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[onthecouchagain]

10 minute video demonstrating all the improvements of Google Now over the past year:

It's really impressive how quickly it can get answers for you.

At the rate they're going, I can only imagine how much more it'll improve in the next year. Hopefully more hands-free-ness, for example, I wish all actions had the load bar that will automatically give the command the 'OK' to go ahead. It has this feature for a lot of commands, but some are noticeably missing.


"Show me my pictures from Amsterdamn" was a really impressive command, too. Google then loaded the pics from that album.

Or "Show me some pictures I took in a pool" or "show me pictures of my cat". Both pulled the appropriate pictures. Impressive.

 

[MRU]

And yet its still pretty useless for me .... And hammers my battery when on. Seriously I can do almost as much with it turned off as with it on (add appointments and reminders via voice, weather is available from a trillion different sources and such) that the negative impact it has on my battery is not worth it being on.

 

[Todd B.]

I don't think I want to meet the people stupid enough to let Google be their data provider.

 

[sddabrow]

10 minute video demonstrating all the improvements of Google Now over the past year:

YouTube: video


It's really impressive how quickly it can get answers for you.

At the rate they're going, I can only imagine how much more it'll improve in the next year. Hopefully more hands-free-ness, for example, I wish all actions had the load bar that will automatically give the command the 'OK' to go ahead. It has this feature for a lot of commands, but some are noticeably missing.


"Show me my pictures from Amsterdamn" was a really impressive command, too. Google then loaded the pics from that album.

Or "Show me some pictures I took in a pool" or "show me pictures of my cat". Both pulled the appropriate pictures. Impressive.

Thanks for sharing this! Looks quite impressive compared to Siri's capabilities.

 

[gotluck]

I don't think I want to meet the people stupid enough to let Google be their data provider.

So why are you in this subforum? You sure seem to be looking for those people.

 

[heutusops]

this thread should be made sticky... there's so much new and informative stuff here, bookmarking it

 

[onthecouchagain]

http://www.androidauthority.com/tim-cook-damage-control-271156/

Opinion: Tim Cook’s unimaginative jabs at Android are just damage control


Nice, short, and to the point.

 

[onthecouchagain]

The Verge covers the visual history of Android and all its features: http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/7/2585779/android-history

It's Google's 5th year anniversary today.