Google's new 顔触れ of phones and gadgets: A quick ちらりと見ること

By Associated 圧力（をかける）

Published: 23:25 BST, 4 October 2016 | Updated: 23:26 BST, 4 October 2016

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― Google is taking a page from Apple's playbook by making a bigger 押し進める to build its own 金物類／武器類.

Rick Osterloh, 長，率いる of Google's new 金物類／武器類 group, said that in doing so, Google can take 十分な advantage of 能力s it's designing with 人工的な 知能 and machine learning. Apple has long designed both iPhone 金物類／武器類 and the iOS operating-system ソフトウェア that runs on it. Now, Google is doing the same with the 近づいている Pixel phones running Google's Android system.

The Pixel is one of several gadgets Google 発表するd Tuesday in San Francisco.

The new Google Pixel phone is 陳列する，発揮するd に引き続いて a 製品 event, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, in San Francisco. Google 開始する，打ち上げるd an 積極的な challenge to Apple and Samsung introducing its own new line of smartphones called Pixel, which are designed to showcase a 数字表示式の helper the company calls "Google Assistant." The new phones 代表する a big, new 押し進める by Google to sell its own 消費者 装置s, instead of 大部分は just 供給（する）ing ソフトウェア for other 製造業者s. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

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NEW PHONE, NEW BRANDING, NEW MARKETING

Google's previous phones, dubbed Nexus, had 限られた／立憲的な 配当.

Now, the company is casting aside the Nexus 指名する in 好意 of Pixel, a brand that Osterloh said has "always 代表するd the best of 金物類／武器類 and ソフトウェア designed by Google."

And instead of relying まず第一に／本来 on online orders, as was the 事例／患者 with Nexus, Google will 申し込む／申し出 Pixel through Verizon 同様に, starting Oct. 20. 前進する orders began Tuesday starting at 概略で $650 for the 5-インチ 見解／翻訳／版 and $750 for the わずかに larger 5.5-インチ 審査する. Google will also make Pixel 利用できる at Best Buy and さまざまな wireless 運送／保菌者s outside the U.S.

One of the advantages Google phones have long had is their quick 接近 to Android updates. With other phones, individual 製造業者s and 運送／保菌者s have to 認可する changes, resulting in 延期するs . Google said Verizon will still have to 認可する updates for Pixel, but the 過程 will be 簡素化するd and done ahead of time.

Google 約束s a みごたえのある camera and 制限のない online 貯蔵 for phones at 十分な 決意／決議. When 貯蔵 space on the phone is low, the Pixel will 解放する／自由な up 貯蔵 and rely on the online copy. Apple takes a simil ar approach with its iCloud Photo Library, though 解放する／自由な 貯蔵 is 限られた／立憲的な to 5 gigabytes, or a few thousand photos.

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IT'S IN YOUR HEAD

Google's new 事実上の-reality headset, Daydream 見解（をとる）, will 異なる from other headsets like Samsung's Gear VR in having a companion 動議 監査役 and compatibility with a wide 範囲 of phones, 含むing Pixel.

Daydream is also a challenge to more sophisticated, but expensive systems from Facebook's Oculus 商売／仕事, HTC and Sony ― 同様に as to Google's own Cardboard 成果／努力.

Cardboard is cheap ― 利用できる for as little as $15 ― but it doesn't 申し込む／申し出 much 支配（する）／統制する over VR 環境s beyond 押し進めるing a button on the headset as you move your 長，率いる. The new wireless 動議 監査役 for Daydream can 機能（する）／行事 like a fishing 棒, a steering wheel or a pointer to 許す more sophisticated VR experiences.

Daydream 見解（をとる） and the 監査役 will be out in November for $79. You'll need a new Android phone , as 存在するing phones won't have the 権利 金物類／武器類.

Google also 計画（する）s to 株 design 指導基準s with other 製造業者s to make Daydream headsets and 監査役s.

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AN ECHO OF AMAZON'S ECHO

Google is 促進するing its new Home smart （衆議院の）議長 as a way to 接近 Google's knowledge ― 手渡すs 解放する／自由な.

Home will be able to 成し遂げる many of the same 仕事s as Echo, アマゾン's internet-connected （衆議院の）議長. Both will use 発言する／表明する 命令（する）s to play music, field questions and 支配（する）／統制する home 器具s ― assuming you've 任命する／導入するd "smart" 見解／翻訳／版s of them.

If you're feeling creepy about a speake r listening to your conversations, Google says you can turn the microphone off.

Home will be 利用できる on Nov. 4 for about $130, with 前進する orders starting Tuesday. The cylinder-形態／調整d Echo costs $180, though アマゾン also sells a smaller 見解／翻訳／版 形態／調整d like a ホッケー puck that sells for $50.

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WHAT ELSE?

Google's new ビデオ-streaming 装置, Chromecast Ultra, will support a higher-決意／決議 ビデオ 判型 called 4K. Larger, more expensive streaming 装置s such as the $100 アマゾン 解雇する／砲火／射撃 TV already do that. Ultra will cost $69.

一方／合間, Google wants to 改善する Wi-Fi in the home by creating its own router. The company said people use internet 異なって now, with games, ビデオ chatting and more on さまざまな 装置s throughout the home. The new Google Wi-Fi system will cost about $130 for the main 装置. A three-pack for larger homes will cost about $300.

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BEYOND GOOGLE

Even as it 押し進めるs Pixel, Google isn't abandoning the Android system that other 製造業者s can use for 解放する／自由な. That means Samsung, LG and others can keep making their own phones with Google ソフトウェア.

In that sense, Google's approach is more like Microsoft's than Apple's. Microsoft also has been making 金物類／武器類 through its line of Surface computers running Windows. That puts Microsoft ― and now Google ― in the ぎこちない position of 促進するing both its own 装置s and those of 競争相手s that run the company's ソフトウェア.

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BEYOND HARDWARE

Google 予報するs that 人工的な 知能 will play a greater 役割 in our lives. CEO Sundar Pic hai said 計算するing is 移行ing to an AI -first world, just as it moved to a 動きやすい-first world just a few years ago.

"Our goal is to build a personal Google for each and every 使用者," Pichai said. "We want to build a Google for each 使用者."

Google services along those lines 含む Google Assistant, ソフトウェア that's designed to answer questions and retrieve （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状）, conversation-style. Google Assistant made its debut in a 雑談（する） app called Allo a few weeks ago. It will also be part of Home and the new Pixel phones.

The features 論証するd Tuesday seem 類似の to what アマゾン and Apple already 申し込む／申し出 with their 事実上の assistants. Google 公式の／役人s have 繰り返して 強調するd that its AI 科学（工学）技術 is in the 早期に 行う／開催する／段階s ― so it remains to be seen what this new 時代 for Google will lead to.

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Anick Jesdanun 報告（する）／憶測d from New York.

Dan Howley tries out the Google Daydream 見解（をとる） 事実上の-reality headset and 監査役 に引き続いて a 製品 event, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, in San Francisco. Daydream 見解（をとる） will 異なる from other headsets, like Samsung's Gear VR, in having a companion 動議 監査役 and compatibility with a wide 範囲 of phones, 含むing Google's new Pixel phones. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

A reporter looks over the new Google Pixel phone に引き続いて a 製品 event, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, in San Francisco. The new phones 代表する a 押し進める by Google to sell its own 消費者 装置s, instead of 大部分は just 供給（する）ing ソフトウェア for other 製造業者s. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

新聞記者／雑誌記者s look over the new Google Pixel phone に引き続いて a 製品 event, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, in San Francisco. The new phones 代表する a big, new 押し進める by Google to sell its own 消費者 装置s, instead of 大部分は just 供給（する）ing ソフトウェア for other 製造業者s. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

The new Google Pixel phone is 陳列する，発揮するd next to a Google Home smart （衆議院の）議長, left, に引き続いて a 製品 event, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, in San Francisco. Google is making a greater かかわり合い to 金物類／武器類 in 明かすing new phones, a smart （衆議院の）議長 and other gadgets. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

The new Google Pixel phone is 陳列する，発揮するd next to a Daydream 見解（をとる） 事実上の-reality headset, 権利, に引き続いて a Google 製品 event, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, in San Francisco. Google is making a greater かかわり合い to 金物類／武器類 in 明かすing new phones, a smart （衆議院の）議長 and other gadgets. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Sabrina Ellis, Google director of 製品 管理／経営, 会談 about the new Google Pixel phone during a 製品 event, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, in San Francisco. The new phones 代表する a big, new 押し進める by Google to sell its own 消費者 装置s, instead of 大部分は just 供給（する）ing ソフトウェア for other 製造業者s. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Clay Bavor, Google 副／悪徳行為 大統領，／社長 of 事実上の reality, 会談 about the Daydream 見解（をとる） 事実上の-reality headset during a 製品 event, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, in San Francisco. It will 異なる from other headsets like Samsung's Gear VR in having a companion 動議 監査役 and compatibility with a wide 範囲 of phones, 含むing Google's new Pixel phones. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Clay Bavor, Google 副／悪徳行為 大統領，／社長 of 事実上の reality, 会談 about the Daydream 見解（をとる） 事実上の-reality headset during a 製品 event, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, in San Francisco. It will 異なる from other headsets, like Samsung's Gear VR, in having a companion 動議 監査役 and compatibility with a wide 範囲 of phones, 含むing Google's new Pixel phones. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Brian Rakowski, Google 副／悪徳行為 大統領，／社長 of 製品 管理／経営, 会談 about the camera in the new Google Pixel phone during a 製品 event, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)