Google wireless phone service challenges major carriers

Google is selling the basic phone service for $ 20 a month and will only charge customers for the amount of cellular data that they use each month, instead of a flat rate.

Google is trying to shake up the wireless phone industry with a low-priced service designed to pressure major carriers into making it more affordable for people to get online and use Google’s services.

The service, called “Project Fi,” debuted yesterday, about two months after Google revealed its plans to expand its growing empire into providing wireless connections for smartphones.

Google Inc. is selling the basic phone service for $ 20 a month and will only charge customers for the amount of cellular data that they use each month, instead of a flat rate. Each gigabyte of data will cost $10 a month. That means a customer could sign up for a plan offering three gigabytes of data and get $20 back if only one gigabyte was used in a month.

Most wireless phone carriers allow their customers to roll over unused data into another month of service without refunding any money.

Project Fi initially will only be sold to a narrow audience that owns the Nexus 6, a smartphone that Motorola Mobility made with Google’s help.

Google’s pricing setup makes Project Fi less expensive than most of the comparable plans offering by the four biggest wireless phone carriers Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint.

The monthly prices for a single line of smartphone service with up to one gigabyte of cellular data at those carriers range from $45 to $50 compared to $30 from Google, before subtracting any potential credits for unused data.

The major carriers, though, offer a variety of family plans that could still be better deals than Project Fi. Those bundled plans allow several phone lines to share a pool of cellular data.

Besides trying to bring down the prices of wireless phone plans, Google is promising subscribers that their Nexus 6 model will automatically connect with the fastest network available.

Rather than building its own network, Google is leasing space on cellular towers built by Sprint and T-Mobile, which are hoping the deals will boost their profits without costing them too many customers tempted to defect to Project Fi.

Google is promising Project Fi will automatically switch over to an available Wi-Fi network if that is running at a higher speed than the cellular alternatives.

This is How Google Glass Works: Features & Specifications -

Today we have to know the features of Google Glass, the augmented reality glasses Google , which will be available in late 2013. This ambitious project is becoming reality gradually, following the release of last year known as Project Glass.

This is How Google Glass Works [VIDEO]

To leave us with honey on the lips, Google has made public today Google features Glass, which is undoubtedly a good appetizer until we can prove in reality these augmented reality glasses.

Glass features a 640 x 360 display that Google says is the “equivalent of a 25-inch high definition screen from eight feet away,” a 5-megapixel camera capable of 720p video audio that comes via a bone conduction transducer. There will be 16GB of flash storage on-board, with 12GB actually usable, and it will sync with “Google cloud storage” — presumably Google Drive. Glass will feature adjustable nose pads in a frame that Google says will “fit any face,” and you’ll get extra pads in two sizes.

The new Google Goggles include 16GB flash memory (to which additions are added 12GB using cloud services, especially Google Drive ). Other important features of Google Glass is the use and battery life of the product, which can be used for a whole day. Google explains that the biggest drain on the battery of the glasses come while we use these in the Google Hangouts or during video recording. The new augmented reality glasses Google also include a micro USB port. As for the connectivity of the new device , Google has looked pretty this technical aspect. Thus, the glasses support 802.11b / g Wi-Fi, and promise to be compatible with any device having Bluetooth. Among the list of features of Google Glass also found some technical specifications related to the new application MyGlass . This app is compatible with mobile devices that present Android operating system 4.0.3 or higher, and allow important functions like GPS or SMS messaging support. 

See the Google Glass in Action Video-