Looking at a bunch of gibberish? Maybe just at your home screen? Perhaps you don’t have the Google Now Launcher, but you want to hit up Google Now. On phones with hardware navigation keys, you can’t just pull up Google Now from the home button.Well, if you have Now on Tap, you’ll have ...
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Google Translate already can instantly translate your copy-paste material, but why not just make it a two-tap process? Forget all the highlighting, just translate everything on the screen.Whenever you encounter something on your phone you want to translate, just make sure you can long-press to get to Now on Tap and you’ll get a new “Translate this Screen” option. Boom. Perfecto. If ...
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Despite their creeping commoditization, smartphones are still some of the most exciting pieces of technology you can buy today. The old joke about using such a powerful device mainly for watching cat videos is a good one, but I find myself identifying more strongly with its setup than its punchline, the bit about carrying a device “capable of accessing the entirety of knowledge known to man.”Knowledge is useless, though, without a fast ...
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While Google Now is pretty darn smart already, it usually has to take its time or come across incidental information and churn on it before letting you know in a Now card. With Google Now on Tap, it’s putting out what it gets in with a
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From Google Now to the search engine function itself, the Google app serves as the core of most major Android experiences. But as an app that you tap on or consciously go into, you don’t really seem to notice it as much. After all, the whole Google thing gets kind of ubiquitous ad nauseam on Android.But if you want to ...
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On a Thursday in New York, we’ll be waiting on Microsoft to introduce some new Lumias and LG to introduce a one-sided cyclops. But this Tuesday on the left coast, we’re chomping at the bit for some new hardware and one big reveal on software from Google. If you haven’t brushed up on the details of what we’ve been talking about, don’t worry!
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We don’t know how many of you out there have the Android M preview installed, but if you do, this could be our first public taste of what Google Now On Tap will do for us once Android 6.0 Marshmallow comes around. This is all wrapped inside an update to the Google app, version 5.3 for Android 4.4 or above.You will need ...
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I’m a Windows Phone fan who has been on Android for about nine months now. Ever since I got the Moto360, then the Pebble, I have been pretty much addicted to smartwatches, and Windows Phone just doesn’t have them. Ok, it has the Band, but I don’t really count that. So I’m left with Android. But I don’t want that to sound like a bad thing – it’s not. I’m doing just fine on Android thank you very much, and a big reason why is Google Now.A hard sellGoogle Now is one of those services that’s hard to describe. Actually, it’s not really hard to ~describe~ so much as it’s ...
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