WHAT IS THE GOOGLE PIXEL ?
Google Pixel is Google's brand new smartphone made to be better than both the new iPhone 7 and the new Samsung Galaxy S7, which have both had their share of problems. The company promises an enhanced artificially intelligent personal assistant, quick charging, amazing camera quality, and smart storage.
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PERSONAL ASSISTANT AND SIRI?
Similar to Siri on the iPhone and the Google and S Voice functions on Android devices, the Google Pixel contains the Google Assistant which gives top Google results as answers to your questions. However, it is also able to use your voice to control every aspect of your phone like downloading apps and changing the brightness of the screen, as well as reminds you to charge the phone and tells you every calendar entry in your google emails. You are also able to directly use all of Google's features using the Google Assistant, such as finding directions in Google Maps and searching your documents in Google Drive. Another exceptional feature of the phone is that there is no need to press any buttons to activate the Google Assistant feature. After learning your voice, the phone responds to your "wake up" code of "Okay, Google". The company claims you can talk to it as you would a friend, as it understands more natural language that other voice commands.
WHAT ELSE IS GREAT ABOUT THE GOOGLE PIXEL?
Google offers that this device can hold seven hours of battery, and can charge fully in just 15 minutes. The camera capabilities are slightly better than the Galaxy S7 and the iPhone 7, as phone-creators come closer to create full-camera capabilities in mobile phones. Another amazing ability of the phone is the storage feature. When the phone's storage is full it automatically backs up the photos and videos to Google Photos and deletes the older photos and videos in order to make space.
HOW DOES THIS RELATE TO COMPUTER SCIENCE?
Like other Artificial Intelligence devices, the Google Pixel's Assistant uses voice activated user-input, runs algorithms to change the speech into text and the text into action, and outputs whatever the user asks for out loud in speech form. The phone is also programmed to automatically download the photos onto Google Photo when they reach a certain limit in order to conserve memory space, and uses the same algorithms as the Google site to answer questions.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-s-new-pixel-smartphone-has-some-features-you-will-n667906
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2016/10/20/googles-pixel-xl-has-one-game-changing-feature/#4dd8ab462391
Cool article! I like how they're trying to make technology that can understand natural language more available to common people! In my article about IBM Watson I talk a lot about understanding natural language which might be interesting to read after researching this new phone. Although I do agree that this phone has better and more advanced technology than the iPhone, I doubt it will be that popular just because of the sheer popularity of the iPhone. What do you think?
ReplyDeleteGreat article! I had seen so many commercials for this phone but I had no idea about the features and how it differed from the iPhone. What really caught my eye is how quickly the phone can charge and how long it lasts! That will really set it apart from every other smartphone. How exactly does the google algorithm work? Does it use any concepts we've learned in class as a baseline?
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