Google spoke up right now about their future in Android and/or Chrome OS tablets. Solely very briefly, after all, and never in a method that undoubtedly assured they’d be making any form of new {hardware} any time quickly. However nonetheless, it has been acknowledged that Google is, certainly, “engaged on the pill expertise, each for customers and for builders” in response to a consultant of the Android Engagement Group.
An Android Engagement Group consultant recommended that they’ve “seen some fairly cool innovation from our companions on tablets, however there’s undoubtedly room for enchancment.” To this finish, they’re together with the topic of their presentation of a full “Android Past Telephones” week in August.
“We additionally see this rising in significance with the introduction of foldables within the telephone market – the experiences are related. Tune-in to the “Android Past Telephones” week, beginning August tenth, to listen to extra.”
Google pointed to their Android developers “11 weeks” calendar. On that calendar was (and is) a wide range of topics, together with (beginning again in June), Individuals & Id, Machine Studying, Privateness & Safety, and Android 11 Compatibility.
Beginning on July 13, these periods transfer on to Languages, Android Jetpack, Android Developer Instruments, App Distribution & Monetization, and from August tenth to the 14th, Google will current “Android Past Telephones.”
Previously, Google’s offered this form of topic greater than as soon as. One of the wild examples of the fashionable period of “android past telephones” was with multi-display platforms – like a telephone that expands right into a pill.
NOTE: This presentation suits proper in with the following Samsung occasion, too. Samsung’s August 5, 2020 occasion will most probably reveal the next high-end units that match squarely within the “Android past telephones” wheelhouse.
Potential “Android Past Telephones” units Samsung might reveal on August fifth:
• Samsung Galaxy Word 20 / Note20 Extremely
• Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2
• Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5G
• Samsung Galaxy Tab S7
• Samsung Galaxy Tab S7+
Google additionally famous in an Android TV update that “Android Past Telephones” week would come with “much more developer assets from Android TV.” Google additionally included 6 new device types of their newest replace for “Good Residence Leisure Gadgets” working with Google Assistant.
On the head of this text is a foldable pill idea system from the folks at TCL. Whereas this was only a proof-of-concept, so to talk, it’s an excellent indicator that this form of system will change into commonplace quickly… supplied Google helps increasing and remodeling Android show experiences as totally as they’ve recommended they are going to.
Google additionally has Video games & Media and UI scheduled from August 17-21, then August 24-28 respectively. Google’s additionally holding Reddit AMAs on Thursdays on week 4, 7, and 11 – we’re within the first of those three now, right here on the ninth (inside week 4). On the sixteenth and twenty third of July, Google’s Android builders crew will maintain one AMA every.
