Saturday, July 27, 2013

Google Hangouts Localized Calling


Google hangouts will ring your devices, but what if you tend to user one device more often than another, like your Nexus 7 at home, but HTC One when out. I would hope that Google could at some point figure out which device you're using the most and at what times during the day and direct the call to that device.

It might be more obvious if one of your devices is moving at a high rate of speed, that you're driving, or if by a particular route that you're actually on a commuter train.  Or if per chance you bring along the tablet but are using the phone, Google could determine by the percentage of use that you prefer the phone today.

This idea might seem a tad extreme to expect of any other company. But knowing what Google has accomplished before, with the overflowing pot of well-educated and brilliant engineers, I'd bet that they already thought of it and are baking it into the back end as I write this. It's all in Google Now, they already know you better than you realize that you don't know yourself.

"Do Androids dream of electric sheep?"

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