In 2012, Google launched a feature that felt like science fiction. Google Now didn’t wait for you to ask a question — it told you what you needed to know before you knew you needed it. Flight status when you were heading to the airport. Traffic to your next meeting. Sports scores for your favorite teams. Package tracking from your Gmail shipping confirmations.
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LG Nexus 5 Revisited: KitKat, Hardware, and Pure Android Value
Nexus in Context: Spec Wars, Cloud Ambitions, and Price Pressure Google’s Nexus line has always been less about winning spec sheets and more about pushing Android and Google services, even if that meant subsidizing hardware. When the LG Nexus 5 landed, it arrived into a market already crowded with Snapdragon 800 phones, Nokia flagships on […]
Nexus 7 Revisited: The $200 Tablet That Cut Too Many Corners
Samsung was selling one of the cheapest dual-core Android phones at $350; Google and ASUS walked in with a quad-core 7-inch tablet for $199. On paper, the Nexus 7 looked like a blunt-force weapon aimed at every budget slate and maybe even the iPad. In practice, it’s a very fast, very focused device that also […]