Google kicked off its I/O event in San Francisco yesterday with news that it has activated 400 million Android devices, up from last year’s 100 million. The company claims to now be activating one million devices per day.
Android 4.1 (“Jelly Bean”) was introduced. Highlights: triple buffering of graphics pipeline allows parallel performance of CPU and GPU resulting in 60fps performance, voice typing works offline, and voice searches receive spoken answers.
Google Play has more than 600,000 apps and games, with more than 1.5 billion downloaded each month. Apps are available in more than 132 countries.
The Nexus 7 is a 7-inch tablet manufactured by ASUS that runs Jelly Bean and includes a 1280 x 800 display, Tegra 3 quad-core CPU plus 12-core GPU, front facing camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and 9 hour battery life. The $199 tablet can be ordered online for mid-July delivery.
Nexus Q is a new social streaming device and the first CE product Google has completely built from the ground up. The $299 Android device is controlled with your smartphone or tablet and features a Galaxy Nexus processor, HDMI, dual-band Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Bluetooth, and supports NFC.
The keynote also included an astounding demo of Google Glasses with live streams from skydivers via Google+ Hangouts. Glasses have camera, processor and “a lot of memory to store information.” The product also has a gyro, accelerometer, compass, touchpad, microphones and speaker.
Google Glass Explorer Edition is available for pre-order only to U.S.- based developers who are physically at Google I/O at a cost of $1,500. It’s expected to ship early next year.
Google kicked off its I/O event in San Francisco yesterday with news that it has activated 400 million Android devices, up from last year’s 100 million. The company claims to now be activating one million devices per day.
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