BENGALURU: Internet giant, Google, has finally revealed everything about what the future holds as well as what the company was doing for the past one year. In Google I/O’s opening keynote, the company made a few interesting revelations about the things yet to come later this year. Let us look at few of those things, reports Livemint.

Android M

Google confirmed that later in fourth quarter of 2015, they will officially release Android M. However, the company did not confirm what “M” stands for. Android M will be released as a developer preview, so that developers from around the world can give feedback to improvement the final product. Google’s Senior Vice President, Sundar Pichai, revealed few interesting facts that are confirmed to come in the upcoming version of Android M. Let us look at these new features.

Android Pay: Google introduced Pay feature sometime back, however, now the company will release the upcoming Android with pre installed support for Android Pay. The security provided by Google Pay makes it suitable to be used widely as it uses different number, other than credit card number, for making transactions.

Fingerprint Reader Support: Google will be standardizing the support for fingerprint sensors and is already in talks with several key Smartphone manufactures. The company will provide Application Programming Interface for the developers to use and create new experiences using the fingerprint sensors. The fingerprint based authentication can also be used in combination with Google Pay as well.

Doze: Google is serious about increasing the battery life of Android Smartphones. In a new upcoming feature of Android, the company will include “Doze” within the Android. According to the presentation by Google, it may improve the battery life by up to 50 percent. In addition to Doze, the new Android will also come with support for USB C port. The new port will allow the phone to act as a charger as well.

Android Wear

Most important improvement in Android Wear is always on display. The new feature will allow Android Wear devices to show the information to the user without turning off the display screen or draining much battery. Other than that, new emoji recognition feature allows the user to draw an emoji finger and most relevant emoji will automatically appear.

Google For IoT

Google is stepping into Internet of Things. The company has already been working on standardizing the programming language to be used for communicating on a low level with several IoT devices. “Brillo” is the new OS from Google for IoT devices. However, the new OS is Android based and will be fully compatible with Android OS.

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