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A smartwatch won't be Google's only wearable

2014-03-11
what's up brian Tong here and welcome to google issues for everything google that we can pack inside of a show each week now wearables is the new product category for tech companies in 2014 google really pushed it forward with glass and rumors of a nexus watch indicate we could see some sort of announcement for that in the next month and just to give it a little more of a push reports say google's android and chrome chief sundar Pichai announced at South by Southwest that a new android sdk for developers interested in building apps for their wearables will arrive in the next two weeks now they didn't mention any specific products but Pichai said the new Android software development kit for wearables will incorporate wearables beyond just smart watches he also added that Google's approach to android on smartwatches will be like their approach to Android on smartphones translation put them on everything which means my LED belt buckle could eventually measure my heart rate down there now more google news from South by Southwest this time about the chromecast so DARPA Chie said that the googs is streaming media dongle will go on sale in many more countries in the next few weeks and they described us sales in the millions without giving any specific figures the chromecast has expanded its support that now includes YouTube Netflix Hulu Plus Pandora Plex in a whole lot more but with the recent release of the chromecast sdk online streaming video service voodoo announced that both its android and iOS apps will add chromecast support very soon as streaming will also be available through the chrome web browser on Windows and Mac now our do and beats music are also expected to add support as well now we told you about the asus chromevox a few weeks ago and pre-orders are now open starting out 179 dollars with an expected release date of marks the 17th it actually has three different configurations but this is one of the smallest chrome boxes ever and for those of you who question how do you really pronounced hay-soos well let me offer the final word from them asus repeat once again asus thank you see it's not a sous or asus it's a sous and you know i have to look that up every time to remind myself i'll write a little bit of samsung news Sammy's big bad 12.2 inch Galaxy Tab is now available starting at six 49 in black or white with 32 or 64 gig versions this is different from the Galaxy Note version that's one hundred dollars more expensive and includes a stylus this one is stylists less now we've seen bigger screens and phones so obviously we have to have bigger screen size tablets to also samsung launched their new music streaming service called wait for it milk music and it's powered by slacker radio and available to customers of select galaxy devices it offers 200 curated stations and the ability to create your own based on an artists or songs so what do you guys think you like the name I mean everyone's going with the melt does a body good reference but i'm thinking more like the Milky Way is part of the galaxy so Samsung's milk music is part of the Samsung Galaxy SIII ten people in a room actually had that conversation now it's completely free and ad free for a limited time and available to download on Google Play all right let's get to some quick stories the pebble smartwatch has updated its pebble app on Android and now allows users to browse and install apps for new additions like eBay and Evernote and everyone loves new watch faces for pebble as well also HP still in the android tablet business has released their new tablet called the HP 8 which sports and all new design for HP that looks exactly like an iPad Mini and appears to be using an almost identical 7.85 inch IPS display at a friendlier 170 dollars and also the best quiz game on planet earth really in my opinion quizup is now available on Google Play featuring over 400 topics real-time online play rankings and chat and it finally comes to android users so get on that it's worth it and yes guys I will end this with an obligatory leaked ACC One m8 photo for the week see there it is but even better website Android he has all the full resolution wallpapers before the phone even comes out so you can have something like this serene lake very nice or waving grass which is kind of cool or colored lines it's really your pic alright that's going to do it for this week's show we want to hear from you so email us at Google issues at cnet com or just tweet me at brian Tong thanks so much for watching and we'll see you next week for some more of that google asus get alicious
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