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we are on the cusp of Google i/o which is Google's big event in San Francisco at the moscone center to bring developers and fans in to see what's new i'm dan farber from cnet and i'm joined by our google correspondent says rosenblatt Seth what do we expect that will be new from google at this event sure well let's recall last year's event where they demoed the then new google glass with an extreme sports demo they had some some guys jump out of a dirigible and a wingsuit down and parachute down to the roof of the Moscone Center it was high drama nobody knew what was happening was all done over google+ hangout it was crazy is a word that I think you can use to this so are they gonna go crazy again this year was something I don't you think that's gonna happen I think that was I don't know if it was a one-time thing but there's no way to really top that and this year they're not even going to try I don't think we do know that they will be giving away some swag as they have in years past and that swag will probably include at least one Android device it's not really clear from the rumors whether it's going to be a new version of the nexus 4 or whether it's going to be an entirely new phone we do know that there will not be a revamp of the Nexus Q the strange little media ball that they debuted last year and bombed just as badly as Google glass sword what about the motorola acquisition isn't there supposed to be some niall motorola phones and lenora x mm-hmm there are they've been rumored there's been no indication if that's going to be one of the giveaways or one of the announcements it would be a great time for Google to do that because for the past 12 months people have been scratching their heads going why on earth did Google by motorola what have they done with them it's been a very uncertain acquisition for the company now Android is I don't something like 750 million phones out there something like that there is the operating system there's something called key lime pie is that going to be shown at this event we think that there's going to be key lime pie shown at the event but it could also be a simply a minor point update to the current version of Android which is called jelly bean so we could be getting android 4.3 or we could be getting android 5.0 which is key lime pie what about google and its competition with the ipad all the different kinds of nexus and applets the android running Nexus 7 tablet could receive an update as well one of the problems with speculating about Google is that they could really take things in so many different directions because they have their hands in so many different pies not just key lime now that's a good one what about gaming I've heard that there's a rumor going around that that multiplayer gaming is something that Google is now going to get into yeah it's this is probably the worst kept secret about this year's google i/o if you look at the schedule there are gaming developing development events all over the schedule there is definitely some kind of Android Play gaming a thing coming we don't know exactly what form it's going to take but it looks like a massively multiplayer online gaming network will be coming to Android and do you think that they would be doing a console of any kind or just kind of stick with a kind of hardware they have now that's a great question we have no idea they could be doing a console Google really surprised everybody last year with glass with the nexus 7 with the Q even even though it was a failure so they could be doing an Android focused hardware console they could also just do something where that allows current android phones and tablets that are out there to be turned into the console itself google now has been a big hit as you just said and it's on iOS it's on android didn't you see it moving to the desktop absolutely a few weeks ago Google surreptitiously released an add-on only in Russian that turned Google now into your Chrome's homepage something like that could very well be coming it wouldn't surprise me if they announced it Google now has been a huge success for the company people have responded very well to the cards layout and it wouldn't be surprised me to see more card style action in other Google services so what's coming up tomorrow Wednesday when Google i/o opens well we've got some Cena TV editors doing a pregame before the live blog and at 9am we are launching our annual live blog of Google i/o this year it's a three hour keynote format as opposed to separating the keynote over two days so it's going to be a long one but it should be a lot of fun thanks Seth thank you Dan for cnet i'm dan farber thanks for watching