Google Now app updated to take on iOS Passbook - owenobinew2000

Google has updated its Hunt app for Android with functionality that rivals Apple's Passbook app, the iOS 6 program that pulls your boarding passes and store cards into one convenient place.

Google's update is set forth of the Google Now religious service that automatically brings prepared "card game" with relevant entropy from around you, based on your location. In this sheath, the app scans your Gmail inbox for boarding passes (limited to Joint Airlines for now), and testament automatically take awake a QR code used at check-in when you arrive at the last. This lineament is almost identical to Passbook for iPhones.

The Google Now travel functionality does non stop there. Once you arrive at your destination, the app will suggest places to visit and interesting events to attend, along with directions to the points of interest and weather information.

When you are at a museum for case, the app lets your do a turn back image search via Google Goggles so you can pay off information on the house painting or sculpture you are looking for at, while other cards will suggest events nearby.

There are also other card game for travelers, wish the up-to-dateness rebirth, translation, and fledge status cards. If you are abroad, you will want to observe your information roaming fees before using this feature.

As part of this app update, the Voice Search functionality has been improved, with a few special perks you won't get with Siri on an iPhone. This includes finding out name calling of songs by asking "What's this song?" (interchangeable to Shazam, but built-in), finding product information by asking your phone to "Glance over this barcode" and posting updates to Google+ by using just your voice.

The app only works with phones and tablets running Android 4.1 Gelatin Bean or newer, thusly if you consume an older device, these features won't be disposable for you.