
Over the 3 days Google has
several technology and product announcements across the product
lines. Here are the top 5 picks at Techspot.

#2 Jelly Bean, Android 4.1

#3 Packaged Apps & Chrome
Everywhere
Google chrome is the new
generally available on Android 4.1.With good HTML 5 support,
mobile web applications on Chrome in Android are very
powerful. Chrome is also available on iOS.
Packaged apps are one of the interesting features that are announced for
Chrome. Packaged apps allow access to Chrome API, but are written
in HTML 5, JavaScript and CSS. Packaged Apps are loaded locally and
supports offline mode.In a way these are like Adobe AIR
applications, but are written using standard web technologies. This
is probably another category defining feature; developing cross platform hybrid
applications running locally.
Some interesting stats on chrome
are revealed. Chrome now has 310M active users across the world.
#4 Project Glass
Lot has been written and said
about Project Glass from Google. Wearable computing is about
to start. Project glass probably can make a new way of how we
use and interact with computers. Technically not much has been
revealed on project glass, other than the fact that it has camera, microphone,
gyroscope and wi-fi connectivity. Key-note demo by Sergey Brin that
involved blimp, sky divers, project glass and Google+ hang-outs is an epic.
#5 Nexus 7 Tablet
Technically Nexus 7 is just an
Android Jelly Bean device. There is no reason to pick this other
than for the fact that it is the first official Tablet from
Google.At a price of $199 and with Quad Core Tegra 3
architecture and 12 GPUs, this tablet is a real power house. Wi-fi,
gyroscope, GPS, accelerometer, Gorilla Glass, front facing camera, this is a
sure main stream device and probably puts android tablets into millions of
hands, another great revenue opportunity for Mobile developers. Interestingly Nexus 7 ships with Chrome as the default browser instead of
Android’s native web-kit based browser. I guess Google is
trying to avoid an IE 6 scenario here by separating browser from OS.
There are many more interesting announcements that didn’t make it to the top 5 list but I found them interesting enough to mention here:
- Offline maps and offline voice recognition for Android
- Enhanced Gesture support in Android
- Apps Script for Good Apps Automation
- Google Docs Offline
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