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what's happened in Bryant song here and welcome to Google it's just for everything Google you can think of now the goog has released the final developer preview of Android 8.1 and you can get it now if you're enrolled in the Android beta developer program it's a free sign up now eight point one's biggest improvement is finally enabling the pixel visual core Google's first custom-designed coprocessor for image processing and machine learning now any apps using the Android camera API will now be able to capture hdr+ shots with the update the final build also includes improvements to the neural networks API for fast on device machine learning and other enhancements and tweaks now the general consumer release for 8.1 is expected sometime in December Google also recently rolled out a feature to pixel phones called smart battery that will give users better estimates on what to expect from their battery throughout the day with smart battery pixel phones learn from your overall usage habits instead of giving you an estimate based on how you use your phone for about the last hour I know it's a subtle change but really handy with a chart that will even show you how you will most likely use your phone throughout the day and the last thing I want to hear about is another pixel to issue according to reports and forum posts some pixel 2 & 2 XL owners have been noticing their phones are randomly rebooting and it appears to be linked to the LTE modem some have found switching a 3G alleviates the problem which isn't ideal but Android police reports the modem is causing a kernel panic when the device is in LTE mode but it's not clear exactly what triggers it now even if the early builds of Android point 1 don't entirely solve it we're just gonna have to wait for a real fix if this is affecting you and the razor phone we know about this one it's been out for over a week now and it's the fruits of razors acquisition of next bit now it's another solid Android phone but you've got to have at least one feature that makes you stand out for razor it's their screen and if you've never seen a 120 Hertz refresh rate on a phone it's like butter and you'll be begging for it if you don't already have the new razor phone it also brings dual speaker designs with Dolby Atmos compatibility for a legit sounding phone there's no water protection here and it also follows the trend of removing a headphone jack razor CEOs it wasn't an easy decision but the reason for the move was to fit in extra 500 milliamp e'er hours of battery juice and improve the thermals for performance they also include a headphone jack adapter that has a 24-bit digital audio converter for improved audio performance and I kind of like the fact that we're getting some real transparency here the phone benefited from this move you know at least that's what they're telling us unlike a certain fruit company that said they took it away because it took courage the razor phone also even went through jerry-rigged everything's been test and this metal clad phone fared pretty well it survived it was still working which is more than we can say about the previous/next bit Robin that I look it pretty much snapped like a twig dude does he work out and Android authority reports a number of its readers have been sent a survey from Google asking about a potential YouTube Edition smartphone with exclusive features this doesn't mean they're actually doing it but one of the features asked about was a live lockscreen that would allow you to tune into live streams while the phone was locked and another feature called you twist which would allow users to rotate the phone in landscape and instantly access videos you might want to watch a low res image was included with this survey that showed a small bezel and red buttons around a white frame with a six inch display 2.2 gigahertz processor dual cameras and a rear fingerprint sensor again this project could be dead already but Google is exploring its options and doing it very publicly and we wrap things up with a fun patent from Google discovered back in 2013 that has now been approved Google has been granted a patent for a motorized laptop hinge that can auto align with a user's face now we could see something like this come to a future pixel book maybe it's a fun idea where there would need to be an area on the outside of the computer to detect the presence of a person when it's touched and then once it did that it would be able to open up but also continuously adjust the angle and position of the lid to keep it aligned with the user's face for optimum viewing position like I wouldn't count on a motorized hinge any time soon but if they were able to get self-lacing shoes last year this is nothing compared to that alright that's it for this week you can email me at Google it's at see Netcom or tweet me at brian tom thanks so much for watching we'll catch you all next time some more of that google issues