Gadgetory

what's good Brian Chong here and welcome to google issues for everything google that we can pack inside of a show each week and this week we're expecting big news after amazon sent out their official invitations for an april second event where we're expecting to see the unveiling of their own set-top box now we always look for clues with these invitations so it's either amazon's rumored video streaming box or a popcorn vacuum cleaner and i'm leaning towards the vacuum now amazon trademark filings in September of last year revealed the name fire tube which sounds horrible even if it aligns with its fire branding we're expecting the box to feature the streaming of amazon prime content running in android OS it will run third-party media streaming apps and possibly feature some gaming content as well we also showed you that leaked amazon game controller a few weeks ago so the pieces are finally starting to come together and we'll find out the official details soon enough now in google news we're all big fans of the Google now feature on Android and according to a new report from Android Police not the actual police it's a website they say the service will be getting a new feature very soon that will help you remember to pay your bills including the amount to pay and an easy link to pay off the bills that look similar to this in the Google now layout also we've talked about Google opening up their chromecast sdk and you'll now find support for movie services like crackle and the music service are do that are now compatible and accessible from your mobile device to play on the chromecast now we've been really impressed with the HTC One m8 one of the top android phones right now even you know if it's camera isn't on the same level and looks less sharper than the competition but its main competitor the samsung galaxy s5 comes out in a week or so and display mate technologies is calling it the best smartphone display ever tested showing that oled technology has finally improved enough to challenge or outperform the best LCD screens it's high praise that is well deserved after the s5 achieved the highest scores of any smartphone display in six separate categories now all they have to do is a clean up that TouchWiz UI and one feature Samsung isn't really talking about since it comes with everyone possible is the galaxy s5 can be a baby monitor now check this out in the settings there's a baby cry detector and when your phone is paired with that galaxy gear you can leave your phone next year baby and when baby cries it will alert you by sending a notification to the gear see that's all you need an S 5 a galaxy gear and a baby nobody is going to use this come on son and just a side note Samsung and Apple are back at it again in court this time they are fighting over different patents and a newer generation of devices you won't hear about hardware design patents this time it's about software utility patents like slide to unlock that were granted to Apple that Samsung allegedly ripped off and use them in their own tablets and phones sounds like fun right well this will be going on for the next couple of months that's how much fun all right now you know April Fool's is just around the corner and it will probably be here by the time you watch this Sir Richard Branson the founder of the Virgin Group and Tony Fadell the CEO from Google's recent acquisition of nest put out a fun video for what they call total temperature control on virgin flights it allows you to use nest technology to simulate anything from a balmy Cancun afternoon or the cool of Chicago's polar vortex in your own seat all right it's worth a little chuckle but google has really outdone themselves introducing an amazing new feature in google maps to be a pokeymon hunter now this is no joke to me just open up google maps on android or iOS click on the search bar and then you'll see press Start this creates a game where you can collect 150 pokémon's found throughout the map when you see one just click on them and it will save to your pokedex look I just found luxray and they could really be anywhere on the map so go and find them and I'd like to know how many you find seriously I'm not joking all right guys you can email us at Google issues at cnet come or tweet me up brian Tong and i'll show you my pokedex if you show me yours alright that's going to do it for this week's show thanks so much for watching and we'll see you guys next time for some more of that Google licious delicious