My Samsung ARM chromebook makes my HP laptop feel like it's made out of lead. Now the HP never leaves my desk at home because the chromebook is so much easier to carry around. I take the chromebook to work each and every day because I don't have an "open" internet connection on my work PC. Because the boot up time from snoozing is about 5 seconds, I can open and close it a dozens of times during the day without waiting on it. It only costs $249.00. You won't regret it.
Pretty funny that Hangout is currently 'not compatible' with my Nexus 7. smh. I guess I'd have to sideload it or something if I wanted to bother. Android! Depends on how much you want to pay for a web browser.
I think it'll be out soon. It was just announced yesterday. EDIT: It actually lets me install Hangouts on my Nexus 10 now so I think they fixed it.
Here's why the Google Music thing is awesome: Right now I have MOG for streaming and I have a lot of personal music ripped to FLAC. I also have a Sonos system at home. Sonos is (was) the only service that let me combine my personal music with streaming music into a seamless playlist. It works beautifully but you are stuck to listening to those playlists at home on your Sonos system. Playlist management is terrible and you can't take your tunes on the road. I've even advocated for someone to write a program for your phone that would let you combine, say, Amazon Cloud Player or Google Music with something like MOG or Spotify so you could have all your tunes in one place. Google Music does just this. You have the music you upload (my wife and I got married at 30 - fifteen years ago - so we had a LOT of CDs between us that I've ripped) plus you get the advantage of seamlessly combining your music with streaming music and.... you get this on your Android phone. If it works out it's going to be awesome. I just hope they incorporate SONOS integration so I can cancel my MOG subscription. I really like MOG but the convenience of having all my music in one place (and on my phone!) is just too good.
hangouts app seems to be giving people fits. they do need to push an update/add features ASAP though. how in the world it came out without telling you who's online/offline is mind boggling. the SMS integration i'm not too worried about, but i can understand why people are frustrated. i think they need to add to that as well...maybe add a skype, FB chat, GV integration as well. i would think google is probably already started on some of that.
I believe the app does show this, but it isn't very obvious. Opaque/grayed out contacts are offline, while the others are online. Should probably make that more obvious, plus add ability to show "busy" or other kind of status messages.
confirmed SMS integration is coming.. http://www.androidcentral.com/sms-integration-coming-soon-google-hangouts
Yeah I can't see Google ****ing this up again. They're going to try and compete with Whatsapp and Groupme.
I want them to confirm Google Voice integration (or at least that G.V. won't be shut down). I love G.V. but since Google has ignored it for a couple of years, I'm worried.
According to Dori Storbeck +Nelanka Perera this first version of Hangouts doesn't support outbound voice calls to mobile phone numbers, but calls into your Google Voice number can be answered in Hangouts. Future versions of Hangouts will support outgoing calls along with other Google Voice features. https://plus.google.com/u/0/+DoriStorbeck/posts/XNRAQThToay
When I click the free 30 day, get started button, it just goes to a screen that says "loading music library" that hasn't changed in hours. No sign up, login, pick a folder to upload, or anything. Hmmm? Here: http://play.google.com/about/music/...ampaign=AllAccess&pcampaignid=MKTAD0515MU1HPP But Google Play, https://play.google.com/store, shows me logged in
damn....they gotta do it though...the hangouts app as it sits isnt an all-in-one messenger which was their aim. gotta believe they'll get around to it
Yeah I noticed that, but I don't think that really changes anything. She was probably told not to leak any information about future developments. It all makes sense though, the SMS integration, the GV features, being able to dial out. They're trying to unify everything. I use it occasionally as a simple tasks list.
Absolutely. I love it. I needed something straightforward and simple to keep notes organized across multiple devices. Evernote just seemed to cumbersome to me. Keep is perfect for what I use.
