Google announced changes to its Android system and photos – El Colombiano

The next version of Android, the operating system Google , will have new ways to gather information, pay for purchases and protect privacy on mobile devices, while Internet company duels with Apple in its aim to return their technology essential

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The update will give staff assistant Android, Google Now , greater powers of intuition that could be good for some and too frightening for others.

Most of the renovations that Google presented Thursday at its annual developer conference, called Google I / O 2015, be available later this year , around the date when Apple could introduce its new iOS software that iPhones and iPads work.

The annual updates to iOS and Android They are becoming increasingly important because people become more dependent on smartphones. Android has 80% of the global smartphone market while iOS is second with 16%, according to the Research firm International Data Corp.

Both companies want their products to have more and more presence to transfer its mobile technology to cars, televisions and appliances that connect to the Internet. Google also hopes to have an outstanding safety of home with a new operating system called Android Brightness device that interacts with paper.

Among other features, the new version of Android -called so far only “M ” – allow you to scan the screen of a mobile device and from it Google will provide information, as opposed to how the search it does now analyzing user searches and emails <. /> p>

Android M also includes an alternative payment system that Apple introduced last year. Pay will replace Google Android Wallet to buy in stores and applications . The update will also support fingerprint scanners so that users can be identified by pressing a button.

Among other ads that Google is also willing to store and organize digital photos all the world for free .

Google will offer unlimited storage of all photos up to 16 megapixels and high definition video up to 1080p.

The service, called Google Photos, will be available as an application on Android and Apple devices, and on the website.

It is a variation of the tool for managing photos Google Plus , a social network that has passed pressed to compete with Facebook since its debut in 2011.

Apple has a photo service that offers up to five gigabytes of free storage. The Flickr service Yahoo offers a terabyte of storage for free.