Here’s How to Enable Google Home’s Latest Updates. Google Home owners will probably be talking to their living rooms a lot more thanks to an update that lets the voice assistant make phone calls to the U. S. and Canada. It’s one of many recent updates granting the smart home device more features and compatibility with other services. Phone Calls Without the Phone. The calls are made over Wi- Fi, with numbers pulled either from businesses or your Google Contacts list. Saying the phrase “Hey Google, call Dad” is enough to get your pop pop on the horn (in speakerphone mode, of course). If you share your Google Home with someone else, its voice recognition capabilities will ensure you call the appropriate patriarch.
Google may be playing catch up with the Amazon Echo, but Google Home already has a bunch of…Read more There are a few bugs Google needs to iron out to make this a truly seamless calling experience, however.For starters, the Google Home call recipient won’t see your number (unless you have Project Fi—more on that below), though the company says it’ll display the correct number for all users by the end of the year.It also doesn’t have 9.Project Fi Users Get Perks.Google Home owners using Google’s Project Fi wireless phone service or Google Voice are privy to an extra feature or two compared to customers with a different wireless provider. For one, your phone number is displayed on your call recipient’s phone, meaning they’ll actually see who’s calling instead of assuming you’re some sort of robocaller.
I’ve only used it for a few days, but its cushioned scissor switches are damn near whisper silent, which is a big plus for people who works next to inconsiderate. Google Home owners will probably be talking to their living rooms a lot more thanks to an update that lets the voice assistant make phone calls to the U.S. and Canada.
You can also make calls to “premium rate numbers” and international numbers at their respective rates, a feature unavailable to Google Home owners without the aforementioned accounts. Visit “More Settings” then select “Calls” to activate the feature. Finally, Bluetooth Support. In addition to making phone calls, Google Home’s software update finally adds Bluetooth audio streaming support, a much- requested feature that’s been present in Amazon’s competing Echo voice assistant since its own debut. It also adds free built- in streaming music through Spotify Free and Deezer, a perk previously associated exclusively with premium accounts. Granted, you won’t be able to play songs on- demand with the built- in Spotify Free account, but at least you’ll be able to listen to some ad- supported hits and use Google Assistant to select different playlists. Not a streaming music subscriber?
If you don’t use any of Google Home’s supported music streaming services, you can connect your Google Home to your phone via Bluetooth and play tunes through the app of your choice. Open the Google Home app, hit the Devices button in the top right corner, then tap the three dots next to your Google Home. From there you can select Paired Bluetooth Devices and add your own. Google Assistant offers simplified voice commands when paired over Bluetooth, like pausing and volume control, and lets you play tunes from places besides Google Play Music or Spotify (like Apple Music or Overcast). This week, Google released Google Home, a voice- controlled smart appliance, to compete with the…Read more Compared to the Amazon Echo, Google Home finally has the basics down, and is set to add even cooler tricks (like streaming Home requests to your TV via Chromecast) in the near future.
Looks Like Apple Leaked Details of the New i. Phone in the Home. Pod Firmware [Updated]If you had any doubts about Apple releasing a bezel- free i. Phone in September, you can probably throw those out the window. The company just pushed out a version of the Home. Pod firmware, and not only does the code tell us more about how Apple’s smart speaker will work, it also offers a few clues about the next i. Phone. Developer Steve Troughton- Smith spotted the release on Friday morning and has been tweeting out his discoveries since then.
Based on the firmware, the Home. Pod is essentially a big i.
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Phone with no screen, Troughton- Smith says. The device even shows up as an i. Phone SE in the i. Tunes Store, although Troughton- Smith reveals, “there doesn’t seem to be any kind of provision in the Home. Pod OS shell for installing apps or extensions.” So don’t expect any special Home. Pod apps right out of the gate.
There's nothing too magical about the BB install. I would recommend, however, that you package the keyboard driver separately. For that, you'll need to get into.
There’s also some code that describes a simple LED display on top of the Home. Pod, one that could show basic symbols like “+” and “- ” and maybe weather icons. Otherwise, the code just looks a lot like boring old i. OS: And then comes the good stuff. After nearly two days of sleuthing, Troughton- Smith found some code that appears to reveal a new feature that would let you unlock an i. Phone with your face.
If you had any doubts about Apple releasing a bezel-free iPhone in September, you can probably throw those out the window. The company just pushed out a version of. TheINQUIRER publishes daily news, reviews on the latest gadgets and devices, and INQdepth articles for tech buffs and hobbyists.
Rumors suggest that this feature will show up on the next i. Phone and perhaps even replace the Touch ID button. Presumably, this would allow Apple to expand the i. Phone screen and introduce a bezel- free design, similar to the Samsung Galaxy S8.
Guess what? That rumor seems to be confirmed by the Home. Pod firmware, too: Bingo- bango, that’s a good i. Phone leak! We obviously won’t know exactly what the next i.
Phone will look like until Apple announces it, but these new details are hard to overlook. Plus, Apple isn’t quite the ironclad vault of secrets it once was. Since the i. Phone 4 debacle, every i. Phone has essentially looked just like the rumors said it would, save a stray feature here or there. We have no reason to believe that the next i.
Phone release will be any different. Let’s hope it’s not, too. The idea of a big, beautiful OLED display on the i.
Phone 8 (or whatever it will be called) is exciting. It could change the way apps work and how we use our phones. It would also be very pretty, for sure. Apple is very good at making pretty things.
Update 9: 4. 5am 8/1/2. But wait there’s more. As Troughton- Smith and others continued to sift through the Home. Pod code, they found more references to details about the new i. Phone, like the lack of a home button: There’s also a nod to Windows Phone- style “tap to wake” functionality: And finally, it looks like the new i. Phone will have facial expression recognition, so it will always know how you’re feeling when it spots your mug: For more information on how these developers uncovered this Apple self- own, Gizmodo alum Brian Barrett has a nice interview with them over at Wired.[Steve Troughton- Smith via Mac.