Google Play is not usually for digital content. You can now buy unbarred Galaxy Nexus phones for usually $399 if we are in a US. “Galaxy Nexus inclination purchased on Google Play are unbarred GSM/HSPA+ devices. The unbarred Galaxy Nexus requires GSM concordant use provider for voice calling. In a United States this includes ATT and T-Mobile,” explains Google.

“Galaxy Nexus costs $399 and arrives during your doorway unlocked, though a conduit joining or contract. You can use it on a GSM network of your choice, including T-Mobile and ATT. It also comes pre-installed with a Google Wallet app that lets we simply make purchases and redeem offers with a daub of your phone. Best of all, we’ll give we a $10 credit to get we started with your new mobile wallet,” mentions Andy Rubin.

This is not Google’s initial try to emanate an online store for offered Android devices. Back in 2010, Google launched a web store that authorised we to buy a Nexus One and select your favorite use provider. Google’s idea was to supplement other Android inclination and to make it easy to buy phones. Unfortunately, Google’s store wasn’t successful, people complained about a miss of patron service, Verizon skipped a Nexus One and Google sealed a store four months later. “While a tellurian adoption of a Android height has exceeded a expectations, a web store has not. It’s remained a niche channel for early adopters, though it’s transparent that many business like a hands-on knowledge before shopping a phone, and they also wish a far-reaching operation of use skeleton to chose from,” pronounced Andy Rubin during that time.

It’s unequivocally formidable to sell unbarred phones in a US given they’re a lot some-more costly than a sealed phones, skeleton cost a same and phones can’t be used on dual of a many critical carriers: Verizon and Sprint. This time, things are a small different: Galaxy Nexus was usually accessible for Verizon business and a cost forsaken from $299 to $199. While $399 is not a high cost for an unbarred phone launched 5 months ago, we can buy subsidized phones that are some-more absolute than Galaxy Nexus (for example, HTC One X for $199).

Google’s new store is improved matched for tablets, given many people don’t buy subsidized tablets. As a Wall Street Journal speculated final month, “Google will open a possess online store this year, though stocked with tablets instead of phones. The Android tablets would be built by Samsung and ASUS who already offer a good perceived Galaxy Tab and Transformer lines, though have been incompetent to make a hole in marketshare allied to that of Apple or even Amazon.”

Article source: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/04/google-sells-phones-again.html

Google Drive is finally here, though it’s not a totally new service. It’s not usually a new name for Google Docs, it also brings a opposite vision: your files are always in sync. Google Drive offers 5 GB of giveaway storage, adult from 1 GB, and lets we download desktop and mobile apps that synchronize your files. For now, a apps are usually accessible for Windows, Mac and Android, though Google will recover an app for iPhone and iPad in a nearby future.

By default, a desktop app creates a new folder for Google Drive, downloads all a files uploaded to Google Docs and adds shortcuts for a files combined regulating Google Docs apps. This way, a files download to your mechanism are accessible offline and can be non-stop regulating your favorite apps, while a files combined regulating Google Docs can usually open in a browser. If we use Chrome, we can also open some of a files offline. For some people, this will be confusing.

Another emanate is that Google offers some new storage plans. The unhappy thing is that Google’s new storage skeleton are a lot some-more costly that a prior ones: now we need to compensate $2.49/month (almost $30/year) for 25 GB, instead of $5/year for 20 GB. They’re still cheaper than Dropbox’s plans, though they’re some-more costly than Microsoft’s plans. Microsoft downgraded a giveaway share from 25 GB to 7 GB, though existent users can still keep it.

If we ascent to one of a new plans, Google offers 30 GB of additional Gmail storage. For some reason, a common storage is no longer accessible for Gmail and it’s now singular to Google Drive and Picasa Web Albums.

Here are a aged Google skeleton (if we already use one of them, we can keep it and we won’t be upgraded to a new skeleton automatically):

and a new plans:

Gmail now offers 10 GB of giveaway storage, while Google Drive usually offers 5 GB. Instead of enlivening users to send attachments, a files could be stored in Google Drive.

Google Drive integrates with third-party apps and one of them is already enabled by default: Pixlr, a print editor. You can also implement some Chrome apps that confederate with Google Drive. There’s a new “open with” object that lets we collect one of a apps from a contextual menu.

There are many other changes: a grid view, collections are now called folders, an activity perspective that shows “live updates of all we and others have modified” and Google Apps support.

“Drive is built to work seamlessly with your altogether Google experience. You can insert photos from Drive to posts in Google+, and shortly you’ll be means to insert things from Drive directly to emails in Gmail. Drive is also an open platform, so we’re operative with many third-party developers so we can do things like send faxes, revise videos and emanate website mockups directly from Drive,” explains Google. Ironically, a Google blog post is created by Sundar Pichai, who killed a Google Docs project behind in 2008. “I don’t consider we need GDrive anymore. Files are so 1990,” he pronounced during that time.

{ Thanks, Joel and Yavuz. }

Article source: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/04/google-drive-google-docs-meets-dropbox.html

Gmail now offers 10 GB of giveaway storage, adult from 7.56 GB. Google says that “the boost will take outcome over a subsequent 24 hours” and a reason for this remarkable strike is Google Drive’s launch. To get some-more Gmail storage, check a new Google Drive plans.

I find it bizarre that Gmail offers dual times some-more giveaway storage than Google’s online storage service. While a files combined regulating Google Docs apps don’t count towards a giveaway storage limit, there are many other files that can be uploaded. we also find it bizarre to see that Google Music can store adult to 20,000 of song files for giveaway and that’s some-more than 80 GB of giveaway storage.

Google Drive should be a place where we can find all your files. Right now, photos and videos are stored regulating Picasa Web Albums, song files are stored in Google Music, papers are stored in Google Docs/Drive and many files are stored in Gmail.

Article source: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/04/10-gb-of-free-storage-in-gmail.html