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The Google X team is working on better battery life

2015-04-14
what's happened Brian song here with your Google ishes for all the happenings inside the world of Google let's jump into the show and the tech world is still buzzing about the Apple watch that even upstage galaxies s6 and s6 edge release and the latest estimates from slice intelligence point to Apple selling 1 million pre-orders over the weekend which is more than all of the Android wear devices shipped out in 2014 now the numbers are small and that's really more indicative of an entire product category that still has to figure itself out but maybe there's a place for these devices that act as a fitness band that also tells time that's what a sous is trying to do with their VEVO watch that will bring an impressive 10-day battery life to its fitness centric watch with more details coming this week at the Milan design week now android wear might not be making a big impact on the market just yet but according to comscore android is still the market leader with 52.8 percent of the mobile OS share market with Apple at 41.7 and Microsoft at three point five percent and if you feel left out of the hole all gold everything watching smartphone trend for just four hundred dollars Vietnamese based Kara Lux will bling out your galaxy s6 or s6 edge with 24 karat gold plating just around the sides and it's about a three hour process just in case you want to do that alright according to a Wall Street Journal report a small team within Google X projects is working on battery tech led by one of apple's former battery experts dr. ramesh bhardwaj now the group has only four people it started in 2012 and the team is not only working on improving current lithium-ion tech but also developing solid-state batteries as well we know battery life is one of the real first world problems that gadget lovers constantly face so the goal is to make improvements that can be integrated into many projects like phones and tablets or bigger ideas from google like glass and project loon alright Google's project tango is one of their killer projects we've talked about that combines 3d motion tracking with depth sensing to let your mobile device know where it is and how it moves through space it's still being sold on an in only basis but some users are receiving emails offering the tango tablet at half the price now the dev kit was previously being sold for around one thousand dollars but is now being offered at the special price of 512 before Google opens up sales more broadly to the general public now the galaxy s6 and s6 edge continue to impress in reviews and are being touted as the best phone samsung has ever designed to date which really is exactly what Samsung was trying to do samsung expects the supply of the essex edge specifically to be constrained at launch due to difficulties manufacturing the device the essex is really the first great phone of 2015 but there's plenty competition that wants to be in that conversation such as LG's highly anticipated g4 phone which will launch on April to 28 now leaked photos already have shown off a stitched leather like backing in multiple colors as well as a hard shell backing with the geometric surface LG itself recently revealed it will come with a 16 megapixel camera with an f 1.8 aperture the widest developed by LG the front side will bring an 8 megapixel camera and we already know it will come with a 5.5 inch quad HD screen and an all new interface alright the league shots of the Sony Xperia z4 keep on coming this one in black there's still no official announcement date but the amount of leaks point2 sooner rather than later and if you want to brag about having the biggest and baddest smartphone screen sharp is touting that production of their 5.5 inch ultra HD 4k resolution screen will start in 2016 with a massive 806 pixels per inch now even if you can't even see all the pixels from your turn 2k displays and many people consider it overkill get ready for more coming soon to a phone near you alright that's going to do it for this week's show you can always email us at google issues at cnet com or tweet me a brian Tong and i'll respond thanks for watching it we'll see you next time for some more of that Google Isha's google Isha's
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