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what's up Bryant on here and welcome to google issues for everything going on inside the world of google the top stories this week belong to samsung and LG after an image obtained by the verge has been confirmed to be the new LG g 6 that is coming februari 26th it features a large 5.7 inch screen with unique to buy one aspect ratio and takes up ninety percent of the front versus space for the bezel now the g6 will be made entirely out of glass and metal and looks to ditch the modular and plastic design of the g5 and let's not kid ourselves it's rounded corners and polished edges brings a familiar iphone design aesthetic now the g6 will have a headphone jack it will be waterproof but will no longer have a replaceable battery also an image by d for design on twitter is believed to show off the two galaxy s 8 front panels with a minimal bezel and rounded display corners it's the best picture we've seen the date and android police sources say this image is a very close match to the actual device the galaxy s 8 is expected to come in two sizes both will have curved displays and samsung will skip Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year a Forbes report says the new s8 will debut in Korea on April the 14th now Samsung is also going to make life tougher for other phone manufacturers by hoarding qualcomm supply of their latest snapdragon 835 processor with a deal made between the two that means the s8 will get the latest chip while the LG G 6 will use last year's 821 snapdragon instead of waiting for samsung to get their share which would have delayed the g6 we don't really know how much better it will actually be but the google pixel that runs the 821 chip does just fine we can assume the tech specs knobs I know who you are you'll make a big deal of it but it might not really matter that much so we'll see and Samsung revealed this week it was two separate battery defects that caused the note 7 to explode resulting in a massive and yes embarrassing recall the first battery from Samsung SDI suffered from an external case design that was too small for its internals causing it to short-circuit and ignite then the second battery from hong kong-based and / x had a different flaw according to samsung from a manufacturing defect because they were trying to pump out replacement batteries as quickly as possible bottom line blame it on the batteries and we'll see how and if Samsung can recover in 2017 all right let's get to Google News google home now supports belkin wemo and honeywell thermostats adding support for two major smart home brands the Google pixel will also be getting more support for home control in the near future right now the assistant on home has received more updates for things like Netflix Google photos and more so adding home control for the pixel assistant will help close that gap plus the Google Chrome OS is known for running on Google's Chromebooks it's also run on other devices like chrome boxes and sticks a verge report says Google will now be allowing OEMs to build a wider variety of form factors on the chrome s including convertibles detachable and tablets even if it's a declining market this new approach to Chrome OS tablets to give them something that functions more like a surface pro but has more features than current iPads and as we get closer to the new Google watch februari 9th launch google has released its fifth and final developer preview for Android where to point o it now brings iOS support and talks to third-party apps on iPhones along with bug fixes developers can now also start uploading their final where to point o apps to the Play Store and if you love space google has announced that five teams of the 30-plus that applied have qualified for its Lunar XPrize competition to land a privately funded robot on the moon those five teams will be competing for a 20 million dollar reward the second team to succeed will take home 5 million now the team's robots will not only have to land on the moon successfully but the robot will have to travel at least 500 meters and then transmit back high def photos and videos to Planet Earth the team has less than a year left with the launch deadline of December 31st 2017 all right that's going to do it for this week you can email me at google issues at cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong thanks so much for watching we'll catch the next time for some more of that Google issues google issues