The tech company launches Pixel, a first smartphone of its own products, and Home, a smart speaker for use in the home. Centrally in the apparatus is artificial intelligence.
From our correspondent in San Francisco
At a press conference with the slogan “Made by Google” Tuesday in San Francisco introduced the Alphabet-docher a series of new and updated devices for which the technology company, its position in hardware wants to strengthen. The focus lag on the smartphone Pixel and on Google Home, a smart and voice-controlled speaker. The company also launches its first glasses for virtual reality.
It was the biggest launch of new hardware ever for Google. The company dominates several corners of the internet with online services such as Gmail, Maps and Chrome, but had so far little success with physical products. Want the now the primary vehicle for its artificial intelligence.
Best camera
Pixel is according to Google, the smartphone with the best camera ever,
The Pixel is the first smartphone that Google fully itself. The unit will compete with the newly launched iPhone 7 from Apple, and according to Google, the smartphone with the best camera ever. Users also get free unlimited space for files on the web store, so that the memory of the phone, never have to be full. With a quarter load must be the battery, as well as seven hours of life.
During the presentation did Google it after to a few times to prick in the direction of Apple. So be Google under more subtle in the presence of an input for a headset, something Apple recently deleted in its iPhone 7, with the necessary hoopla as a result.
at Least as important as the hardware is the software. Google puts a strong focus on artificial intelligence to the phone to control so that it can act as always present personal assistant. In the main unit Assistant built in, the AI-technology from Google, similar to Apple’s Siri, or Cortana from Microsoft.
Our goal is to provide for each user a personal Google build.
CEO Google
Artificial intelligence is the next big wave in the technologiewereld, emphasized Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai. “About every ten years there is a major shift in the way we use computers,” said Pichai. “In the 80′s there was the advent of the personal computer, in the 90′s, the web, and after 2000 the smartphonerevolutie.’
“The next step is artificial intelligence,” said Pichai. “That technology is a universal, interactive, and always available when the user needs it. Our goal is to provide for each user to have a personal Google to build.’ The underlying message from Google was that the company’s ambition to become as dominant to be in AI if it is already years in search on the web.
Smart speaker
another way of Google to get that closer to users, is the smart speaker Google Home. This is a device that is an ever-present computer, which users can activate by it talking, with ‘Ok Google’ as a keyword. The speaker plays music on demand, answers questions, works as a personal assistant and can also serve to other devices in the house to send.
Home is a response to the US-very popular Echo of Amazon. The e-commerce business created the new product category with the launch of Echo two years ago and surprised a lot of other technology companies. Google is now the first competitor who is clearly in the chase.
Amazon sold all 3 million copies of his Echo, which listens to the name Alexa. Google is strong that it can make all the difference with the richness of its underlying technology, are so-called ‘knowledge graph’, based on the most popular search engine for the internet worldwide.
Virtual reality
Google also announced the launch of its first glasses for virtual reality: the Daydream View. In this viewer fits a smartphone that allows users to VR. Samsung and Facebook subsidiary Oculus brought earlier, a similar combination on the market. Google explained to the show’s strong emphasis on fashionable design and ease of use. The Pixel is the first smartphone that is compatible with the glasses, but there are still other brands, said the company.
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