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what's up Brian song here and welcome to Google issues for all the things people you can think of the Galaxy s8 is still a hot topic because surprise it's an Android phone so let's just start there and let's start with all of you oversensitive fans who thought I was hating on the Galaxy s8 guess what I praised it multiple times called it the best looking phone and a great phone for Samsung fans but you still can't take it what someone just says one thing critical about the phone you want grow a pair now Samsung moved the fingerprint sensor to the back we know this because their plans to embed it in the front panel didn't come together in time a lot of you in the comments made a point to say they want you to use face unlock but to Samsung really want you to use it for everything recent videos have proven that you can unlock an essay as long as you have a picture of that person's face yeah that's not secure at all now even Samsung themselves admitted that facial recognition is less rigorous than fingerprints and it cannot be used for samsung pay so now it feels like there's different biometrics handling different things the one thing Samsung should have been bragging about was the addition of Bluetooth 5.0 that was buried in the spec sheet it's the first smartphone with 5.0 inside of it on planet earth with even better sound quality twice the speed and four times the range which means you can stay connected from a lot further away from your phone and how about pushing two sets of wireless headphones at the same time your phone can't do that either like no phone can do that except for the s8 right now now there's no surprise here but just in case you wanted to try the Galaxy s8 it won't work with your gear VR VR heads tried it and only got an error message unless use a workaround for phones running nougat and root access that's not available on the s8 right now so Samsung is pretty committed to its gear VR platform and that makes sense now Bixby is one the new software features for the new s8 but a bunch of smarty pants from xda-developers have pulled Bixby and Samsung's new launcher from the galaxy s 8 for you to install on other Samsung phones there's no route needed you'll just need a Samsung device like the s7 runny nougat and run the installation process to get the cleaner and the new app drawer and more now that also means you can get access to the new s8 stock wallpapers like this starry night sand dune I know there's plenty of you that love this stuff so go to this link and get them all and if you want to finally say we're number one Android is now the world's most popular operating system overtaking Windows now according to StatCounter looking at combined usage across desktops laptops tablets and smartphones android usage hit thirty seven point nine three percent just edging out windows thirty seven point nine one percent it's really a technological milestone since Microsoft has held its position as the worldwide OS market leader since the 80s and a huge breakthrough for Android that had a global internet usage share of just two point four percent five years ago now StatCounter only measures Internet connected devices which eliminates computers that might be used offline for a specialty task but Windows still dominates both laptops and desktop with an 84 percent market share so now you can tell all those stats your friends or impress that special someone alright let's get to some of your reactions to the galaxy s 8 I asked you about Joey Colgan said I think the galaxy s 8 is the first non iPhone smartphone in a while that makes me wish this was out back in October so I could have bought it instead because this is the future of smartphones that dudes hashtag team Samsung now Fabien Torres writes in with the three things that let me down about the s8 are the placement of the fingerprint sensor no dual lens camera and battery size that's fair enough my t gia king writes in with I was one of the not convinced I really like the phone but once you get past the screen size it's really hard to argue why not buy the galaxy s7 edge so you're telling me size doesn't matter alright that's going to do it for this week you can email me at Google issues at cnet.com or to me at brian Tong thanks so much for watching we'll catch y'all next time for some more of that Google ishes delicious