Google's presentation began with their spotlight on Android, stating that it has now activating more than one million Android devices per day and showing off Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean". The new operating system offeres a number of enhancements, including a faster interface, cleaner home screen design with resizable widgets, offline voice dictation, a new camera app, enhanced notifications, Siri-like voice search and more!
A new "Google Now" feature keeps tracks of users' locations to automatically offer information relevant to their real-life experiences, whether it be information on subway schedules, menu recommendations at a restaurant, or other situations.
As for Google's hardware announcements, they leaked out ahead of time through the company's own Google Play site, which confirmed that the new Google Nexus 7 will be an ASUS-manufactured tablet priced at $199 for 8GB of storage and $249 for 16 GB of storage. The device also has a 7-inch IPS display that offeres 1280x800 pixels and a 1.2-megapixel front-facing camera included. The Nexus 7 will use a quad-core Tega 3 processor and incorporate Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and NFC connectivity.
As for home entertainment, Google today introduces the Google Nexus Q, a spherical $299 "social streaming media player". The Nexus Q will allow users to wirelessly stream music, video and YouTube content to their home entertainment systems. Also serving as an amplifier, the Nexus Q can also be connected directly to a speaker system such as Google's new $399 Triad speakers.
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