Google introduced a world full of Android – The Associated Press

             

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Google on Wednesday organized a conference that showed what it considers to be the near future: an everyday when Android operating system, which began to equip mobile phones, extending the smart watches, cars and television. Some of these products are already on the market.

                 

                     Opening the Google I / O, an event aimed at developers, the company began the industry that this system is already a leader – the mobile phone – and introduced the Android One This is a set of specifications for manufacturing smartphones, that manufacturers can adhere and which has as an objective the marketing budget and able to conquer the countries in which devices are still many people have not made the transition from conventional mobile phones, such as the emerging economies.

These phones have the version of Android developed by Google without own applications and interfaces that many brands add on their Android models in a bid to differentiate them from the competition. . The first model will be marketed in India by a local manufacturer with a price below $ 100

Google still showed smart watches – also called smartwatches – manufactured by Samsung and LG, which went on sale on Wednesday. These models have installed the android Wear, the latest platform of Google for this type of equipment. Samsung, which leads the market of smartphones , already sells several watches, but until now they were all equipped with their own platform called Tizen. Have the Moto 360, the clock manufactured by Motorola (bought by Google) and distinguished by having the appearance of a traditional analog clock will be offered for sale only in summer, still without a set date.

The market for smart watches is still very small but should grow. According to figures given by the PUBLIC IDC, went on sale last year only 1.7 million of these devices worldwide. It is estimated that this year’s volume to grow to 3.8 million and are 10.9 million in 2015. By comparison, only in the first quarter this year went to the flap about 282 million smartphones .

From watches, Android jumped into the room. After last year have already successfully launched Chromecast, a small USB device that connects televisions to the Internet, now Google introduced Android TV, an operating system for boxes flat, which lets you search and access to online content.

Automobiles, finally, are another type of product that Google does not want to stay out. The company demonstrated the integration between an Android phone and a car designed to be compatible with the system. Once connected the phone to the car, the user has access to applications and mobile content, including maps, GPS service, music and service calls and SMS, in which messages are read and can be dictated. The system is controlled on the touch screen of the car, as well as through the steering wheel controls and voice.

Compatible with this new technology cars are already being developed by companies in the Automotive Open Alliance, a group of car brands gathered by Google.

The company also unveiled updates to Google Drive, the service online file storage that integrates productivity tools, such as a text editor and spreadsheet. The strategy is to increase the adoption by businesses – many of which use rival Microsoft tools – to provide security and management features that are typically sought by business users. For a price of eight euros per month per user, companies can have unlimited storage space for files, each of which can have up to five terabytes , much more than the typical working papers .

“It ensures that Google Drive meets all requirements for organizations,” said Google PUBLIC responsible for this area in Portugal, Felix Pedro Mendes. The multinational is eight months working in Portugal to expand the business Adoption Drive.