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Undertoad · 10-11-2012, 11:41 AM

The next Nexus phone is going to be an LG... consider that one as well

Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) is on my phone for the last month, and it gets better and better.

With full Google integration, if I look up a location on Maps in Chrome, a few minutes later the phone will have suggestions on what the traffic is like and how long it will take to get there.

The phone is trying to guess where I want to go and what my business is there. It has worked out that the Pawn Shop is a regular destination where I stay for a while, and it knows that The Pub is where I go for a half-hour. So it tells me the traffic to the Pawn Shop, but it tells me the hours for The Pub.

Google Now is the app bringing up this information. It gives you "cards" for places it thinks you are interested in. Right now there are cards for The Pub and Pawn Shop but also for Molly Macguire's. I haven't been to Molly's for a while, don't have a contact for them, but a friend txt'd me from there two weeks ago. Holy fuck!

Voice has caught up with Siri. "Navigate to the Colonial Theater in Phoenixville" -> one click later, the phone is in the Navigation app giving turn-by-turn directions to the correct destination. More and more voice stuff just works.

10-11-2012, 11:41 AM	#3
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	The next Nexus phone is going to be an LG... consider that one as well Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) is on my phone for the last month, and it gets better and better. With full Google integration, if I look up a location on Maps in Chrome, a few minutes later the phone will have suggestions on what the traffic is like and how long it will take to get there. The phone is trying to guess where I want to go and what my business is there. It has worked out that the Pawn Shop is a regular destination where I stay for a while, and it knows that The Pub is where I go for a half-hour. So it tells me the traffic to the Pawn Shop, but it tells me the hours for The Pub. Google Now is the app bringing up this information. It gives you "cards" for places it thinks you are interested in. Right now there are cards for The Pub and Pawn Shop but also for Molly Macguire's. I haven't been to Molly's for a while, don't have a contact for them, but a friend txt'd me from there two weeks ago. Holy fuck! Voice has caught up with Siri. "Navigate to the Colonial Theater in Phoenixville" -> one click later, the phone is in the Navigation app giving turn-by-turn directions to the correct destination. More and more voice stuff just works.