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android pay on the way the fire phone goes out and a slew of apple news i am mark % / TechnoBuffalo and this is the buffalo breakdown welcome to the breakdown for the weekend of 9 12 15 that's September 12 for those of you who have trouble with numbers lots of stuff to get through so let's get right down to it first up android pay is finally launching via google play if you're wondering why this is different from wallet it's because pay is actually using the virtualized hardware that android now supports where wallet was using a universal card support cards won't be universally supported with android pay since card companies are going to need to support it but it is going to be much safer much more secure and most importantly you're going to get to keep all of your points and cash back rewards on your cards which is not something you could do with Google Wallet the blue pure XL is the latest entry in the value phone market and it looks like a screamer it's rocking the MediaTek Helio x10 which is the high-end system on a chip with 10 cores from the silicon manufacturer yes I did say 10 cores by the way on paper this is like the first true flagship level device at our affordable price that i have seen anyway I mean listen to this ready 6 inch quad HD display 24 megapixel rear camera 8 megapixel front facing camera 64 gigs of storage and three gigs of RAM I cannot wait to get my hands on this thing especially with the rumor Nexus 5x right around the corner both seem to be sporting that little fingerprint sensor in the back lots and lots of choices in this arena these days so I'm really stoked to see if the pure XL is my next phone Amazon's fabled flop the fire phone is finally extinguished yes that was a lot of eps and I nailed it stock has finally run out which means that people were still buying them I guess for some reason the device suffered from a plethora of issues not to mention a price of 200 bucks on contract I also wouldn't expect to see a fire phone to any time soon given that they also just laid off most of the team that was responsible for the original device so rest in peace fire phone all right now for that sweet apple news that you've all been waiting for obviously we have the apple event this week revealing some sweet sweet stuff out in San Francisco so let's get some small ones out of the way first the newest version of OS 10 is landing September 30 if it's called El Capitan and it is a bit of an incremental update but it is exciting nonetheless watch os/2 is also on the way with third-party complications that are going to allow developers to include small little data points and widgets into apps and watch faces Plus that Apple watch now comes in two new finishes gold and rose gold the brand new Apple TV was unveiled as well the new device is a pretty significant upgrade especially with the specs on the inside but the real changes come in the form of TV OS Apple's new OS for the device that will allow it to run iOS games and apps with just a little bit of modification on the dev side to support the larger screen the new UI is much easier on the eyes it's really really pretty it's got this great parallax effect on the covers of movies and the brand new remote has some remote like abilities for games a touch pad for navigation and most importantly a microphone when you miss a line you can ask Siri what did he say and the Apple TV will automatically rewind 15 seconds and turn on closed captioning for those 15 seconds just so that you can see what that person said I will take two of these for my parents please have them rush shipped to their house ipad mini 4 was also updated kind of under the radar to air to specs with all the hubbub about the ipad pro which we're going to get to it may have kind of slipped under that radar like i said so it's now rocking the same specs at the ipad air so if you're like me you prefer a smaller form factor for your tablets this is a great great option for the price now of course it wouldn't be an apple event without a little bit of disappointment / sticker shock apple's new ipad pro is a gigantic 12.9 inch ipad it's still running iOS but Apple thinks that that's going to be enough for you to replace a portable computer while I'm not sure that's quite true it does make perfect sense for Apple to be making these kinds of moves to converge iOS and OS 10 the two major platforms that they work on that is not although there's also a smart keyboard cover which is very very reminiscent of the surfaces type cover and of course we would be remiss not to mention the Apple pencil which can detect pressure angle all kinds of really cool stuff in terms of being a stylist on an iPad yes yes whatever but it's a pretty cool device I think it does look really silly it's going to look super funny plugged into the iPad pro for charging but you can pick up an iPad pro at the whopping price of 799 the cover is going to run you 129 in the US and the pencil is yes $99 the iphone 6s and 6s plus are finally on the way they should be launching before the end of September and yes they look the same as the last model on the outside but I mean you can compare them on the inside right as you know the S models of iOS devices tend to be the more incremental changes but this time around we're seeing something that I think is going to be really really huge this is the first iOS device since the iphone 3g that i've seriously considered purchasing 3d touch is new tech in the new iphone that allows the 6s and 6s pluses to detect pressure from your fingers on the screen it's essentially replacement for the long press interaction which was never terribly elegant this removes the inherit latency present in the long press in that gesture and it adds multiple layers of interaction I cannot wait to play with it this is such a huge step for user experience and I cannot wait of course it's also got some other cool new stuff it's got a 4k camera now some much stronger 7000 series aluminum a much better fingerprint sensor and a bunch more upgrades under the hood pricing on the new iPhones is all going to remain exactly the same as last year but of course last year models are now the affordable ones well herders that's it for this week thank you so much for watching I hope you enjoyed the show you guys may have noticed some sweet new animations in the show this week we got some new lower thirds and I just want to point out we got them from our friends at video blocks they've got a ton of great post word templates for after effects and for apple motion we grabbed one that looks cool and it came with instructions and all that cool stuff for a template plus you can use as much or as little of it as you want so we just grabbed the part that we wanted to use for the lower thirds which you'll see right here which is nice and pretty they have a subscription model is the way that works so you can pay 10 bucks a month to get access their entire library plus they were nice enough to send along a link for us for you guys which you can find in the description to get yourself a free 7 day trial with video blocks not to mention of 240 clips that you can download over that seven-day trial it's really really cool stuff so if you work in post absolutely do check it out for all of the details on all of these stories you can head to TechnoBuffalo dot-com for all of that sweet sweet information let me know what you guys think about 3d touch and the purex l in the comments down below you can hit like and subscribe if you wanna see more of this dumb mug and as always thank you for watching be kind to one another and i'll catch you in the next video