Google Officially Rolls Out Fuchsia OS To The First-Gen Nest Hub Advertisement Advertisement
After years of development, Google‘s Fuchsia OS is finally making its debut on real devices. Earlier this month, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) had certified the first-generation Google Nest Hub with Fuchsia 1.0. The company has now confirmed that the 2018 smart display is receiving a new software update that changes its underlying operating system to Fuchsia. The Google Nest Hub (originally Google Home Hub) had launched with Linux-based Cast OS.
This update will not change any functionality of the device. Perhaps everything will remain as it is, except the underlying OS. Since the Nest Hub experience is built with Flutter, the overall user experience should remain the same as well. Flutter, which is an open-source UI software development kit, allows seamless cross-platform development for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, Windows, Fuchsia, and the web.
Fuchsia is the name of an in-house OS Google has reportedly had in the works for years. Now, it is finally due to see a roll-out on one of the OEM s more recent smart-home products. The Nest Hub is slated to start using this new system in an impending update.
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Galaxy S21 lineup would come preloaded with Google’s Messages app, which has become a very solid app for texting, complete with RCS functionalities. The experience is said to be more “native” on the S21 models, with optimizations made to make it feel more a part of One UI, and in addition, it was made the default messaging app on the phones. For Samsung, who has always loved using its own apps for this sort of thing, this is a big deal.
There’s a big problem, though, as this native experience is only available to Galaxy S21 units outside of the US. WTF, folks.
The Galaxy S21 comes with Google Messages pretty much everywhere but the US
It turns out that Samsung is pre-loading the Galaxy S21 with Google Messages in most markets, as Engadget learned from an interview with Google s Hiroshi Lockheimer yesterday. By doing so, Samsung joins other OEMs like OnePlus, LG, and Motorola in using Google s messaging app by default. Unfortunately, we in the US are stuck with the regular Samsung Messages.
From the timestamped interview link above, you can hear Lockheimer discuss the reasoning behind using Google Messages on a Samsung phone. He says that it feels native because it s slightly modified to pair better with One UI, both aesthetically and functionally. Lockheimer goes on to mention that the United States, along with some exceptions, will instead get the regular Samsung Messages app. It s worth noting that Samsung added support for Google s RCS to Samsung Messages last month, so there s no real difference in functionality.