I tried the Google Now-type app on the iPhone, can't remember what it was called, something funky. It's a great app, but destroys your battery big time. Location system is always on.
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Siri vs. Google Now
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Google now is not on the iphone (yet). Don't know what you were looking at but it wasn't GN.
It's because you don't know how Google Now works.
When google now sees you have an airfare ticket sent to you, it knows to remind you for your air travel (it knows where you are and where you are flying from).
When google now sees you have a shipping label in your email, it knows to tell you the status of that shipping label (shipped, delivered), etc.
It's kinda scary how Google connects the dots sometimes. A friend of mine works in the shipping business has to pick up his clients from the airports frequently. He switched to Gmail just so google now will work as reminders when to travel to pick people up from wherever he is (google takes account into traffic congestion).
When google now sees you have an airfare ticket sent to you, it knows to remind you for your air travel (it knows where you are and where you are flying from).
When google now sees you have a shipping label in your email, it knows to tell you the status of that shipping label (shipped, delivered), etc.
It's kinda scary how Google connects the dots sometimes. A friend of mine works in the shipping business has to pick up his clients from the airports frequently. He switched to Gmail just so google now will work as reminders when to travel to pick people up from wherever he is (google takes account into traffic congestion).
So you "do" talk to it by your actions. Yeah.... not sure I want a corporation knowing THAT much about my habits. Of course we are probably coming to this in the not so distant future.
Does anyone known if I can sync my one x and nexus 7 so whatever I enter into my nexus 7 at home through Google now will end up on the calender of my one x when I am out and about? I find it annoying currently maintaining two calenders because the nexus is so much easier to show my partner then using the smaller screen of the phone.
Also, I use tablet talk to send texts from my nexus through Bluetooth - is there any way to set it up to say "send text through my one x - test test test" and it will send?
I really don't use the full functionality of Google now but I'd like to learn more.
Also, I use tablet talk to send texts from my nexus through Bluetooth - is there any way to set it up to say "send text through my one x - test test test" and it will send?
I really don't use the full functionality of Google now but I'd like to learn more.
What I never liked about Google is that it did push information to me, it just often pushed the wrong information to me. It also seemed to treat everything I asked of it like an internet search, which sometimes was annoying when I just wanted to make a call and it would do an internet search.
The one card I really really wanted to work, but was a dud was the one with alerts for your driving route to work. I'd look at it in the morning and it would tell me if the way to work was clear of traffic, the only problem is that it only would do this for the first leg of the journey instead of the entire journey, making it useless.
I'm assuming it has improved since then, I haven't tried out Google now on an android phone in a couple of months, although I do still have the work route card on my iphone. I MUCH prefer Siri because it just gives me what I need in relation to phone functions, Siri seems like it's waiting for you to ask it something related to having a phone in your hand.
The one card I really really wanted to work, but was a dud was the one with alerts for your driving route to work. I'd look at it in the morning and it would tell me if the way to work was clear of traffic, the only problem is that it only would do this for the first leg of the journey instead of the entire journey, making it useless.
I'm assuming it has improved since then, I haven't tried out Google now on an android phone in a couple of months, although I do still have the work route card on my iphone. I MUCH prefer Siri because it just gives me what I need in relation to phone functions, Siri seems like it's waiting for you to ask it something related to having a phone in your hand.