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The best I can explain it is the main idea of it is to use images to search the web. You could scan the image of a logo, and it will recognise the logo and you can look it up on Google. It's a rather amazing piece of technology.
WTF is with the direct connection between an iPhone and "Bad Guys"? So, Google and anybody running an Exchange Server are "Bad Guys" now? Or is the thought that since BES has a magical "Firewall" (which surely any Exchange server or Google or MobileMe don't, those guys don't know shit about firewalls), it's safe and all the others aren't?
Damn, I hate to sound like a fanboy (in fact, I don't even have an iPhone), but that's just stupid.
Unfortunately, I don't know of anything quite like google maps for the stars. That app requires you to be aiming your phone's camera at different points in the sky. It's pretty cool, but I don't think that's exactly what you're looking for.
iOS has all of that, except for settings, even without iCloud. Microsoft Exchange or Google Sync will synchronize your mail, contacts, and calendars automatically, over the air. I've been synchronizing my iPhone with my Google account for years.
It totally can do these things and Google has been doing these features well before Siri. My busted 600mhz 140mb ram phone has been doing this for a while now. It's just not as well presented as Siri. Google has had the ability for voice actions for calling, texting, navigation, etc. since Android 2.2, in May 2010.
So, upvotes for a completely ignorant statement that is on all sides false, yet I cite hard sources and it's into oblivion for me.
Edit* I'm sorry, I just re-read this and can see how it can be read as though I agree that it can make Siri obsolete. Hell no, I don't believe that. Siri just does it better, but Google isn't in the stoneage as some here may think.
Possibly something like Google Goggles (you may want to check out Google's intro video to the technology).
You can set GMail up to get and send mail using her ISP-provided account. Basically GMail becomes a POP client and she gets all the benefits of GMail (including Google Sync for smart phones) and keeps her old address.
So if a future prospective employer takes my photo off my linked in profile, runs it through a image search engine, finds sexually explicit photos of me online and refuses to offer me a job, I'd feel that my privacy was not only violated but that it caused me significant injury.
>That is not how privacy laws work.
Also, if you want to purely debate the legalities without considering the ethics of the situation, (because all laws are moral and just, right?) it could be easily argued that by displaying me in a sexually explicit manner, you're slandering me by portraying me falsely as sexually promiscuous. Slander is not protected by the constitution.
Either that, or if you were making me the focal point of a photo that you gained money or notoriety from (attaining karma could easily be argued as notoriety) then you have forcibly obtained my labor as a model for your photograpy without my consent. Pretty sure the 13th amendment had bad things to say about forced unpaid labor.
EDIT: It could also be considered an unwanted sexual advance or sexual harassment.
EDIT 2: I thought I'd return the favor and resort to ad hominems and referring to you as a feminine hygiene product. But I just don't have it in me. I'll just continue to respond in a logical manner, mostly because I think it does a better job of showing how stupid you sound.
No one has mentioned this one yet?
Google Goggles: Image based searching software. Take a picture of an unknown logo and it could find it for you, along with website and company info. Take a picture of a landmark/popular object/famous painting and pull up information on it. Take a picture of a business card and the information gets converted into a contact. You can even take a picture of foreign text and google translate kicks in. and the best part is it is free.
Why do you need/want to use the iCloud calendar? Your Google calendar is already a calendar in the cloud. Just set up your iOS devices to use your Google Account & follow the instructions to set up Google Sync.
If you setup your GMail account as an Exchange account on an iDevice, it is treated exactly as if it were on a Microsoft Exchange server. Note that this works for any device that supports Exchange.
All of your data, contacts, push mail, and calendar are downloaded to the phone and synced in both directions.
If you own a smartphone, you could get Google Sky Map (free, for Android) or Star Walk ($2.99, for iPhone). These apps let you see what stars/planets etc. you are looking at in real time.
>IIRC it has been removed. I don't have the time to look it up though so I might be wrong.
You are wrong. The feature was never removed, Google still has it in it's TOS.
>I'm only on stock software for the time it takes me to root and install clockworkmod.
Have you installed the Google Play Store? Then the remote uninstall works on your phone. It's part of the TOS of the play store. Unless you have installed something that actively limits the Google Play Stores permissions, Google can deactivate applications remotely.
>Though since I am on nexus devices a quick update pushed out by google would fix it just as easy.
If you have dangerous malware on your phone, a user initiated update isn't good enough. Google needs the capability to quarantine these apps immediately, for the safety of all users. This is especially true if the malware has the capability to self update and block any regular update from Google.
>In the example here, it is an app that iphone may not like. Not malware.
We are talking about an app that would break the law in some countries. An app that actively circumvents OS privacy protections. In most cases it would be used for malware, but at the very least it is privacy invasive software (especially in countries where it is illegal). This is a little different from an app that 'iphone may not like'.
That still isn't naturally speaking. It is about more than what you can do, but how you do it. Here is what you have to with Android: http://www.google.com/mobile/voice-actions/
It is a rigid structure, like this: >send email to [recipient] [subject]* [body]
I can tell my phone "Email my brother that I'll be there on Saturday." Or "Send Aaron an email that I will be there on Saturday." I can tell it remind to call my brother when I get home by saying "Set a reminder to call my brother when I get home" or "Remind me to call Aaron when I get home" or "When I get home remind me to call Aaron."
When you set an alarm, you say "Set an alarm for 8:00 am." Siri confirms the time, and you can say "actually, make that 7:30" and it adjusts. You can ask it to show how your day is going to go, and have it bring up your appointments.
Lately I've been needing to see the doctor a lot. I've got a few lined up and sometimes the days run together. I can activate Siri and ask it "When is my next doctor appointment?" and it brings up the next appointment in my calendar that matches.
The underlying structure of android is listening in order to commands and acting on them. Siri is baked in so deeply you can search, pull, and move around your data with your voice. I know you think what Android has is comparable right now. It's not., but I bet Google fixes that soon, and imagine how good it will then be? They have over a decade of search queries to know how people think.
I don't know. Talking to an inanimate object is awkward, even more so in public. I have an Android phone with Voice Action functionality which is more or less similar to the upcoming one in iOS. And I don't use it. Ever. Although it could be useful in Google Navigation or some other GPS apps when you are driving. But unless it has a built-in AI which could chat with you when you are lonely, I wouldn't really call it revolutionary.
Actually people keep getting confused about this which is Google's fault but while there is a Google Voice (the VOIP service) the name of this feature is called Google Voice Input (which is the name of the Android Voice Input feature). Think of it with a break in the way you pronounce (Google, Voice Input or Google, Voice Recognition). So technically, Google Voice applies to both of the features unless you wanted to really make sure that the word input or recognition is included. You can read more about it here. Cheers.
EDIT: I see that Google Voice Actions is another term used as well for this more fleshed out feature. Basically the Voice Input is the physical capability of speaking in to the device while the Action component is the newer fleshed out application giving you results. Hopefully Google will figure out a more cohesive way to name these components instead of overlapping but IMO they kind of shot themselves in the foot with the way/names they rolled out from the get go. IMO Google Talk should be called Google Chat; Google Voice (VOIP) should be called Google Talk or Google Phone; and this feature should be called Google Voice. Thanks.
He was referring to Google goggles, a new google product. It operates through a smartphone camera and basically analyzes the image to find things of interest to identify, or words for translation. We live in the future! http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#text
On Android you can: Play blah blah music Navigate to your mom's house Call jose quervo
http://www.google.com/mobile/voice-actions/
Edit: This comment got in, but not the one I wanted to. On android, the keyboard has a voice button. Anything that takes text also takes voice.
Then how do you explain all the pre-installed apps that can't be removed on the iPhone. How to you explain the new undeletable Apple Watch ad that was forcibly installed on every iPhone?
How do you explain the Gapps package that is filled with Google Play apps that you won't use and can't uninstalled? How do you explain the carrier apps? The Nexus 6 and Moto X have bloat too.
I use an app on my phone called My Tracks - Records GPS position, speed, etc and gives you a nice map. I think it's targeted more to runners and bicyclist, but might be of use to you.
It's useful to think of Google and Android as two separate entities. There are obviously no 'Android' apps on ios (duh!), but Google has many services ios users are interested in so it makes sense to build ios apps for those google services.
Android's been doing this for a while.
Try it now. Hit the microphone in your google search bar and say 'set timer for 2 minutes'.
Edit: You might need to install Voice Actions for Android if it's not installed. Not sure if it's needed.
Hmm, the apps I use most are My Tracks by Google to keep track of my route and Streamfurious to listen to the radio.
Given that I've written and released a fair amount of AI code I my time, I can assure you that AI can, in fact, be labeled as hard. You can loosely classify AI as soft and hard AI. The former tends to solve "hard" problems (such as chess or speech recognition) and the latter tends to be what we think of as "simulated thinking".
We've never done a particularly brilliant job with the hard AI, but in soft AI, techniques are proposed, algorithms invented, and when the problem is "solved", people tend to stop labeling it AI after a while because there doesn't appear to be intelligence behind it.
However, to do what you're describing is very, very hard. Google is one of many working on solving this problem and they're results are rather limited. Hell, software gets stumped trying to solve captchas; what makes us think that it's going to do a great job of not identifying that basketball lying in the shadows as a dead armadillo? Maybe at that point this hard problem will lead us closer to AI, but until then, you can very much label AI as hard.
A google calendar is now available here
As well as a subscribable ical calendar, which is available here
Information on syncing google calendars and other google services with mobile phones can be found here.
If you do not have a google account and do not wish to subscribe to one, you can use the ical ics address above.
If you need further help getting calendars synced to your desired device, please let me know.
That is just wishful thinking. Look at product recalls and warranties. While you may be able to return the product to the store in which you purchased, they have no legal responsibility to take it back (afaik). That burden lies with the manufacturer.
>His contract is with whomever he paid the money to.
And the contract (aka, TOS) says Google is not at fault. From the FAQ
>After the 15 minute return period:
>If you're unsatisfied with an application after the 15 minute return period has expired, we recommend contacting the developer directly.
>You may find developers' contact information here:
>1.Go to Android Market and select the app in question.
>2.On the app's description page, scroll down to the “Developer” section
>3.One of the following contact options will be provided: an email address, a phone number, or a website.
If you prefer more legal terms, check out sections 9 and 10, or Section 2
>Chargeback and Billing Disputes: Google is not responsible for billing disputes arising from purchases on Android Market. All billing issues should be directed to the Developer in question, the payment processor, or your credit card company as appropriate.
I can tell my phone to wake me up in an hour and a half, and it sets an alarm for 1.5 hours from now, tell it to play a specific artist. Here's a couple things it can do http://www.google.com/mobile/voice-actions/
According to the Google+ mobile page it's only available for iOS 4+. I'm still on iOS 3 as well so this really stinks. Just another reason to be excited to be getting an EVO in September, though!
EDIT: before people start asking why I haven't upgraded to 4 on my iPhone, I should probably mention that it's a 1st gen iPod Touch, so no 4 for me
It's pretty deeply integrated in that it does both text to speech and also tons of voice commands like playing music, getting directions, calling, writing an email, etc.
Voice search and voice commands are accessed by long-pressing the search button on your mobile device, and speech to text is also readily accessed from soft button on your keyboard. Since it's an application, Voice Search can be updated from Android Market.
I believe you can use Google Sync on iphone/blackberry
You will have to create google accounts for everyone
http://www.google.com/mobile/skymap/
totally worth it (free). the novelty is absolutely there and it's pretty funny when you're throwing your phone around with your girl to find the sun on the other side of the planet. you essentially "look through" yourself when you point it at your body.
> and doesn't have as many apps available to it
Both have +/- half a million, i don't know what there is to complain about any more.
> doesn't do activesync natively
From http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/ :
> On most devices, Google Sync uses the Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® protocol. When setting up a new Exchange ActiveSync account on your device, existing data may be removed from your phone.
Google has licensed the technology from MS, I don't know how you're defining "natively" if Apple somehow does this differently?
> android isn't as secure
So apparently you're looking for more security than the DOD?
> however due to Apple’s tightly controlled ecosystem, the devices have not yet been approved.
Security through obscurity is always the worst kind.
> doesn't do cisco VPN
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Cisco+Systems,+Inc.
It does for Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Lenovo, Rooted phones and anything running ICS. It probably works on more phones than not. edit: if this link only shows one app, you may need to browse around. They do indeed have all the apps needed that I've mentioned in my previous sentence.
Users agree to this before downloading from the Google market, so I guess it covers you.
http://www.google.com/mobile/android/market-tos.html
>9. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
>9.1 YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF GOOGLE PLAY AND ANY PRODUCTS DOWNLOADED OR OBTAINED THROUGH GOOGLE PLAY IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND THAT GOOGLE PLAY IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
>9.2 YOUR USE OF GOOGLE PLAY AND ANY PRODUCTS DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF GOOGLE PLAY IS AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM, MOBILE DEVICE, OR OTHER DEVICE, OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM SUCH USE.
>10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
>10.1 YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT GOOGLE AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY (WHETHER CONTRACT, TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES THAT MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU THROUGH YOUR USE OF GOOGLE PLAY OR ANY PRODUCTS DOWNLOADED OR OBTAINED FROM GOOGLE PLAY, INCLUDING ANY LOSS OF DATA, WHETHER OR NOT GOOGLE OR ITS REPRESENTATIVES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF OR SHOULD HAVE BEEN AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH LOSSES ARISING.
Another awesome program for figuring out what you're looking at is Google Sky Map for Android. It uses the accelerometer and gps to figure out what you will see from where you're standing. You literally just point your phone at what you're looking at, and it shows it on the screen.
If you have an iPhone or Android phone, try Google Goggles.
It performs an image search. Supposedly it's pretty powerful (I heard they had to impair it to not allow for face-searching as it was working too well...).
There is also Google Image Search but I think it may pull from a more limited set of images / didn't turn up anything for the photo you posted.
From the market TOS:
>3.3 You agree not to access (or attempt to access) the Market by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Google, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with Google. You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) the Market through any automated means (including use of scripts, crawlers, or similar technologies) and shall ensure that you comply with the instructions set out in any robots.txt file present on the Market website.
I think this be the one.
Dont backup to Windows. Instead use google's Exchange Server. In order to do this, you need to click the Export Contacts button in Windows Contacts folder first. This will give you a CSV which you can batch edit in Excel before uploading to google (google requires the CSV to start... you could send it vCards but you have to send each individually).
Why google? Its ALWAYS backed up. As soon as you add a contact, it syncs over 3G and updates it. Also, if you have gmail, you get push messages and calendars (and invites for the calendar, so you can set up vacations and parties with your friends if you want).
You could do this CSV trick if you used Exchange but its probably more of a pain in the ass and you miss out on push and calendars and over the air syncing.
You dont want to use the Gmail button on your iPhone. You want to use the Exchange button. Go to http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/ and read about it
Thanks.
1) MapsGL is just the beginning to adding exciting new 3d content to Maps. We expect to continuously improve the quality of the 3d content as well as its interaction with the map.
2) We’ve actually had 3D buildings in our Android version of GMM for a few months now (since version 5.0) — check it out: http://www.google.com/mobile/maps/
How big is the store? Personally I've gotten into using Google Goggles. Both searches the games via google (including price searches too) and it has a history so you can go back n check what you've recently "scanned".
As for the downvotes I'd guess cos it's not entirely game related. It does happen in other stores too. If you jot a price down then see it elsewhere cheaper you won't buy from that store. (Or you'll end up using their "cheapest in town" deal)
Okay, so the phones available there are going to be a bit different than here.
So, moving to a android phone from a iphone is pretty easy, you get this google sync app for your iphone, and sync your contacts to a gmail account that you either already have, or one that you create for free.
Then, on your android phone, you login with that gmail account.
contacts move complete
Get the app for your iphone here:
http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/
Anyhow, My recommendations are verizon centric as they have the best coverage in my area.
I personally like the droid 3 global. It's a cdma phone with a gsm modem. You'll need a unlock code from verizon if you'd like to use it elsewhere in the world.
Otherwise the droid bionic is pretty nice with a good processor and nice screen, but it's cdma and 4g only. That may be a killer for you.
There are many other good phones out there. I hope you can find something you like.
One suggestion might be for you to get something else that is cheap. Something that you can use for 6 months, and decide more on what you like. Then, you can switch to something that would fit you better.
Good luck!
Just wait until they invent Chrome-to-Phone
And yes, there's also a Phone-to-Chrome.
android voice commands are different from those of Siri. Today we saw things like getting a definition of a word, setting an alarm, and some integration of a calendar entry and responding to a persons message. To me, apple wanted the same thing as what google/android already has (just like 99% of the other features announced today), and just sprinkled some of their jazz fingers across it to call it something new like they invented it. (aww shit not trying to start a flame war, please disregard that last part). On another note, i believe Siri came from a company they acquired within the last year or 2, but could be wrong.
Back to your question, something actually new? nope. It is similar, and the announcements of apple just trying to keep up make me absolutely THRILLED to see what we have in store for us next week with ICS.
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=99358
http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/
Google Sync is a well hidden but very useful tool for combining google services with iOS and OS X. The iCal functionality can look a bit clunky, but it works. After you set up iCal with the first link, google sync takes care of your phone.
- I have a 3Gs and it lags a fair amount. I would suggest waiting for the iPhone 5 and getting that (should be in late august/early september)
- http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/
- the default iPhone mail app is not NEARLY as useful as the one on android. for example, you can't even see labels. I would suggest using the mobile client itself for gmail if you have to have labels, but for me the default is okay (I don't know what I'm missing).
- I don't have a 4, so I can't comment. Usually getting a case works. You could avoid this by waiting for the 5.
- you should probably read up about iOS5 that should be coming out in august/september. has some new features (some very similar to android) and this would allow you to get familiar with iOS.
would you be thinking about jailbreaking? hope this helps!
That's what Internet on your phone is for. You can also text the company name and your zipcode to 466453 (GOOGLE) (demo) to get back search results. That is, if the number isn't obvious, like 1-800-COMCAST.
I have seen some car "dock" apps that do this. Check this out: https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/51000/~/droid-x---car-dock-application
Also by default android voice commands can play music. http://www.google.com/mobile/voice-actions/
Would it be possible to incorporate features of google goggles?
Specifically this.
This probably is proprietary as well, huh?
You can text "weather zipcode" to google (466453) and get a 3 day forecast as well. Here's a list of commands, click "show more features" for the full list.
Voice.google.com get a free phone number and forward it to wherever you're going to be if you like. Or don't. If you can plan out an evening a few hours in advance there's no real need for cell phones.
"Meet here at 7, might go to here later if I'm not there." That kind of thing. You can also just download the software on a phone that has the ability to use wifi and not the cell connection: http://www.google.com/mobile/voice/
I'm a big texter and you can text from your phone number right in gmail. A lot of friends don't really know I don't have a cell phone, which is part of odd look equation.
I'm always surprised by the voice feature's accuracy.
"Send text to XYZ. Hey how are ya?" - fires up an SMS message addressed to XYZ, fills it in, "hey how are ya?"
edit: that's using Voice Search (by Google)
Despite your implication, RIM does not have a monopoly on push email, by any means. The gmail client on my android phone is push, and I understand the hotmail client is also. I'd be surprised if the iphone, webos etc. implementations aren't similar. And any phone with modern Exchange support (inc. android, iphone, webOS, etc.) will support push with that. Etc, etc.
Software is protected by copyright law in the US and other countries as well. To use the Android Market, you must agree the the Android Market Terms of Service which, among other things, states that "3.5 Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with Google, you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the Market for any purpose."
So unless you live in an area where such laws don't apply, it really isn't that questionable. This is why ROMs like CyanogenMod can't distribute the Google apps.
Converting sounds to text and having Watson only listen would make the task significantly more complicated. You can buzz in once the question is finished being read, but at that point you need to have an answer, which presumably takes a few seconds of search. Also there is the added complexity of translating sounds to text (which isn't always a unique dictionary lookup) being able to clearly tell when words end, detect slight mispronounciation, distinguish homophones, etc. (And it would be difficult and wasteful to have to repeatedly parse partial questions, as opposed to the full question).
However, it probably would be trivial (and at most slow the computer by a fraction of a second) to have Watson's avatar take a screenshot/photograph (in constant lighting conditions) of the question and have to OCR it into plain text (something akin to say google goggles that can be done almost instantaneously.
If you use Google Maps for mobile with GPS enabled on your phone, that’s exactly what you can do. When you choose to enable Google Maps with My Location, your phone sends anonymous bits of data back to Google describing how fast you’re moving. When we combine your speed with the speed of other phones on the road, across thousands of phones moving around a city at any given time, we can get a pretty good picture of live traffic conditions. We continuously combine this data and send it back to you for free in the Google Maps traffic layers. It takes almost zero effort on your part — just turn on Google Maps for mobile before starting your car — and the more people that participate, the better the resulting traffic reports get for everybody
The full text. Fucking troll moron jackass.
>If you use Google Maps for mobile with GPS enabled on your phone, that’s exactly what you can do. When you choose to enable Google Maps with My Location, your phone sends anonymous bits of data back to Google describing how fast you’re moving. When we combine your speed with the speed of other phones on the road, across thousands of phones moving around a city at any given time, we can get a pretty good picture of live traffic conditions. We continuously combine this data and send it back to you for free in the Google Maps traffic layers. It takes almost zero effort on your part — just turn on Google Maps for mobile before starting your car — and the more people that participate, the better the resulting traffic reports get for everybody
For those without star charts I recommend Google's sky map App. It is cool because you can actually use it to determine where to look in real time. No knowledge of astronomy needed.
There was a study claiming iOS users install 30 more apps on Android users from the market.
Downloading Google Maps from the Apple App Store counts in that study. So do any of these apps- http://www.google.com/mobile/ios/
A very hackish way would be to have the google voice number forward to email for reading incoming messages and then have your email send to the phone as a proxy (as in, it will appear to the user that your "reply" was sent via the phone number).
Not sure if that's possible, but it could be implied by the SMS to Email feature designated at the bottom of this page: http://www.google.com/mobile/sms/voice/
Don't mind at all. Nice to hear that you're working on being nicer. :)
You don't have to get a phone, you can get google voice number:
http://www.google.com/mobile/sms/voice/
which can send text messages over the internet.
Also, don't worry about escalation just yet. Just get to know her, get comfortable in this stage (but not too long! just a week or two) then think about taking it to the next level. "Young love" is great, the butterflies, the waiting for the texts, the excitement when it comes- enjoy the process! Don't be so worried about the future that you fail to enjoy how great it is to have someone you like, like you back :)
feel free to bug me, good luck and most of appreciate this moment.
I suck at photoshop, but if someone can sharpen the photo, you should run it in Google Goggles. It basically scans the photo and cross-references the internet, and spits out the answer/suggestions.
I've used it for artworks, statues, artwork, etc. wherever I go, just to get more background info/to test it out. It is scary how accurate it is! http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#landmark
If you're an iPhone or iPad user make sure you look at Google Mobile Sync. It's Microsoft Exchange-alike functionality to sync your Google mail, contacts, and calendars to your device (after setting it up visit http://m.google.com/sync from the phone to choose which calendars get synced). It's the best way to use a Google account on an iOS device!
Holy shit dude. You are not gonna believe this. I know I probably not gonna get response from my friend in Burma soon because you know he is from Burma. So what I did was I loaded that image to my goggles app and lo and behold it recognized that painting right away..here is the link but they are all in chinese: http://www.youhuas.com/youhuazuopin/renwu/luoti/luoti.html . Damn son!
Exchange will simply get you a few additional features if you use an ActiveSync account. A Google account comes with Exchange support.
See here:
http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/
http://support.google.com/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139635
I'm curious, how well does the Google voice mobile app work on Android? If you have unlimited data, wouldn't that effectively give you unlimited minutes (free calls in the US)?
This may not be what you're looking for, but if you camp in a hammock you can opt for no tarp in order to maximize overhead visibility...
Also, if you have an Android phone consider Google Skymap. It tells you what you're looking at!
If you had bothered to click on my link, you would have noticed that Google does indeed call the image search in the Google Search app "Google Goggles." I've highlighted it here. The official Google Goggles website also mentions its iOS compatability.
The person you replied to asked two questions: what Goggles is and why can he/she not find it in the App Store. You correctly answered the first part. However, rather than redirecting him/her to the Goggles ability of the Google Search App, you stated that Google Goggles is available only for Android. Now if you're arguing semantics then you're right: the Google Goggles app is only available for Android. However, Google Goggles functionality is available for both iOS and Android.
Mass implementation? Arguably more devices out there are Android, and this has been in the Android phones for a few years, Google's Voice Search is more than just "search", it's tied with the Google Voice Actions - you can tell it to get directions, send an email, a text message, or darn near anything.
Not by a long shot is it the first mass implementation of it. This is Apple playing catch-up to what Google does very well.
Calendar and Address book can be stored locally and/or in the cloud using Google if you setup his Google account as an Exchange Server (Google Sync). Also, with iOS 5 they can be backed up in the cloud with iCloud if you don't want to setup Google Sync.
Hmmm googled it, so this all the Google Voice Commands do is it?
So what they have is the slightly better version of what the iPhone4 has. The only one I feel like I am missing would be the SMS and the directions one.
I use the voice commands on my iPhone4 all the time, but typically to call people (it is faster than contacts) or to choose music.
The new function actually has nice ideas in it. it seems designed to be actually used, rather than to point score in Android wankfests.
Android has had voice actions since Froyo.
These are the things it understands: http://www.google.com/mobile/voice-actions/
It also has the dictation key on the keyboard. Hold it down, and dictate, identical to iOS 5.
Where I'm expecting Siri to be better: * accuracy of voice recognition * ability to have a "conversation" and understand context * wider range of actions and integration with apps
So yes, Android does have voice commands, but it has just been seriously leapfrogged by Siri.
Good marketing move by Apple, Siri used to be on the app store and worked on older devices, Apple brought them around last year and now say it will only work on iphone 4S. I'm sure someone will hack it to work on jail broken devices. Btw we Android users have had this for a while now with Google Voice Actions So honestly, Siri isn't much of a announcement
Well, I could never solve the problem so I asked a friend and he created a thread on the CM7 forum. Hopefully I'll be able to get it solved. In the meantime I just installed everything from the market that was listed at Google Mobile.
google goggles wants to do this, but it isnt smart enough yet. I suppose someone could make an app that asks the user multiple questions about the bug to identify it from class down to species and then show pictures and ask the user to pick the insect that looks most like it.
There are many options for wifi sync on android. I don't know what exactly what you mean by quick camera access, but it is not difficult to get to the camera on android, and it loads very quickly. Zune pass is nice, but again, android has these services. Speech to text is nice, I know because I have been showing to to people on android for close to a year now, and voice actions are the best voice command system I have seen. There is a lot of integration with facebook in android as well, for example, most media has a share button, clicking it gives you a share to facebook option. Have you actually worked with android? I feel like you are projecting what you feel is missing on your iphone onto android. I would choose WP7 over iphone myself, but I love the openness of android, and how easy it is to customize. I look forward to being able to sell WP7 as being on the same level as android, but it is not their yet. Mango will bring it a lot closer, and it's not that far off already.
I'm not sure I would go as far as saying "exponential" - way I remember it, it was incremental just like everything else - it sat on top of DOS, just like 3.x did, and there were plenty of 16-bit applications for a long time that dropped you back into MS-DOS to run it - I would say the difference between W95/98/ME and NT/2000/XP was way bigger - in terms of the actual technology, anyway...
in terms of the way people interacted with their PC - the UI - sure Windows 95 brought a more Mac like experience to people who'd previously had little or no exposure to that sort of thing - I guess that's sort of a leap, in a way?
I think the next major "leap" in the desktop OS will be the disappearance of it - that's a pretty big leap, right?
the "desktop" metaphor is getting pushed out of the OS and into "app" space because operating systems are slowly and subtly being required to be able to handle more varied user interactions, like advanced touch and voice and so on, as our daily interactions slowly and subtly move away, not so much from the desktop machine to one thing in particular but distributed across a number of devices...
Oh yeah, forgot about contacts. Never have to worry about that, or calendars. In fact, if you decide to get an Android phone, sync your iPhone to google (http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/), then all of your contacts will already be on the Android phone when you sign in.
WP7, BB & Symbian are all listed with empty boxes on http://www.google.com/mobile/+/ - but I can't see them leaving these large audiences out for long. Bare in mind G+ is still new-to-market, and the majority of people still can't get in.
In the meantime, there's a nice mobile web interface.
Long press on the search soft key for voice control.
Voice Search should be installed by default, but if not, go it from the market. There's voice control on all Android phones, but this one has all the advanced features.
Flash doesn't work well on mobile devices. It was designed for mouse and keyboard, not touch. Apple's approach is to avoid the whole issue. Google's is to allow plug-ins into the Market. Adobe made the plug-in and you have to install it, just like a computer. Google's doesn't install a lot of non-Google apps just because it thinks you might need them, and so many sites are converting to HTML5/native app that Google want to endorse that over Flash. They're just going to the extent of blocking Flash.
And the Flash plugin is huge because it can do a lot of what desktop Flash can do, not just play Flash video files.
The easiest way is with google sync
Sync your blackberry contacts to your gmail (which you should be using) then just type in your gmail login and pass in your android phone and it will sync them back over, along with your email. Easy huh
use the link on the right to get google sync for the blackberry http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/
Google Googles si Google Skymap merita instalate.
Also go wild pe market. Uite ce mai folosesc eu:
- winamp
- info bnr (curs valutar)
- Tricorder (daca ti-a placut Star Trek get it)
- quick settings (acces rapid la luminozitatea ecranului)
- Latitude (ca sa vad pe unde is potentiali oameni de scos la bere)
- Reddit is fun (se putea sa nu)
- AlarmDroid
- Zedge (ringtones, wallpapers... dastea)
First, make sure you have the latest Google Search and Google voice search apps loaded.
If you do, just press and hold the search button to start up the voice action prompt. Speak "Listen to <blahblahblahwhateveryouwant>" and watch the magic happen.
There are some other powerful voice actions as well.
The Google Goggles app for Android phones does exactly that. Scans objects within camera range, and direct you where you can buy.
It does other stuff too, but it's mainly for buying stuff you see.
Sure, speech to text is hard and far from perfect.
Watson answers specific questions, Google gives you a link to web page or web site that probably answers your question. Its like the difference between an expert who will just provide you with a certain fact versus a professor who didn't really understand what you said but who does know a lot about the general subject and so gives you an hour-long lecture.
Also, Google Voice Search is pretty good.
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/hhfkcobomkalfdlmkongnhnhahkmnaad
You have likely already heard about it, but Google Goggles can recognize many objects from a picture you take. It's not OCR, just object recognition though as far as I understand. Link: http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#text
Google Shopper seems to do all this and even more: Scans barcodes, logos Search by voice Prices, reviews, specs, Local stores search Works for Android 1.5+ and iPhone with iOS 4.0+
Somewhat similar app - Google Goggles - could be used for more general search, f.e. looking up criticism of some corp Works for Android 1.6+ and iPhone with iOS 4.0+
Google Shopper seems to do all this and even more: Scans barcodes, logos Search by voice Prices, reviews, specs, Local stores search Works for Android 1.5+ and iPhone with iOS 4.0+
Somewhat similar app - Google Goggles - could be used for more general search, f.e. looking up criticism of some corp Works for Android 1.6+ and iPhone with iOS 4.0+
I've never used it, but don't see why it wouldn't work.
Edit - looks like there's also an app called A Google Map Navigation Book - description says the pro version allows you to save locations from Google Maps and make a backup. Haven't used that either...