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thing is not the next thing in the rundown apparently it is in fact yeah but I guess I guess maybe more scary we're gonna let Jules get a get a good as media's housing around here I want to talk about the puzzle phone really quickly this is you're not into the project ara stuff if you're not into what's the other thing I would be into project RF had the opportunity to buy the damn thing we just got to find the trucks man just got to go find the trucks it's cool this is good for something from puzzle phone which is another sort of crowdfunded modular smartphone but this one is different somehow first of all from Finland which is very very important as we know most of our most excellent phones have come from Finland little hat tip to nokia there it doesn't look to be as flexible as project ara Jules calls out in the news piece because the fact that we're getting a spec sheet for this thing sort of streams to me that there is not quite level of customization we're looking for right it's divided into three components mainly a brain for high value hardware a spine that holds the display and a heart houses the battery and other and other things it's a lot more streamlined than our up at the same time limiting your availability to mix and match individual components right there only calling out a 64-bit octa-core processor type so that could be what that could be Snapdragon 810 it could be nya not a lot of specificity there except you a lot of things 12 megapixel camera on the rear 5 in the front LED flash blah blah USB type-c though that's neat I USB type-c indeed I meant to mention is the oneplus X comes with a old-school USB not the type C which is where my concern though with the start up from a modular phone here is that when you invest in this when you pick one up oh you're also buying into this idea that you're going to be able to make changes to it you wouldn't buy it just once even if you wanted a modular phone the point is that you want to play around with it a little maybe try different components maybe upgrade later on and i think is really important than or that's going to convince users to get involved with a project like this that they know that there's going to be a lot of options for them they know that the options that are available right now aren't going to be the only one now make reassess their phone a year later maybe they can upgrade the processor to something that's then the latest and greatest so it's really hard I think to convince someone to go in with an upstart with some crowdfunding campaign like this I think that's a big project are a lot more attractive it's just knowing that Google's behind it yeah some of you know Google's projects looking at glass right now don't have the long the public longevity that you know the early adopters might hope then again it's google when it has the the possibility for this to be still going a year or two later apparently it's not that hard for them to raise some money they're just started they have 39 days remaining and they've raised sixty thousand dollars of a 250,000 other goal it's something I said yeah um the one of the very first comments i read on the coverage on this piece i don't know if it was a pocket or somewhere else with somebody said the same thing I always say but what about the joy of buying a new phone because that's like that that sort of consumer rush that motivates a lot of people to go buy everything not just phones it's going to be absent here you're buying a new module so I think that will have to be replaced by the satisfaction of doing something to save the planet because we do have far too much toxic electronic waste and smartphones contribute massive portion of that or um or what I don't know not like i am going to get you heard it here first i'm going to start a subscription service for fifty dollars a month i will send you a nicely a nice package a high quality cardboard inside there will be a glass screen and a sheet of plastic on it that you can peel off it's just the glass and the blasting every month i send you a new one that you know what I would thank you I thank you I will take that that'll be wonderful just and there's you're gonna have your fix it's very happy that that I got to do that on the oneplus X today and felt mmm just felt so nice let's talk about the this this Apple innovation that people are this is absolutely hilarious and people run a story and then people are like 100 percent of the comments were like how do you patent an idea only if your Apple do United States sucks apple sucks Apple's terrible anyone who ever looked at an iphone as a piece of trash I don't know what patents are how do you so the deal with this is mmm I just wanted to go on record once again is saying but I can't stand people like that the deal with this is that mmm thieves are getting wise to iPhone locking schemes your phone locking schemes so apparently what will happen now is not only will people won't just come and rip your phone at your hands and run away they will I guess train a weapon on you and make you unlock your phone and disable data closes here boy god this is scary shapes happen to four in like other industries where we make credit card super secure now they kidnap you and force you to go to the ATM then right it's like a less severe version of the thing that everybody was scared of when fingerprint scanners came out as a con man now they're going to cut off your thumb just down to your phone run away with both but no they apparently will force this has happened I guess is that thieves will force you to disable the tracking stuff and then take your phone which is presumably a terrifying experience and I hope I Malcolm ilysm so apples come up with a leg yes so what you you instead of unlocking your phone with the designated finger that you usually use or the fingers usually use you program one particular finger panic finger a panic finger to jump the phone into panic mode and which will surreptitiously then could not only retain the Find My iPhone stuff but also like actively send out a distress call right now I am which seems like a really cool idea as long as you can but I just feel like the immediate way around this is for the the even a mildly informed thief to be like unlock it with your freaking thumb don't put yourself back soon you make your pinky or default unlock and then you forget 10 minutes later and call the police on yourself right exactly yeah yeah I don't I think this is there some best in tank problems with the implementation but it was certainly worth mentioning because it's a it's got nothing it just I don't know it's it strikes me as maybe it calls to mind a a an old Star Trek episode where Kirk's like they've got phasers on them and they're like don't you do anything money he's like no problem he's got a communicator in his hand and he like puts it back into his pocket slowly and we get a close-up camera zoom on his thumb like hitting one of the buttons on the communicator and then Scotty is sitting there in the command chair on the bridge is like ah the captain gave us a code GREEN it means he's in trouble but we can't do a thing like wow that's a really specific communicator what it's for yeah what if you do is up program something in with the phone centers there so when it detects that you're shaking and you're terrified while doing your terrifying a shin there then and you know mm-hmm don't like meanwhile I'm gonna unlock my Nexus 6p you with a quick I love how quickly that works i think it's like just brill um I do like marshmallow I think I like marshmallow better than better than anything ever fellas so far I've delved that deep into it but would you get a new phone please can I just can I just say and that we all want I want to buy a new phone someone make a better phone it I'll bought one can i say i think i've said this before Stephen I have I have one or two phones sitting around that are more modern than what you have in fact I may have a hundred and twenty phone sitting around that are more modern than what you are using can i send you one any wrong with my phone would you please let me send you something i'm just so like Stephen what do you think about this I don't know I last updated my software when the second Bush was in office oh um if gotta be 2009 again one of these years nice print left wimax on okay they're still that's okay that's right um this is a this next story is actually interesting is one you wrote Stephen so I'm gonna let you tell us about how Microsoft is building this meteor so you know we had wearable smartwatches and we're sort of expanding into new territory here the runcible we're getting into like wearable I don't know what that is jewelry but her loom yeah but you might be hearing about the hero bowls market soon apparently companies now are looking more and more to devices you can interact with just by speech and then by hearing from them where you don't need a screen is sort of like that little notification sliver earlier only that a microphone into that you could talk to it might be in line with this thing Microsoft's working on called well it's supposedly called the clip which sort of implies it would attach to you not unlike motorola have a clip and he do or the NFC tag I'm not sure I the thing that this reminds me of is the motorola hint that oh yeah it had a picture of the hint on me post here so we're not sure exactly how this is going to work and be an earpiece or something that would clip onto your lapel but in any case it would be a voice powered way to access Cortana primarily so you would just tap on it maybeee listing you all the time you say Cortana hey help me out with so and so I can create appointment for you look things up simply connecting over bluetooth to your nearby smartphone at the really neat thing is that the report suggests that microsoft it's already making Cortana available to android users iOS Thetas just opening they're getting signups now so Microsoft is already shown its willingness to approach cross-platform compatibility with its wearables and what the band to attend to and they're saying that the clip might be able to work with Google now and Siri directly so not just that Android and iOS users could access Cortana through it but they could use the digital assistant of their choice and I'd be really curious to see how Microsoft makes this work especially with Siri its kind of sounds like a long shot I'm not sure how this might work on the software side but if they could it could be a beg cou this and the nice thing but he rebels is that the price can stay relatively low so as long as you have decent amount of processing power and a battery that doesn't have to be charging throughout the day there's a lot to I think like with an idea like this you know I there is and I was just thinking the other day when I come back here is when I Drive the most where I am right now because I don't drive in Boston very often to squeeze public transit card there's not snow in the ground no I don't know in a car anymore of those weird it just a real relief yeah I love driving here and talking on the phone and it's illegal to do both at the same time unless you have a bluetooth headset and I sort of hate doing it with the earbuds because you know the wire gets to hang on your seatbelt on crap and usually bluetooth headsets particular moto pulse ones that I have they're not really great at Santa noise cancellation I don't think what noise cancellation when you're driving yes I'm able to hear the cars and like someone's honking eyes yeah right yeah you want everyone to be able to hear that actually i don't remember i think the moto pulse actually did well in noise cancellation back when i reviewed it but now they suck i don't know i would have but in any case it plus it's uncomfortable so the whole thing I'm trying to say I'm sorry it took me forever to get there is that I want like a moto hint thing when i'm driving a lot or when i'm walking around town when I'm when I'm called upon to make a lot of phone calls quite often I want something just sort of lives in my ear is comfortable enough to do that and is unobtrusive and you know doesn't make me stand out as like oh there's that guy wearing the huge headset but no one's really built one yet that I that I think I would like to use for a long time so this is an opportunity to to make that happen my rolling and remembering i might be making this stuff i don't think i am didn't we have at some point phones that had they might be dumb phones the how own like pop out yes earpieces LG did one of those for verizon and i don't think was too recent to be a dumb phone i feel like they did that with a verizon new way and the android one or me might have been a dumb phone i don't know i didn't get to review that one I wanted to I thought that was that was cuckoo anyway this isn't the only thing that's rumored from Microsoft we have more sources hinting at a 2016 surface phone oh you're super looking forward to this are you I am I am because I think this is where the line is going and not these like holdover Lumias full-on reinvention of the branding here but these might be a while from the sound of things yeah 2016 mid-2016 is what the the current thinking is with these would have intel inside which makes a lot of sense and would sacrifice a spec heavy outlook for something optimized for enterprise and optimized for performance but it seems to be the speaking point now with Windows 10 phones what the enterprise angle yeah yeah yeah I know and I guess we'll see apparently is it'll have some enhance to continue on capabilities I don't know what that means but maybe damn curious to find out when win32 app support in tow and less focus on specs but if you want more specs in your windows phone the Lumia 950 950 XL sequels could also be powered by the newsnet dragon 820 chip we don't know how that performs as of yet there's a whole lot of other talk about that but it seems like there's you know stuff happening on that front I'm less excited about those I'm much more excited about seeing what the surface phone does and how particularly how Microsoft positions it because we had Microsoft come out with this surface the serve the first surface and everyone was kind of like man and then the surface 2 and the service pearl but then the surface pro 3 landed in Microsoft effort to push it through and that turned out to be a really good device and the pro 4 seems to be the same so it'll be interesting to see if they're able to do the same thing on the phone side but all these questions are still so completely unanswered about how windows 10 mobile run will run third party apps and what kind of apps the software side is is very interesting but I'm also really excited to see what we could get from the hardware here because surface has really stood out as Microsoft getting a you know mobile electronic design where we haven't seen with the lumia handsets yes it can bring that same design language to a phone that is exciting in and of itself speaking of Microsoft things there's a product that Microsoft has called outlook and this isn't about that this is about the tablet outlook for the future as we captain not some yeah well you know it was a stretch but to no one's great surprise tablet shipments are falling year-over-year I'm a little surprised are you surprised I'm not surprised because I was thinking the other day I can't remember the last time I reached for a tablet first I can't remember the last time when I was like oh man would have I'm I'm doing those two walks and what I'm the best tool for this job is a tablet because the phones phones are big enough now to where it's like oh I'm just going to use the thing i'm already using the thing that's already in my pocket i'm going to use that rather than just reach for this other device or if I want to do some hard work harder for work I'm gonna reach for my laptop but anyway the figures here Stephens back he'd like every second on his back Stephens no sorry the figures here are that there was a 23 dammit Jules just highlighted it for me I lost it do you have the actual drop your over here here second ago yeah I know we just got derailed by that whole freakin stupid google google fist shaking the ipad ipad cuz he had twenty-seven percent drop think there's nothing yeah but that's not the pertinent spec is actually not in the piece that we're doing as it's a 15 point nine percent quarter-over-quarter increase in tablets including two in one end screen detachable hybrid models this is DigiTimes reporting here increasing 15.9 percent of the quarter but decreasing twenty two point six percent year-over-year that is crazy but see I I don't understand why there is not well they're still not this demand for tablets and it might be because I'm not a laptop user so for me the tablet nicely fills this portable space between phone and I'm gonna go sit down in my office to use a computer okay yeah yeah if you don't use a laptop than I see how you could be like man I'm tablet or that I'm not your standard you can I think maybe we're seeing that proliferation of smaller and lighter just eaten by specifically hurts for Sifl orderly that is not a word particularly thinner uh laptops just making them more portable mix named the dry for the tablet a lot less about this thing laptops are getting smaller and more portable if you want those you can buy those and phones are getting larger and more capable so this whole Middle swath this this market that Steve Jobs talked so much about when he unveiled the first iPad I don't think I think it's disappearing I think that you know they're still we just talked about enterprise there are still all right this is this is stupid are you still with Stephen are you with me I Oh still here I kind of froze on screen here there I go Google just kicked me out as well no bargain this is all right this is what we're talking about now we're not talking about anything else that's it we're doing this entire rest of the show talking about our how Google's authentication freaking worst thing ever I can't believe it there must be a reason rather than get all emotional about this so I've gotten a little Zen like Steven recently do you know what I know I haven't I'm just as angry orders ragers I usually am this is my happy with the Google self-driving car you're gonna be the middle of traffic it's gonna do authenticate you yeah and then it's can then it's going to run a logic calculation and decide that it would be better off killing you then making you sit through any more of its crap so it'll drive you off a cliff and that'll be great for everybody now my my thing is uh have you been watching any of the bob ross twitch stream no I haven't business son doing stuff too I don't know but twitch has been running this bob ross marathon it might be done today and this is all very old news by the time this gets published but in the trees oh god i used to watch bob ross paint pictures in unpublished television when i got home from high school and i loved it so much and watching that stuff watching bob ross and like gamer culture coincide has been really really interesting in the in the comments and there are many people who've written excellent pieces about this but what watching bob ross like almost non-stop for the past week has done for me is reminded me that that i could really stands just be a lot happier cuz like oh i get i get so frustrated by things that really aren't that big a deal and bob ross meanwhile sitting there like basically saying in between brush strokes like listen you know there's there's no reason to get so upset about stuff you know that worlds is a great place you made your own world and if you want a tree there you just put a tree there and it's your world Michael your assignment for today is to go outside find yourself a nice adria on that chair and watch the sunset and that's what I want to do that's what I might do after I shoot this one plus X video Ivan I haven't seldom look forward to a weekend as much as I look forward to this this coming weekend gonna be cold things were different with the way my shot is framed now oh it's because i don't have my lower third eye because I got kicked out yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna put that lower third up I'm gonna get a little titanium white cadmium red I'm gonna put it all together it's gonna be terrific oh and i lost the Q and a bar that's what's okay just even while I pick up the pieces all going to hell just what what is the next thing can you talk about air fuel please yeah uh wireless charging it's getting simpler and changing and kind of getting more complicated the same time we started off the year with three big forces behind wireless charging standards you had wireless power consortium with the Chi guys and then you had the other two the one seemed like not quite as a prominent player as the other the power matters Alliance set at PMA and then the Alliance for wireless power now they were never as headline-grabbing as a PMA and WPC but they announced back in January that PMA and a4wp were going to be joining forces are going forward we only have these two guys two players to worry about I think the merger formally concluded like in June or July but the two of them now decided to announce their new name going forward so you're going to start hearing about key and WPC on one side and the air-fuel Alliance on the other these are other players a dascon let me just say it it is the baddest-ass Lions in the wireless charging space right yeah you have like fire fighters that are going over these you know burning fires dumping the plane retardant chemicals not the air if you will like it they're just spraying it with gas watching the earth the fuel-air explosion alliance oh yeah it still sucks that we have multiple players in the market now but as we've been seeing with you know flagship phones this year the tech to work with both standards at the same time out there hopefully looking more and more of that in phones going forward so it hopefully will matter less and less guess which brain end of charger you have because the famil right I I think it's a fantastic so I was thinking of the same thing Steven I was like man it sucks that we've got two standards here what can we just settle on one but if the phones if most phones that come out now are going to include support for both standards within them and it's not that big a deal to do it because that broadcom chip said and think that it uses the same coil I think then why not have to have 20 standards bodies competing so that so as to make each other better so as to leverage the that's the thing that's a pump I worry that we're not going to see like situation where the the better standard will emerge victorious like if a phone can use either of them in theory the one that's better performing or in a more efficiently the one users flock to but instead all these companies are locked down they decided ahead of time we're going to support this standard we're gonna support this shake hands sign a contract and I don't think we're going to see the sort of market flux that would make the better standard emerge we're just going to have two options one movie better will might be worse but they're both going to be out there I don't know that this is quite the progress it could be but yeah I mean we've had the seed CDMA and GSM thing going on in this country that's some BS decades um yeah so we'll see what happens with that I think we're this charging should be it as always should be in more things man i can't wait for whose the company who did that ultrasonic charging we heard about like a month ago was that Marty Cooper's the company that he's on the board of um I don't know I guess want something new lasers photonic charging and 0 energy Thank You Jules and to close out the new section something completely ridiculous I'd we may have mentioned this on the show before but I recently was cute in 30 for something called a Rufus cuff which does it looks like a pip-boy if a pillar were if a pip-boy were not able to be used anywhere because so here's the thing it's a it's a smart watch but it's not it wraps around your wrist no it's it's none of these things it's it's it's a monster it's it's it's an absolute abomination I found myself watching the video oh and waiting for like the onions to tag line to show up and let everyone know that they were just joking yes t it what it is it's a workout case for your phone it's permanent yeah yeah it's a fanny pack for your forearm so what what it's an android device running a custom skin that has a big ol 3.2 inch display your honor having high two inches on our um it and well just watch the video it's true what I mean this is like I feel like someone had a warehouse of the worst phone from 2009 like what can I do with this I know I put a wrist strap on it right yeah that's it out that's a really good way to put it actually it looks like an older smaller android phone with a huge wrist strap 1200 milliamp battery is that all yeah so it's big enough it is more than big enough we live in a world where the gear s2 has its own cellular radio and that's a tiny little smart watch this is big enough to house 5 gear s2 is inside of its body and yet it is not a self-contained device it still requires your SmartWatch smart phone in your pocket because it does yeah yeah that's the great thing I've ever and it's huge I mean its massive any they're even let guys front-facing camera may I see video calls here's the video call going on and like it can do some cool stuff but it requires your phone to be in four pocket the whole whole time or you or I can connect to a Wi-Fi for what you don't want to bother taking the front of your pocket just take your other phone and strap it on your your you know right right yeah the gym case that you've got and and put your your existing phone inside of it there's a front facing camera for the video cuz a good wife ablution ferodo if I to see I process my face man cortex emotional maps we love those no absolutely it's got a gig of ram um but it's just crazy like why would anyone buy this thing is what I'm thinking and then I go to the actual fundraising so they have their own website it's it's it's Rufus every sure it's not a joke I as far as I know it's not you can pre-order it in jet black turbo red or white out I'm gonna go ahead and pre-order now have we discussed the price already 250 yeah yeah something like that but letters can I have your phone and a little wrist strap for 250 but here's the thing guys this is an IndieGoGo project it is real and they've raised four hundred sixty-two thousand dollars for this thing and it's here's where I change okay I would never buy this I think this is a really dumb product and I think it I don't see who's going to buy it but that's the beauty of this who gives a crap what what my limited imagination can think up because enough people are interested in this that I raised almost five hundred thousand dollars and people are gonna buy it and wear it and presumably like it and I think that's great I'm not even being a jerk about this I mean I didn't bring it on the show just to beat the hell out i don't think that's very nice I think it's that stories modern capitalism yeah i I just I I'm glad because I know as we've said before these these crowd funding models while yeah they're overused and every other day someone else is firing up at Kickstarter for some it's great because the people who are interested in something like this can directly pay for it pre-order it and say well take my money when you're gonna gonna send one now there's only it looks like the claim numbers are really low on these like Jules is helpfully highlighting this I'm Jungian still last few 49 level isn't has only been claimed by 26 people how does it we pulled how where's the money how do the numbers work out then yeah what are people what is that that seems a little fishy to me I didn't see that Sivan are you seeing what's going on yeah look into the 14 have claimed this $15 add-on for a ban 32 people have claimed another band there's some t-shirt how have more people claimed the memory upgrade then claimed the actual thing there are zip hoodies you can get with the Roofus brand on it so I'm going to that the higher pricing tiers what's this oh oh I'll hold on original campaign was one hundred eighty percent funded on May 18th maybe this is added to that oh that's probably what's going on yeah yeah so that we're not looking at the original fundraising round okay so that's promising to it being a second round of funding to make this happen yeah and actually you but you know what I like though is that like because IndieGoGo is a respected platform and it's you know it's sort of it's it's legit we can look at the the figures they've raised and be confident that its actual data if this was their own website was like look how much money we've raised over like yeah that's not I'm gonna need a second source on that pal but it's IndieGoGo and I mean for real they've actually raised this money I'll talk specs on here in the pictures and there's this big old hole on the side for plugging into a USB cable I was all ready for it to be a way how long I guess seriously like something that would have been so amazing in 2007 I think is cool the micro it looks like it would be a mini USB I would not be surprised if we need a day off this John people no one uses just did a search in the chat for a for the word Rufus 0 we're on response nobody wants nobody cat it's a modern OS on there yeah anyway let's get to listener mail because we gotta get out of here um long gone yeah first listener mail is um other all they're all special they're all wonderful they're always terrific and the very first one is from our friend brand dot dot Brandon Brandon hello PocketNow podcasters hello to you brandon i'm debating upgrading from my original nexus 5 to a 5 x rated here comes the pain i'm somewhat frustrated by the bias I've seen from various reviews Jules special requests I'm sorry I didn't give you a warning about this anytime we say by us on this show I want a dinger can you come up with a sound effect for that they do it on the unpopular opinion podcast which is hilarious except they do it for the C word and they have a little dinger for the C word which is wonderful but yeah I want I want a dinger for bias I'm somewhat frustrated by the bias I've seen from various reviews very good there you go Thank You Jules um which I'm sure is due to reviewing it in conjunction with the Nexus 6p people are calling it not premium plasticky etc mm-hmm so that's the first part of this second part my question is if I'm upgrading from a five and one a better battery camera smaller size in stock Android and I'm fine with the polycarbonate feel is the 5x a worthy upgrade thanks for the great work you do all the best Brandon Everett Washington Brandon thank you for writing in thank you for thanking us for the great work we do it's because of great people like you that we're able to do great work which is sometimes grades and the second part is very easy if you're upgrading from a five and all those things are true which I said is the 5x a worthy upgrade yes yeah in fact Steven I think correct marana the subtitle of our review might be over the upgrade yeah what about a feel you think he's that well for someone with the potbelly part is this bias I mean Babu bias so the bias it's perfect i needa left um stop using the word bias everyone stop stop stop using it because no one seems to know what it means and it's just been so overhears it what it means right now in the comments of any review ever is that the reader did not agree with some part of the review and is now picking the least imaginative most available and most overused term there is out there to try and discredit the reviewer and we don't like that no one likes that anyone so it Brandon I'm not just coming down on you i'm just frustrated about that i don't think that your premise though is supported you're kind of saying that reviewers are coming down on the 5x because they're using alongside the 6p and the 6p has so much better of a hand feel that the 5x is sort of suffering as it was got the 5x first didn't they um know everybody got them side by side I'm glad and it's not an unreasonable thing to say I'm just saying that at least in my case that's not what happened and it's not what would have happened if I had only gotten the 5x and not even touched the 6p I still would have been like yeah it's probably carbonate is matte finish polycarbonate it feels like an old lumia which you know they felt okay but like you know the buttons are not especially clicky there's not a lot of travel and feedback the speaker grills are not cheap but also not premium looking it there's nothing about it that screams like oh yeah really really well-made thing there's also nothing about it that screams like oh what a cheap POS it's exactly what it's supposed to be it's exactly what the five was it's like middle of the road this doesn't cost a lot of money but it feels pretty good for not costing a lot of money so I'm curious I mean it's not stock in the same way as the the Nexus 5x there but the oneplus X seems to have a lot of the same features here that Brandon's looking for would you say that feels a lot better than the 5x I mean clearly applause yeah it does now I keep in mind i've had in my hand for two hours but yeah this the oneplus x feels substantially more premium than the 5x does part of that is just by virtue of being a glass sandwich and metal constructed device but the button travel and feedback this mechanical clicking us of the buttons that in the side switch everything seems to be manufactured to really tight tolerances and yet it's it's quite beautiful are options out there you know so there's that but yeah if your if your pc seems dead set on the 5x and i don't think you'll be disappointed the 5x of good fun what's the next thing Steven can you read the next one ya know I rights in short sweet and to the point do your pocket now crew at eighty dollars is an original LG G watch worth it what do you think soon man I ima I love a deal um probably more so than the next guy and we'll buy things I don't need just because I think that they are priced well for a first gen watch like this though considering the options out there now and the prices they are man I want I'm like a disposable SmartWatch price fifth now 50 is too low I don't know what to say it's right on the color that's right being like it doesn't even matter to think about it it's probably the last Android wear watch that I that I would buy I would pretty much every other Android wear watch before the LG G wish I just put that's in the same running with like the Sony SmartWatch 3 but the SmartWatch 3 has has things going for it that the G watch doesn't like what a smart with reasons why your only android wear watches that has what what was it we're i was like 'oh the huawei watch is the only watch that has this one thing and then everyone's like what about Saudi I'm like I don't know when Sony starts trying I'll remember it but like tomorrow so he has NFC I think or like I don't know I think we're just I think this jewel says I think we're just be biased towards personal devotion no I don't know the G watch is uh not in the same league as the SmartWatch the smart which does have a lot more going for it it has a bare-bones when you're talking about what you can get from a SmartWatch but that said it's still Android wear it still has the same OS as these other more modern devices so you will get plenty of use out of it and for 80 bucks I think your money will go a long way mmm I guess it met with what is eighty dollars worth to you is the question here what this is uneasy oh but this is its what it's the sixth today right the LG G watch urbane LTE 2 squared B you know is launching today and it should I think it's available in eighteen t source today or it's shipping soon or something like that it no it's available for order today in the chipping week or something um that I believe has to have a new version of Android wear on it in order for it to work so you know yes so yet again we I mean on top of everything we've already said it's gonna make the 1st LG G watch seem ancient there already feels old I wouldn't buy it sorry wife isn't moving fast man indeed indeed and they have to and they've got a lot of ways to go to before there were truly excellent and the final one is we have to get to I sort of wanted to be out of here 10 minutes ago I'm sorry that's no it's ok it's not your fault although the sun has now gone away and because i'm not near my studio I don't know how I'm going to shoot this video damn it hello pocket now says Ganesh s I recently came across articles that warned users again picking up a smartphone that totes an AMOLED screen the justification being that the screen is not durable over a period of time due to burn in is there any truth to this what is your experience with AMOLED screens as a future owner of the Nexus 6p I'm kind of scared now thanks and keep up the great work as always I don't think you should be scared sir yes burnin happens we've talked about it on this show it happened on the TV in the other room there I've left it on ESPN all night for the benefit of the dogs who are used to such things and now all the scoreboards like the weather air for an they don't they don't know not these dogs these doujin fierce angry um no and now all the scores are burned into the panel because I I imagine because it's a cheap TV I don't know but I have never seen burn in on on one of my smart phones I don't use smartphones for very long even my favorite I only use for eight months at a time before getting a new one so there's that but I also think that people see retail units that have burn in I think people see right but then think of the use cases these phones are going for how much screen on time are you going to happen every time the phone gets a break there when you have the screen off when it's asleep this is time it's recovering from the burnin and the things that are going to be they're going to burn in the elements on the screen it are consistent this stuff that's going to be like up in your status bar times always changing I guess the lower part of the battery will still be consistent yeah like things like the NFC logo the Bluetooth logo probably yeah then again the time thing you do have your phone on for an extended period of time so you're you know watching a movie or something on there you're not going to have those status things on there it's probably going to fill the screen in which case the constant motion is going to prevent burning from happening there I just think that the use cases that we see that make burnin happen on things on like home TVs don't necessarily line up with the smartphone user experience like you're not going to leave a video game on your phone pause and walk away from your phone and have the screen stay on for hours and hours while you go to taco bell or heat up some hot pockets even if you have earned its such as Jules points out it's such an easy fix you just you just shake it just shake it like a net your sketch and that burn goes right away except elk you're joking or not I'm definitely joking yeah I am burnet i don't know what's getting screens with mark knows it because someone on the show's had burn in on an AMOLED screen on their smart when we need a first-hand experience right in folks what's the address Stephen podcast at pocket now dot coms great that's great you stuck with the flow to which I might you know thank you very much uh the most upvoted comments in the Q&A as we're getting out the door here why did high at a leave pocket now asks Davis tap don't really like to come to a specific sir but I will tell you this mmm it wasn't it was it is not a development that I like I missed that mofo and it's not just because he it's not just because he handled half of my workload we miss him but great news did we do we say this to people already what great news hi Otto is it not dead and he will be joining us for CES 2016 I didn't ever lay that was official pentax yeah yeah so don't worry we'll hear from hi Otto again every goddamn jerk in the whole universe is outside my door for no it's freaking reason you know you distracted me from my incredible pun there it wouldn't be a shitty podcast it wouldn't be upon history there wasn't shitty background noise everywhere what was your pop would you say that between now and CES pocket now might experience a bit of a hi Otto hiatus but um oh um yeah what do you think causes Android to require higher specs to perform as well as say an iphone Nathan Alvarez the phases of the Moon system architecture yeah if androids just designed very differently and also the whole Android model is different you have the same you've this one platform running on all these different kinds of hardware or as Apple controls the whole stack it can build hardware that's suited for its software and it can tune each the way it wants to do so it's just easier for apple or do that why did just even wear a justin bieber shirt last time I suppose I don't listen to nobody and right now you do how you like to do and finally how do you guys decide who reviews each device do the OEMs get to request a reviewer asks nishad right now I have never had a reviewer request a perchik or an oem request a particular reviewer from her you haven't seen all the anybody but Michael emails that get forward it around so no the OEMs don't ask for a particular reviewer generally and how do we decide in the team generally the devices go to the person the high-profile device go to the person who is most able to film a really nice video review based on equipment location availability and all that stuff I personally wish we could I love reviewing stuff I wish we could spread it around a little bit more but we have limitations on equipment and team member availability not all of us are full timers and and such I'd like to hear from more members of the team more often but hey hey hey hi hey well this is the world as a confining place all right there's a freak there's literally there's a truck outside doing something with its diesel engine so we got to get out of here you know no time that's what yeah let's some place to it's been the pocket that Weekly again it's been a wonderful time and that's gonna do it for us and you should find us on Twitter where our conversation continues all the time and where our pluses are always exes that was going to be reverse it was going to be where our exes are always plus but then that was gonna relieve you some jokes that is not possible I didn't wouldn't have liked that so a good thing we didn't go there Stephen is that Stephens shank producer Jules Wang is a green point zero and i am at captain two phones pocketnow is also there on twitter it's on instagram it's on facebook and it's at the Google a plus it all comes together like mozzarella sticks and buffalo wings at an applebees you're pretending not to like at pocketnow.com I got wasted at applebees last night yeah that's it I mean what else do you do when you're back home folks if you enjoy the weekly no a minute so please post about the weekly so we can keep doing the weekly share it with your friends who love mobile technology chair spirit with your frenemies no no no mean the people you just kind of tolerate and share it with strangers yes Steven good call it is a good way to get to know your neighborhood supermarket cashier or that I see library and it was hard to even try that melt for years or hey it's even easier you can leave a review on iTunes stitcher google play now wherever else podcasts are discussed or heard on the web or in the world and finally you can write to us for a chance to get your questions answered on the air at podcast at pocketnow.com that's evening you know it thanks to our sponsor at Squarespace and thanks to you our listeners and viewers for keeping us on the air since 2012 as always the pocket now weekly we'll be back with more mobile tech talk and much less bias next week back baba Baba is you onset of time for getting a new one so there's that but I also think that people see retail units that have burn in I think people see right but then think of the use cases these phones are going for how much screen on time are you going to happen every time the phone gets a break there when you have the screen off when it's asleep this is time it's recovering from the burnin and the things that are going to be they're going to burn in the elements on the screen it are consistent this stuff that's going to be like up in your status bar times always changing I guess the lower part of the battery will still be consistent yeah like things like the NFC logo the Bluetooth logo probably yeah then again the time thing you do have your phone on for an extended period of time so you're you know watching a movie or something on there you're not going to have those status things on there it's probably going to fill the screen in which case the constant motion is going to prevent burning from happening there I just think that the use cases that we see that make burnin happen on things on like home TVs don't necessarily line up with the smartphone user experience like you're not going to leave a video game on your phone pause and walk away from your phone and have the screen stay on for hours and hours while you go to taco bell or if you'd have some hot pockets even if you have earned its such this Jules points out it's such an easy fix you just you just shake it just shake it like an etch-a-sketch and that burnin goes right away I said tell if you're joking or not I'm definitely joking yeah I am I burn it i don't know what's getting screens with sparknotes wise look at someone on the show's had burn in on an AMOLED screen on their smart when we need a first-hand experience right in folks what's the address Stephen podcast at pocket now.com great that's great you stuck with the flow to which I might you know thank you very much uh the most upvoted comments in the QA as we're getting out the door here why did hire a leave pocket now asks Davis tap don't really like to come to a specific sir but I will tell you this mmm it wasn't it was it is not a development that I like I missed that mofo and it's not just because he it's not just because he handled half of my workload we miss him but great news did we do we say this to people already what great news hi Otto is it not dead and he will be joining us for CES 2016 I didn't ever lay that was official fantasy yeah so don't worry we'll hear from hi Otto again every goddamn jerk in the whole universe is outside my door for no it's freaking reason you know you distracted me from my incredible pun there it wouldn't be a shitty podcast it wouldn't be a podcast he there wasn't shitty background noise everybody what was your pup would you say that between now and CES pocket now might experience a bit of a hi Otto hiatus but um bom guy what do you think causes android to require higher specs to perform as well as say an iphone Nathan Alvarez the phases of the Moon system architecture yeah if androids just designed very differently and also the whole Android model is different you have the same you've this one platform running on all these different kinds of hardware whereas Apple controls the whole stack it can build hardware that's suited for its software and it can tune each the way it wants to do so it's just easier for apple or do that why did just even where to justin bieber shirt last time I've suz I don't listen to nobody am right now you do how you like to do and finally how do you guys decide who reviews each device do the OEMs gets requests a reviewer asks nishad right now I have never had a reviewer request a particular or an oem request a particular reviewer from it you haven't seen all the anybody but Michael emails that get forward it around um so no the OEMs don't ask for a particular reviewer generally and how do we decide in the team generally the devices go to the person the high-profile device go to the person who is most able to film a really nice video review based on equipment location availability and all that stuff I personally wish we could I love reviewing stuff I wish we could spread it around a little bit more but we have limitations on equipment and team member availability not all of us are full timers and and such I'd like to hear from more members of the team more often but hey hey hey hi hey where's the world as a confining place all right there's a freak there's literally there's a truck outside doing something with this diesel engine so we got to get out of here you know the time that's what yeah let's some place to it's been the pocket that Weekly again it's been a wonderful time that's gonna do for us you should find us on Twitter where our conversation continues all the time and where our pluses are always exes that was going to be reverse it was going to be where our exes are always plus but then that was going to relieve you some jokes that I guess they're not possible I didn't wouldn't have liked that so a good thing we didn't go there steven is that Steven shank producer Jules Wang is a green point zero and i am at captain two phones pocketnow is also there on twitter it's on instagram it's on facebook and it's at the Google a plus it all comes together like mozzarella sticks and buffalo wings at an applebees you're pretending not to like at pocketnow.com I got wasted at applebees last night yeah it is that's it's I mean what else do you do when you're back home folks if you enjoy the weekly people need to know about it so please post about the weekly so we can keep doing the weekly share it with your friends who love mobile technology chair spirit with your frenemies no no I mean the people you just kind of tolerate and share it with strangers yes Steven good call it is a good way to get to know your neighborhood supermarket cashier or that I see library and it was hard to even trying to melt for years or hey it's even easier you can leave a review on iTunes stitcher google play now wherever else podcasts are discussed or heard on the web or in the world and finally we can write to us for a chance to get your questions answered on the air at podcast at pocketnow.com Patsy you know it thanks to our sponsor at Squarespace and thanks to you our listeners and viewers for keeping us on the air since 2012 as always the pocket now weekly we'll be back with more mobile tech talk and much less bias next week baba Baba yes you