This year's Google I/O Conference showcased an enthusiastic love affair between Android and its fans. Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Android, Chrome and Google Apps, told conference attendees that Android phones and tablets are everywhere. Android now has 1 billion users who check their phones 100 billion times a day, take 93 million selfies and walk 1.5 trillion steps.
Essentially, "everything Android" was the real theme of this conference. One session after another highlighted new products, from economy smartphones to fitness wearables to the updated entertainment world of Android TV and Chromecast -- basically, a consumer's paradise. Rumors also floated about a new, less-expensive version of Google Glass, in addition to network-connected thermostats and smoke detectors from the labs of Google Nest.
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