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this episode of techno Buffalo is brought to you by Squarespace welcome revision3 and technobuffalo fans to another edition of ask the Buffalo where you can ask me anything you want from the wide wide wide world of technology i am your host jon rettinger on today's episode we are going to cover recent acquisitions recent shutdowns tablets cell phones and everything in between if it involves just a little bit of nerdiness we are going to talk about it this is asked the Buffalo thank you guys for tuning in to another edition of ask the Buffalo you could ask questions one of two ways either send them to me on twitter at john for lakers or at TechnoBuffalo use the hashtag ask the bee and ask away otherwise once a week you can find the article up on TechnoBuffalo com soliciting questions for these ask the Buffalo serious and go ahead and leave your question down below in the comments so without further ado let's go ahead and start answering damn questions the first question comes to us from max Kissel who asks hey John I read in the newspaper today about Google buying motorola do you think the next Nexus phone will turn out to be for Motorola and why well Google announced their intent to purchase motorola mobility to the vision of motorola that makes handset without getting all legally and business e the deals already done all parties have signed off on it now just has to get through regulators it's gotta go through antitrust lawyers antitrust governmental agents and a ton of other in-betweens before it gets approved what does this mean for the next Nexus phone well we actually broke a story recently on technobuffalo calm talked about the nexus prime we had sources inside of Verizon and inside of Samsung that confirmed that verizon will indeed be getting their next edition of the Nexus phone dubbed the nexus prime with we're told larger than a 4.5 inch screen and a 720p display so we're talking big phone with big specs also going to be the first phone rocking ice cream sandwich and we're hearing an October launch date and it will still be built by Samsung this deal just went through or at least is trying to get through in the middle to late August certainly a phone that is scheduled for release in October has been development for months and months and months prior so perhaps the next Nexus phone I'm not the nexus prime perhaps the Nexus Megatron will indeed be made by motorola what's that's going to mean for the rest of the Android industry has yet to be seen certainly android is still open any manufacturer can take the top ring system and put it on their handset so we're still going to see HTC android phones so i'm going to see LG android phones and the rest of the companies we are still going to see those devices so don't fret our next question comes to us from twitter from tree dude 217 who asks would you ever consider making a european version of TechnoBuffalo we actually just brought on a european writer nikhil Ian Bell who's going to focus on all kinds of european news so for all european carrier information cell phones and tablets we're going to have a cover now thumbs up for that and in fact as you guys are watching this video I am in Europe right now I'm on my way to the IFA show in berlin to bring you the latest from the world of technology so we'll have a ton of european news being covered little few little stopovers before i get there but i am trying to get in touch with my European friends so our next question comes for us from Twitter once again from user Sonic Corp who asks this is the most asked question of the week John what are your thoughts on HP discontinuing the touchpad and webos devices dumb web OS is dead a mere 49 days after launching the touchpad is now obsolete some would argue might have been obsolete at launch I like this little guy I thought it had a lot of potential I've been a big supporter of webos since day one I actually waited in line the night before the original pre launched on sprint to get a device I've been a supporter of it I've loved it our own Noah Kravitz loves it and it's sad what HP is done to it they discontinued the webos hardware division the dead so does that mean we're not going to see any more web OS devices maybe HP you killed them certainly makes sense for HP to license webOS HTC has been rumored to be interested for quite a bit Samsung perhaps I wouldn't keep your fingers crossed I think we've probably seen last of the web OS devices and even before the pre three saw an official launch we saw it on the european store supposedly getting ready to launch in the US on a few different carriers but no more no more webOS so you can now own a piece of technology history and you can pick up a noun discontinued HP touchpad for 99 bucks which is a pretty sick deal for some reason to expect to hardware I love the browser on here thought it was one of the best flash implementations that I've seen and it's sad sad sad what happened to this poor guy so if you're lucky enough you can go out and pick up on HP TouchPad for 99 bucks just don't expect many new apps for it so I want to take a few minutes to thank our friends and sponsors at Squarespace Squarespace is a fast and easy way to create high quality blog portfolio of any kind even a website if you have questions or need help square spaces provide support for every member 24 hours a day 7 days a week so when you're four red bulls in is floor in the morning Squarespace is going to be there to help you you can start your website or blog by choosing from over 60 professionally designed templates and then add content from your computer iphone or ipad square spaces mobile apps allows you to easily add entries and manage comments from anywhere many of the Internet's higher making web pages are powered by Squarespace not to mention many personal pages of revision three hosts and personalities check out squarespace com to get a two week free trial and ten percent off when you sign up in August just enter 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samsung galaxy pad 10.1 is the way to go alright so our last question comes to us from twitter user mr. nasty who asked John what is a coolest phone or prototype you've ever seen that hasn't been released yet well I'm glad you asked that question actually have it right behind me I haven't shown this to anyone yet I thought I kind of debuted here in revision 3 let me go ahead and show you what it is you