A publication has revealed in a Nexus 5 one-week-of-use review that the handset may soon get new Google Now features, with an update pegged for November 13.
According to Wired, more smart Google Now features are coming soon, although Google is yet to officially announce them.
Apparently Google Now will get even smarter than it currently is, with the voice-based assistant getting some sort of answering back features. Furthermore, Google Now will be able to search apps and launch them to perform tasks and show more Google Now cards based on the user's location:
those things is the ability to ask you questions — so you might say "text Jennifer" and it will reply "which Jennifer," and then ask you to dictate the message. It's also going to get the ability to search inside applications, and launch them to complete tasks for you. So, you might search for a restaurant, and an option in the results shows up for OpenTable, which you'll be able to fire up and make a reservation. It's also going to use location cues to drop cards into Google Now, even more so than it does currently. At Yellowstone it will show you geyser times, for example. Sadly, none of this stuff was lit up yet, so I wasn't able to test it. I'm not dinging the phone for that (and it's not getting any extra credit), but given how interesting these features are, it's kind of crazy the phone launched without them.” qperson=”Mathew Honan” qsource=”Wired” qposition=”center”]
As we have recently learned, the Nexus 5 is more about Google Search services (Google Now included) than any other Nexus before it, not that it's a bad thing, especially for Android users looking forward to such an Android experience. However, some of those Google Search feature – essentially the new launcher – will be a Nexus 5 exclusive for now, at least officially, so it’ll be interesting to see whether these new Google Now features will be available for everyone else or not.
However, we're certainly not surprised to hear that Google Now is getting smarter. We'll be waiting to see Google's announcement next week to tell you more details about this apparently imminent Google Now update.
Wired has also learned that the Nexus 5 will get a camera update that will fix existing issues with it – check out these posts for camera comparisons with the Nexus 4 and the iPhone 5S.
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