Google has demonstrated a Google+ Hangout beamed from Project Glass, with company co-founder Sergey Brin interrupting Vic Gundotra’s keynote presentation to share live footage from skydivers overhead IO. “This is one of the things we’ve been experimenting with Glass, the ability to really share” Brin said, “we’ve shown photos but this is something we haven’t tried” as the two Glass-sporting skydivers leapt from a blimp flying above San Francisco.
This week at Google I/O we've gotten our first glimpse at Google+ for tablets, shown as a lovely streaming beast that's looking rather different from any stream we've seen before. This application works in landscape mode primarily - or it was designed to do so, anyway, and is made specifically so that you can stream video with hangouts, first of all. This update brings hangouts to the tablet and makes the interface just as simple and workable as the basic version in the desktop-based app.
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Google has announced the latest usage stats for Google+, the company's social network rival to Facebook. According to Google's Vic Gundotra, Google+ is seeing over 150m people using it every month, with half of those accessing it daily. Overall there are 250m registered users.
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Google has just pulled the wraps off its mysterious Project Tungsten, now unveiled as the Nexus Q. What's the Nexus Q? It's a small Android-powered computer taking the form of a small orb designed to sit in your home as a central entertainment system that can interact with any Android smartphone or tablet.
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This week at Google I/O, a brand new device has been revealed going by the name Nexus Q, a cloud-based system which connects to your sound system, video system, and more, complete with Android. This system is made to bring on the heat for Google Play in many ways more than one, and is connected to everyone in a room at a given time. A couple of folks sitting on the couch can add songs to a list, each of them connecting with their own Android device.
Google has demonstrated some of the high-performance games owners of the new Nexus 7 tablet will be able to enjoy, as well as a new version of Currents, the company's news app. Currents has been updated specially to suit the Nexus 7 slate, complete with page formatting to suit the 7-inch screen together with instant translation.
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This week the Nexus 7 tablet from Google has been revealed as coming at an amazing $199 including a release date of Mid-July and availability for purchase starting today. This device has a 7-inch HD display, brings on no less than the ultra-powerful NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, and is the first device that will get Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. This tablet will likely be shown off later today for participants at Google I/O.
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Google has been detailing its next-gen Android 4.1 Jelly Bean platform at the I/O keynote today. But when can we expect this latest update to arrive? The company has announced that Jelly Bean will be arriving on the Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus, and Motorola XOOM in mid-July with the SDK available to developers starting today.
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This week at Google I/O 2012 the teams of Google and ASUS have revealed the Nexus 7 ASUS tablet – the first official Nexus series Android tablet – with Jelly Bean. This device has 1200 x 800 HD pixels across its face, a Tegra 3 quad-core processor with 12-core GPU from NVIDIA, a front-facing camera (whose specs were not revealed), and a 9 hour battery (video playback). This tablet is 340g light, “fits perfectly in one hand”, and “just feels right.”
App Encryption has been introduced for Google Play and Android - a device encryption key has been introduced here so that hacking will, if Google has their way, become a thing of the past. In addition to this, updates to apps will now only include the parts of the APK that have changed - that's a much smaller download when it comes down to it. These features will be handled automatically with Google for Gingerbread and above.
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Google has moved to combat the increasing fragmentation in Android devices, by providing OEMs and manufacturers with earlier access to software to help bring them up to speed. The Google Platform Development Kit (PDK) is in effect an SDK for hardware vendors, and Google will now aim to release it to its partners 2-3 months ahead of each platform release.
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This week Android 4.1 Jelly Bean recieved an update inside itself, that being Google Now – this update works with Google Maps, Navigation, and more, to bring you updated information about everything around you. This update works with Appointments to bring you to the bus that’s closest, tells you how long it’ll be to walk, how long the bus will take, and everything in-between. Flights are included – status, terminal, and delays.
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