Fingers crossed for Nexus 8 with Adreno 420 or Tegra K1! Please Google, DO NOT raise the resolution from 1200p. Let me keep the extra battery life instead. :)
The one annoying thing about living in nice houses. In the city i used to live, the grottiest slummiest areas of town had silly fast vigin fiber. Where i lived, every house was a highly listed building so there was no tearing up roads and walls for new cabling etc. I currently max out at 10 down 1.5 up.
"10:14AM PDT - all from your wrist 10:14AM PDT - You can see when your car has arrived, rate your driver as well 10:14AM PDT - call a Lyft car 10:13AM PDT - Using Android Wear to car a Lyft car"
If this is the best example of what wearables can do we should just stop now.
Call me an oddball, but when cooking, i don't wear jewelry or a watch, especially not a watch costing many hundred dollars. Why create the hassle of cleanup and possible risk of damage? Not to mention, someone willing to pay out for a smart watch, probably owns a tablet, which works perfectly as a recipe book and has a screen large enough that it can be placed away from any splishy splashy areas.
so that's two terrible use cases. They're really grasping at straws to try and justify this concept.
I really hope that's true, and that it has Steam streaming and Bluetooth connectivity for controllers. All I've wanted since the Shield came out was a console version of it (just a box sans controller and screen). Maybe we'll finally get one.
I don't know why Google expects anybody to use Cloud Compute Engine. Their prices for bandwidth are insane, they charge about 50x per gigabyte when compared to Linode, or around double what's charged by Amazon.
Now that the issue of Android in automobiles is officially on the table, will AT please start paying attention to these questions in phone reviews- does BT even connect to a standard set of car audio brands? How useful is the Car Dock mode? How well do priority overrides between streaming audio, Nav and incoming calls work? How good is noise rejection on speakerphone on the highway?
As I've said over and over again, handheld use in autos is illegal most anywhere, yet these issues are ignored in every AT smartphone review.
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anandreader106 - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
Fingers crossed for Nexus 8 with Adreno 420 or Tegra K1! Please Google, DO NOT raise the resolution from 1200p. Let me keep the extra battery life instead. :)Vepsa - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
And a sub $200 price tag (hey, I can dream).Creig - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
*sigh* And the Speedtest for my office of 20+ engineers, designers, technicians and secretaries is 1.3 Mbps up/down.Vepsa - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
Last couple of weeks, my office has been as low as 20 Kbps up and down due to some issues.anandreader106 - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
Ouch. I usually get 420 Mbps down at TargetHQ in Minneapolis.Pcgeek21 - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
UNC Charlotte - 788Mbps down / 821Mbps up: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3586110457mmrezaie - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
Thats nothing in Sweden: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3585497799.This is our speed in the KTH university on my own workstation.
mmrezaie - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
Sorry the link doesnt work: http://www.speedtest.net/result/3585501268.pnghughlle - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
Alright for some!The one annoying thing about living in nice houses. In the city i used to live, the grottiest slummiest areas of town had silly fast vigin fiber. Where i lived, every house was a highly listed building so there was no tearing up roads and walls for new cabling etc. I currently max out at 10 down 1.5 up.
flashbacck - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
"10:14AM PDT - all from your wrist10:14AM PDT - You can see when your car has arrived, rate your driver as well
10:14AM PDT - call a Lyft car
10:13AM PDT - Using Android Wear to car a Lyft car"
If this is the best example of what wearables can do we should just stop now.
hughlle - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
Or use it as a recipe book....Call me an oddball, but when cooking, i don't wear jewelry or a watch, especially not a watch costing many hundred dollars. Why create the hassle of cleanup and possible risk of damage? Not to mention, someone willing to pay out for a smart watch, probably owns a tablet, which works perfectly as a recipe book and has a screen large enough that it can be placed away from any splishy splashy areas.
so that's two terrible use cases. They're really grasping at straws to try and justify this concept.
ArthurG - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
Tegra K1 is the reference platform for AndroidTV box that will come this fall. Another big design win for nvidiaezridah - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
I really hope that's true, and that it has Steam streaming and Bluetooth connectivity for controllers. All I've wanted since the Shield came out was a console version of it (just a box sans controller and screen). Maybe we'll finally get one.dwade123 - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
Why the UI gotta be so ugly doe.satai - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
Who are the protestors? What are thai agains/for? Or are they just some attention whores?Ryan Smith - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
One would assume these are the anti-gentrification protestors who have been regularly protesting Google's employee buses.mmrezaie - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
What are the protesters saying?SeleniumGlow - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
Being into real time data analysis domain myself, Google's cloud data flow is deeply interesting, at least for me.will look more into it.
Guspaz - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
I don't know why Google expects anybody to use Cloud Compute Engine. Their prices for bandwidth are insane, they charge about 50x per gigabyte when compared to Linode, or around double what's charged by Amazon.Morawka - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - link
Linode is hosting not cloud computeRoland00Address - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
So I am reading this and the feeling of awesomeness and how much I want this now can only be communicated by channeling Charlie Sheen.-----
I am not Google, I am not Android. I am bi-winning, I win here and I win there.
I am Android L, I got tiger blood and I am made with Adonis DNA.
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So someone maybe Google show me how to make an image backup of my nexus 7 so all my stuff is safe and how to reimage my nexus to Android L.
That or do a dual boot with kit kat and android L. I want to play right now!!!
random2 - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
Are we expected to read through all of this? There's no video? Any DLs of a video available? I have so many questions.Roland00Address - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
Go here and click the watch the keynote buttonhttps://www.google.com/events/io
HangFire - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - link
Now that the issue of Android in automobiles is officially on the table, will AT please start paying attention to these questions in phone reviews- does BT even connect to a standard set of car audio brands? How useful is the Car Dock mode? How well do priority overrides between streaming audio, Nav and incoming calls work? How good is noise rejection on speakerphone on the highway?As I've said over and over again, handheld use in autos is illegal most anywhere, yet these issues are ignored in every AT smartphone review.
Ram Reddy - Monday, July 28, 2014 - link
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