TOP 10 major announcements at Google I/O 2017
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Yesterday, 17 may, Google held its annual developers conference Google I/O. We have collected the most important and interesting news presentation and ready to share them with You.
Google Lens
One of the most interesting announced at the event has been Google Lens, which opens new opportunities. With its help, the smartphone will be able using the camera to recognize different objects and to work with them.
For example, put the camera on the building – received the detailed information, put the password of the Wi-Fi system automatically activates it. If the camera lens gets the poster with the upcoming event, then, in addition to more information, the event can be recorded in the calendar or to do reminder.
It is expected that the system will “cooperate” with the Google Assistant (who, incidentally, also was not deprived of the attention of developers and became “smarter”), Google photos, and Translator.
Android O
Presentation of the new Android OS O for anyone it was not a surprise – the company in March showed a test version. While not officially stated, some sweetness hidden under the letter “O”, but it is likely that the 8-th of Android will be called “Oreo”. What we know so far about the new Android system?
- Multitasking system and a “picture-in-picture”.
- New restrictions for background applications to save traffic and battery power.
- System new notifications (similar to iOS) that will be displayed on the icons, but will allow the Shire to interact with them.
- AutoSave for use in different applications.
- Google Play Protect – the protective system constantly scans billions of smartphones and applications to quickly detect a threat and block it.
Android Go
Android Go — this is the Lite version of Android that is installed on the “weak” smartphones with a small amount of memory and low performance. Go-system has two ambitious goals: a reasonable allocation of system resources and reducing the amount of consumed traffic.
For the solution of the first paragraph of the Google Android to Go further and optimize all applications, so they consume less resources. To solve the second company focuses on savings of expensive Internet traffic, and this is done primarily for users from third world countries.
For this, the system will automatically reduce the bandwidth consumption, force limiting various tasks. For example, Go to YouTube before you upload the video you’ll see the amount that the user imagined “tragedy”.
At the presentation most of the examples were directly related to India, indicating the main target audience of the system. Presumably, Android Go will be available this year. Google sure Android Go the company will be able to attract more fans to Android.
Android already 2 billion users
OS never ceases actively to spread around the world. According to the statement of Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, at the moment, Android has 2 billion active users. Under active use means the system start-up at least once a month with any smartphone, tablet device with Android Wear or Android TV or any device with an operating system from Google. By the end of this year the company plans to release the Android Things.
Google Assistant is now available on iPhone
Since then, the “smart” Google assistant Assistant available for iOS devices. As you know, earlier it worked only on Android devices, but the company did not restrict itself only to its own platform.
However, competition is competition. The voice assistant from Google is currently available only in English, and with limited features – Apple does not allow third party systems to be better (faster, higher, stronger) than Siri.
Google Home learn to call
The company added to its home assistant Google Home phone. The system sets your room automatically, but if you connect your smartphone to make calls through it. To test a new feature will users from US and Canada calls will be made free, and will be charged only for the traffic.
Updated Google Photos
The developers have made efforts to improve the capabilities of its photos service, Google Photos, which has, for the moment, has more than 500 million users worldwide.
The main novelty was a function Suggested Sharing. Now the system can automatically recognize faces in photos and send the pictures to everyone of my friends personally in one click. The second update is the system Shared Libraries, which practically duplicates the first and allows you to do almost the same thing, but within the family. For example, the system saw and recognized the new children’s photos and offers to send pictures next of kin.
Google Books
Quite unexpected and somewhat strange was announced, the Google Books service, which provides the ability to print real photo albums. You can now order a printed photo album, which will be delivered within a few days. However, the album is soft cover will cost $9.99, and in hard – twice as expensive, at $19.99.
Virtual reality
Google continues to develop its platform to Daydream and have already agreed with Samsung on connect flagship smartphone Galaxy S8 to his VR glasses. In addition, the company announced that it is working on a fundamentally new product – a virtual reality helmet that does not require a smartphone. The first two such devices are expected by the end of this year and will be made in conjunction with HTC and Lenovo.
Also Google introduced a service label VPS (Visual Positioning Service) that allow devices to better navigate inside. Based on this technology, the developers plan to build a “tagging” navigation inside buildings using virtual reality. For example, in order to find the desired object, you can simply point the camera at the store and the system will show the path.
Artificial intelligence
According to Pichai, Google has found a new and very ambitious goal is the full implementation of artificial intelligence and machine learning in all existing services of the company. This will allow devices to save resources, be more efficient and to give its users more. By the way, developers have already been submitted to chip for machine learning, Tensor Processing Unit and the platform TensorFlow.
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