeks for some more of that Google is do delicious