Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts

Thursday, 3 July 2014

Android Wear Launch



Android Wear officially launches early July 2014 and LG seems to be the only supplier determined to have a product ready soon that features Android Wear. The LG G watch is set to ship 7 July.
Google announced their new venture into wearable tech at Google I/O and there has been a lot of fuss concerning the new technology that is going to arrive.
Pebble made huge success with their Kickstarter funded watch that has the same features shown by Android Wear. The Pebble has to make do with its own app and it causes bottle necks for them.

Google has embedded their beautiful Google Now interface into the Android Wear that makes the upcoming watches much more appealing to the public. Pebble watches were only seen on the wrists of the Geek community and it did not benefit the average Mobile user as much.



What does apple have to say?
The iWatch has been leaked and shows off, in true apple beauty, their take on wearable tech. Apple has little experience with wearable tech though so it will be interesting to see what Apple can produce, but apple has never disappointed their customers in the 21 first century. 

Motorola announced their new Moto 360 watch, it will provide a much more natural look to the smart watch industry. The round face of the watch, brings a lot of challenges with it for the developers.
It has a small blank spot at the bottom of the screen where all the hardware necessary to power the device is stored.

 Motorola claims their device will include a wireless charger, this is confirmed by the lack of charging ports on the device.
The Moto 360 is set to launch later in 2014 and could finally provide the industry with a good looking smart watch.

Android wears features include weather, commute, notes, appointments, fitness, voice search, navigation, and music control. All these features are also available on the pebble but in a drastically more stylish fashion and the main reason is: Android Wear includes colour display.

Tuesday, 1 July 2014

Google buys Songza



                      
Songza is a popular music streaming service that started in 2007 and some unique features that their competition does not have in their arsenal. Songza uses data from the users location including the weather, mood and activity of the user. A playlist is presented to the user and he/she has the option to skip a track for a limited number of times, it also features the ability to vote whether the current songs fits the users liking.

At the time the deal went down it was believed that Songza was also in the sights of other companies which raised the value and buying price of the takeover. 

Google said they will bring no altercation to the service and their goal is to incorporate the technology in their other services.

Songza is one of the smaller giants in the online music streaming services although it is free. It has 5.5 Million listeners as opposed to the 90 million of Pandora.  It is obvious why Google went for Songza, they use the users input and situation rather than algorithms based on popularity which as we all know is Googles strong point and never ending quest for relevant advertising.