I just stumbled across this article and I'm in complete shock that iOS is getting the long awaited VOIP feature in Google Voice before the whole Android community. From a marketing perspective, it makes sense, given that Apple is probably paying a "pretty penny" to Google for its support for iOS devices(iPhones and iPads), but from a logic perspective, it doesn't make a lot of sense at all because one would think that Google's very own mobile platform would receive any improvements and updates before iOS. In my opinion. there are a couple of schools of thought here with this move..
1.) Marketing - iOS is paying good money to Google, therefore Google works hard to keep iOS at a level playing field with Android, even at the expense of iOS receiving certain software updates before Android.
2.) "We can use iOS as a 'testing ground' for new software and updates to current Google applications."
3.) Android 4.0 KitKat will be released soon and this feature will be included in a Google Voice roll-out to KitKat-powered Android devices.
Anyway... check out the article ----> "Free VOIP Calls Now Available On The iOS Version Of Google Voice, Android Update Is Up In The Air"
Google announces its Android devices Wear wearable
In the midst of widespread devices wearable glasses and hours clever and others have become manufacturers in front of an urgent need to find a system of distinctive inoperable on these devices , which prompted Google to finally announce its new Android Wear your devices wearable .
Google announced via her blog on the Internet for its new Android Wear and allocated to the wearable devices and is derived from the system Ondorad your portable devices as they posted a promotional video for this system .
One of the main advantages of the system Ondorad Wear is integrated into the existing voice commands as well as in smart glasses Google Google Glass, where only via voice command (Ok Google) the user can identify a lot of the information you would like to know as well as many other features .
They also announced the nexus smart watch. Don't know if that's what you're referring to but it was talked about on the android dev YouTube channel
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I am a staunch user of Google and Samsung products. With the S3 running Tizen it seems as if I have lost the Google/Samsung marriage I have grown to love. In particular, I am very disappointed that I cannot choose Google assistant over S voice. S Voice seems 3 to 5 years behind Google assistant.
Is it likely that someone will connect Google assistant and the Gear S3?
I suspect it's very unlikely. Google assistant/OK Google is android wear's big selling point. I'm the same as you, I miss proper Google integration with voice and Gmail etc, but I find the gear s3 and the samsung ui to be much better. I'd love OK Google, Google maps and Gmail on the s3 but it won't happen.
@photojonny FYI "OK Google" is the only thing that is _actually_ missing from your list of desired features. you can get turn-by-turn Google Maps power directions for a few dollars in the Galaxy Gear app store by a third-party developer, but I'll admit it has mixed reviews (both the standalone and phone-powered versions). And Gmails pop up in real time via notifications, and there are probably Tizen apps for that too if not coming soon.
@Rkkerby I have poked around Samsung's "Gear Watch Face Designer" and I don't think it has the capability to incorporate calling the google assistant API or whatever. I think Samsung claims that Tizen OS is about as "open" as Android OS for developers, so the only thing stopping you from using Google Assistant on Your Samsung Gear is, well, you. Either as a developer or as a devoted daily galaxy app store searcher, please help do your part to help make this happen!
All that being said, please update this thread if you find an answer, and I will do the same. I plan on looking into Tizen Development before this year is over. There aren't many Tizen devs for some reason, but I don't think 5he platform is disappearing any time soon.
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I have poked around Samsung's "Gear Watch Face Designer" and I don't think it has the capability to incorporate calling the google assistant API or whatever.
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There's no way to directly invoke Google Assistant through the watch face designer; there's a keycode used to summon the Assistant on an Android phone, or it can be launched via intent, however it doesn't support passing extradata (ie, the query). Samsung have locked down the watch like they do with all their hardware, making it difficult to do some things that would at first appear simple.
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I think Samsung claims that Tizen OS is about as "open" as Android OS for developers, so the only thing stopping you from using Google Assistant on Your Samsung Gear is, well, you. Either as a developer or as a devoted daily galaxy app store searcher, please help do your part to help make this happen!
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Tizen is FOSS, unlike Android. While Samsung is the driving force behind Tizen, its source is available and contributed to by many other parties. That's the "Open" side of Tizen. The reality is that the Open Source software implemented on the Gear devices has been secured excellently by Samsung, which means there are hardcoded limitations which aren't mirrored in Android - eg, you can't initiate voice input to the phone via the watch.
Google Assistant as a standalone app on the Gear currently requires the user to pay for their queries (at an extremely low rate, however this is enough to dissuade many users nonetheless). The current best approach is to use a companion app to interface with the assistant.
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All that being said, please update this thread if you find an answer, and I will do the same. I plan on looking into Tizen Development before this year is over. There aren't many Tizen devs for some reason, but I don't think 5he platform is disappearing any time soon.
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Hi everyone,
A voice assistant (like Google Assistant, Bixby, ...) is truly the only feature I miss on the GT2. Are there any known ways to install a voice assistant on the watch or somehow connect to the smartphone's Google Assistant from the watch?
I understand that by default the GT2 doesn't have an assistant and doesn't allow to install new apps. So one solution I had in mind was to develop an app for my phone that when initiating a call to a specific non-sense number would initiate a "conversation" with the phones GAssistant instead. Then one could just use the call functionality of the watch to set reminders etc.
But before I embark on a long and cumbersome project of developing such an app, I was hoping one of you might be able to point out a much easier solution that I have overlooked.
Does anything come to mind?
Thank you,
Henry
hi...I've been looking for something like that since the day I bought my GT2.
Is there any option found/created by you?
I started prototyping it initially and quickly learned that it's not trivial to do this on a non-rooted phone, because one would have to hijack the actual call audio. I don't have time to work on this at the moment, so I might have to look into it again at some future point. But if you implement a solution or find some other work-around, please let me know I'm still interested!
Truecaller debuts AI-powered Assistant in the U.S. to help users easily filter scam calls
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I read about Truecaller releasing a new AI powered assistant that works quite similarly to the Call Screening feature in Google Pixel devices, except that it is available for all Android and iOS smartphones.
Anyone try out the feature yet? If you did, how useful was it?