As I entered Shoreline Amphitheater on Wednesday, I thought I was attending Google IO – the company’s annual developers conference. But after listening to CEO Sundar Pichai and several other Google…
Indeed, the first 75 minutes of the two-hour event was focused on how artificial intelligence and specifically generative AI , is not only the main ingredient of Google Bard, the company’s new conversational, AI chat service, but soon integrated into all its services including search, photos, maps and Google docs. But even the device part of the event focused largely on AI, which is central to the new hardware products they unveiled at the event.
Google also announced that Bard is now available for anyone to try at bard.google.com, without having to join a waiting list.Google Maps is getting AI-generated routing such as generating a video preview of a bike ride before you hop on the bike. Google is also adding AI photo editing to Google photos, making it very easy to move objects or people within a picture or turn a cloudy day into a sunny one.
Google also announced an 11-inch tablet starting at $499 with 128 GB of storage or $599 with 256 GB. It has the same high-speed Google Tensor G2 processor as Pixel phones and runs on Android, so it has a very similar interface to Android phones as well as the same AI technology built into the latest versions of Android.
The most interesting, albeit most expensive, new product is its $1,795 Pixel Fold. Folded, it has a 5.8-inch screen, not that different from typical smartphones. But when you unfold it you get a 7.6-inch display, which is just a bit smaller than the 8.3-inch display on the Apple iPad mini. Having a tablet-sized screen is not only better for watching video but makes it easier to multitask with side-by-side display.
I’ll have more to report when I have a chance to test the foldable phone, but as far as I can tell, the only major downside is the price. The Fold is $800 more than the combined cost of the Google tablet and the Google 7 phone, which, for most people, is probably a better investment.
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