Starts tomorrow! Anyone excited for this? I am.
What’s expected
- third beta of Android Q
- Pixel 3a
- Wear OS news (some new hardware would be nice)
- Nest Hub Max (apparently a much larger Google Home Hub, which may itself be rebranded as Nest Hub)
- ?
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I am also looking forward to this, will be nice to see where they are taking wear OS, I am also due an upgrade on my phone contract so will see what they will bring
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I am excited for the summary when @simonb brings up the best parts 
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I’m interested in the Pixel 3a as it seems all the big players are going down the route of having a tiered product line for their flagship models.
I’d also like to see google wifi brought to the Google Home range. Most people who like smart speakers already have a few dotted around the house, so why not use that opportunity to create an awesome mesh wifi network within one device.
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Looking forward to it also. Mainly the innovations to Health and UI. iOS to follow next month
I would love to go to San Fran next year to see I/O in person 
Definitely looking forward to catching the live stream (or catching up on YouTube, depends how busy tomorrow is 
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Excited to see what Q Beta3 looks like 
(I’m not going to flash Magisk supports the Pixel3XL on Q 
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Hopefully Google pull a surprise out of the bag 
I wonder if we’ll see anything on the Google Home side of things 
Google were very keen on clearing out their old stock with mega discounts & the Spotify promo 
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Hope we get some Stadia trail news . Would be smart to get out of the E3 hype
I’m getting confused with timings 
Im assuming the Keynote is where they will announce whats coming up… I’m in the UK. What time/date is this on and where can I watch it?
Today 6pm, On the official google Youtube Channel or https://events.google.com/io/
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Yeah I’d love to see a WearOS update. Apple have had such success with the Apple Watch so I’m hoping Google will capitalize on the market.
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God they need to do something with Wear OS. Hardware would be a dream. Be a shame if it doesn’t happen
It’s the one thing missing after my big switch.
I haven’t been this ambivalent about IO for a while. My expectations are pretty low so hopefully I’ll be pleasantly surprised.
No chance of a decent Google Wear OS whilst they’re not making their own SOCs. Qualcomm could barely be less interested in watch chips.
Are my eyes deceiving me Marcus, or do you now have the forum flare that says you work at Monzo?
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Good spot 
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I’m in back-to-back meetings in Vegas where it’s the morning so this is the first time I haven’t watched IO live in years 
Gonna have a lot to catch up on!
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There were some interesting bits with speech recognition/AI/machine learning. The live captions on any video is particularly cool. A lot of what was shown was leaked way in advance though, particularly hardware related. And Android Q seemed to be things already in the beta or guessed.
On device Assistant looks so much snappier.
Oh and Duplex on the web seems pretty cool.
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I just want to be able to ask Google Assistant to add something to my shopping list in Google Keep and not some random website.
Or add a reminder in Google Keep and not some random reminder section of the assistant I can never find. 
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I think everyone who uses an Assistant device as an alarm can agree just having to say ‘Stop’ instead of ‘Hey Google, stop’ was the best thing announced. 
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