Gadgetory

hey what's up guys I'm Kay PhD here and to wrap up probably my last video for 2012 I want to talk about Google now Google now is one of the finest and best and most revolutionary technologies to be announced and released in 2012 it's available on every device running Android 4.1 jellybean or later and fun fact when it was being written its codename and during development was Majel after Majel barrett who was the voice of the computer from Star Trek so it's pretty badass Lieutenant Commander data now located in holodeck area 4j anyway Google now is a step beyond Siri which is iOS is personal assistant because not only does it have superior voice recognition but it's also a whole system behind it there's a whole process and the whole cards UI and everything about Google now behind the scenes that gives you search results before you even search for them is amazing so first of all you can get to Google now several different ways on your device you can just open it with the Google app so you can tap the google app icon or you can swipe up on your lock screen or if you're on a Nexus device you can swipe up from your home screen to open Google now or if you're not running a Nexus device you can assign a swipe action in your launcher so it really separates Google now from the competitors like Siri or even exploits for that matter is the pre search it's what shows up in the cards UI before you even search for anything it presents information that's relevant to you based on information that it knows a value Google takes information from your Gmail account from your Google searches from your Google Calendar all of your Google Account stuff and uses that information to prevent information that's relevant to you and a lot of people might think that that's a little weird that you know Google knows all this about you but you're being tracked by a bunch of different companies anyway that you might not even know about so it's nice that at least Google give you something back for it and it's free so here are all the cards that you could possibly get with all the information Google knows about you from Google now the birthday card for one knows it's your birthday the movie-theater cards when you're near a movie theater the photo spot card for when you're near a spot that people like to take pictures at the public transit card for when you're near a train or bus station the places cards for when you're near someplace interesting the Translate and currency cards for when you leave the country the flight cards for when your flight is arriving soon the event cards when stuff is happening nearby the sports cards for basketball baseball or football teams that you've googled the stock card if there's a big change in your portfolio the research card which will help you find more information about something you've recently googled the Gmail cards which will allow you to show your boarding pass shipping info or hotel or restaurant reservations for any restaurant you've gotten an email for the activity summary card for those who walk or bike a lot and the infamous weather card for whatever city you happen to be located in and much much much much more there's a full list in the description below my personal favorite one is if your device picks up that you commute to a place frequently based on the GPS location it'll show a card in the morning with how long it takes for you to get to that place and a notification about 10 minutes or so before you need to leave to get there on time based on the traffic in Google Maps and provides a OneTouch Google Maps Navigation button to be on your way it's just genius so aside from all these cards that will show up best on all things that knows about you there's also voice search and voice search from Google's voice recognition is really good really fast and very useful I've done a video about this comparing it to s voice comparing it to Siri a lot of people are pretty aware by now that it is really good and really fast and it knows a lot of information because Google's database of information is so huge that it's able to get a result back to you very quickly even if you're not going to Google's database you can still open apps on your phone and text people and dial numbers from the Google Voice Search app what's coming up soon is the ability to use OS functions so I asked it to turn off Wi-Fi and it gave me a message saying that the system functions are coming but are not yet implemented keyword yet also what's neat is you don't have to use your voice to get a card with the answer from Google so if you're in a quiet area and you don't want to talk and look crazy talking to your phone you can actually type in your question and if it's in Google's database it will go ahead and give you a card with the same answer as if you had used a voice search so this is what my Google now looks like right now I don't have a lot of cards but I do use it all the time almost well pretty much everyday my question to you is how often do you use Google now I know a lot of people I asked on Twitter at mkbhd so they actually use it a lot more now that it's becoming more a wide available and has more functions added to it my favorite feature of it by the way is the package tracker very useful every time I get an Amazon email it just shows up in Google now it's very convenient so there you go that's my number one favorite thing that was released in 2012 it's it's got a long way to go no doubt and it's it's exciting to see where the future of Google now will go anyway thanks for watching the video if you're free to +1 or to give a thumbs up below that really does help out and if you want to share this video with you know new people who got Android devices for the holiday season that's probably gonna help too so either way thank you for watching and I'll talk to you guys in the next video you