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what's going on Brian Tong here with Google issues for everything Google you can think of the official Galaxy s8 announcement is just a week away but Samsung is already dropping some knowledge on us about their Vic's Pai assistant that will be their flagship software feature on the new s8 now in an official press release Samsung describes how Bixby is different than any other voice assistance in three areas the first one is called completeness where Samsung says a Bigsby enabled app will be able to support almost every task the app is capable of now other platforms might support some tasks but Bixby will be complete so you won't be unsure what things it can or can't do now the second context awareness mix we will understand the current context and state of the application to help carry out the work in progress it could be something along the lines of an even better version of Google now on tap feature for the Galaxy S 8 and the third is what they call cognitive tolerance where Bixby will be able to understand commands with incomplete information and execute it or ask for follow-up information see there's plenty of times or halfway I might forget exactly what I'm saying so it will be interesting to see how this works with Bixby in real-world use now Bixby is the result of Samsung's acquisition of viv the original Siri team that took their AI to a whole new level with viv Samsung says a subset of pre-installed apps will be Bixby enabled on launch third-party developers can make their apps Bixby enabled as well now it will also be expanding to other Samsung products like a washing machine or a TV set and will live in the cloud for Internet connected devices ai is the future I'm excited so we'll see how this all comes together on March the 29th now FM blast is back at it again with new leaks for the s8 and si+ this time it's the three colors we should expect to see in black sky orchid gray and arctic silver take a look see that grand silver though they look pretty similar from the sides now images of another one this time in violet have been posted by KK sneak leaks we're not sure if this is an actual color yet or a prototype but hey it's out there okay bloomberg reports Samsung's seit will use facial recognition for mobile payments within months of its release up to this point it's been used for phone and locking on the s8 but Samson will now use it for mobile services and financial applications including Samsung pay this would add a new tech feature that no other flagship phone currently has and it's already working with banks to help them embrace facial recognition systems now the name for this feature has not been leaked but I'm really rooting for either face pay or pay face I know they sound ridiculous but you know what you tell me what you want it to be called now I've been blast dropped more bombs with a European pricing for the new s8 and SAT with the s8 starting at 799 euros while the larger s8 plus is expected to be 100 more at 899 euros now that converts roughly to 850 u.s. dollars for the s8 and 966 dollars for the s8 plus but these are pricings for the European regions and we don't expect them to convert directly for US markets now we're also expecting a new gear VR and an all new gear 360 camera at the event as well all right Google has released the Developer Preview for Android oh no official name has been given but we're leaning on Ori oh come on that's a no-brainer their top priority better battery life and better Android OS performance over all new features you'll now have fine-grained control over different types of notifications picture and picture display to watch video while doing other tasks and adaptive icons that will be selected based on the device now Android Oh is still unfinished and more features will roll out but the idea is to get it into developers hands early and if you're tired of new apps and games coming out on iOS first it's not going to change anytime soon but Super Mario run is finally making its way to Android on the Play Store on March the 23rd now there were more than 10 million downloads on its first day for iOS and it generated more than 4 million dollars on its first day but only 5% of users paid the hefty $10 price tag to unlock the entire game now it really wasn't that great of a game so after waiting for over three months I'm not sure if the Android world really cares nearly as much about it 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 tom thanks so much for watching I will catch you next time for some more of that Google is you're delicious