[arronhunt]

I really don't follow Android news so anything in that area I don't know too much about...or care really. Hopefully more talk of unifying the OS. And isn't something about Jelly Beans supposed to be happening?

(ps why the !@#$ doesn't their countdown update live? The one for last year was incredibly badass)

[Qasim]

Google's new search powers in 4.1 Jelly Bean enable Siri-like features where the phone can talk back to you if you have that setting enabled. It seems really clean and has a beautiful interface. It is basically just organizing what happens when you search Google into nice "cards" which we can have a glimpse at and get all the info we need, or alternatively we can see the raw search results.

[Ruku]

JELLY BEAN LOOKS FUCKING AWESOME! I'm especially impressed with the voice search, but the user interface improvements will be a welcome change too. So far so good

Jelly Bean

• UI performance improvements
  
• Voice search; cleaner, simplified UI
  
• Available for Galaxy Nexus (and some others; don't recall which) mid-July
  
• Phasing out Browser in favour of Chrome?

Google Play

• Stuff available to purchase
  
• Magazines (14-day free trials on most popular with subscriptions and individual items), TV shows coming soon
  
• Recommended content widgets for your home screen (finally!)
  
• New widget to find details about a song so you can instantly purchase it through Play

Tablet

• Nexus 7; built by Asus for Google Play
  
• Running Jelly Bean
  
• 1280x800 HD display; Tegra 3 chipset; quad core CPU; 12-core GPU; front-facing camera; 9 hours video playback; 300 hours standby time; 340 grams
  
• Home screen appears to display purchased Google Play content straight out of the box
  
• Shipping in mid-July; available to order for $199 today with $25 credit for Play and some free content!

Developer tools

• 4.1 SDK already available
  
• App encryption for easier billing.
  
• Smarter updates (delta instead of shipping the full APK over and over; about 1/3 of the size of a full update; supports Gingerbread upwards)
  
• Google cloud messaging (multicast; push notifications?)

Currents

• Translate entire editions from within the application within seconds

Maps

• Compass mode looks like it's actually usable now; it used to be so damn jerky
  
• OFFLINE SUPPORT - store entire cities on your device!

Nexus Q

• Small Android powered device for connecting your TV with media in the "cloud"; controller via a phone/tablet
  
• Omg it's multiroom; hook up several devices and control them via different rooms
  
• Friends can expand the library on the device
  
• Has visualisations
  
• Integrates with Google Play, YouTube and stuff
  
• $299, US only for now

Also, Muppets. And skydiving, BMXing and abseiling, too.

[Qasim]

Nexus 7 is now official as well!



Specs
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
7-inch screen feauting 1280x800 HD display with density of 216 ppi
Nvidia Tegra 3 Quad-Core Processor with 1GB of RAM
1.2 megapixel front-facing camera
Only $200 for 16GB and $249 for 32GB models

[Cyril]

Holy crap.
They just interrupted a demo, and made a demo of Google Glass by skydiving onto the building live. Followed by them biking around the roof and climbing down the walls, and getting onto the stage. Fuuuuu. Apple's conferences just got the shit beat out of them xD

[arronhunt]

Holy shit that was the best thing I've ever seen.

[callumacrae]

Qasim, on 27 June 2012 - 12:23 PM, said:

Nexus 7 is now official as well!



Specs
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
7-inch screen feauting 1280x800 HD display with density of 216 ppi
Nvidia Tegra 3 Quad-Core Processor with 1GB of RAM
1.2 megapixel front-facing camera
Only $200 for 16GB and $249 for 32GB models

Is that a phone or a tablet?

If that is a phone, it is too big.

If that it a tablet, it is too small.

[JustinP]

Qasim, on 27 June 2012 - 12:23 PM, said:

Only $200 for 8GB and $249 for 16GB models

ftfy

[callumacrae]

Also, this guy sounds like he doesn't want to be there

[arronhunt]

That redheaded girl was kind of awkward.

Google glass developer preorder. Shipping 2013, $1,500 USD (us only). Wow...

[NeilHanlon]

Cyril, on 27 June 2012 - 01:13 PM, said:

Holy crap.
They just interrupted a demo, and made a demo of Google Glass by skydiving onto the building live. Followed by them biking around the roof and climbing down the walls, and getting onto the stage. Fuuuuu. Apple's conferences just got the shit beat out of them xD

FUCK! I literally navigated away from the page right before that happened (I was about 30 minutes behind the live stream). I was like "God, I've wasted this much time? I need to go to the gym."

And then I saw your post and almost stabbed myself.

arronhunt, on 27 June 2012 - 01:36 PM, said:

That redheaded girl was kind of awkward.

Google glass developer preorder. Shipping 2013, $1,500 USD (us only) (I/O Attendees Only). Wow...

FTFY

[Cyril]

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Google glass developer preorder. Shipping 2013, $1,500 USD (us only) (I/O Attendees Only). Wow...

Totally worth it though, if you were able to be there / afford it.
It's understandable that it's only I/O attendees though; they want developers testing it out and all. As for the US-only, they said that was because of some regulations or something.

[cosmie]

callumacrae, on 27 June 2012 - 01:31 PM, said:

Is that a phone or a tablet?

If that is a phone, it is too big.

If that it a tablet, it is too small.

It's a tablet, similarly sized to the Kindle Fire (as well as other e-readers such as the Nook).

For a tablet which isn't trying to be purposed for production (like an iPad being used for note taking in a class), it's a fairly good size. One of their main pushes is content such as magazines and books, and the form factor works perfectly for that type of consumption.

[arronhunt]

Neil is right, only the US developers at the conference can order them.

Anyone else see all the stuff they gave out? Everyone at that conference got a Nexus phone, Nexus7 tablet and the Nexus Q as a free gift. I am definitely going next year, only $300 for students and $900 for everyone else. Oh. Man.

[NeilHanlon]

arronhunt, on 27 June 2012 - 01:55 PM, said:

Neil is right, only the US developers at the conference can order them.

Anyone else see all the stuff they gave out? Everyone at that conference got a Nexus phone, Nexus7 tablet and the Nexus Q as a free gift. I am definitely going next year, only $300 for students and $900 for everyone else. Oh. Man.

I'll see you there. I want to go to Cali before college anyways, and I can use this as an excuse. xD

[Kyek]

I gotta say, I was really disappointed in Google Glass. They released that damn future product video that shows a dude walking around, pulling up his schedule, setting reminders with his voice, info popping up as he needs it -- like a personal assistant with direct access to your field of vision.

Today they announced a $1500 webcam that sits on your temple. Features: Still pictures and video. Really? Maybe it'll get better by the time they release, but damn, that's a lot of money to ask for in a device I could make myself out of spare parts.

Some really cool announcements, though. The intelligent search in Android kicks Siri's ass, hands down. Popping up train/bus schedules for your destination that it already figured out without you telling it when you're standing on the platform waiting for the train is just absurd. It's clear they're looking to focus on features that Apple isn't equipped to provide, and that's going to be a huge advantage for them -- at least for the time being.

Other bits are... well, cool, but doesn't really affect a lot of people. The Q is nice, but it's priced at double what the Apple TV costs you, and the Apple TV can do almost all the same stuff. For even less than that, you can get a Roku and have the same basic feature set, and a first-class Plex client for the hardcore media nerds. The tablet has a nice price, but at 7" I still feel like I might as well just use my phone. I know some folks like that form factor -- and Apple is rumored to be testing prototypes for it too -- but I just can't get into it.

It'll be interesting to see how all of these play out . For my part... I'm not used to being jealous of Android. That's an interesting switch. I'm glad there's some innovative competition in the marketplace again

[Qasim]

What really blew my mind in Jelly Bean was the new and improved search. I am so excited to actually test that out when Jelly Bean is released (or maybe even if a IO attendee dumps a ROM).

[NeilHanlon]

Qasim, on 27 June 2012 - 08:09 PM, said:

What really blew my mind in Jelly Bean was the new and improved search. I am so excited to actually test that out when Jelly Bean is released (or maybe even if a IO attendee dumps a ROM).

I'll get it probably this time next year - you know, when T-Mobile decides to finally roll it out to the HTC Sensation. I'm honestly considering saying "Screw you, HTC" and just rooting the phone for Jelly Bean.

[Qasim]

NeilHanlon, on 27 June 2012 - 08:20 PM, said:

I'll get it probably this time next year - you know, when T-Mobile decides to finally roll it out to the HTC Sensation. I'm honestly considering saying "Screw you, HTC" and just rooting the phone for Jelly Bean.

I did this for ICS. I rooted because Rogers took ages (I think they got it last month) to roll out ICS. Since I am an Android developer I kind of need the latest OS pretty fast in order to maintain.