Comments on: Video: First Look at the Google Nexus Q

By: 4n1m4L

4n1m4L — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 23:37:00 +0000

Actually its got adb.

By: Michael Gomez

Michael Gomez — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:12:00 +0000

Do I know you? And why are you telling me your opinions?

By: Southrncomfortjm

Southrncomfortjm — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:27:00 +0000

This device will make a lot more sense once its rooted and can become the hub for all media in your house (there is no way I’d get this for $300 and then have to purchase enough new media to make it worthwhile), but even then I’m not sure its enough to warrant a purchase. Assuming I get this correctly, the device can send media to your connected TV or sound system… so how would this be any different from having a laptop set up to do the same thing? Is it just the ability to control it remotely with an Android phone or tablet? I want to understand this thing, but I really just don’t get its purpose.

By: Michael Franz

Michael Franz — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:04:00 +0000

Let’s all remember, its a “Nexus” device. This means eventually it will get rooted, unlocked, rom’d. This will have the potential to do more then just google play. That will be up to the dev community once they get their hands on source code for the Q.

By: ice456789

ice456789 — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:25:00 +0000

Uh, no. You want people at a bar to play music from their own collections!?! Think about what you’re saying! Every other song would be Rick Astley or Mr. Trololo.

By: Steve Douglas

Steve Douglas — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:12:00 +0000

I love the idea, but it needs to add functionality to stream media other than from Google Devices. With some software additions, I would be very interested!

By: WAldenIV

WAldenIV — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:53:00 +0000

How do you figure? This sounds like the same hot mess that the Xoom was when it launched. Google can’t keep rushing devices out the door without polishing the OS first.

By: enob

enob — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:46:00 +0000

You really need to have Jelly Bean? (3:15) So like one out of ten friends can use your Q with you.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:21:00 +0000

apple tv lol

By: 4n1m4L

4n1m4L — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 06:13:00 +0000

No, but if they are on your Wi-Fi, they can add their music to the playlist. I’d imagine as soon as they leave your Wi-Fi so does their music

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 06:10:00 +0000

What is the radius of the Q? I thought it would be like wifi and cover the entire house, he was talking about having more than one for other rooms? Can you share music with friends, other than playing other playlist, can you use this to swap music with friends?

By: CapnShiner

CapnShiner — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 04:19:00 +0000

Good point. I guess I just have high expectations because it’s Google.

By: SeanBello

SeanBello — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 04:19:00 +0000

It’s a developer focused conference, not exclusively for developers. There are also members of media there who also received the packages obviously for the purposes of doing reviews of the product.

So since it’s “pre-release” in that it’s not coming out to the public for say…2 WEEKS (mid-July) and it worked perfectly, everybody would be saying how awesome it is but since it’s buggy and doesn’t work the way people would hope we’re to consider it a beta product that will somehow receive a massive overhaul and push to all devices in under 2 weeks?

You can’t praise something that works great (Nexus 7) and then turn around and then make excuses (“it hasn’t been released yet!” is an excuse) for a device that is seemingly being released simultaneously. It doesn’t really work like that.

By: 4n1m4L

4n1m4L — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 04:08:00 +0000

yeah, really. Google i/o is a developer conference. They gave these out at i/o in hopes that by the time it comes out developers will be on their way to making apps for it. Anyone who isn’t a developer and has one either attended the conference posing as a developer or bought it off ebay from someone posing as a developer. Currently available for preorder from the play store.

By: SeanBello

SeanBello — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 03:58:00 +0000

really?? cause I’m pretty sure over 1000 ppl currently own one.