What is Google teasing for I/O 2014? A NEXUS 7 or 8 3D tablet? Video.

Francisco De Jesùs.

Rumors say, Google is developing a new 7-inch tablet that can capture 3-D images, and plans to produce about 4,000 of these prototypes beginning next month, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people briefed on the company's plans.

The device, which is part of Google's Advanced Technology and Projects group 'Project Tango,' will have two back cameras, infrared depth sensors and advanced software that can capture precise three-dimensional images of objects, according to the Journal.

Google's Project Tango is a platform for Android phones and tablets designed to track the full 3-dimensional motion of the device as you hold it, while simultaneously creating a map of the environment around it.

The Project's flagship product, a prototype smartphone, released in February has similar sensors and is designed to create a three-dimensional map of its user's surroundings, the Journal said.

NEXUS 8 TABLET?

Other rumors say, Google is gearing up to take up production of 8-inch tablets (some rumors say 8.9-inch) at the expense of its Nexus 7 line.

Google has set up its conference website and the header image shows a mysterious slate.

Certainly, we can’t be sure this is the upcoming Nexus 8 tablet, but there’s a big possibility it is. The image doesn't really tell us much, except we’re dealing with a possible 8-incher with a relatively wide bezel.

Also visible in the picture is at least one front-facing speaker. The header teases “Let’s invent! Let’s geek out” and most interestingly “Let’s break stuff. Let’s hack!” Our attention is definitely there.

The new Nexus 8 will no longer be manufactured by ASUS, as the Nexus 7 tablet. Instead, Google has taken up a collaboration with HTC, which the search giant has been courting for a while now.

It appears HTC has recognized the need to penetrate the slate market and this is something lots of tablet fans have been hoping for.

The Nexus 8 tablet is expected to arrive with a price-tag a little above average, something that would revolve around $299 / €214.

The slate should come equipped with a 2K display and could be running the latest Android 4.5 build, but this is still pure speculation at this point.

Back in March, HIS Technology’s Rhonda Alexandra claimed volume production for the device was set to kickstart in June or August. She also noted that the slate was expected to be a lower volume product, due to the premium price tag.

During the same interview, she mentioned that a 3rd generation Nexus 7 tablet was not out of the cards yet. Actually, she claimed the product would arrive somewhere in 2014, but so far they have no confirmation on actual contracts involving such products.

Anyway, putting all speculations apart, we will know for sure what’s what in a month’s time or so.

Those of you who have an interest in the Nexus  7 or 8, should mark the 25-26 June date in your calendar, because that’s when Google’s I/O 2014 event is scheduled to take place. 

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Steve Jobs made two important comments about to make TV sets. Which one to believe?

Francisco De Jesùs.

Steve Jobs, the late Apple`s CEO made an answer and a comment about what he thinks over TV sets.

First Source: The Wall Street Journal's former Apple beat reporter, Yukari Iwatani Kane, has a new book about Apple called "Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs".

Yukari says in his book:

Every year Apple hosts a "Top 100" meeting, which gathers the top 100 executives, managers, and employees. As with all things Apple, the top 100 meeting is supposed to be secretive.

In that meeting, one person asked if Apple was going to release a television next. There were already rumors all over the place that it was Apple's next conquest. 

 "Jobs didn't hesitate." He said, "No."

"TV is a terrible business. They don't turn over and the margins suck," said Jobs. (Unlike iPhones which are wildly profitable and replaced every two years, a TV gets replaced every 8 years, and isn't all that profitable.)

He did want to control the living room, though, he said. He also said the Apple TV, the little video streaming box, would remain a hobby until Apple got all the content it needed. 

Just months after Jobs delivered those comments, he stepped away from his day-to-day role at Apple. 

Second Source: But, Jobs comments to Apple execs are at odds with what he told his biographer Walter Isaacson. Before he died he said:

 "I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use ... It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud ... It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it."

Jobs was famous for saying one thing and then doing another. In this case, it's hard to know which quote was the truth. Was he telling the truth to Isaacson, or to his Apple's top 100 employees?

Yukari says that some people in room believed Jobs' comments on TV. Others, the "veterans in the room" weren't sure that Jobs really meant it. Those people thought it was a message from Jobs to focus on what they were doing instead of trying to think of the next thing too quickly. 

It's been over three years since Jobs made those comments, and Apple still doesn't have a television. There's been reports this year of Apple revamping its TV strategy, but it all centers on the Apple TV, which is the little box that plugs into the TV, not a full, 60-inch HD iTelevision.

Therefore, it seems like Jobs may have been genuine when he told his top 100 employees he didn't want to do a television. 

Which  Steve Jobs answer do you believe?

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