Google's efforts to stop Amazon's march to the top through its smart assistant, Alexa, seem to have taken a serious turn, emerging from the first moment Google's headquarters was unveiled at CES 2018 on January 9-12 in Las Vegas, The headquarters of the famous Hey Google, used to activate the Google Assistant, which gave a strong indication that the focus of Google during the exhibition will focus entirely on the smart assistant, and necessarily will be in its interest in the race of the summit between her and Amazon, Alexa.
Google announced today, during the first days of CES, that it has agreed with a large number of companies to manufacture smart headsets based mainly on the Google Assistant Smart Assistant, including these companies: Incir Innovation, Bang & Olufsen, Altik Lansing, Ravin, Iome Home, Jansin, Net Audio, Memory, Solis, JBL, Lenovo, LG and Sony.
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Among the companies announced by Google, notably the last four companies, which is characterized by the development of intelligent smartphones supporting the Google smartphone with a small screen, Google did not disclose more than these screens, but pointed out that these devices will not serve as Tablet PCs are powered by Android, and are characterized only by relatively large speakers, the US tech giant pointed out that the new smartphones with screens will rely mainly on the main voice commands of the Google Smart Assistant, that these screens display data, information or special materials In response to those commands, which reminds us here of Echo Show devices supporting the smart help Alexa, announced by Amazon before.
This means that the new Google Smartphone devices produced by JPL, LG, Lenovo and Sony will be closer to Internet devices than to Android-powered tablets. In other words, these devices will not work on the usual Android apps, but the speakers will work through their screens to display data in the form of Google cards known to users of the smartphone on the phones.
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Although Google has not revealed what these smartphones can do, they have given a simple glimpse through a video displayed at the show, showing that these screens display search results, display images, view notepad and personal blogs, rely on Google Maps View the region's search results, clarify trends, and use Google's Duo application to make individual and multiple voice calls, as evidenced by video support for smartphones or new smart screens for YouTube services, which distinguishes it from its closest competitor to Echo. All this is a fraction of what these devices can do.
Of companies that have offered their headphones or smart screens to support Google already. Lenovo has unveiled two versions of its new device: the first 8 inch screen and the second 10 inches. The company announced that its new devices will be officially available from the summer of this year, which is sufficient for the emergence of other similar devices on the one hand, and to complete the development of the Assistant On the other hand.