Google IO 2011 keynote literally blew everyone’s mind. Google kickstarted the event with a number of announcements that every android user & developer was waiting to hear.
Update: Keynote Video now available (scroll to bottom)
Here’s a list of things that were announced:
1. Movie Rentals:
You can now rent and
watch movies on any android device or via browser as low as $1.99. The rental is valid for 30 days and 24hours after starting the video first time. You can even download the whole movie, and watch it offline on your tablet or phone.
2. Android Honeycomb 3.1
Update: Keynote Video now available (scroll to bottom)
Here’s a list of things that were announced:
1. Movie Rentals:
You can now rent and
watch movies on any android device or via browser as low as $1.99. The rental is valid for 30 days and 24hours after starting the video first time. You can even download the whole movie, and watch it offline on your tablet or phone.
2. Android Honeycomb 3.1
- Full support for Google TV along with Tablets. Same UI, same apps. New Google TV PArtners: Samsung, Vizio in addition to Logitech, Sony.
- Resizable widgets on homescreen, plus other ui improvements.
- USB host mode that will let you connect any USB device with your Honeycomb device beit be importing photos from your digital camera, or an Xbox 360 controller.
- Google’s new Movies app that will let you rent thousands of movies from the Android market, and it will be available on Google TVs as well
- New Apps: Books
- New graphical transitions, animations, more GPU powered (hardware accelerated), faster, better UI.
- Data storage encryption.
- A free beta service for you to upload 20,000 songs to google’s cloud, free of cost
- Playback anywhere: Browser, any android phone, Tablet.
- Cached locally on phone/tablet.
- iTunes, Media player compatible desktop clients that syncs your playlists.
- “No wires, no painful syncing — it’s all just available instantly.”
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