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what's going on brian Tong here and welcome to google issues for all the Google goodness that we can pack inside of a show this week is google making a Power Move and acting like a big bully well no they've always had their power but according to a new report from the information the googs is changing the terms of its licensing agreements with Android device manufacturers like Samsung and LG that are using their google mobile services like Google Play google maps and gmail there now reportedly requiring their partners to include more google apps displayed prominently on the device in addition to making Google search more visible now Android still available for anyone to use but big manufacturers like HTC or motorola must agree to the terms in order to offer googles apps and services on their phone it's really an interesting shift where Google is starting to exert more power and control than we've seen in the past over android but phones aren't the only platform the g men and women are watching the googs appears to be also imposing its tight control over their Android wear wearable platform after it asked crowdfunding site IndieGoGo to take down a campaign for a budget SmartWatch called the calm one according to android police now we know that they are overseen every aspect of the Android wear user experience from the UI to over-the-air updates but after this move we shouldn't expect any crowdfunded Android wear hardware if ever Google just come out and at least acknowledge publicly that you're changing your approach these days and you want more control of your ecosystem instead of doing it hush-hush behind the scenes Google don't be evil all right LG appears to be working on a new SmartWatch of their own according to recently discovered FCC documents the watch looks to be oval shaped and will support a 3g cdma connection of its own for data which would point to sprint and verizon compatibility in the united states the SmartWatch won't be dependent on a phone but there's no word of the operating system it will be running yet LG's first round watch the G watch are still has no release date so this stand-alone watch probably won't be coming out anytime soon and I know you've been bombarded by been date but Consumer Reports took some of the top bones out right now and held a bend test of their own to see which phones really are the easiest to Ben now the iphone 6 and 6 plus weren't the sturdiest phones but they also weren't the weakest that award goes to the HTC One m8 which buckled under 70 pounds of pressure now the six plus managed to hold up to 90 pounds of pressure and the most durable phone on the market right now guess what the samsung galaxy note 3 which started to deform under 150 pounds of pressure and that phone works out now the LG g3 tied for second place with the iphone 5 bending at 130 pounds as well and info news the director of 1 plus global revealed that the one plus two is in the works in the company's targeting q2 of 2015 but let's hope they drop their stupid invite-only program for the one plus to purchase it see you guys aren't that special in fact no one is you have a legit phone but you made people care about it less because there's a lot of other great ones out there so learn from that alright sony's inviting press out to an event on october the 9th in new york city that could possibly see the US launch of its latest xperia z3 lineup that we saw it Aoife and its stellar camera so we'll keep an eye out for that and nexus 6 fans or nexus x fans who knows what they'll really call it more pictures have leaked out for the smartphone built by motorola codenamed Shamu but why named it after a killer whale well maybe because of its rumored 5.92 inch screen now this is no whale tail it's coming in specs of revealed not only the monster screen but a 13 megapixel rear camera 2-megapixel front-facing camera a qHD display three gigs of RAM and 32 gigs of storage we're expecting an announcement in October with a release in November and with a code name like that you guys should probably make it waterproof all right that's going to do it for this week's show you can always email us at Google licious at cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong thanks so much for watching and we'll see you next time for some more of that Google Isha's delicious