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Anyone have any more info on the siri/voice stuff? The developer portal for 4.1 doesn't have anything up yet about what they showed and the keynote itself focused basically on Search rather than Voice Actions. Mainly interested in things like settings reminders, alerts, or other things that can control your phone.
 
shidoshi said:
Oh man do I hope that's coming to the upcoming iOS Google Maps app. Having that when over in Japan would be a godsend.
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Download the app 'Cartographer'. It has offline maps functionality built in (and a whole load of other cool stuff, too). Well worth it.
 
SirChained said:
I hope you don't think Android is actually doing much for Google atm. They make more money from iOS use than they do from Android use. Not to mention Android development costs money. I hope you don't think just because they have large numbers, they are doing wonders. Facebook's numbers don't seem to help it make money. If it can't make money, it's not doing wonders.
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1) You can't extrapolate any data from what Google provided to a judge in a court case in which damages against profit were being contemplated.

2) I dont think you understand what Android is. Every google certified android device is a constant stream of detailed user information. the better your user information, the more valuable your ad system is. Facebooks numbers dont make them money because they are run by a buffoon when it comes to pure profitability and advertisement
 
Someone should make a Nexus 7 thread, I had no idea it was announced until I accidentally clicked this thread. lol

It's pretty awesome looking, though. I'm considering selling my HP TouchPad (with ICS) and buying the Nexus tablet. Everything's better about the Nexus 7 except the size and storage, plus I can still get good money off the TouchPad.

I'm just very glad that the cheap tablet market is being fulfilled.
 
giga said:
Anyone have any more info on the siri/voice stuff? The developer portal for 4.1 doesn't have anything up yet about what they showed and the keynote itself focused basically on Search rather than Voice Actions. Mainly interested in things like settings reminders, alerts, or other things that can control your phone.
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I think it's part of Google Search app, so you won't see it on the android site.
 
Wow, this will be pretty damn useful:

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Finally you can find out which asshole app keeps annoying you with ad notifications, and uninstall that crap (or disable notifications from it, if you really want to keep it)!
 
RoadHazard said:
Wow, this will be pretty damn useful:

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Finally you can find out which asshole app keeps annoying you with ad notifications, and uninstall that crap (or disable notifications from it, if you really want to keep it)!
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That is really fricking awesome.
 
How exactly does offline maps work? I downloaded the map for my entire city, put my phone on airplane mode, then tried to search.

Nothing happens......
 
SirChained said:
I hope you don't think Android is actually doing much for Google atm. They make more money from iOS use than they do from Android use. Not to mention Android development costs money. I hope you don't think just because they have large numbers, they are doing wonders. Facebook's numbers don't seem to help it make money. If it can't make money, it's not doing wonders.

They're also secretive about Android revenue. When they talk about Android, they always talk in terms of numbers of activations, never in terms of revenue and profit.
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Simply looking at the bottom line for each individual product and judging it on that alone doesn't make any sense. Android, Youtube, Gmail, Google+, Chrome, all of these things are necessary to create the Google eco-system. Take one out and the Google brand is much, much weaker and more importantly they have less information to use on the ad side. It's ridiculous to say ''X isn't doing anything for them''.
 
bdizzle said:
How exactly does offline maps work? I downloaded the map for my entire city, put my phone on airplane mode, then tried to search.

Nothing happens......
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It's for maps data, not searching or getting new directions. If you get directions before moving out of a data you can still manipulate it as long as you don't leave change the view.
 
Rocket Scientist said:
Simply looking at the bottom line for each individual product and judging it on that alone doesn't make any sense. Android, Youtube, Gmail, Google+, Chrome, all of these things are necessary to create the Google eco-system. Take one out and the Google brand is much, much weaker and more importantly they have less information to use on the ad side. It's ridiculous to say ''X isn't doing anything for them''.
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I never said it doesn't do anything for them, all I said was that it wasn't doing wonders. They haven't been much of a gamer-changer for Google. Each one on its own doesn't do much. Anyways, this goes way back from a comment that Macbooks aren't game-changers for Apple and I think the context of that comment has been long gone.
 
SirChained said:
I never said it doesn't do anything for them, all I said was that it wasn't doing wonders. They haven't been much of a gamer-changer for Google. Each one on its own doesn't do much. Anyways, this goes way back from a comment that Macbooks aren't game-changers for Apple and I think the context of that comment has been long gone.
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You must have missed the 1 million devices being actived per day. That's 1 million new users getting on Google services per day.

I'd classify that under "wonders", but I'm a little hyperbolic at times.
 
RoadHazard said:
Wow, this will be pretty damn useful:

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Finally you can find out which asshole app keeps annoying you with ad notifications, and uninstall that crap (or disable notifications from it, if you really want to keep it)!
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This is indeed very useful! I now consider it a bigger update than 4.0
 
SirChained said:
I never said it doesn't do anything for them, all I said was that it wasn't doing wonders. They haven't been much of a gamer-changer for Google. Each one on its own doesn't do much. Anyways, this goes way back from a comment that Macbooks aren't game-changers for Apple and I think the context of that comment has been long gone.
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How safe is a Galaxy Nexus purchase at this point? When would the next nexus device be expected, early next year?
 
Andrex said:
Media Codec API in Jelly Bean, seems like that guy ITT complaining about audio stuff might not be able to complain anymore.
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"Android 4.1 provides low-level access to platform hardware and software codecs."

Not sure if this has anything to do with the lack of access to real time low latency audio
 
The compass mode in Street View feels a hell of a lot smoother and more responsive now that it also uses the gyro instead of only the compass.
 
RoadHazard said:
The compass mode in Street View feels a hell of a lot smoother and more responsive now that it also uses the gyro instead of only the compass.
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it seriously never used the gyroscope before?

Yaboosh said:
How safe is a Galaxy Nexus purchase at this point? When would the next nexus device be expected, early next year?
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great fucking deal at $350 especially with it being the reference device for 4.1 improvements, the next set of nexus phones will be out in october-november.
 
AndyD said:
You can have multiples and it gets larger. I think we are well on the way to download a 10GB offline USA map in detail and be done with it.
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Oh nice, I thought that the 80mb download was the max. This is great to hear. Navigon does offline maps on iOS with only a few gigs of data. It's great.
 
RoadHazard said:
Does this save satellite imagery, or only the map-ish maps? I usually use the satellite view, much more useful when you're actually trying to navigate an area (at least on foot).
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Doesn't seem like it. I tried enabling satellite imagery and then caching the map, but it reverted to vector graphics.
 
The problem I have with buying a phone off contract in the US is that I don't think I will save any money month to month. My wife and I pay $110 a month on T mobile and get enough minutes and texts to get us by and unlimited data, along with reliable service in our area.

So me buying a phone off contract is basically flushing money down the toilet, since I would at best be paying the same month to month with a possibly less reliable service.

Am I wrong on this?
 
Google needs to get their shit together regards to the international offerings of playstore stuff. Movies, Music, Books and Devices still not available widely. Yet they boast about how global the reach of Android is yaddayadda.
 
Yaboosh said:
The problem I have with buying a phone off contract in the US is that I don't think I will save any money month to month. My wife and I pay $110 a month on T mobile and get enough minutes and texts to get us by and unlimited data, along with reliable service in our area.

So me buying a phone off contract is basically flushing money down the toilet, since I would at best be paying the same month to month with a possibly less reliable service.

Am I wrong on this?
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It's only worth it in the US if you're doing it prepaid or if it's a phone you really want that you can't get on the carrier. Otherwise it's a free $300-400, while paying the same thing.
 
Ashhong said:
Is there a reason the offline maps is limited to that size? Or why we cant have multiple tiles? Or can we and I am mistaken?
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rozay said:
Can you create multiple tiles?

Glad to see a lot of useful offline mode features paired with their wi-fi only tablets.
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You can have multiple tiles. Right now I have about 6 maps queued for caching, most of them are in the 50-80MB range, except for the entirety of Las Vegas, which is only 10 MB and a local map that's 14 MB. Other than the 86MB limit, I haven't reached a tile limit yet.

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Limit is 6 maps. Seems to be a hard limit for tile amount, but each can be a max of ~86MB. So if I'm correct, that's about 420 square miles of combined map data.
 
numble said:
It's only worth it in the US if you're doing it prepaid or if it's a phone you really want that you can't get on the carrier. Otherwise it's a free $300-400, while paying the same thing.
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Yeah, that is what I figured. I think the GSIII is a better fit for me anyway, since I tend to need extended batteries because of my crazy use of my phone.
 
Yaboosh said:
The problem I have with buying a phone off contract in the US is that I don't think I will save any money month to month. My wife and I pay $110 a month on T mobile and get enough minutes and texts to get us by and unlimited data, along with reliable service in our area.

So me buying a phone off contract is basically flushing money down the toilet, since I would at best be paying the same month to month with a possibly less reliable service.

Am I wrong on this?
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Doesn't T-Mobile have a plan specifically for people that buy phones off contract where you don't pay the subsidy fee each month?
 
rozay said:
Doesn't T-Mobile have a plan specifically for people that buy phones off contract where you don't pay the subsidy fee each month?
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I think you can only use certain phones with that plan, though I would love to be corrected if I am wrong.
 
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