How would you like to customize and build your own phone? Google recently announced the
Project Ara MDK (Modular Developer Kit), which is expected to launch in January 2015. The device will be called the "Gray Phone".
"It’s called the Gray Phone because it’s meant to be drab gray to get people to customize it," It's scheduled to go on sale in January 2015 for around $50.
Google is looking to shake up the smartphone industry with Project Ara, the idea behind the project is that you will not need to buy a new device when you want the latest hardware inside your smartphone.
Instead you swaps components on the modular device, and this allows people to get the latest components they want to suit their phone needs. Would you get one of these?
For those of us that use multiple machines and devices this application is a godsend.
PushBullet, the app for Android allows you to quickly transfer links, pictures, and notes between your smart devices, tablets and desktop Chrome Browsers. It is one of those insanely useful tools that is what
FREE!
The
PushBullet team introduced full notification mirroring, a feature that syncs all of your phone and tablet notifications to Chrome on PC. Viewable in Chrome’s notification tray (the bell-shaped icon in the system tray on Windows and the menu bar on Mac), they aren't actionable – you can’t respond to a text from desktop, for example – but they can be dismissed. Check out the video below to see how it works.
Source: Droid Life
Google recently launched
“Google Play Newsstand”, a new application for Android enabled devices ( also knows as Google Currents for IOs devices) that allows you to read all your favorite news sources in one experience. Newsstand puts the news you care about most front and center and presents stories that interest you based on your tastes.
With this news application users can subscribe to magazines, newspapers, blogs and news sites and the newsstand will format and optimize them all for an enhanced reading experience on their tablet or phone.
In that being said I would like to let you all know that
"The Collective Loop" is now on
Google Currents and
Google Newsstands. It took a little bit of work but it's so worth it.
Please click the link below to Subscribe to: The Collective Loop.
Now take TCL wherever you go!
If you are a website/blog owner and you want to add your content to Google Newsstand you can via
Google Producer tool.
UPDATE 07/20/18: Google Current and Google Newsstand has been replaced by
Google News now.
Google just made an announcement introducing
Keep, it's a new and simple note-taking service. Google Keep (accessible
here) is supposed to solve the issue of placing stickies, writing down thoughts and checklists for sorting out priorities. The new note-taking service includes the ability to add photos and a color stripe to the header of each task grouping. It also automatically keep everything synced up by storing them on
Google Drive, so you can access your notes from anywhere. Give it a try today.
Source: techradar.com
Google has joined with
Samsung to produce the
Galaxy Nexus (TBA). This new phone will be the first to run the whole redesigned Andriod 4.0 or a.k.a Ice Cream Sandwich. Why they named it that I have no idea but it was bad naming. Yeah, what's your phone running? It's running "Ice Cream Sandwich". Really Google? I'm going to have to give you an F for your failure in naming the new Andriod 4.0.
Now let's talk about some of the features on this new phone. It will be sporting a 4.65 inch; 720p high-definition sAMOLED curved Contour Display, LG LTE or HSPA+data, a 1.2GHz dual core processor, NFC technology for instant sharing of content and
Google Wallet support. It also has Face Unlock a feature that gives you access to your phone using nothing but your mug, and a 5 megapixel rear camera with a LED flash boasting a single-motion panorama capability and a 1.3 megapixel front-facing cam, and 1080p video recording.
I think I found the phone that will be replacing my Google Nexus One?
