consensus on google now?
- Thread starter jubei
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It definitely causes more battery drain purely because of the location settings. To get the best out of google now you have to set your location to high accuracy, this results in many NLP wake locks.
Test it yourself by changing your location setting to device only or battery saver. I guarantee you will notice the difference.
Test it yourself by changing your location setting to device only or battery saver. I guarantee you will notice the difference.
I personally find it incredibly useful. Pulls all my flight and hotel details when I'm travelling overseas with work. Tells me if my flights are delayed or cancelled, tells me what time I need to leave my house based on traffic along the route to the airport (though its rather conservative - generally gets me to the airport at least 1.5 hours before boarding).
Gives me route to my hotel etc.
Yes it's invasive as its pulling all this information from my emails but it's not yet screwed up and for me the benefits far outweigh the "oooh it's spying on my" creepy feeling.
Best thing google have done since their search engine.
Gives me route to my hotel etc.
Yes it's invasive as its pulling all this information from my emails but it's not yet screwed up and for me the benefits far outweigh the "oooh it's spying on my" creepy feeling.
Best thing google have done since their search engine.
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I love it.
Amazing for my morning commute, always has accurate data (much better then TFL) and has a quick redirection that extends to trains outside TFLs scope.
Great for traveling, pre populates with details about where I'm going, boarding/bookings for flights and hotels. Best one was when it told me a flight was delayed so I didn't waste 4 hours at the airport.
General tasks like sports, packages etc etc are also really nice but not life changing.
Amazing for my morning commute, always has accurate data (much better then TFL) and has a quick redirection that extends to trains outside TFLs scope.
Great for traveling, pre populates with details about where I'm going, boarding/bookings for flights and hotels. Best one was when it told me a flight was delayed so I didn't waste 4 hours at the airport.
General tasks like sports, packages etc etc are also really nice but not life changing.
I've used it since the start and it's pretty great.
Recently I noticed, I stand at a bus stop, refresh the google now screen and it shows me the relevant bus times, for my actual stop.
However, I wish it could actually notify you. Unless i'm missing something really obvious, you only get info when you open your notification drawer or google now (both manual actions).
I used to have the homescreen widget take up a whole screen, but it doesn't show nearly as much info as the full app. I'm in the habit of launching it very frequently now, but notifications would be better (customisable ones). OR, maybe they could actually make it a homescreen that is movable like a normal desktop (the current way is to scroll all the way to the left when traversing screens, or swipe up on the launcher icon).
rp2000
Recently I noticed, I stand at a bus stop, refresh the google now screen and it shows me the relevant bus times, for my actual stop.
However, I wish it could actually notify you. Unless i'm missing something really obvious, you only get info when you open your notification drawer or google now (both manual actions).
I used to have the homescreen widget take up a whole screen, but it doesn't show nearly as much info as the full app. I'm in the habit of launching it very frequently now, but notifications would be better (customisable ones). OR, maybe they could actually make it a homescreen that is movable like a normal desktop (the current way is to scroll all the way to the left when traversing screens, or swipe up on the launcher icon).
rp2000
I've stuck with it the last year or so previously I used to disable it due to it sucking that little extra battery.
I'd say on my Nexus 5 it probably takes around 8-10% of the battery on a full charge, but varies a lot for example if I'm just sat at home or moving around to work and town etc.
It's a great tool and wouldn't stock using it now.
It's cool having the notifications come over to LG G Watch too!
I'd say on my Nexus 5 it probably takes around 8-10% of the battery on a full charge, but varies a lot for example if I'm just sat at home or moving around to work and town etc.
It's a great tool and wouldn't stock using it now.
It's cool having the notifications come over to LG G Watch too!
Up until recently I'd always double check the info it was giving me was correct (eg against plane departure boards or whatever) but after around 8 months of it never being wrong I guess I do rely on it heavily.
I wouldn't look at it like that. I would view it as a useful tool, staying at a hotel where is the booking - check in Google Now, its there fine. If not review emails etc. Same with anything as it is in there it works but if it isn't I wouldn't say it would worry me. Just impresses me it is 
Soldato
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seriously?
google now is the single most valuable feature on android phones, closely followed by google+
if you aren't using these features, you might as well get an iphone
google now is the single most valuable feature on android phones, closely followed by google+
if you aren't using these features, you might as well get an iphone
