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what's happening Brian Tong here and welcome to Google issues for all the Google you could think of let's get to it and is there enough room for another Android phone in the market well if you ask Andy Rubin the creator of Android which happens to just run on over 2 billion devices he left Google to build that phone and his answer is the essential phone like just try saying that out loud it sounds classy the essential phone now essential products is the name of the company and at the code conference Rubin unveiled what they simply call the phone for the first time it's an ear bezel free design running stock Android made from a blend of titanium and ceramic materials so it can survive a drop test without a major dent or blemish directly calling out Samsung and Apple now it's running the snapdragon 835 with 4 gigs of RAM and 128 gigs of storage with a rear fingerprint sensor and USB C connection and it's also compatible with all carriers now it's unique design wraps the screen around the front-facing camera you can see that and if you're looking at the future this phone also does not have a headphone jack now Ruben also said there is a yet to be announced or demonstrated assistant that will run on the phone and it will also be compatible with the world's smallest 360-degree camera that's an accessory option now this might be the most intriguing phone of the year because of the creators especially coming from Ruben look he's Androids daddy who also was the CEO at danger when they created one of my favorite phones of all time the sidekick like that was a smart phone before they were actually called smart phones Ruben just gets it and we'll see how consumers respond the phone is available now for pre-order for $6.99 now essential products also announced their own Amazon echo and Google home competitor called the essential home it's their entry into the home assistant with a streamlined design that visually out does the echo or the Google home with a circular screen that can be activated by touch voice or even glance it does what you expect you can control music ask general questions set timers and control lights but essential claims they will do it better now at the code conference Ruben said essentials home will be able to run Alexa the Google assistant and Siri now that's surprising they want it to be a device that one on any platform can use but again we'll have to see if they actually get those deals made it runs what they call the ambient OS and most of the processing will happen locally on the device and not on the cloud prioritizing your privacy compared to other smart speakers on the market now all they have right now is these renders with cool animations there's no specs no pricing or delivery date wired says it will ship sometime in the summer now essential is a company worth watching it will see how and if they can really break people out of their ecosystem shackles so we'll keep locked in on that all right alphabet the artist formerly known as Google announced their new nest IQ security camera think of it as an upgrade to the current $200 nest cam indoor thanks to entire video quality built-in speakers but really it's the brains inside of it it's just better now on the outside it may not look like anything significant when it's 8 megapixel sensor records 4k video with HDR to capture significantly better looking videos and with its facial recognition zooming in to enhanced will actually look good there's a feature called person's alert it sends a notification to you when a person is in the field of view and not a pet unless your dog walks on two feet oh come on that's just cute and super sight is a picture and picture view tracking shot of a person in view plus 8 yes you want to get creepy or be that parent you can talk to your kids clearly with its improved speakers see that's no fun Ness also offers more features if you subscribe to their nest aware service other smart cameras offer facial recognition that are even around 60 bucks the new nest cam IQ is $2.99 but it looks like the smartest home camera to date we'll just have to see if it's really worth that price all right that's going to do it for this week with three big products dropping you can email me at Google issues at cnet.com or tweet me at brian tong they so much for watching we'll catch y'all next time for some more of that google it you