Google Announces New Smart Display Platform Powered by Google Assistant

Google has officially announced a new Smart Display platform that is powered by Google Assistant. Lenovo and others have already jumped on the bandwagon.

Google Goes After the Amazon Echo Show with Banana on Smart Displays.

CES 2018, so far, has been axial around two things; Alexa and Google Banana. Everybody and their mother is announcing support for Alexa or Google Assistant with their devices, and frankly, it's a bit unnerving. Yeah, I'1000 as excited near smart appliances as the next person, but the ability to talk to your toaster somehow only doesn't feel right. Are we entering a new historic period of technology where one can command household appliances merely by talking to them or a 1984-esque dystopia where your microwave oven is capable of reporting your thought crimes to Big Blood brother?

In a bid to compete with Amazon's Echo Show, Google has announced a brand new Smart Brandish platform that works on top of Google Assistant. Google Assistant on these smart screens can bear witness the weather, guide you through cooking, brandish your calendar, show pictures from Google Photos, discover directions on Google Maps and play YouTube videos, among other things.

According to Google, four companies will be edifice smart displays with integrated support for the Google Assistant - JBL, Lenovo, LG, and Sony, which will likewise take Google Cast built-in, and then they work like Chromecasts. Let's take a look at what the newly announced Lenovo Smart Display brings to the table.

Lenovo's First Smart Display to Go On Sale This Summer

Lenovo'south commencement-ever Smart Display is powered by a Qualcomm SDA 624 processor, which is a office of Qualcomm's newly-announced Qualcomm Abode Hub Platform. It can practise pretty much everything mentioned before, ranging from calling people to looking up recipes online.The idea backside the Lenovo Smart Display is to serve every bit a substitute for your smartphone when you're at abode and to assist you in day-to-day tasks.

There volition exist two models of the Lenovo'southward yet-to-be-named Smart Display, i with a 10-inch screen, and the other with an 8-inch screen. Both variants will stone full HD touchscreen panels. The 10-inch Lenovo Smart Brandish comes in Bamboo color, and the 8-inch model comes in Greyness. The 10-inch Lenovo Smart Display starts at $249.99, and the eight-inch model starts at $199.99, both expected to be bachelor early this summer.

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News Source: Android Police