Google I/O 2013 Round Up: What’s exactly New?

The big 2013 Google I/O conference for software developers was finally launched in San Francisco．Before, many people has posted articles of expectation of 2013 Google I/O conference, so what did Google bring to us? Let’s just check out it in the following.

Google Maps
A new version of Google Maps for both Android and iOS was announced covering a new interface, 3D, and social search. The map information about the venues themselves will be surfaced in their place without any pins. Besides, the new important features of Maps are the live incident reports and crunch the traffic data, which can direct users to reach their destinations faster. Google said, the Maps will also be integrated with Google + to share the maps information with your friends. “A map built for you," Google said.

Google Play Music All Access
As reported, Google start offering the music streaming service, which combines a user's music library with a wide array of songs the company has licensed. According to Google, "It allows you to explore millions of songs across devices, effortlessly. Radio without rules." You just need to pay $10 a month to get the service which is now launched in US. If you start before June 30, you get it for $8 a month, $2 less than what Pandora charges.

Samsung Nexus Galaxy S4
A customized Samsung Galaxy S4 will be the next Nexus phone, which will run the latest Android version of Google rather than Samsung version of Android OS. This Samsung Galaxy S4 will support WCDMA and LTE 4G Network and owns 16GB storage. The phone will be available on Google Play on June 26 with the price of $649.

Chrome
Google showcased that the Chrome-powered laptop Pixel and emphasized that the laptop is fast and smart. The chrome browser also is displayed to playing games very fluently on the tablets or phones.

Google Plus
Google Plus has be added 41 new features to get a big change for social network with an impressive set of automated filters and hash tags. The fresh stream can be smarter than ever for you to display the movies and choose the related ones. The Knowledge Graph feature lets people click through automatically discovered related photos. Hangouts will also be a standalone app across the Android, iOS and web. Also, some great features about Photo are included like HDR.

Others
Also, Google announced other things like Google Play Game Services API, Google Play Education, Voice recognition and natural language understanding for Google Search.

At the moment, Google has announced these things and I will updated it if it has released new things. 

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New Nexus 7, the Highlight of Google I/O 2013

I believe that the news that New Nexus 7 will be announced on upcoming 2013 Google I/O conference has caught people’s eyes, since the Nexus 7 offers the best small tablet experience. Of course, Nexus 7 need to be improved when faced up with rumored iPad Mini 2 and the Galaxy Note 8. So what terms may be improved?

The rumors said that the New Nexus 7 will feature upgraded specs like a high-resolution screen, better cameras and wireless charging but with the same price $199.This is really the exciting news, that is to say, we can get another better cheap small tablet.

According to KGI Research, the next generation of Nexus 7 will run Android 4.3 Jelly bean rather than Android 5.0 Key Pie Lime.It is also said that the new one will turn to a new processor from Nvidia Tegra to Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, which may provide the higher performance, flexibility, global 3G/4G connectivity and energy efficiency.

In terms of display, the small tablet may come with a 7-inch LTPS panel carrying a 1,980*1,200 pixel resolution, just the same as Nexus 10. Full HD display, great? For camera, just like Note 8, the next-gen Nexus 7 may be also packed with a 5-megapixel rear facing camera while the old one only provide a 1.2MP rear camera. Besides, there is a possibility that New Nexus 7 offer the wireless charging, that is really amazing.

Considering of design, the next small 7 inch tablet may feature a slimmer bezel design kind of like iPad Mini.

The new Nexus 7 is reportedly be released in July, and with these upgrades, new nexus 7 seems to be more powerful than Galaxy Note 8, but there is one thing we are really want Google to do is to add a SD card, though there are some ways to expand Nexus 7’s storage.

Whatever, the next-gen 7 will unarguably a highlight at the big conference of Google, let’s just expect it.

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