Google IO 2013 thread

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

So how many of you guys are going to get the S4 Google Edition? Really thinking of picking up and passing on my N4 to the girlfriend. Not sure if I should get her another N4 though....

I'm thinking of doing it.... lol

 

[tuan209]

Things might be a little more interesting now..... HTC One Google edition anyone?

http://phandroid.com/2013/05/20/htc...ased-this-summer-running-stock-android-rumor/

 

[s44]

No. They've officially already denied it.

 

[dagamer34]

Things might be a little more interesting now..... HTC One Google edition anyone?

http://phandroid.com/2013/05/20/htc...ased-this-summer-running-stock-android-rumor/

The real question is, if it generates sales, will they continue to deny it? :whiste:

At some point, HTC is going to desperate things to generate sales, which may even include ditching Sense. If the One removed the capacitive keys and switch to on screen buttons as well as ran stock Android, I'd buy it TODAY. End of story.

 

[Tom]

looking at google, apple, microsoft..

I think we might have entered a churn period. A time when nothing new happens, companies screw around with established products, generally making them worse..

 

[basslover1]

This new Google Music thing sucks. I signed up for the trial to test it out and while it does have a good selection of music, the way it buffers and plays is horrible. Mine stutters every 5 seconds even while on a good Verizon 4G connection. When I play tracks from my online Google Music library its perfect.

And color scheme is ugly.

I have actually had no problems streaming over my phone, and have had issues when streaming on my PC, so go figure.

The color isn't the greatest, but it matches up with the online play store it takes a bit of getting used to though that is for sure.

The S4 Nexus edition doesn't really interest me, but an HTC One Nexus edition would have my drop my N4 faster than freshman Spanish.

 

[Strk]

This new Google Music thing sucks. I signed up for the trial to test it out and while it does have a good selection of music, the way it buffers and plays is horrible. Mine stutters every 5 seconds even while on a good Verizon 4G connection. When I play tracks from my online Google Music library its perfect.

And color scheme is ugly.

It works perfectly fine for me on wifi and on tmobile.

The real question is, if it generates sales, will they continue to deny it? :whiste:

At some point, HTC is going to desperate things to generate sales, which may even include ditching Sense. If the One removed the capacitive keys and switch to on screen buttons as well as ran stock Android, I'd buy it TODAY. End of story.

I would have bought the One already if I could get a stock version from Google. I don't like that T-mobile added software to it (You want me to buy it outright, but can't sell it HTC stock?).

 

[alangrift]

I've been looking around for the music streaming, their music page doesn't really mention it at all.

 

[gorcorps]

I've been looking around for the music streaming, their music page doesn't really mention it at all.

It's a giant banner at the top of the page that says "try all access for free"

https://play.google.com/store/music?feature=corpus_selector

 

[WelshBloke]

It's a giant banner at the top of the page that says "try all access for free"

https://play.google.com/store/music?feature=corpus_selector

Or Menu>Settings>Try All Access For Free.

It's only available in the US though.

 

[VashHT]

I only had a minor hiccup in music when I had wifi enabled on my phone and I drove past an ATT hotspot. My phone would connect to the really weak hotspot and then lose connection and it would screw up the stream. With wifi off I have no problems on ATT's 3G, it buffers for a couple seconds before each song then plays through with no buffering. I did turn off the automatically cache music option in settings, I think that ends up using a lot more data than I want since I skip around between albums a lot.

Not sure why people hate the color scheme, it looks pretty cool to me and the UI is way better than it used to be.

 

[lopri]

I've been looking around for the music streaming, their music page doesn't really mention it at all.

Try going to Settings -> Account -> Google Play Music.

 

[fallenangel99]

Anyone have a Google Wallet invite?