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First Day Event Summary of Google I/O

First Day Event Summary of Google I/O

AndroidNova.org proudly brings you a summary of what;s launched/covered at Google I/O conference on 15 may 2013.Hold a deep breath as Google Entertains you with their breathtaking updates.Lets start the summary from Google Play Game services.

 

Google Made the  Games much more better

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Any gaming platform has its own social network, and Google’s cannot be left behind. Your Play Games identity will be managed by—you guessed it—Google+, but that’ll bring a whole bunch of social features to the table. The new app includes matchmaking and mulitplayer game options, an achievement system, saves that sync between devices linked to your account, and leaderboards in both “global” and “friends only” flavors. Basically, everything you’d expect to find rolled into a console gaming experience, for this generation anyway.

Of course, these features will only apply to Play-powered games, which will be tagged with a little controller-shaped badge for your identification convenience. Google Play Games will be lauching to Froyo+ device today, via a Google services update.

Better Google Maps with great battery backup and awesomely accurate location service

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Fused Location Provider is a new feature present in Google maps which will use all your phone’s sensors to find your location. Google’s claims that the location mode will use less than one percent of batter per hour when activated. However, we don’t know what  battery capacity Google’s talking about, and also that it would be an awesome achievement.

Second best about maps is improved geofencing. This is a an extreme leap in the app current update. since it will let your phone know when you enter an area that it should turn on functions, or perform certain tasks, but Google didn’t say much more than that it’s working on it. It’s been a big need on Android for a while now, though, so it’s encouraging.

And lastly is a smart detection of activity, which means your accelerometer will know when you’re walking, running, biking, or driving. Nice feature for people interested in activites where enormous movement is involved.

Google Play Music Subscriptions

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You can now buy a music subscription from Google.Google Play Music subscription  launches in the US today. It costs $10 per month. Everybody gets a 30-day free trial, if you are early birdie then only 8$.

During today’s Google I/O keynote, Google introduced All Access, which it is better for music discovery than its competitors like spotify. At first, it seems like a simple on-demand-meets-radio service with the personalization options you would expect. It works on phones, tablets and web browsers.

From a design and UX perspective, the innovation comes from the degree to which it’s easy to switch between the hands-on and hands-off experiences. If you don’t know what you want to listen to you can just hit “Listen Now” and start listening to something like we do for FM Radios or internet Radios ,”hear whats being played on air”.

The best part of the offer is You can get to keep the awesome features that came with Google Music. They’re totally integrated. It’s on-demand music, radio, and online storage locker for your personal collection all in one place.that’s icing on the chocalate cake for us

Google has never tried  a streaming music answer to services like Spotify and SoundCloud. Google has the infrastructure to make this sound service a success. We’ll have to wait and see which service comes out on top.

Recon Instrument’s Jet: Google Glass by a third party manufacturer

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Three years ago Recon Instruments came out with one of the first goggles with a HUD.  And today at I/O, Recon is debuting the Jet, a Google Glass-like set of shades that the company says is comparable to a tablet or smartphone (or Glass).

We don’t have much specifications about Jet other than a set of specs that include:

Wi-Fi, GPS, a dual-core processor, ANT+, Bluetooth, GPS, a HD camera and multiple sensors.Recon claims to have native apps built that allow users to browse the web, stream video, connect to Facebook, keep track of your activities and the like. 

Samsung Galaxy S4 Oppa Google Style!!!

 

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Whatever Google does it does that in style. Yeah that what it proved with the Google Layered Samsung Galaxy S4 ie S4 Google Edition. If you have been an regular and advanced android user then you might have noticed that bloatwares like Touchwiz ,Htc Sense slow you phone down. Google understood this and released it own version of the Samsung Galaxy S4. Yes. The samsung galaxy S4 is the new Nexus. The phone will be launched on June and will comprise of latest Android 4.2 Jellybean.

The new S4 with pure Google costs $649. It will be available on Google playstore from June. Being a Nexus now Samsung Galaxy s4 will receive all the android updates like the other Nexus Devices.  Samsung galaxy s4 is the first phone withexynos octa ie 8core processor(though 4 cores cud run simultaneously) packed with a 2GB of ram and Full HD display. The main feature of this s4 is that it would bootloader unlocked and factory unlocked thus custom rom development will be awesome.

 

 

Google Play for Education

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Google Play for Education sorts apps by grade level and subject matter, making it easy for teachers to find exactly what they want to teach to their student. It can also push content to any associated tablets—think books, lessons, and relevant YouTube videos—all at once, through the same mechanism.

But this feature requires every student to have a Google Account, which means they’re more likely to use Google’s other services and become entangled in Google’s cloud environment. It would be insanely wrong to run Play for Education without student accounts, and there’s nothing wrong with marketing your products to people freely. But it’s worth noting that the sooner you start leaning on Google for your apps and content, the harder it is to switch down the line if you’re so inclined.

Google Play for Education launches this fall , while app submissions will be accepted as soon as this summer.

Google Hangouts the new era of unified messaging


The long-speculated Babel all-in-one chat service has finally been revealed as Hangouts.

Google Talk, Hangouts, Voice, Google+ messenger: all of it is finally integrated into one monster of a unified chat service. Taking on the Google Hangouts name does make sense, too, since Google has been recently for trying to add as many users onto Google+ as they can.

Users finally get a synchronized chat across virtually every single one of your devices, with the ability to go back through chat history, delete messages, and grab files on every single one of them. You can hold group chats with any number of friends, and just like the Hangouts you know and love, you can also move straight into video chat from the text based or image based hangout.

What’s more, the new Hangout version will be hitting multiple platforms, coming  on Android, Chrome, iOS and of Gmail.Sorry! blackberry users.

Sony the Japanese Electronic giant unveiled a variant of the top of the line Xperia Z as Xperia ZR. Though the ZR inherited most of its features like dust resistance and waterproof from predecessor Xperia Z , ZR is bit ahead. You could actually use your phone underwater to capture pics and record videos. Record videos while you are underwater diving or swimming.(Soo useful, like if people gonna use it everyday!!!!) . It lets you record videos,capture photos underwater for about 30mins at a depth of 1.5m (just 1.5 m, thats a depth of a baby’s swimming pool).

 

Basically the specifications of the Xperia ZR are almost similar to Z. Except the screen resolution is bit low ie  720 x 1280 pixels, 4.55 inches at ~323 ppi pixel density(Not a Full HD display). Apart from that the display is powered by the Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine 2 which is said to give the crisp and clear display with a wider viewing angles.

 

 

Tech Specifications of Xperia ZR:

Xperia ZR posses a 2GB ram which is enough for multitasking and has Aderno 302 GPU which is pretty okay for the HD gaming. It has all the Standard connectivity features like Wifi 802.11a/b/g/n ,Bluetooth v4.0 and NFC.
 

From the features it seems to be an okay smartphone. Here is the ad that sony released for xperia ZR.

Finally OPPO Is Launching Oppo Find 5 In India

Hello Folks,

Finally it’s happening,yes the Chinese smartphone manufacturer named OPPO is launching it’s flagship device called “Oppo Find 5″ in India.

 

Finally OPPO Is Launching Find 5 In India

The Oppo Find 5 comes with  a 5-inch IPS display with a resolution of 1080p and a pixel density of 441ppi.On the specifications front, Oppo Find 5 which shares similarities with sony Xperia Z and hTC One.

it is powered by a 1.5 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor and packs 2GB of RAM. Other specifications include a 13-megapixel rear camera, 1.9 megapixel front facing camera,Android  4.1 Jelly Bean operating system, 2,500mAh battery and connectivity features like NFC, DLNA, WiFi Direct, 3G, WIFI and Bluetooth 4.0.

“The phone will be priced at ₹27,445 for 16GB version and ₹31,259 for 32GB version and will be available by end of this month,” said the report.

It seems inevitable that sooner or later we’ll all be buying a phone from a previously little known company from China – be it ZTE, Huawei or Oppo. They’re getting just too good and come at very competitive price points. The Oppo Find 5 is a great place to start – it has everything you can expect to get in a flagship Android phone. Flaws included, but generously outweighed by good stuff.

For those who haven’t heard about this phone and feel that Oppo Find 5 is ‘Chinese’ made, check this review by Armando Ferreira to know how AWESOME this phone is

 

 

Would you guys go out and buy this..?? Do put in your views and do check out the video above. Till then be updated on AndroidNova.org

We’ve seen lots and lots pictures and videos of the highly awaited Samsung Galaxy S IV ,But we didnt had the chance to see as close as these images shown below, Lets check this huge monster by scrolling down below.

The Images are leaked by Chinese site IT168 they also managed to get  their hands on the phone and  for android fans like us they have listed specs:

  • 1080p 4.99-inch screen.1.8GHz 
  • 8-core chip. 
  • 2GB RAM. 
  • 16GB storage. 
  • MicroSD slot. 
  • 2600mAh battery. 
  • 7.7mm thickness 
  •  138 grams Weight

The phone also uses eye-tracking technology and finger hovering ,We will get this to know more today after the launch.check out the pictures, till our team gets ready for the posts related to actual launch of this great device in New-York.

Check out the video below demonstrating the Smart-pause feature

 

Source it168

Whenever CES 2013 appears, in our daily techno-talks it’s either related to Xperia Z, Nvidia’s Projects or the upcoming 4K UHD TV’s. But there have been some innovative ideas and surprise packages which deserved some due credit and footage but were forgotten as the week passed by.

AndroidNova puts forth FIVE such ideas displayed at CES and which were really worth looking at.

 

1. Fulton Innovation’s Bi-Directional Wireless Charging

Nowadays the concept of wireless charging endowed to the upcoming premium smartphones is quite common. But charging from one device to another is quite a surprise. This new technology which Fulton Innovation has come up with is called as eCoupled Technology. Any Qi enabled device can be charged using an eCoupled hosting device. So as u can see from the picture, if your device Qi enabled either u can be the recipient or else the sender. Fulton Innovation, famous for its wireless charging ideas and which has designed this concept may work wonders and prove to be a unique solution to those everlasting battery issues for Android.

 

Fulton Innovation Wireless charging
Fulton Innovation Wireless charging

 

Catch a hands-on right here on Engadget

 

 

2. Corning’s Gorilla Glass 3

This year at the CES Corning released their third generation of Gorilla glass. With its new Native Damage Resistance™, Gorilla Glass 3 has been developed to provide improved durability to withstand deep scratches and cracks in the glass. Corning tweaked the chemical and atomic composition of the raw materials in the glass and has made it even more scratch and dent resistant than ever before.In the demonstration below you can see the 130 gm lead ball has no affect whatsoever on the latest Gorilla Glass which is to arrive in the Q2 of 2013.

 

Gorilla Glass 3
Gorilla Glass 3

 

Check out Corning’s demonstration at CES 2013:

 

3. Smart Watches are here!!  Watches from Pebble and I’m Spa

Smart watches may be the next big thing in the world of technology. After Sony Pebble and I’m Spa launched their versions of Smart Watches.

So what is a Smart Watch?   It’s basically a watch with along with providing you the time can also be connected to your iOS and Android device via Bluetooth. It allows you check your mails, messages, take calls, switch music etc. The watch from Pebble (along with Kickstarters) looks quite elegant and concise whereas I’m Watch has more functionality.

Check out their individual features and functions here at GetPebble and I’m Watch

 

i'm Watch
i'm Watch

 

Pebble Watch
Pebble Watch

 

 

4. First Look: Ubuntu OS on Galaxy Nexus!

Ubuntu which is one of the leading operating systems on desktop systems is now on mobile devices. Canonical exhibited some glimpses of the OS which is quite refreshing. New features like revamped notification bar, left swipe shortcut icons are thins to watch out for. One must understand that the OS is still in developing stages and hence is laggy. A first version may be released in the month of February.

 

Ubuntu OS
Ubuntu OS

 

Here is Engadget’s Hands –On review :

 

5. Archos Titanium Tablets: A competition for Amazon’s Kindle to Apple’s iPad:

Archos released a new range of pocket-friendly economical Titanium tablets all having the same specs but of different sizes

The main specifications include:

  • Android JellyBean 4.1
  • Dual Core A9 CPU clocked @ 1.6ghz
  • High Definition IPS display

Four tablets ranging from 7 inches (Archos titanium 70) to 10.1 (Archos Titanium 101) were launched. The main USP for these tablets is their PRICE.

The Archos 70 is priced at $119 whereas Archos Titanium 97 (iPad’s Competitor) is at $249 (half the price of iPad !!!). Also Archos 101 at $199

With the above mentioned specs and price Archos titianium series may be a thing to look out for!!

 

Archos Titanium Tablets
Archos Titanium Tablets

 

Archos Titanium 97 -iPad Competitior
Archos Titanium 97 -iPad Competitior

 

 

MWC Coming soon !!

As the noise around CES shies away, MWC is just round the corner (25-28th Feb 2013). Stick around with AndroidNova for further updates!

Cheers!

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Published on: January 10, 2013

Samsung Imaging has expanded its range of smart compact cameras with slew of new point-and-shoot cameras at CES 2013 showing that the company is still betting on compact cameras for its imaging needs. The original Samsung Smart Camera was launched in 2012, but has now evolved into Smart Camera 2.0.

The reason Samsung calls these smart cameras is because the standout feature of the system dubbed “Smart Camera 2.0″ has a new AutoShare function that enables photos to be shared automatically and immediately with a smartphone using a Smart Camera app for Android and iOS. Users can share and edit images on their smartphones and this app also works like a remote viewfinder and a mobile link via Wi-Fi that’s built-in to the products. A direct “hot key” has been added to all the new Smart Cameras to take advantage of these features.

WB250F

   Samsung WB250F

The first models that come with Samsung’s Smart Camera 2.0 capabilities are WB250F/WB200F, WB800F, WB30F, DV150F and ST150F. The new cameras break down into several categories, like the WB series are long-zoom models equipped with more and bigger lenses; the DV series are dual-view cameras that come with front-facing screen efficient for taking self-portraits; and the ST series that offer more stylish cameras still with pretty decent specs, so there’s a Smart Camera for all types of photographers.

All the cameras are expected to hit the market during the first quarter of this year and are reportedly priced in the range of $500 to $120. It seems Samsung has gone smart camera crazy at CES 2013.

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Sony Xperia Z press image leaks
sony xperia z

Android-community web site reports an image of Sony Xperia Z ( also known as Sony Yuga) which is a press style render of the device showing off the front side of the device  , but except of this we are not learning anything new from the image and the specs are still rumored. The device should arrive running Jelly Bean and with high-end specs.

Sony is getting into the 5-inch display game with the Xperia Z and according to the android community web site , the screen will be 5-inch and full HD. In all of this the specs include a quad-core 1.5Ghz snapdragon S4 Pro CPU , 2GB of RAM , Adreno 320 graphics and 13 megapixel rear-facing camera, also a dust-and water resistant device with IP (Ingress Protection) rating of IP55 and IP57.

We should not be  surprised. if, we learn official information details in CES 2013

In addition of these let’s see some of the rumored specs based on androidpit.com

  • Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean
  • 13 megapixel camera
  • Caméra frontale capable de faire de la visio-conférence en 720p.
  • 1080p HD video recording
  • Screen 4.6 “HD (Bravia?) 1280x720p resolution.
  • High-speed performance
  • Weight of 140 grams.
  • High quality slow motion video capture and playback
  • Auto flash smartly determined by distance from your subject
  • Navigating will be handled by three capacitive on screen buttons
  • The handset will be plastic
  • 1GB of RAM memory
  • 16 gigs of internal storage
  • The battery is non-removable
  • 4.6-inch HD display
  • microSIM card
  • Support for NFC.
  • Quad-core processor (reportedly Snapdragon

 

Sources: AndroidCommunityAndroidpit

 

 

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