Google unveiled 8 kinds of products at its hardware event in San Francisco recently, including two new smartphones, two smart speakers, a hybrid laptop, wireless headphones, wireless camera and a virtual reality headset.
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The new Pixel phones, are updates from products Google released this time last year, while the Google Home Max, a new high-end smart speaker, is completely new.
Google deepens its hardware focus.
Google is betting big on hardware and artificial intelligence (AI). As it did at last year’s event, Google emphasized the importance of building adequate hardware to house AI in order to optimize performance.
The Google Home, which is seem as the latest embodiment of a virtual assistant, is providing the customers the services of music entertainments, answers searching, everyday tasks managements, and smart devices control.
Google Home is disrupting the smart speakers market.
Smart speakers have become increasingly popular over the past few years as technology advances and new devices enter the market.After the launching of Google Home，there will have 10 main types of smart speakers in the market, and the Google Home Max is the most expensive.
Google Home Mini directly competes with the Amazon Echo Dot on the low end of the price spectrum, and the Google Home Max against the Apple HomePod at the very top.
Clips is learning to record your wonderful time.
Google Clips is a wireless camera that connects to users’ phone and applies AI to automatically take photos and video, noticing the best ‘moments’ to capture.
Pixel Buds is setting its feet to the language translation.
Language translation is a promising field to the artificial intelligence technology. Pixel Buds is the very things with tight integration of earbuds and intelligent assistant that helps to get a new, easier way to pair with phone, including translate.
Although the new Pixel Buds borrow a lot of ideas from Apple’s AirPods, but the technology revolving to the AI applied in automatic speech recognition. One of the 50 smartest companies, Iflytek, also revealed a device of automatic speech recognition named Easy Trans. Easy Trans can easily translate Chinese into English and other languages. Once the “Easy Trans” was introduced to the market, the first batch of products was sold out within a short time. As far as we can see, the AI related hardware market is heating up.
