I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but I still have no idea what that means...


I'm very excited for this. When I had my phone rooted, I was able to set up Tasker so that my phone would have NO lock screen when I was at home on my own WiFi network, but have a PIN code to unlock when I left my house. I like the idea of having the watch be your credentials.



I'm mixed about this. It seems like every time I open a web link in the Chrome browser, I see 9 tabs I forgot were even open, usually from various home screen and "OK Google" searches. Now all those useless tabs are going to end up in my recent list? Oh well, at least that will get me to close them


All good stuff. Though I'd like to hear an explanation of how developers will see all these speed advantages from ART without needing to do anything, when you can enable ART right now and from what I hear you don't really get much improvement. Did I hear that wrong? Do developers have to take advantage of ART in some way?


A great addition. Isn't there an Android phone out there now that has this stuff? I think there was even one that turned everything black and white at a certain battery level...


I do worry about the size of these things, but I don't think we've seen them quite enough yet. They certainly looked gigantic on the wrists of the women who spoke on stage. Sundar's Moto 360 even looked too big, and that's the one that everyone's waiting for. The LG and Samsung models have much too large bezels, which I think adds to how big they look. I would wager that if the whole product were still the same size, but the screen somehow went all the way to the edges, like it looks the Moto 360 will, your mind might trick you into thinking it looks smaller. I think at some point you can't make it too small or its utility diminishes.

Either way, I'm very excited. I haven't worn a watch in over 15 years, but this might get me to wear one.


Perhaps I haven't spent enough time with Google Now, but I have a very love/hate relationship with it.

...I decided to spin off my Google Now rant into another thread...


I've heard the heartrate monitors on these things don't work well in certain conditions...like moving. I will say that it was very unclear how well any of these Wear devices would work without a phone. I had the impression that a phone was essential, but it would be great if they could work with other bluetooth devices.

I'm also still not sold on wristband pedometers. That method just doesn't seem as accurate to me as something strapped to your core.


VERY excited for that stuff. It's cool to see this extending the contextual search stuff they showed off last year.


Again, I wonder how many watches LG or Samsung are going to sell with that Moto 360 on the horizon. The LG watch just looks clunky, though it has clean lines. The Samsung watch is made by Samsung, which is enough reason for me to avoid it.


Oh my god I want this so badly. I drive all over northern Virginia as part of my job, and the process of putting addresses into my car's navigation system is mind-numbing. Nevermind the fact that the maps DVD is now 10 years old and doesn't contain major changes made to this extremely busy traffic area, I just hate my navigation system's interface. If I could just get into the car and have it know what's next on my calendar and let me just accept the next destination, then see real time traffic conditions on the road so I can choose alternate routes? Oh my god, I'm so ready for this.

The only thing that makes me wary is that I don't like the idea of proprietary systems like this in a car. I don't even want a smart TV (this applies to Android TV) because I don't want to use something that's going to be obsolete in two years, when the thing I paid way more for is going to stick around for another 8 years. I've had my TV for 8 years and my car for 5. I've replaced my TV set top box about 4-5 times in that period, and I would have loved to replace my navigation system by now. Plus, what if you get a new phone and decide to switch to another platform? I wouldn't want to be an Android user using Apple's car system and vice versa. I don't know if there's a solution for this, but we need to figure it out.


I'm starting to wonder if it's rdio's fault that they're never invited to the party. It seems like in the last few weeks there have been a half dozen announcements involving streaming audio services, and none of them ever mention rdio. I really worry for their future, because I love the service so much.


Could that be their way of entering into the car companies they didn't partner with? Doesn't Alpine make the stereos for the car industry?


This still doesn't bother me because I almost never switch inputs, but what surprised me was the near-absence of talk about set top boxes. They only talked about TVs with Android TV built into them, then at the very end they quickly mentioned that Razr (really?) and Asus. I assume these will be HDMI pass-through boxes, but they didn't talk about it at all.


This is a big deal. It's something that's bothered me for a long time. I have a guest network to separate visitors from my own computers/printers, so this is a big deal. Very smart.


True, though I can't imagine having a TV in my home that's on all day (seems wasteful). At best, I see it as a pleasant way to customize the weird images that show up when I switch to the Chromecast input on my receiver


This was one of the times during the keynote that made me want to yell out "When? How?" Does anyone know if this is possible now? If not, when? Is it an L feature? Do I have to upgrade my Chromecast? It really ticked me off not knowing anything more about this. They just kept saying "You can do this!" and I kept saying "HOW?"



Love it, just like with the watch.


ChromeOS doesn't run on Android, does it? And aren't most ChromeOS devices Intel-based? Meaning whatever they're doing it must be some sort of emulation, right?

In the end, I wasn't very excited about this and I really don't see it going anywhere. It's hard enough to get developers to code for Android, they're not going to throw in a little extra work for some minor ChromeOS interplay. I don't see the big deal. It's not like we'll be able to install any app we want. It was pretty clear that these were select apps.


Oh snap! I loved this.


There are limitations on that, though. I think you have to have at least five people signed up to get that price, and it doesn't count for any of their other services, does it? I guess it doesn't matter, though. If I could just drop all my files in Drive, that would be pretty huge. Regardless, they still have some of the best cloud storage prices.


Apparently there was tons of security...and they all stood around. From what I heard they were very gentle in escorting the protestors from the building. I thought one of them was a kook, and the other had a very legit, specific complaint.