Leaks about Google’s Phone Service and New Batteries

on April 14, 2015 at 10:36 am

Google’s been inching towards a phone service for awhile now.

Google’s Phone Company

March 2nd 2015 Google confirmed that they would be entering the phone market with a “project Nexus for carriers” of sorts. The idea is that Google uses the Nexus phone line as a standard that Android can use to model by. So project Fi, as reported by Android Police, or previously code named Project Nova would be the example for carriers.

This is a great idea on Google’s part. As they’ve done with Fiber, Google is offering a service that is modeled in a way that doesn’t take advantage of the consumer and provides it’s services more closely tailored to the user experience. Fiber has created a ripple of unease for major cable companies by giving people what they actually want.

The unofficial Nexus 6 firmwire image leaked an unfinished version of Project Fi. The name of the app leaked is called Tycho. As you’ve probably noticed by now, Google tends to use multiple code names before launch, but if all of this means anything, it’s likely to suspect that “Nova” refers to the phone service, and “Fi” could be a reference to Fiber.

The APK(application image) was given a teardown by Android Police and inside they found menus to pay your phone bill, evidence of a monthly plan focused on paying per gigabyte of data and even the logo: nexus2cee_ic_launcher1

Google’s carrier service would use open wifi signals well as T-Mobile and Sprint towers and would focus mainly on data packages.

In other news, it seems Google doesn’t have enough under it’s belt with how much they have their hands in. Which makes sense when you consider that they named the company based on the idea that they could provide a googol of possibilities(googol is 10x more than a million.). Nonetheless they are working on a new battery possibility on top of everything else.

Google’s New Solid State Battery

Google’s X Labs has openly stated that they’re in works of creating multiple solid state batteries for products such as mobile phones, tablets and laptops. Dr. Ramesh Bhardwaj is leading the project in hopes of outdating Lithium batteries we currently use and replacing them with advanced, much longer lasting solid state ones.

They’ve been studying batteries and brainstorming ideas since early 2012. Google aims to use their new battery on projects that require a long lasting battery life such as their SelfDriving Cars and Google Glass. They even need batteries for their nanoparticle project intended to detect diseases.

Not only would they be longer lasting, but safer to use. Using solid electrodes could mean that they would be able to be placed in people’s bodies for medical reasons, such as implants. They would also be less likely to explode or overheat.

Apple, IBM and Tesla have all attempted to increase the battery’s performance but only improved it mildly.

Google enters two new markets with already promising details and we should be excited to see what comes from it.

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Angel Damion Robles

Angel started writing at a young age keeping a journal since he was 12 years old. By the time he was 15 he had a binder overflowing with ideas. His senior year of high school he received a scholarship for his writing in English and an award for writing and directing a full length movie for his film club. At 19 he went to film school in LA with a focus on screenwriting where he wrote a series of shorts. He is a futurist and keeps up to date about current tech, especially automation. He is currently studying Computer Science in Berkeley and interested in writing code and working with hardware. Some interesting facts: He knows too much about Google, loves cats, and has one white cat named Nasa.