Google I/O 2013

Rusty! · 16 May 2013 at 12:13

xibinim said:
Can anyone get the 'OK Google' thing to work?

The hotword function is still US only

Loving the new Play Music app, miles better than the old Honeycomb themed one!

jrodga2k5 · 16 May 2013 at 12:46

rogueblade said:
My god I cannot wait for Google Music All Access to come to the UK:

[Hands-On] Play Music Is Now The Template For All Future Music Services

Like Zune/XBox Music Subscriptions is there any mention of download to device for offline play?

*Edit* Reading the comments it appears to download to Device as DRM protected tracks ala the aforementioned service...one additional reason I may move from the Windows Phone platform to android in the near future.

rogueblade · 16 May 2013 at 13:21

Yea the music that you are getting via the streaming subscription service can still be tagged for offline listening on your devices.

Your resulting playlists have no differentiation between uploaded music, purchased music, and All Access music!

doodah · 16 May 2013 at 13:24

Rusty! said:
The hotword function is still US only

Loving the new Play Music app, miles better than the old Honeycomb themed one!

Starting to feel like an idiot, thanks for the heads up.

pioneer2000 · 16 May 2013 at 13:37

Rich_L said:
I think I use SMS, Whatsapp, Viber, Facebook and Gtalk (now Hangouts) at the moment and there's not much overlap between them in terms of what people actually use and will respond on :/

Could easily just use Whatsapp.

Hangouts is crap - thought i'd try it on iOS, barely works and when it does it's slower than whatsapp.

Skillmister · 16 May 2013 at 14:57

Someone messaged me on hangouts earlier and i thought it was snappy as hell.

Nexus18 · 16 May 2013 at 17:27

A bit more info regarding the GS 4 with nexus experience:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=41487508&postcount=145

It may not be called a nexus but it is all the benefits of a nexus without any of the downfalls. You get "fast boot OEM unlock" as well as stock android updates directly from Google.

Wrong. It is not yet confirmed to have all of the benefits of a Nexus.

All we know is that it will have stock Android. NOTHING MORE.

GOOGLE HAS NOT SAID A SINGLE THING ABOUT AOSP SUPPORT FOR THIS DEVICE.

AOSP implies stock Android, but NOT the other way around.

If it's not supported in AOSP, it will barely be any different than any of the existing Snapdragon GS4s - all reasonably supportable by CM and other aftermarket AOSP bringup efforts thanks to CAF. (And, for this reason - AOSP support will be a "nice to have" if it's a Snapdragon variant.)

If it's supported in AOSP to the same level as the NS and N10, AND it's an Octa (highly unlikely) - that's the combo that might make me give Samsung another chance.

Oh your right as there is no way Samsung would allow the octocore version to be released by google with AOSP

It IS possible - see 5250 support in the N10 and 3110 in the NS. Just HIGHLY unlikely. 95%+ chance it'll be a Snapdragon, if it even has AOSP support.

Although did google not say that the GSN 4 will receive official support/updates from themselves?

Also, I think I read somewhere that it has been confirmed to be the snapdragon version now??

Tatsuki · 16 May 2013 at 17:37

Bit underwhelmed by the I/O so far, lets hope something interesting comes out today or tomorrow.

photoshop · 16 May 2013 at 17:54

This has not been good.
- new maps don't come out till later
- no unified messaging platform
- Music application is now a mess
- no mentioned of android 4.3

Come on Google...........

DELETED_83755 · 16 May 2013 at 18:13

On the contrary I know now why its a developers conference. Lay people won't appreciate half the stuff they dicussed.

rogueblade · 16 May 2013 at 18:47

wow bunch of troll idiots

mark43 · 16 May 2013 at 18:55

Did they give any kind of idea of when the new music service might be rolled out to other countries?

Tatsuki · 16 May 2013 at 19:00

If they didn't announce 4.3 in the keynote when would they announce it? Would have thought a update to Android would be worth mentioning in that.

_Jimlad_ · 16 May 2013 at 19:27

Yes lack of nexus7 and 4.3 in key notes makes me think neither is coming

da_mic_1530 · 16 May 2013 at 20:28

Ruined Google music.....

Azza · 16 May 2013 at 20:38

da_mic_1530 said:
Ruined Google music.....

No.

Orcvader · 16 May 2013 at 20:41

Managed to convince some friends to try Hangout with me. It's ok, but I don't know, it feels like it's lacking something. The plus side is that it's cross-platform which is what we're after, but it forces me to use Chrome to install the desktop version (I'm a Firefox user). Chrome also needs to be open in the background as well for it to work. I can access it via Google+ as well but it feels a bit of a mess on there. Not to mention on Android the icon still appears as "Talk". Looks like Google will need to tidy this up if they really want to compete against other messaging platforms.

EDIT: Ah heck with it. I'll try the new version of Google Music again and try ignore the slight bugs I'm noticing (such as album art sometimes being stretched). Don't like the colours but the interface does feel easier to navigate around.

EDIT 2: Just got the new Play store on my HTC One, nothing yet on my Nexus 10.

m4rk84 · 16 May 2013 at 20:44

The new music app seems like Marmite to most at the moment. Personally I think it's much improved. Especially once we get All Access over here too.

The old app kept bugging out for me anyway, would randomly display nothing with no way to fix it other then closing and reopening the app. The new app is silky smooth!

JAMAL · 16 May 2013 at 20:46

The gs4 is definetly the snapdragon version Engadget confirm.

geuben · 16 May 2013 at 20:55

Orcvader said:
... Not to mention on Android the icon still appears as "Talk".....

Try going to the Play store on your computer, searching for hangouts and choosing install. If I did this on my phone it said it was already installed, via my desktop it didn't, after it installed the icon was changed.