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welcome to alphabet city this is the show that covers everything to do with alphabet alphabet happens to own lots of companies like loon xwy Moe and Google I'm your guide Aya's Akhtar you are the wonderful audience and we are at CES 2019 today we're talking about the galaxy s 10 way Mo's new partnership and your comments but first up let's talk Google at CES on to the garden of Google Google's every word CES to help us out to get a handle on everything that's been going on we've dragged in CNET's editor seen that editor Andrew Gephardt he's been going from place to place seeing all kinds of things okay Andrew let's get the ball rolling what were the most important developments so Google is everywhere at the show yeah they're plastered on the monorail they have a ride like a small world style ride it's pretty fun they're trying to make a big presence and they've made some pretty significant announcements their interpreter mode is a really cool piece of tech that's gonna be built into their home hub and all their smart displays and it's gonna allow basically if it's like set up at a hotel a person can speak one language speak one language to it it'll translate and then the concierge at the hotel can speak an entirely different language and it acts as the interpreter between those two people so that's rolling out to Google home hub and third-party displays as well as other Google products but it's not gonna be on phones right away right III think it's just smart displays to start ok they want to bring it to phones they want to bring it to everywhere that Google assistant works but smart displays is where it's getting kicked off it seems like a pretty brilliant idea actually but that makes sense for that screen because you could also correct it if something goes wrong yeah right you're able to sort of see and then you know I was having a demo with it in the Google booth and somehow it interpreted something and the guys speaking in Italian asked me if I was pregnant so I'm pretty sure that wasn't what he intended to say well I believe we gotta find out are you pregnant and not that I know of ok but yeah it's would be a really cool thing and it's gonna speak 27 different languages they obviously got to polish it a little bit but some of the demos have been flawless it's looked really cool that's that's pretty impressive so far Google with a lot of different products we've also got a system connect so basically making it way easier for third parties to have Google assistant built-in right yeah so they had an ink display they had a button those are just concepts those are prototypes in theory we're not gonna see those on store shelves the idea is that someone can make a piece of hardware and then have Google handle all of the cloud stuff handle all the processing handle all the setup so the hardware is gonna have like a chip built in or something that sends a query or a signal to a nearby Google Mini and then the Google mini sends that question to the cloud and sends it back to the e-ink display which shows traffic or weather or whatnot so the e-ink display itself isn't pulling that info it's the Google assistant or the Google whole mini that's nearby so it's almost like a client those devices are the clients for this this piece that actual makes everything work that's pretty interesting like that looks like those eing displays remind me of those price tags you would see in certain like fancy stores when their retail stores but that'd be great to have a bunch of these little displays around the house because they're not bright not lighting up like a smart clock or anything like that yeah right you don't want necessarily something super bright in in some places of your house but Google actually did introduce a smart clock but it thankfully has adaptive brightness this is Lenovo though right no but the smart clock it's it's the Lenovo smart clock with Google assistant built-in that's the full name I think it's just called the Lenovo smart clock but the Google assistant parts pretty important they worked with Google it's integrated and has all the voice commands of Google assistant right in there this thing intrigues me the most out of all the Google stuff so far actually because it's really tiny version of Google Home Hub but it doesn't work the same who's what watch the video it says you said there's not the Home Hub controls you have a an interface set for a nightstand yeah I thought it was just gonna be a shrunken yeah whole numbers shrunken like Leno has a smart display called the Lenovo smart display so I thought it was just gonna be that but small it's not it has no videos on it it has no camera the Lenovo smart display has a camera and no smart home touch controls you can do all the things with voice that you could do with a Google how many but they trimmed off a lot of the extra stuff in order to bring the price down and to really focus on what info you would need when you're going to bed when you're waking up in the morning this is an $80 device $80 and it seemed that didn't seem outrageous to me for some reason I said like something like the echo spot I'm like this is kitschy and nice and round but I don't see the purpose of this the way Google is integrated with all kinds of calendars and all kind of of your data right seeing your agenda ahead of time when you're waking up that seems like it's a built-in perfect match so the price fits nicely between Google Home Hub 150 and Google home Mini 50 which makes sense it's a little more robust than the one a little less than the other and yet so this thing can suggest when to set an alarm based on when your first appointment is which is kind of cool it's gonna gradually get brighter as your alarm gets closer to speaking of having bright things in there try to wake you up gently speaking of smart displays KitchenAid came out with their first smart display as far as I know maybe I have not been paying attention very much to KitchenAid to display technology but I think this is a first smart display and the kitchen has always been an incredibly hard place to get a computer in there because it's dirty it's messy what's their solution water resistance they it's full-on splash proof water resistance and yeah it's the first smart display it's actually the first time kitchen aids been at CES at all.they so whirlpool they're their parent company is at CES all the time but this is the first time kitchen aides made a presence and yeah this smart display is pretty cool so it's gonna have a lot of the same functionality of the ones we've already talked about Google Home Hub Lenovo smart display the water resistance sets its apart and then it also has yummly built in which is a food app that they own for making really specific recipe recommendations now I know in your previous reviews of Google home Smart displays you've called it like this excellent assistant for recipes yeah that seems to be that a killer feature for these displays right which is why I'm slightly worried about the KitchenAid smart display standing out because the Google Home Hub is already great at recipe assistance like it walks you through step by step you get multitask you can play videos and all that sort of stuff and then when you want hop right back into the recipe where you left off so KitchenAid is doubling down on that which is cool and if you use youngly anyway this product could make sense and jelly's pretty smart about making recipe recommendations and they have a new advanced service we're like a celebrity chef can show up and walk you through a few steps so there is gonna be some cool extra stuff for working in the kitchen on this one so on the outside we saw the Sonos one working here with both Google assistant and Alexa compatibility but it's not exactly all it's cracked up to be it's not like you can just choose one or the other anytime you want right supposedly you have to pick whether you want Alexa or Google assistant at the start like when you're first setting up the device you might be able to get around that with a factory reset but still so their Google and Alexa are in everything except the one thing they haven't learned how to do I think is share they could literally be in the same box as long as you reset the thing over and over again that seems absurd there must be some kind of weird contract issues where you can't simply go hey Alexa or Alexa I hate Google and I'm really sorry for setting off anybody's smart home devices right now by saying that but yeah it seems like we're gonna get there eventually but we're still not there I have to imagine it's Amazon and Google dragging their feet I mean they've been at a fierce competition for taking over their smart home space as represented by all the stuff we're seeing at CES but and for the most part that competition has been good for customers it's pushed like features and stuff forward but it's also meant that something like a Kohler smart mirror you have to buy a separate mirror if you want Alexa and you have to buy a separate mirror if you want Google assistant and again I'm sorry if I'd set off your smart I just realized it's a dual boot machine that's what it is you can't have these concurrent systems that's so wrong real quick you were in the Google booth you weren't on the ride what was the ride like it was called the ride yeah it's just the ride it was sort of like it's a small world but thankfully a little less creepy it tells a story about like a dad who needs to rescue his family because the moms out of town and he needs to get a cake and everything and how their their pitch for it is how Google assistant can take you through the twists and turns of life it was kind of corny but in a in a self-aware way it was fun so last year they had to slide this time they have a ride so the next one's gonna be a thrill ride it's gotta be a roller coaster or a freefall freefall that's gonna be the next one that's my guess nervous I vote for roller coaster all right so thank you Andrew that was really helpful you wanna stick around the rest of the show sure I'll be here all right let's go to uptown updates Samsung has made it official these companies holding an unpacked event for the Galaxy S 10 on February 20th in San Francisco the invite shows two gradient colors meeting in the middle with a black line separating them is it two different phones being butted up against each other I don't know a Wall Street Journal article says Samsung would show off its foldable phone on the same day guess we'll see yeah what in February or ever wait xx that's correct meanwhile the s10 looks like the s10 might have leaked Evan blast posted this picture on Twitter what she says is the s10 in the wild take a good look at this picture it looks like that looks like what you've expected there's a nice little infinity Oh display very thin bezels obviously everything is blurred out this would be the standard s10 not the plus or the light excited about the s10 I mean kind of I mean Samsung has to up its game now with Google making their own Android phones so they've got to find something new and interesting to do the foldable might help do that if that's true folding phones whatever no bezels either way something's happening on the xx way Mo's partnering up with a number of companies including GM and Toyota to form pave pave stands for partners for automated vehicle education the group has several goals one to get the public and policymakers in cars that have self-driving tech to pave will hold education workshops on the tech for lawmakers and three offering educational materials to car dealers and serve centers let's go to comment Co this is the part of the show will be shining a spotlight on the most amazing audience of the world you guys over the holiday break we published the unaired pilot of Alphabet City our cell in NYC said a nice unexpected gift thanks our self ved Raj says damn this is a new segment which started this year it kind of feels like it's been on for years lol I'll take that as a compliment is that a cough I think it's a common all right so thanks it's like a veteran president sorry and Josh asked what happened to you guys we're we're here hello thanks to everyone from riding in if you've enjoyed your stay in Alphabet City please like and subscribe big thanks to Andrew get part for all his help am i as after I'll see you online