Google I/O saw the launch of the company’s tackle to Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant. Now, it’s getting flesh and skin as the “personal Google for every user.”CEO Sundar Pichai and other Googlers demonstrated Google Assistant’s full feature set today at its San Francisco event. It takes full advantage of Google’s search innovations such as the Knowledge Graph,
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I admit, I’m a bit of a fan of Google’s new messaging platform, Allo. I also admit, that I’m not really sure why. After all, it is the fourth messaging platform introduced by Google, and it has some limitations to it – most notably that it cannot be the default SMS handler for Android. But for a 1.0 product, Allo is a pretty strong choice for a messaging platform, and I have tried to incorporate it into my daily life as much as possible.Google’s new messaging platform is built upon the idea that people need to communicate and that communication encompasses a lot of details that ...
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The world’s number one search giant sure has a lot on its plate right now. Mostly good things, don’t get us wrong, although on the software front, Android Nougat is taking a little too long
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Now that Google’s messaging platform is complete – or some might argue overcomplete – with its new offerings of Allo and Duo, it’s time to ask ourselves a question. Actually, it’s time to ask a series of questions. Will I use it? If I use it, who will I use it with? Can I get my peeps to use it? Do people still say “peeps” anymore? These are all really important questions, and the Weekend Debate is all about questions, so let’s dive in shall we?Cross the streamsOne of the great things about Allo and Duo are that they’re both cross-platform unlike some other video ...
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How much does it REALLY cost to build an iPhone? Can any software truly be intuitive? Why is Comcast getting into the carrier game? We say hello to Google’s Allo messenger, and we have a BUNCH of smartphone announcements to chat about from Huawei, LeEco, and Blackberry! These stories plus your questions, so make sure you’re charged and ready for the Pocketnow Weekly!Watch the live video broadcast from 2:00pm Eastern on September 22th (click
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Our first taste of what the Google Assistant can do for us in our everyday lives is within the Google Allo messaging app that got released today. Now, you can get your undergarments scrunched up about all the chat apps that Google has floated out, but we’ll save the debate for another post.What got released today for both Android and iOS seems to be an attempt to become what
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With Duo out in the open, we’re still closing in on what might come through to Google’s new messaging service, Allo. There’s a lot of teasing going on during I/O 2016, providing us with an idea of what the features are. But we now have supposed grabs of how these features get into action via ...
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How many communication apps are too many for even a software giant like Google to properly maintain and robustly support? Four? Well, hot on the heels of Allo and Duo’s formal introductions at the I/O 2016 conference back in May, Mountain View assured us Hangouts and Messenger weren’t going anywhere.But that stance gets more nuanced now, ...
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iMessage is not coming to Android. Why? It’s part AI war and part good business.The Verge‘s Walt Mossberg picked up a few points from the hours of presentations at WWDC this week and figured out why it had to make more sense for Apple to port over Apple Music to Android, but ...
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When the Internet was coming into its own back in the ’90’s, we were migrating from “classic” uses (Archie, Finger, Ping, Usenet, FTP, Email, web browsing, etc.), to a more “modern” set. Chances are that you’ve heard of a couple of those, whereas the others have all but faded out of commonality. Today web technologies power most of what we do, and it looks like email is next on the chopping block. If that’s the case, will chat apps replace ...
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Yesterday, we asked Google a series of questions that weren’t answered to our satisfaction at Google I/O’s keynote. But we’re not completely negative Nellies here at Pocketnow. But while that list of questions is pretty long, the list of great things coming out of Google I/O thus far is pretty great in and of itself. So, to balance the negative with the positive, here are nice things from Google I/O that have impressed us here at Pocketnow.Split screenIt has been asked for for years. Samsung has been doing it, first on the Note, then on the S-series of phones. So we all asked ...
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Google I/O’s keynote was yesterday and today all the developers are attending learning sessions where they can dive deeper into some of what was presented in the keynote – and a quite a bit more. Now that the hype from the keynote is over, and the glitz and glamor are starting to wear off, let’s take a closer look at the Google I/O 2016 keynote and see what we really learned.Google I/O 2016 KeynoteIn the keynote, a spoken sentence could contain several announcements or unveil numerous changes to the current ecosystem. Sometimes the full impact of what that sentence ...
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Google’s keynote is over and we are left with a whole heap of newness to revel in. We have new features in Android N, Android VR/Daydream, Instant Apps, new messaging apps, Android Wear 2.0, boy oh boy! Good times are ahead folks. But as the announcements rolled out, I was left with a few nagging questions about some of what we saw.Why can’t you name your own damn product?After months of speculation ...
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You might think that we wouldn’t need Hangouts or Messenger with Allo and Duo coming around, right?Well, Google has confirmed that it will have four messaging applications in its roster. Remember that both Hangouts and Messenger can handle SMS texts while both
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Google Voice was a terrific dream, which I’ve been using since before Google owned the actual service. You can have one phone number umbrella which sends and receives calls to any phone number associated with your account. It was one of the first mainstream solutions for texting over data, it transcribed voicemails, and it was compatible with traditional cell phones.Google Voice has stagnated over the last couple years. We’ve seen Google tinker with Hangouts, and introduce Project Fi, but we’ve seen little progress on the GV front. Today at I/O 2016, Google introduced a ...
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