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Is this our first look at Material Design for Google Now?
Despite inconsistencies in design language between their current apps, we fully expect Google to update most of their major Android apps with a Material Design coat of paint for Android L’s release. We may have gotten our first look at one of those apps today. A Googler inadvertently posted the photo you see below to Twitter, which appears to be a shot of Google Now loaded up with traffic cards. The Tweet the photo was posted in has since been deleted.
Evidence of Material Design exists in a couple of different areas. For starters, we now see a hamburger menu button on the left side of the Google Search box. That button is nonexistent on the current version of Google Now. We’re not sure what Google will use it for (easy access to different types of searches?) but it’s there.
We also see that the overflow menu buttons for individual cards are now placed on the outside of the card at the upper right corner, and are placed in horizontal orientation. Finally, the voice icon looks a bit different — this one has a hallowed microphone as opposed to the solid one seen in the current app’s design.
Some may think that the green-hued cards in the screenshot above is also another element of Material Design shining through, but it may just be that Google’s using green headers for traffic and navigation cards and will stick to the white that we’re used to for most other things. Of course, with so little to go on anything is just as good as a guess so we’ll have to wait for more details or the official update to rollout before getting a better idea of what’s in store.
[via Reddit]
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Samsung adds two more ads to their TV campaign as they delay UK launch
With the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 worldwide launch scheduled to go down late next week, Samsung is loading up on more ads to make sure everyone knows about its arrival (you know, if the “our phone was big first” barrage against Apple wasn’t already enough). The ads are quite vanilla in nature, meaning they won’t make you laugh, smile, or attempt to market the phone using combative advertisement. They simply make you want the thing, and that’s about all we can ask for at this point.
This new crop of ads might make the wait for UK folks any longer. Samsung originally targeted an October 10th release date in that region, but the company had to delay their plans by a week. That’s not enough to put up a big stink about the issue, but I’m sure it does irk some folks who were planning to spend some personal time with the device over the weekend. Plans for other regions remain the same, though, including North America’s launch on the very same day.
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